Mark Twain, March 15, 1957
Well. Here we are again. A few months ago, I was talking to a friend who told me just how many photos of the Mark Twain had appeared on GDB over the years, and it was a lot - but not as many as I'd expected. I figured that the number would have been at least twice as big, if not more! He also had the numbers for Sleeping Beauty Castle and "it's a small world". Kind of amazing, really.
Anyhoo, we've got two additional scans to add to the data - fairly typical views, though they are early (Disneyland was not even two years old yet), so that's something. Here's the Twain coming home, with no Cascade Peak to serve as a picturesque backdrop. Just some crummy dirt and shrubs! I'll be complaining at City Hall soon enough, don't you worry about it. The Pilot is tooting the whistle tootily.
I know, I know, I should have posted this one first, since it shows the steamboat as it made its first turn on the River, but I didn't feel like it, OK? Nearly every passenger is on the top level, and you can't really blame them. A red canoe is moored at the raft dock; with a raft "parked" there as well, I have to wonder if Tom Sawyer Island was closed that day?
4 comments:
Major-
"A few months ago, I was talking to a friend who told me just how many photos of the Mark Twain had appeared on GDB over the years, and it was a lot - but not as many as I'd expected".
14,788 - that was my count - but I'm not very good with numbers. And besides... it's a wonderful riverboat - and the way things are going these times, well. Enough said-!
Thanks, Major.
Looking at these pictures, you wouldn't think there was a whole park with amazing and fun adventures just feet away from here! Just "crummy" dirt and sparse vegetation.
There are several AEDs in the second photo. They took one look at that sternwheeler loaded to the gills with people (aka, food) and are plotting their attack!
The Mark Twain, still pleasant to look at after all these years! Thanks, Major.
These images let you see the Mark Twain prior to all its deck reconfiguration . This was early when the rear stairways with farther away from the rear … and guests could look out the stern windows on the second deck and view the paddle wheel. I wonder what percentage of the current Mark Twain is original 1955 - or even 1950’s at all!! The percentage cannot be very high . The boiler has been rebuilt several times , the paddle wheel over a dozen times … all the railing and scrollwork … the decking I know of at least two times, the steering wheel , I know the stacks were redone ( at least the inner tubing … ) …maybe the hull superstructure? Some of the fittings like the bell , stacks …headlamp? But to me it’s still Walt’s Mark Twain and I worry about the day it is retired or removed from Disneyland.
Major, I just wish there was a way to count the number of interior shots you have posted, of the "Fashion & Fabrics Through The Ages" exhibit in Tomorrowland. Too bad there isn't a search box somewhere on your blog to help with that answer! ;-)
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