Flower Market, September 1983
Way back in 1983, Lou Perry took a stroll around Disneyland. He took lots and lots of photos - you've seen a bunch of them here (thanks to his daughter, Sue B.)! It still blows my mind that 1983 was 42 years ago. Argh. I always wonder how many people realized that the flowers on display were not the real thing? Thanks to NASA, our fake-flower technology had grown by leaps and bounds.
Hey look, there's some white ones, and some red ones. I think roses, and some orchids, and... well that's about it for me.
Tulips and daisies and daffodils?
Lillies, geraniums, crocuses... who knows.
If there's one thing I've learned today, it's that I know almost nothing about flowers. Shameful considering that my mother and grandmother were obsessed with their flower beds!
THANK YOU, Lou and Sue!
3 comments:
Major-
Those sound like the right flower names to me - from what can be discerned in the images. Tell the truth, Major, you're actually a horticulturist, aren't you-?
Thanks, Major.
I never looked closely at these pictures, until now. There’s a creepy ‘vintage’ doll haunting that one window display in the last photo.
In the first pic, I'm concentrating on those yellow fruits to the right. Not sure what they are. Pears? Lemons? Loquats? Mutant bananas?
I wonder if these mounds of flowers are arranged differently every day, using different combinations of colors?
Major, your guesses on the flower varieties are close enough for me. It's hard to tell what's all in there when they're all bunched together like that.
Sue, why oh why did they make vintage dolls look so creepy in the olden days? It's like they deliberately tried to give kids nightmares!
Thanks to Lou, Sue, and you (Major).
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