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.
Major-
ReplyDelete"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.
ReplyDeleteAh, 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.
ReplyDeleteMickey's fly might be "down" about a quarter of an inch. I wonder if he or any other characters have ever walked out "on stage" with their fly completely open? Like maybe Chewbacca.
ReplyDeleteThanks for today's serving of Leftuggies, Major!
Photo 1, at first I thought those ladies were twins, but now I see they are just stylish, which is kind of the same thing. Great photo of Main Street too. I see Merlin has moved in as well. And one trash can, just because. If we squint, we can see a bit of one of the “cattle cars” on the DLRR, over to the left through the trees.
ReplyDeletePhoto 2 feels like several family photos all at once. Mickey is multitasking. I feel certain that Melissa would like the twin girls dressed alike in the left corner. But Miss Sunshine with the floppy hat wins for today. The Hills Brothers sign is visible but out-of-focus, still a win to me.
Thanks Major for a fine trip to Main Street.
JG
Nanook, I had no idea it was a meeting if the International Confederation of Towheads! The girls with the identical dresses look to be a few years apart to me, but who knows.
ReplyDeleteJB, there are times when the park has let the trees on Main Street get way too big, so that they block the views of the castle, and the buildings along the street. I get it, I like big trees, but they don’t work so well in that part of the park. “Meddling Women”, what a title for a movie. I’m not sure how different today’s Mickey is from the version we saw yesterday, it might just be a more flattering angle.
Mike Cozart, it seems strange that they wanted Rainbow Ridge to be a ghost town, there were lots of audio tracks with music coming from a saloon, a dental patient in agony, a bar fight (another saloon I guess?), and more I think. RR definitely did not look run down or abandoned, it just looked like everybody had gone someplace else for a few hours! Part of me would love the Haunted Mansion to look spooky on the outside, but after all these years I do love the neat and tidy Mansion that we are used to.
TokyoMagic!, it’s hard to operate a zipper with those big gloves! I don’t want to think about Chewbacca with his fly open, thanks for putting that in my head!
JG, it’s funny to see certain fashions become “the thing”, around 1967 women really got into colorful floral patterns like the ones those ladies are wearing. Where is Merlin?? In the Magic Shop? I’m sure Melissa would have commented on the dresses on those young girls, I’d sort of hoped that M would be with us again by now. I’ll keep hoping. I like that Hills Bros sign too!