Uggies. LEFTuggies, that is.
I grabbed two "Leftuggies"™ from my stash of scans. First up is this August, 1969 look down Main Street, with the Main Street Cinema and the Wurlitzer store - well, not exactly, since Wurlitzer vacated the premises about a year before. The space eventually held the exhibit, "Walt Disney: A Legacy For the Future". I wish I had more of these nice big 120-format slides, the image is bright and clear. And we get a good look at the handsome devil to the right, with his camera mounted to a monopod. No Blurzles™ for him!
Next is a fun picture from August, 1968. A whole bunch of guests are posing with Mickey Mouse in Town Square. Do all the people belong to one family (there's a lot of blond hair)? Or did everyone try to get as close to Mickey as possible, no matter who was manning the camera? We'll never know. I like the late-60s fashions, including a colorful floppy hat on the girl to the right. She's far out! You can't really make it out in this jpeg, but the girl holding hands with Mickey is wearing a souvenir hat with Mary Poppins' likeness on it.
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"Do all the people belong to one family (there's a lot of blond hair)?"
The annual meeting of Towheads was holding its convention at the DL Hotel, and the afternoon's festivities included a visit to The Park. (I wonder if the two gals wearing matching dresses are twins-?)
Thanks, Major.
At first I couldn't see the Main Street Station, but there it is peeking through the trees on the right. That's an interesting pattern on that lady's dress, sort of like tie-dye: purple, yellow, green, and aqua. I suppose it's some sort of floral design. If we hurry, we can catch Lionel Barrymore in "Meddling Women" at the Main Street Cinema.
Ah, it's the 'good' Mickey, the version I always tend to think of when I picture Mickey in my mind... which I do several times an hour... GET HIM OUT OF MY HEAD! Wonderful colors in this photo. Far-out-Girl's pants are ay least as far out as her hat! Maybe more so.
These Leftuggies are finger lickin' good! Thanks, Major.
Sorry : this comment is for yesterdays “spooky Rainbow Ridge”:Regarding the spooky emptiness of Rainbow Ridge: in early press announcements the little town of Rainbow Ridge is described as a “old ghost town with a whole lotta life left in it!” But the mercantile and miners supplies always seem so well stocked to be a ghost town . I wonder if this was a disconnect with Walt’s request that things (mostly) to not appear run down or abandoned….and this becomes confusing to guests and later WED art directors that Rainbow Ridge , despite being a ghost town , doesn’t look like one . It was probably earlier to explain a single haunted mansion in New Orleans Square looking well kept but being an abandoned manse.
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