Main Street, August 1965
Gadzooks, it seems as if I've been sharing a lot of images featuring Main Street lately. That's how it goes sometimes, one minute you are minding your own business, and the next minute you have a folder full of Main Street scans. It's like that Carl Sandburg poem, "Aprons of Silence": Here I took along my own hoosegow
And did business with my own thoughts.
Do you see? It must be the aprons of silence. Well, maybe it's not like that, I don't know, I'm feeling very dizzy.
Hey look! A firetruck, let's see if we can get him to give us a ride. I'll show a little leg, that usually works. Oh by the way, ordinarily you might be seeing Snoozles™ on GDB on a typical Sunday, but today's examples, while flawed, were not certified as such, and I don't want to go to prison (again) by misrepresenting them.
The humble Flower Market is "less busy than usual"; is it just me, or does the Carnation truck look a little bit sad? "I used to be a star!". You're still a star in my book, Carnie. Turn that frown upside-down!
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Whfff! That Carl Sandburg thing at the start went right over my head... I'll chalk it up to you feeling dizzy. My aprons are never silent: "Ewww, did he just wipe his hands on us?"; "Oh, yuk. We got splattered with spaghetti sauce... again!"
Welcome to Shadytown, U.S.A.! Where the streets and sidewalks are always engulfed in somberness. Actually, this lighting makes Main Street look especially real. Another unbuttoned vest. Maybe it's time for Bu to give up on his quest for buttoned vests. They don't exist; a chimera, a thing of the imagination. And only one measly trashcan... but it's a good one.
Poor Carnie. He had his moment in the sun, then he was put out to pasture in some museum somewhere. I think of him like Ferdinand the bull, sitting there amongst all the colorful flowers.
I bet if you looked, you could find something in Upjohn's Pharmacy that would make you upchuck. Or at least make your tummy upset.
Not a Snoozle Sunday, but still fun! Thanks, Major.
It's interesting that the Ladies restroom was given a street address. Maybe I've made that observation in the past. Not sure. I do know that it's now the Men's restroom, and it no longer has an address painted on the window over the door.
At least Disney didn't destroy or ruin the Carnation truck, like they did with the original DL Omnibuses.....and the DL Guest Books containing the signatures of JFK, Abraham Lincoln, Mark Twain, and Nikita Khrushchev.
Oh, Carl Sandburg! I have a couple of volumes of his poems. I should get them down to read again. Very appropriate for a day on Main Street.
Yes, only one trash can, but it is the Can of Necessity, the Only Can You Need Now.
The Flower Mart will be busier later in the day as people are heading home, they will buy a nice bouquet for the dinner table. It will offgas the plastic aromas on the way and be fresh and perfect on arrival.
I’d like to hop up and pretend to steer the Carnation Wagon like I did long ago, but those days are past and gone.
Thanks Major!
JG
JB, thanks to Carl Sandberg I have written many books about aprons, most of them best sellers, and some optioned by Stephen Spielberg. “We’ll do CGI aprons!”. “Sure, Steve, anything you say”. You’ll probably notice the cool teens with their skateboards and aprons. Today’s scans are flawed, but not so bad as to qualify as “Snoozles”, so I decided to zig. Or is it “zag”? I agree, the whole unbuttoned vest thing has become bigger than Watergate, and frankly it scares me. Now that we know that Carnie is in a warm museum being well cared for, we can all smile and do a little dance as if we are in a commercial for a new drug. What does the drug do? Who knows.
TokyoMagic!, Wait, the Ladies Room is now the Men’s Room? Wait until some people hear about this! I don’t know if you remember the story about how Disney insisted that the word “Disneyland” had to be removed from the Carnation Truck, but the Disney employees went to lunch, and the Carnation people shrugged and loaded the truck on their trailer and off they went. So sweet.
