Cute Near the Castle, March 1962
Here are more photos of a fetching young lady, taken by a guy who took so many pictures of her. He was koo-koo bananas for her!
There she is, posing near Sleeping Beauty Castle; it was a Kodak "Picture Spot", as you can see. It sure looks nice with that planter full of shrubs and flowers. Seems like that tree kind of blocks the view, but I guess our photographer could have maneuvered a bit to the left for a better look. Let's face it, he didn't care about the castle at all! Do you think our gal is standing with her heels on the curb to look a little taller?
The woman is holding a copy of a 1961 souvenir guidebook, so it's the usual scenario; either these photos were actually taken in 1961, or they were still selling off the '61 guidebooks until the new '62 books were in stock.
Disneyland has the moat with the most. The most what? Magical swan poop, of course. I always appreciate an unusual angle on the Castle, and this one fits that bill.
26 comments:
Major-
I've no doubt that 'Ginny' is taking a cue from Walt by placing her heels on the curb - to increase her height. Love the unusual angle of the SBC - and with her ever-present cigarette - the image could be an ad for Salem cigarettes: Take a Puff... It's Springtime. It "air-softens" every puff, after all.
Thanks, Major.
I dunno, Major, with the Castle partly obscured like it is, it adds some mystery and interest to the photo. The castle is sorta peeking out from behind the tree. Also, the tree keeps our eyes from going off the edge of the photo. Hey! What happened to her ever-present cigarette?
That's a good picture of Walt. In so many of his later photos, he looks sickly, tired, and worn from the cancer.
Ah. There's the cigarette. I was getting worried that she had to go without for a minute of two; and was having paroxysms of nicotine withdrawal. I like how the photographer got the Swiss Mountain peeking around the Sleeping Beauty Castle.
Nanook, Oh yeah. Ginny. I forgot the name we gave her. I remember that Salem tag line from the incessant TV commercials back then.
Thanks for more of Ginny, Major. Oh, and that park behind her as well. Did anybody ever figure out where this was taken? The castle seems like an important clue, but I'm drawing a blank.
Hmm. I just noticed that the little trashcan is missing from the bottom of our comments. Has something changed? No biggie. I've used it a couple of times in the past to delete my post and replace it with a corrected version.
@ JB-
I still maintain the 'trash can' option. (Perhaps Blogger is well-acquainted with my proclivity for constant editing - even after the fact...)
Nanook, Ah. I re-signed in with Google recently. That probably has something to do with it.
Note that both photos were carefully composed to hide both the Dent and the Stain. This guy (or gal) was good!
I wonder if magical swan poop was one of the key ingredients in the paint used in the “Montana Future” version of Tomorrowland? There was an awful lot of brown…
Ginny looks like she'd be a fun person to know. The last photo really shows off her "Superman" spit curl!
Chuck, I always thought they got all of that brown for Tomorrowland '98, from recycled baby diapers. But I guess it's possible that they could have acquired that color from multiple "sources." Maybe it's a "blend."
These are really special picture, Major.
While I’m glad to enjoy them, and grateful they are on GDB (thank you!), I’m also a little sad that they found their way here.
Means that no one thought they were special any more, maybe both the model and photographer are gone now, and no one wanted the pictures.
Good thing they landed on GDB, we will treasure them.
JG
Nanook, why not just wear platforms - preferably the kind with goldfish in them - to look taller? That’s what I do. Cigarettes DO soften the air, they are nature’s miracle.
JB, I didn’t consider how the tree kept my eye from going off the edge of the photo. Who knows where it would stop? Maybe it would NEVER stop and I would wind up looking around the entire world! I’ve heard about it happening. You’re right about the photo of Walt (which was probably taken in ’58). I just scanned a paper item from 1966, and he is so much more worn-out. Of course he died not long afterward, so… yeah. As for Ginny… I wrote a bunch of posts with her before she was dubbed thusly, so I haven’t used that name. In case people wind up wondering!
JB, I have found that the little trashcan comes and goes, which is odd, because I should always have it as the moderator of the comments. Still, that’s how Blogger rolls.
Nanook, it’s only because Google knows that they’d better be nice to Nanook, OR ELSE.
JB, I should add that I only delete other people’s comments if we get a duplicate. I think I might have deleted ONE nasty comment in 16 years, from a troll who never returned.
Chuck, it’s like when people take my photo. “Please hide any dents or stains”! “Montana Future” was the dumbest idea. Now if it had been Oxnard Future…. (you knew that was coming, didn’t you?).
