Christmastime Yo
I recently scanned a batch of oversized transparencies - none of them were in cardboard mounts, instead they were just loose in an envelope. They took some effort to scan, but it was worth it! You'll be seeing many more of them in the coming months, but for now I have two Christmas-themed pix. It's December nineteenth, after all, and time to get into that Yuletide spirit.
I believe that many of the transparencies are from 1956, though it is hard to be sure. I love this morning view of Main Street USA... the street looks pretty empty, but I think nearly everyone has rushed to the Plaza, leaving just a Streetcar, a Horseless Carriage, and that fellow who seems to be chatting with the driver.
Overhead, charming decorations exactly like those you might have found in any city add a festive air.
This next one was in the same batch of transparencies, but the color is quite different. And the sky appears to be much cloudier, so it must be from a different day. Guests are dressed for cool (but not cold) weather; I like the girl with the pink skirt, so very 50s. At first I thought she was wearing mouse ears, but I think it's just a big hair bow.
3 comments:
Major-
Talk about tasteful decorations... something that has vanished from the Disney lexicon.
No kidding about that pink skirt - which appears to have a mind of its own-! The expression on that lady in the grey suit looks as if she had ordered a Coke and instead was served a Pepsi-! Oh, the indignity. And after watching a flurry of The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet episodes, I'm quite well-acquainted with how Coca-Cola goes with everything and Xmas time is no exception.
Thanks, Major.
This first photo really benefits from the oversized format. We get to see a lot of stuff that would normally be out of frame. According to the street clock, it is 10:00 AM, so the Park may have just opened? The guy on the right may be talking to the Horseless Carriage driver, but I think he's just talking on his Bluetooth. Or maybe he envisions himself walking down a fashion runway, displaying the latest in Disney couture.
Yeah, miss Pink Dress has a bow in her hair, not Mouse Ears. That dress of hers is so stiff and unyielding that it can't quite lie down properly. I thought the girl in front of her also had a bow, or an artificial flower in her hair. But upon looking more closely, it's just the face of someone walking toward us. There's someone in uniform back there in the Castle archway (black suit jacket, white hat). I think the startled lady in the left foreground has just witnessed a Killer Swan attack. I don't see any sign of The Dent; must be the flat lighting?
I see that I have copied Nanook again, in my comment... such is life.
Thanks for the BIG slides, Major. (Yo)
Those garlands over Main St. look like they might have actually been made of real pine boughs. NICE! But they should have wired them with several thousand "icicle" lights per garland.
On the extreme left side of that first pic, we can see the little "Castle," over one of the Emporium's doorways. When and why was that removed, and where is it today?
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