In Town Square, 1950s
Here are two scans from a faded batch that required some red-hot Photoshoppin'. I regret that I didn't make a "before" view so that you could see how washed-out they were, but oh well.
Standing in Town Square, our photographer noticed the C.K. Holliday overhead (I was going to say "passing by", but it was likely stopped). The engineer ("pilot"? "driver dude"?) is looking right at us! It's like when Sammy Hagar made eye contact with me when he was onstage. I'll never wash my eyes again! You can see the black ears of those weird Mickey balloons, and even a tiny bit of one of the freight cars being pulled by the locomotive.
This next one restored nicely, it's a great shot of a Surrey (or whatever the vehicle actually is), pulled by two cream-white horsies. I wish I had a carrot for each of them, but I only have two plugs of chewing tobacco. I'm sure they'll enjoy a chaw, just like Stu29573 does. Mmmm, tobacco-y.
3 comments:
Very nice work, Major — Thank you!
All I have to say is:
#1: Black olives. Those are definitely black olives.
#2: Bu’s office!
Nice photo of the C.K. Holliday. A bit blurry though. The photographer must've been using his 'aging movie star' lens, which hides all sorts of wrinkles and other signs of getting older. I agree; those weird Mickey balloons look lins of... alien. Or like giant plastic grapes. I see a couple of chemtrails in the sky. I suppose they could be emulsion scratches, but I KNOW CHEMTRAILS WHEN I SEE 'EM!!! Is that a "Dumbo" poster in the bottom right corner?
A wonderful example of Disneyland's Main Street. A lot of people seem to be looking at us (the photographer); the people on the Surrey and the guy on the park bench. Maybe the photographer was someone special; recognizable... Maybe it was Walt!
Sue, they're plastic grapes! ;-p (Or maybe it's caviar.)
Nice de-fading, Major. Thanks.
Major-
In the 1st image, we can just spy two AP's - can't figure out the one on the left, but the poster on the right is a Mad Tea Party - Dumbo - Carousel.
That 2nd image did restore nicely; it looks quite lovely.
Thanks, Major.
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