TokyoMagic!, I have to wonder if she was a model, or showgirl, or dancer… she has a certain poise, and she looks good in photos. Remember when they let people into the park for half price if they would donate their dirty diapers? Just before “Tomorrowland ’98”. COINCIDENCE??
JG, I know what you mean, I’d like to think that this couple had a kid or two, but I also understand that folks have their own houses full of their own stuff; I think of when my mom passes someday, we won’t be able to keep all of her boxes of photos. Some will be easy to get rid of (“Who are those people?”), but others will be much harder.
That's a poignant thought JG. The comment comes up now and then. I was confronted with the situation when it was time to clear out my parent's house. Being the only sibling, and living far away, I needed to have an estate sale which I could not supervise. I only had a limited amount of time to go through pictures and mementos and saved what I could before most of it was gone, likely to collectors. At least the memories remain. KS
Of course - the "Diapers for Disneyland" promotion! How did I manage to forget those "poop for passports" ads? I can still hear that jingle in my sleep.
KS, emptying my parents apartment all alone was probably the worst day of my life. Far harder than a funeral. My sympathy to you, I was also an only, and had no one to turn to, my wife had to stay home far away caring for our young family.
JB, try having a hot dog for lunch, trash cans should appear at the travel distance spacing for the time spent eating one. It works at Disneyland, why not on blogger.
JG
The tree may block some of the castle, but it frames the subject very nicely. And I think that's what our photographer really cares about! Maybe she's just stretching her feet after a long day.
I wonder what the swan poop to cigarette butt ratio of the moat was in those days? Pretty close, I'm guessing.
That's exceptionally tough JG. I did this when my folks were still with us but moved abruptly to assisted living. The next time was at the apartment as well, being rushed because of limited time with the pandemic restrictions. It was cleaned/cleared out in a matter of hours and with management allowing us to enter after two months had passed with my last parent's death. We were lucky to have a service...no more than 10 of us allowed. :( All the best to you. KS
KS, I am lucky to have siblings who will help me when the day comes, especially a sister who is super well-organized, and gets stuff done. My heart goes out to people who have to deal with it all by themselves. The girl I’m dating has a sister, but she had alienated herself from the family, so I said that I would help. We’ll see how it goes.
Chuck, they brought back the Sherman Brothers for that one! So catchy!
JG, yes, I can only imagine. My mom is something of a pack rat, which makes things even worse, getting her to throw things out is nearly impossible, so we will have a lot to deal with. Another thing that I think about is that my mom is an only child, and when my grandma died, all these relatives showed up expecting to “get something”. It was as if they were vultures.
Melissa, you aren’t kidding! Like I said, this lot of slides is largely concentrated on that woman, with only a few others that don’t include her. Hey, I can’t fault the guy. I feel honored to (probably) be the only blog to address the swan poop to cigarette butt ratio!
KS, when my fraternal grandparents died (only about a month apart), my dad and his brother had almost no time to deal with the estate. They sold the little two-story house in Minnesota for… $65,000! And this was in 2,000, not in 1975. Granted, the little town was not exactly a center of commerce, but it seemed like the house should have gone for more than that, to me, anyway!
JG and others,
In the same position as many others. We have many photos of our lives with our wonderful parents, uncle and aunt, who are gone now. I've taken maybe 100 of them and keep them in a spot where I can go through them when I want. I got all the sentimental genes, my sister, not so much. Considering my health and my wife's also, I think we'll be gone within ten years or so. We didn't have a big family. Neither me or my sister had kids and the closest relatives, our cousins, had 2 from one cousin and 1 from the other. The 2 don't care much, but my other cousin's child, now in his late 40s, would love to have the stash of special photos. So we might live for a while in memory but after a while, all those wonderful Christmas days and nights, all the trips to Disneyland and just all the priceless times we had together will be lost, like many others that have gone by. Like tears in rain, as one replicant put it. I try to keep present, but my heart goes back to those times a lot.
Major, thank goodness the tree was there to keep you eye from wandering all over the world. I'm sure it would take quite a while; and we would miss your daily posts.
JG, about the missing trashcan and hot dogs: Thanks, I'll give it a try!
It's Dirty Diapers Day on Gorillas Don't Blog!
I remember it took my mother about a year to clear out Grandma's house. It took nearly as long to clear out he sister's. Now that I live alone, I keep most of my souvenirs and pictures in clearly-labeled boxes in one corner of the apartment, so that if anything happens to me, people can easily find what they might want and just get rid of the rest.
Feeling kinda heavy on the comments today. We're going through pictures for my mom's memorial service this weekend and I'm having similar thoughts about what's going to happen to these since only my sister has kids of her own.
