Snoozles™, July 1961
You know how it goes with Snoozles - they are not ready for Prime Time, and never will be! And that's saying something, because "Pink Lady and Jeff" was a Prime Time show.
If you just look at the thumbnails, things will seem OK. But the full-sized jpeg reveals the usual lack of focus that plagues so many vintage photos. Still, Frontierland looks beautiful in this late-afternoon shot.
Again with the soft focus?? Maybe it was an artistic choice. Doubtful, but maybe. Look at how teensy those Skyway gondolas look, they're like bugs. In fact, people look like bugs, Autopia cars looks like bugs... everything is covered in bugs!
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The first pic has a nice pastoral look to it. And the soft blur gives it a hazy, daydreamy aspect. On the left, the foliage-covered Old Mill looks like Bigfoot lumbering about. Some of those waterfowl don't look like ducks; their necks and legs are too long. Maybe they're geese? Or anteaters?
The second pic gets extra points because we can see a Bobsled (maybe two?) and (a blurry version of) Screechy. Oh, and all the bugs.
First Snoozles of the month! Thanks, Major.
I have missed "Pink Lady and Jeff" ever since they were cancelled, 45 years ago! That show was almost as good as "The Brady Bunch Variety Hour".....except they didn't have a "Fake Jan."
Thanks for today's Snoozles, Major!
Pink Lady and Jeff....what were they thinking? And Jeff who? And Pink Lady looks like the Austin Powers duo. According to Tokyo's link (TY!) they were "Oriental Lovelies". (oh dear....). When I was in Egypt in the 80's the hotel I was in had an "Oriental Buffet"....which I thought was going to be some kind of Asian Fusion....but ended up being all Middle Eastern dishes and it was an awesome and delicious surprise. Oriental meaning only meaning "of the East". Again: Jeff who? I remember watching the show, and I don't think the lovelies spoke much English...and if I had time this morning I'd go down the Pink Lady rabbit hole...but probably all I would find would be references to the Pink Ladies of "Grease". There was another Pink: Bebe Pink, the cosmetics company owner who wanted her factory to either be "tall like a lipstick" or "like a compact: with the roof that goes up and down". I tried to get Bebe Gallini into the Brady Bunch movie to no avail...perhaps it was too obscure, as it is in this post....that being said: Snoozle with a side of Blurzle! I didn't know Screechy was so very dominant in Fantasyland. I think if built today we would all be screaming "TRE TRE TRE"....it's quite the structure and sculpture there next to the Matterhorn, and makes the mountain feel smaller...as these types of structures DO have scale unlike trees....and I will leave it there! Thanks Major!
An unfocused day on the River, hard to have one of those now. After giving $300 for admission, another $100 for Lightning, and $900 for the hotel room, to say nothing of meals, you can’t afford to be unfocused for a second nowadays.
It’s an almost perfect composition too, with the mill and the steamboat set against the snow capped peaks of the Rockies. Sigh.
The second picture is an unusual view, typically we are looking out the other side. Maybe the Eagle is intended to be seen from this angle, he looks like he is landing on the rocks? Too unfocused to count trash cans, but we do get a bonus glimpse of the Power Lines. I like it.
Thanks Major!
JG
JB, Bigfoot often disguises himself as an old mill so that he can go to public places without being mobbed. Fame has its price. The waterfowl look like ducks to me, but I am no Duckologist. If you can see a bobsled, but it’s blurry, then your luck will be blurry too.
TokyoMagic!, I remember crying myself to sleep when I found out that Pink Lady and Jeff was cancelled. I used to see Jeff Altman occasionally in Sherman Oaks, usually talking to mere mortals, he seemed like a nice guy. Poor Fake Jan, she couldn’t help that she wasn’t Jan!
Bu, “Jeff who”?? Jeff Altman! See my comment to TokyoMagic!. I’m sure he hoped that he would be the next Mork from Ork, though I’d bet that he knew that the show was a stinker. Even though he’d pop up as an actor sometimes, I think many people knew him best from his guest appearances on Letterman. Hey, I was in Egypt in the 80s too! Really! Maybe we walked right past each other. If you saw somebody riding a camel, that was me. I have the pictures to prove it. I’m not sure what the thinking was as far as coming up with the idea for PL&J, I think the show was a Summer “limited series”. Nothing against Pink Lady, but they did not exactly leap off the screen with their big personalities. I hope they returned to Japan with their fame and fortune intact. Bebe Gallini, no idea. Bebe Buell, rawrrrr! Remember, there was Screechy 1 and Screechy 2, so sightings were twice what you might expect.
JG, the whole Lightening (!) Lane thing is so maddening, it’s such a bald-faced cash grab that separates the folks who are willing to pay another steep fee from those who can’t (or won’t). I still remember waiting in line for Big Thunder as they let HUNDREDS of Lightning Lane people pass us, to the point where everyone in line around me started to grumble. I think it was 15 minutes until they let our line move an inch, no exaggeration.
I take a lot of pictured and find that things I though were pretty big in the field of view turn out to be pretty small. I guess mental focus makes things seem larger than they are.
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