Snoozle Snapshots
Vintage photo prints, i.e. "snapshots", can be a mixed bag. For some reason they tend to be of inferior quality to slides - not just in actual clarity and color, but in composition too. Maybe it was the cheap cameras and cheaper lenses. Anyway, I have some real Snoozles for you today.
Mitch grew up in the Arizona desert, and he's never seen a body of water bigger than an inflatable kiddie pool before. "Dang!", he exclaimed. Dang, indeed, Mitch. He wanted somebody to take his photo while on the top deck of the Mark Twain so that folks back home didn't think he was pulling their leg about the Rivers of America.
Photos taken from Storybook Land can be charming, OR they can look something like this. I guess the little structure is one of the Little Pigs' "house of sticks", and even though it would sell for $1.2 million dollars in SoCal these days, it is almost lost among the grass and miniature shrubs.
Why? Just.... WHY?? What inspired the photographer to take this picture, I ask you? This is presumably another Storybook Land pic. "Alice in Wonderland used to drive past this tree on her way to 7-11". There is a structure in the upper left, I can't quite place it.
6 comments:
Major-
That first image is "really a challenge": poor resolution and chromatic aberrations. The Sierra Tower in the distance is a plus, though.
The white lighting "tower" poking up in the back of the second image is actually sitting back near the entrance to It's a Small World. Undoubtedly, it's the one seen HERE, without the flags, nearest to IaSW.
Thanks, Major.
I wonder if Mitch visited the ocean while he was on his California trip?... MIND... BLOWN! Of course, the folks back home would never believe that so much water could ever exist, "Trick photography!" they would say.
There are a lot of fishermen on the fishing dock fishing for fishes. Mitch has probably never seen a fish before either.
That little wooden shack that the Little Pig built looks pretty flimsy. No wonder the Big Bad Wolf could blow it down so easily. We can see the Old Windmill over to the right. This must be before the storm hit.
I'm not sure which direction we're facing but, is that the Skyway tower sticking up above the trees? It must be something else because it looks to complex and weird to be the tower.
Hmm, that structure in the "why?" pic is a head scratcher. The gingerbread along the eaves makes me think it's the Skyway Chalet, but the color is all wrong on the rest of the building. Is it a Storybook Land miniature? It's not Toad Hall.
Nanook, Ah! You solved it! It is indeed that lighting tower. Now I can get a good night's sleep.
OK, they're Snoozles. Whatcha gonna do? Life isn't always unicorns and cotton candy. Thanks, Major.
The guy in the first shot looks kind of like a young Heino, but he's not albino enough. But, I'll bet could bust out into a Sunday Schlagger at any moment!!
Love the old SB shots... It was hard to pass up taking pictures while cruising Storybook Land, especially back in the days of Kodak or Fuji film...
Thank You Major!
@ Anon-
Now, when was the last time we had a 'Heino' reference in these pages-?? Too long... that's how long. More Heino, please-!
In the first pic, we can see the construction wall and pile of dirt that would become New Orleans Square. But are we also seeing the Plantation House service window thingy that replaced the Plantation House Restaurant, to the left of the man's shoulder?
I think they should have had aerialists suspended and performing off of those Small World light towers. They remind me of a support tower that you'd see inside of a circus tent.
That last pic is baffling. None of those background structures look like Storybook Land. And those rocks are kind of large, and so is that pine shrub. Could this have been taken along the Rivers of America from the lower level of the Mark Twain, or from a Canoe or Keelboat? Even then, I'm not sure what those structures would be.
Thanks for the Snoozle Snapshots, Major!
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