Randos
I have two nice RANDOS for you today, starting with this swell view taken from the Skyway as our gondola approached the Tomorrowland terminal (date stamped "September, 1959"). I have a number of similar views, but there's always so much to look at, and it makes me miss the Skyway all over again. So... bittersweet. Beneath the nearest pale yellow gondola, there seems to be a lot of people heading toward the restrooms. When ya gotta go! There's a fire hydrant, easy to see. To the left, Tomorrowland Station, which was pretty new in '59; and of course the Autopia, a favorite of so many.
Next is this unusual photo taken from the middle of the Plaza (right near where the "Partners" statue is today), looking down Main Street toward the train station November 1968, not long after the sun had set. All the lights were on, and the sky took on various hues of pinks and violets. The warmth of the lights is somehow comforting, as if the shops and restaurants are more welcoming at that time of evening. A few brisk walkers have been reduced to blurs!
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"When ya gotta go! There's a fire hydrant, easy to see."
Major, did you do that on purpose?? :o)
At least 8 trash cans in that beautiful Main Street view.
Very nice randos, thank you, Major.
It’s interesting that all three SKYWAY attractions … Disneyland , Walt Disney World and Tokyo Disneyland all had restrooms bellow the loading terminal .. a great use of space . Florida and Tokyo also had SKYWAY STATION SHOPS …I guess you could say loading above … “unloading” below….
This winter in Southern California we have had some very vibrant pink evening skies / sunsets… but tonight it is raining. And as Jack Wagoner says at Disneyland’s entrance :” in to everyone’s life a little rain must fall and it looks like today is our day - but still we say WELCOME to this happy place called Disneyland!”
Oooh, nice picture! I always like seeing 'the works' inside the Skyway terminal. Hmm, have we seen any photos inside the Skyway Chateau? The guy in the blue bucket is taking a picture of the terminal, pretty much like our photographer is doing.
"there seems to be a lot of people heading toward the restrooms". Must be those space-age hotdogs with synthetic wieners.
The twilight photo is moody, in a good way. This is when the magic starts. The blurry people are time travelers from the future. The Hub is their designated materialization portal. Not sure if they're phasing in or phasing out.
Sue, I was thinking the same thing.
Mike, "loading above … “unloading” below". Ohhh myyyyy.
Major, seems like your Randos are always better-than-average pics. Thanks.
Major-
I notice the [partially-obscured] signage near the entrance to the Autopia directing guests of 'shorter stature' over to the Junior Autopia in Fantasyland. If the date on the slide is remotely-correct, does that mean the 'new, 1959' Fantasyland Autopia was also referred to as 'Junior', or am I once again hopelessly confused by these dates, as the real Junior Autopia closed in the middle of December, 1958. Woe is me-!
Thanks, Major.
Ha! Lots of potty humor today. (Typical boys.)
It’s funny how Disney is very precise with the use of park nomenclature… but within the company it’s very very loose … throught it’s history WED, WDI even today will still mark design art and blueprints like “20k Ride” … “Tiki Show”….. “Pepsi stage show” “Eastern Airline ride” … “GE show” etc. in most printed and marketing material and some construction signs the 1959 AUTOPIA’s are called NEW SUPER AUTOPIA’s … Fantasyland SUPER AUTOPIA , Tomorrowland SUPER AUTOPIA …. But guidebooks and eventually signage continued to just read “ AUTOPIA”
Then there’s some examples where the real name like WEDWAY( 1967 version) was given the generic working name as its final title PEOPLEMOVER. In my collection I have a pack of documents going back and forth with WED and studio lawyers about changing the Disneyland PeopleMover to being called WEDWAY … (IF) they cannot find a way to copyright PEOPLEMOVER …
Then the trail of documents end in 1973 with a inter office memo that all printing and reference to the Disneyland Peoplemover going forward is to be the newly copyrighted name “PeopleMover” the M must be capitalized.
That was me above
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