JG, I think Carl was having “one of those days” when he wrote “Aprons of Silence”. Great minds do their own thing, or so I’m told. I certainly wouldn’t know. Trashcans of Necessity? What a great idea! What rhymes with “necessity”, anyway? “Plastic aromas”, I do remember liking the smell of things like my new vinyl pool float thing, or a newly-opened Aurora monster model. What a bouquet! Better than a fine chardonnay.
Maybe the nice people from the Upjohn Company have some antidepressants for the sad Carnation truck
Vestgate. Huh. The address on the women's restroom was in preparation of navigators of the future. Should have been in Tomorrowland, obviously.
These feel more like Snoozles but I'm still awake, so no.
Thanks, Major
Zach
"Did business with my own thoughts..." kind of sounds like a toilet situation, and how appropriate that we've focused on this in today's photos. Used to be the ladies, now the mens....but I thought it was still the ladies...with the mens to the right...will have to do some recon. How can you not love the flower market, well: some financial people absolutely did not love it. They love bubbles. Bubbles make money. They also make a slippery surface. So who wins? The lawyers or the finance people? Might be a toss up. I don't mind bubbles...in your back yard, not in a theme park. I also don't mind plush. In your kids room and not in a theme park...and IF in a theme park, in a store that is called the Character Shop...where you buy character things. Salty Sunday! Must be the unbuttoned vest on bachelor #1, bachelor #2 has followed rules...but rules on the street were loose. Also, bachelor #1 is wearing the generic Main St. costume and not the fire dept costume...but perhaps that was OK too. It's interesting that the camera shop was such a necessity only a few short decades ago, and now it's completely irrelevant. When you care enough to send the very best is now also completely irrelevant as well it seems. Way to go for the Stuarts for "dining and dashing" with the truck in tow: even though they technically owned it. Here's a link to a great GDB Post that I dug out going down the rabbit hole:http://gorillasdontblog.blogspot.com/2010/03/carnation-truck-lives.html Thanks Major!
Thank you, JG, I learned a new word, today: "Offgas"
"...we can all smile and do a little dance as if we are in a commercial for a new drug. What does the drug do? Who knows."
Major, it has TONS of side effects including death. :oP
Bu, thank you for adding that link. That GDB post is GDB-GOLD. I even see that more [informational] comments were added years later. Great stuff!
Thanks, Major.
In 1965 there was no standard Main Street costume . Outside vendors provided their own costumes and Disneyland approved them . In fact prior to the opening of Walt Disney World there were probably more costume styles on Main Street than any other part of the park. This period of time costumes were developed by Lelia Easton …. She over took Disneyland’s opening costumer when she decided she wanted to go back to Hollywood. Easton had been a sportswear buyer for an Orange County department store and wasn’t a great fit for Disneyland . John Hench who approved wall park costumes was overwhelm with other projects and knew a larger trained costume team was needed - especial to gear up for Walt Disney world. So John Hench turned to Western Costuming to recruit some costume designers … a manager and two designers were brought on to create the Disneyland Costume Department ( formerly wardrobe of Disneyland general services )
One of the new designers was brought on off the recently canceled tv show THE WILD WILD WEST . The other a major western costume designer had been an assistant to the opening day Disneyland costume designer Walt had hired .,all three created costumes for all Disney themeparks untill the mid 1990’s when they retired .
The first official Main Street USA merchandise. Costume was actually developed for Walt Disney World . The design was implemented at Disneyland almost immediately. At first the costume was offered in four colors … a navy blue , a burgundy, a yellow and a green . Cast members rarely requested the yellow or green costumes and by 1977 were phased out. Variations of the navy blue and the burgundy costumes were used into the early 2000’s
I don’t know if you remember the story about how Disney insisted that the word “Disneyland” had to be removed from the Carnation Truck, but the Disney employees went to lunch, and the Carnation people shrugged and loaded the truck on their trailer and off they went. So sweet.
Major, I do remember that story, and I loved it! That's why I said at least Disney didn't ruin the truck.....like everything else that they've ruined! :-)
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