Snoozles™
"Gladys, get the kids, it's Snoozle Time!". "SNOOZLE TIME???" (Gladys faints). That's right folks, gird your loins for some "just OK" scans.
This first one is dated "November 1963", and appears to have been taken from the "Huck's Landing", one of two areas on Tom Sawyer Island where rafts could... um... land (the other being "Tom's Landing", near the Old Mill). This image isn't too bad, just a bit dark. Looking across the river, we see Canoes that I thought were empty at first, but now I see that they are loading up with guests. They probably won't be full crews, however. I wonder if that little group of guests on the shore are people in line for Canoe rides?
Next is this scan from July of 1964, an upshot of some waterfalls crashing down from Cascade Peak. I don't believe this is Big Thunder Falls, but... maybe it is?
11 comments:
Major-
I do believe it's Big Thunder Falls. (Experts, please chime-in),
Thanks, Major.
[JB, with loins girded, awaits what's coming with bated breath.]
An interesting photo because it gives us a view of things we don't see very often. Like the Canoe loading station from the other side than what we usually see. At first I couldn't figure out what that brown strip was on the right. Then I got it: It's the shade awning for the Indian Dance Circle. Unless I'm wrong and it's something else.
I see that the bighorn sheep have left for greener pastures and better rocks to climb on. I thought maybe that was the water gong alarm we can see half of, on the right edge, but it isn't red, so it's probably just an unexploded land mine left over from WWII.
Pretty good Snoozles this week, Major. Thanks.
Both unique shots….not Snoozles IMO. Possibly Blurzles, but not Snoozles.
That 2nd one looks like a giant octopus face.
Thanks, Major.
I'm surprised that the photographer didn't get any "water spray" on the lens of his or her camera, for that second pic!
Thanks for these unusual pics, Major. I don't think they are Snoozles!
We often talk about the back side of water: but here is the front side: in all her glory. Are waterfalls female like boats? And boats seem kind of butch: shouldn't they be boys? This is going into dangerous territory, so I will stop now. An interesting view of the canoes...and so many of them at that. I'm wondering how many back then would be on the river at once? Seems like it's a recipe for cooking up the scheme to build the Columbia: Dick Nunis to Walt: "wow...look at all the traffic out there!" Walt: "now all we need is another big boat". A legendary story, but I heard it from the horses mouth, so there must be a bit of truth to it: and perhaps (with those two guys) there was more than a little colorful language. I did experience the Indian Village as a tot and I can remember being a little frightened of the Native Americans and the loud dancing and drum beating. It's a faint memory...I also remember going into the sod roof shop and being fascinated by beaded items like little purses, and shoes, and headband or neckless type things...and it smelled like suede due to the moccasins and other things that they were selling. What a cozy little shop that was, and so quiet inside from the log and sod insulation. Thanks for the snoozles (tm) Major!
Photo 1 gives a good idea of how many totem poles the Village held, quite a lot. It is an unusual view, we can see the stove pipe of the raft shanty in the foreground. I think these early canoes and rafts ran on rails like the bigger ships/boats.
Photo 2 is a pretty remarkable viewpoint. I’m not sure which falls these are, since even the trees have no scale. I don’t see the water gong here, I think that one is a different falls. Quite a photo, we can almost feel the spray.
Thanks Major!
JG
Nanook, I thought YOU were the expert!
JB, hmmm, good eye on that Dance Circle awning - although I thought the awning was more to the left? I honestly am not sure. I can’t think of what else that would be, though. I also thought that the “amphitheater” faced northwards. Maybe I need to eat lunch and am suffering from low blood sugar. I don’t think we’d be able to see that weird gong alarm from the low vantage point of photo #2, since it’s high up and sort of tucked away.
Lou and Sue, even though there’s a bit of motion-blur in the second photo, I can’t put these into the “Blurzle” category! I see the giant octopus face, and am now scared.
TokyoMagic!, I suppose if the wind had been just right (or wrong), the lens could have been covered with mist. But sometimes a person can get lucky.
Bu, hmmm, I am not sure about waterfalls being female. A question for philosophers around the world. Boats are butch? Again, hmmm. Nobody asked me when they made the rules. They never ask me! I would think that on a busy day, there could easily have been four, five, even six Canoes out on the water. But I’d love to know if there was a maximum number that one of our former Canoe guys knows about. You talked to Dick Nunis? Were you on the golf course?? I’m aware of Walt saying “damn” and “dammit”, but I wonder what other choice words he used? The mind reels. I’ve seen photos of another Indian themed shop at the Disneyland Hotel, and there is heaps of turquoise and silver jewelry. Probably relatively affordable back then, but turquoise went way up in price a decade or two ago.
JG, there actually are quite a few totem poles; I’ve seen a photo or two of Indian craftmen carving totems right there in the Indian Village, I wonder if those eventually were added to the display? I was not sure if that second photo showed Big Thunder Falls or the other falls, I think they were called the “Three Sisters” or something like that. Because they are always babblin’ (as the Mine Train spiel said)!
My vote is Three Sisters Falls and that the perspective of this shot is taken upwards from the Mine Train. The train passed under Big Thunder and as a result, a picture of it up to the top of the 'mountain' was not possible. I specifically recall going by these falls irrespective of their name while operating the train. KS
Major-
Make that the Twin Sisters - not the 'Three Sisters'... "... them other two falls they call the Twin Sisters, I reckon it's 'cuz they're always babbling..." And KS is most-likely correct in ID-ing the falls as being the Twin Sisters, and not Big Thunder Falls. (And besides, who am I to argue with a member of The Order of the Red Handkerchief after all-!)
KS, reading ahead, I have steered you wrong, and I am more ashamed than you can know.
Nanook, maybe one of the sisters left to try to make it in Hollywood?
Thanks Nanook!! I may be foggy on the names but the visuals are indelibly etched in my memory! KS
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