Random Beauties From the 50s
Here are two more random scans from a batch of loose 120-format transparencies from the 1950s, starting with this nice view of locomotive #1, the C.K. Holliday as it pulls into Main Street Station. If you look carefully you can just see somebody in the cab of the locomotive, while a conductor stands at the door of one of the old yellow passenger cars, waiting to help guests as they disembark. I like the view of the distant parking lot! Notice the red Christmas bell decoration to the left.
Over in Fantasyland, two girls we've seen previously (one is harder to spot in this image) ride King Arthur's Carrousel, back when the horses were all sorts of colors. Black! White! Burnt Sienna! Butterscotch! Green! Well, maybe not green, but you get the idea. Either the girl closest to us is a daredevil, or the Carrousel hasn't started moving yet. You have to hold on to that pole with a kung fu grip!
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Major-
Other than the 'multi-color' horse selection, the carousel looks pretty bare bones back then.
Thanks, Major.
My, what a striking photo! The highlights and shadows are just where they should be. Are you sure that's a red Christmas bell? I thought it was a traffic cone... oh wait... I had a smudge on my glasses... yer right, it's a bell. With all the feral cows roaming around the Park, I bet the train's cowcatcher has come in handy! We've also got the 'towers of power' standing guard in the background.
You'd probably wanna avoid the green horse; evidently that one has motion sickness from going around in circles too often. You could end up with green horse-barf all over you. Some say that carousel horses look 'spirited'. But to me, they always look terrified; running for their lives!
Thanks for the "random beauties", Major. And here I thought we were gonna see unknown men and women in bathing suits. :-D
These are beauties, Major. I'm guessing from that slight blur in the second image, that the carousel WAS in motion. I think that girl is just a big showoff and is pulling a "Look Ma, no hands!" stunt. She'll be sorry.
Thanks, Major!
Nothing too distinguishing about the C.K. Holliday. It's nice to see it pulling the yellow passenger cars--not its "regular" consist of the freight train. The train's bell isn't ringing--or perhaps the photographer just caught it at the lowest point of its arc. And no roof hatch to let some of the 140 degree heat out of the cab. And talk about a "clean stack!" No smoke or steam whatsoever!
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