Frontierland, August 1970
Here's a trio of perfectly nice photos from Frontierland, which would be called "Tomorrowland" if you'd been born in the Middle Ages. Think about it.
The Mark Twain has taken on a full compliment of passengers, to be delivered upriver to the Soylent company (founded by General Amos Soylent) for a factory tour. I've heard that guests receive a snack and a juice box at the end of the tour (sort of like the cookie and soda you get after touring Walt's apartment), but can find no first-person accounts for some reason. Gosh it sounds like a hoot!
The Burning Settler's Cabin was living up to its name in 1970 - a few years before that dumb Energy Crisis ruined all our fun. As you can see, the cabin was surrounded by large, mature trees by 1970, which makes it look quite a bit smaller than it used to. But don't worry, those trees never grew larger than 5/8 scale. Stinky Sam is so relaxed, I really admire him.
This view of an elk was definitely not taken from one of the Mark Twain's upper levels - perhaps it was taken from a Keelboat? Impossible to say of course. You might see many critters along the River, including elk, meese, deer, and giant sloths.
2 comments:
Major-
I never tire of seeing the Settler's Cabin a-fire - this being a particularly nice shot, with all those "5/8's scale" trees looking so lush.
"This view of an elk was definitely not taken from one of the Mark Twain's upper levels..." Absolutely correct - it was taken from Monorail Red-!
Thanks, Major.
Wait... Disney offers tours of the Soylent factory? AND you get a snack and juice box at the end of the tour?.... SIGN ME UP!!! (Really strange that you can't find anyone who's been on the tour to give an account. Hmm... Oh well.... LET'S GO!)
Wow, full compliment indeed! Purple-hat lady has a red Mickey balloon. And on the left, there's a guy wearing a red and white t-shirt; like a pirate sailor. He seems to be blowing his nose. Must be the salt air. Bright and sunny with a big beautiful blue sky; really nice photo.
Isn't Stinky Sam (a.k.a. Carl Arrowshirt) usually 'relaxing' with his head to the right, not on the left, as he is here? He must've repositioned himself in his 'sleep'. After blazing all day, that burning cabin had to be rebuilt every night, from scratch, after the Park closed, to be ready for the next day's rope drop. Probably why they cut back on the flames.
Disney doesn't advertise the fact, but they had the only thriving herd of giant 20 foot ground sloths (Megatherium) in existence. More recently, they culled the entire herd to make room for Galaxy's Edge. TRE. This photo reminds me of one of my dad's 'hunting trip' 35mm slides. Except the elk would've been about 200 yards farther away and could only be seen if you already knew it was there.
Yes, we've seen a lot of Frontierland photos, but these are nice and clear and crispy and juicy! Thanks, Major.
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