Frontierland, July 1958
Here's a pair of perfectly good photos from July, 1958. They're fine! If I hear one word, I will turn this blog around and head home.
The man to the right wanted his photo taken with the magnificent Mark Twain. This batch of pictures has a number of images of him and his wife having a swell time, so he's OK in my book. You'll see his wife in future posts! Do they still adorn the Twain with patriotic bunting around the 4th of July these days? It seems like they always did, long ago. I was trying to make out the design of that banner between the stacks of the steamboat, but the angle is all wrong. It might have a castle on it?
Here's a pretty pic from Tom Sawyer Island, guests are climbing and exploring; you can see a line of people going up the right side of Castle Rock, and coming down the left side. After visiting Fort Wilderness, they can walk along the trails and cross the Supension Bridge and the Pontoon Bridge, and then go spelunking in the system of caves.
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"If I hear one word, I will turn this blog around and head home." [JB, in the back seat, looks all sullen] "Oookaaaaay", he says, dejectedly, "Geez".
Anytime there is decorative fencing in the foreground of a photo, that automatically makes it better than most. I think we've seen that flag before; atop the pirate ship maybe? And it does look like a castle.
A nice pic of Castle Rock. Except... it's infested with humans! Lotsandlots of humans! (Lotsandlots was one of the knights of the Round Table... or maybe it was the Algonquin Round Table... and 'knights' is pronounced 'kinnn-ig-its').
The little boy in the stripy shirt has something in his sticky little hands (he's a little boy, so chances are, his hands are sticky). A red and white cylinder of some sort? I wonder if anyone has climbed all the way up to where the flagpole is?
Stu(numbers) will be disappointed; no AEDs in either of these pics, just like the other day.
Thanks for the perfectly good and fine Frontierland pics, Major.
That flag design on the MARK TWAIN is still used today . It’s a pennant style banner with a dark blue header with castle silhouette , a light blue body . With Disneyland in white …..sometimes yellow lettering. The flags are handmade by the Disneyland decorating department. They also make the Disneyland flags on the Main Street train depot , the fire house , the Frontierland “landing” pavilion. There used to be a Disneyland flag on the carousel theater prior to 1998.
Odd to see deck chairs on the upper “TEXAS” deck ..
Major, JB is poking me again. Make him stop!
These are perfectly good photos. They don’t even need salt.
Thanks for the info about the flag, Mike. At first I thought it was the flag of Ruritania, but then I remembered that has a white waffle iron on it instead of a castle.
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