I feel like I'd like to tag them and upload them to some genealogy website in case someone far off eventually wants to see what his or her distant relatives looked like and did.
I can remember going through Grandma’s photo albums as a kid, and there were several pictures of a pretty young woman who didn’t look like she was related to us. Anytime you’d ask about her, all Grandma would say was, “Oh, that’s just Mabel.” Then she’d sigh, shake her head, and say, “Poor Mabel. Poor old Mabel.” I’ve never met anyone in the family who knew who Mabel was or why she was the object of so much pity.
My aunt inherited all of Grandma’s pictures and then Mom inherited them from her. At one point we were trying to scan them all, but we lost steam, and then my scanner died. But I’m sure poor Mabel went through worse.
DrGoat, I sometimes think it’s better to keep the “cream of the crop” when it comes to family photos, there are definitely tons of goofy or lame photos in my mom’s boxes - pictures that nobody will want or miss. But if we keep the best ones, maybe that will be OK. It’s interesting about the people in families who don’t care about the history, while others just love it - not sure why that is. I don’t personally feel as if I need my memory to live on after me, though maybe GDB will survive on the Internet long after I’m gone!
JB, yes, that tree really saved me from a lot of eye strain. I need my eyes almost daily, and can’t have them gallivanting all over the world without me.
Melissa, it’s smart to keep everything organized and labeled! Too bad I am so disorganized. My mom is too, and she has stuff that she claims is valuable, but we know NOTHING about it. “Don’t just take it to the Goodwill!”. Well, we wouldn’t if we knew what it was! To us it all looks like old junk.
DeanFinder, I’m so sorry to hear about your mom, I can only imagine how hard it is to deal with that kind of loss. I like the idea of uploading the photos to a genealogy website, that’s a really interesting idea! We were once contacted by a relative who we’d never heard of, they found us in the phone book and called us out of the blue. Turns out they were distant cousins.
Melissa- When you mentioned Mabel in your last comment, I was reminded that years ago my Mother had a dress form that she called Mabel. How it got that name I never found out. My Mom later gave "Mabel" to a neighbor that collected antiques.
I too was an only child and I inherited lots of photos from both sides of my family (some even shown here on GDB). Some years back, when my Mom was at an assisted living facility, I scanned a lot of the photos & loaded about a 100 onto a digital frame that had a slideshow feature. My Mom really enjoyed looking at it, as did other relatives & friends.
One of my cousins is very involved with researching genealogy online. I have sent her some of my photo scans & she has uploaded then onto a site that she often uses. She has found out some interesting history and connections.
-DW
Both ancestry.com and findagrave.com let you upload photos. On the former, I found a picture of my many-times-great-grandmother, who came to the U.S. as a child in the 18fh century and lived long enough to be photographed as an elderly woman. I could see a definite family resemblance, and I’m glad somebody took the time to scan and upload it.
Dean Finder, I am also sorry to hear about the loss of your mom. With the loss of my mom, 4 years ago, it left just my aunt (her sister), my brother, and me, remaining on that side of the family. And none of us have kids. I did start to think about how our family photos would eventually end up in an estate sale, an antique store or flea market, or the trash. About a year ago, I started scanning the photos and uploading them to Findagrave.com (as Melissa mentioned) and FamilySearch.com. Both of those sites are free. I'm not sure, but I think there is a fee to join ancestry.com (Melissa ?). It has made me feel much better to know that all of the family photos I have uploaded so far, will survive for years to come, even if it's only digitally.
To all...we certainly hit upon some sad moments here this time...but it is a part of life we all have to deal with. I'm glad we can openly share it with one another. KS
DeanFinder, I'm so sorry about the loss of your mom. Mom's are priceless.
I can truly relate to the 'cleaning out' of loved one's homes and apartments. I'm getting good at it...lots of experience. Ugh.
Major, you will be a tremendous help to your girlfriend, when the time comes, as you won't be emotionally attached/involved with the things that need to be cleaned out. For example: I helped my girlfriend clean out her mother's house, and my girlfriend wanted to throw out everything. I convinced her to keep a few nice items that I picked out, and she later (months later) thanked me for doing that - as she couldn't think clearly at the time. Now she treasures those items she kept.
After reading all of these comments, and from conversations I've had with some other Jr. Gorillas, I noticed that A LOT of us are either only-kids, or without kids, and I wonder if that's part of the reason we've grown so close, here. We're sharing our fun childhood experiences with our Jr-Gorilla-siblings and family.
Major, thanks for hosting this family get-together.
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