Knott's Pitchur Gallery
Gosh, I sure do have a lot of souvenir photos from Knott's Berry Farm's "Pitchur Gallery". I know they might get a bit redundant for some of you, which causes me great emotional pain. OK, not really. I wish I understood hu-man emotions, but they are not a part of my programming.
Here's a familiar scene, taken in a crude town that still smelled of fresh lumber (and other less pleasant things). Two young girls have decided to try their luck at striking it rich, one rides a donkey, while the other leads the way while carrying a heavy pack - you can tell that she's the one with GOLD FEVER.
I believe that the next example is the only one of its kind in my collection; two women (sisters, presumably) hold hands while sitting on a fence in front of a sparse and spooky landscape.
Next is another familiar scene, two couples dance the night away while dressed in their finest outfits. There's Roy and Orva (Orva??), an unnamed woman who labeled the photo ("Me"), and her beau ("Gid" - short for "Gideon"? Or perhaps "Gidfrunkel"?).
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Oh yes, I have more Pitchur Gallery photos for you!
2 comments:
"they are not a part of my programming". Major, it sounds like you need to upgrade your positronic brain with Data's (or Lore's) emotion pack.
I like the expressions on the gold fever girls. I was trying to figure out how that girl is sitting on a 2-D mule cutout. I guess she's sitting on a stool behind the cutout? It's very convincing! I had to look up "botica". It's spanish for "pharmacy"... I thought it might be a variety of tobacco.
The fence sitter sisters really is an odd one. I wonder why they chose that particular background? Dismal and Dreary (that's the sisters' names). Maybe their last name is Addams?
Hmm, I suppose "Orva" could be the feminine form of the name "Orville"? The gals' waists are so thin that I'm afraid they'll break in haif! And their heads will snap off of those long skinny necks!
These were fun pitchurs, Major. Thanks.
Major, I didn't really remember seeing that first setup before, but I did a search and found several others on your blog. How could I have forgotten? You also have one photo with the same "Drug Store" background, but they moved the miner, burro and water pump out of the scene, and replaced them with a taxidermied bear.
Knott's should have just gone all in on the "sparse and spooky" scenery in that second pic. They could have thrown in some headstones and a skeleton hanging from the tree, or maybe a skeleton sitting in an outhouse, like the one you would see when leaving the Haunted Shack attraction.
Thanks, Major!
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