tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25922463.post6642995888278898180..comments2024-03-28T16:44:05.806-07:00Comments on GORILLAS DON'T BLOG: Vintage Knott's Berry Farm StuffMajor Pepperidgehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09843598326995116014noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25922463.post-30212530374318305132017-02-07T15:54:10.353-08:002017-02-07T15:54:10.353-08:00@Major, that book sounds pretty cool.
JG@Major, that book sounds pretty cool.<br /><br />JGAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25922463.post-15582110599996370702017-02-07T13:59:11.773-08:002017-02-07T13:59:11.773-08:00Major - I am so glad I came across your post today...Major - I am so glad I came across your post today. Obviously it represented something wonderful to Mr Knott. <br />The schoolhouse brochure is so evocative of something I heard about from my parents. They grew up in a similar time and place and I heard about it sitting at the dinner table 40 years later at the dinner table in La Mirada. <br />(edit this out if you need to - Nowadays, I feel like I can't say that I wish the nature of this would return to us. Someone will tell me I'm racist or sexist or elitist or priveleged for God's sake.)<br />Speaking of Knotts..<br />One of the areas I remember loving at Knott's was a small courtyard where bougainvillea climbed up the posts of the walkway overhang. There were a couple of shops - one definitely sold jellies and preserves. <br />I still have a couple of boxes complete with the empty jars that my parents purchased back in the day. After they moved back to Illinois they continued to use the jars to make blackberry jelly year after year - one box they would send back to me in California and one they kept themselves. They loved California and Knotts. It was a regular Sunday afternoon outing for our family. <br />Thanks again.Debbie V.https://www.blogger.com/profile/04318603077035734786noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25922463.post-54476009242991095912017-02-07T10:34:12.397-08:002017-02-07T10:34:12.397-08:00Nanook, I think all of those mustachioed students ...Nanook, I think all of those mustachioed students would become well acquainted with the end of a ruler.<br /><br />TokyoMagic! At this point they might as well get rid of that too…<br /><br />Chuck, there was a postcard with the same photo of the schoolhouse, though I don’t remember it having any type on the front. I have no idea how long they handed these flyers out.<br /><br />Patrick Devlin, don’t you know that a growing boy needs little marshmallows in his cereal in order to grow up big and strong???<br /><br />K. Martinez, I’ve been scanning paper ephemera for a while now, Knott’s, Disney, Universal Studios, and other odds and ends. Hopefully you’ll enjoy all of it.<br /><br />JG, I’ve seen lists of the stuff that kids were expected to learn in the old days, it sounds pretty daunting! I even have an old geography text book from the 1880’s (found in a junk shop in Pennsylvania), it is fascinating. Let’s all learn the 15 longest rivers in the world! It also shows Oklahoma as “Indian Territory”, and there is no North or South Dakota, it’s just one huge territory called “Dakota”.Major Pepperidgehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09843598326995116014noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25922463.post-39157625706679985172017-02-07T09:27:44.872-08:002017-02-07T09:27:44.872-08:00Funny stuff. I vaguely remember the schoolhouse.
...Funny stuff. I vaguely remember the schoolhouse.<br /><br />There was a similar schoolhouse set up in the Sacramento Old Town, near the Railroad Museum. We made it a rest stop several times on the long drive. Instructive to see these relics and realize that somehow, educations were obtained in these rustic circumstances without air conditioning or wi-fi.<br /><br />JGAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25922463.post-63937292795566026182017-02-07T08:20:24.779-08:002017-02-07T08:20:24.779-08:00I love old Knott's paper and ephemera and this...I love old Knott's paper and ephemera and this cool stuff I haven't seen before. And yes, only unused paper mustaches are preferred in any collection. Thanks for sharing it, Major.K. Martinezhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03960970051790617367noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25922463.post-61658509336089040022017-02-07T07:45:57.403-08:002017-02-07T07:45:57.403-08:00This is really choice stuff, Major. I'd write ...This is really choice stuff, Major. I'd write more but Mom's gonna kill me if I don't finish my cinnamon toast and get on my bike to school!<br />Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13819318798840978404noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25922463.post-17030521576308387982017-02-07T05:51:27.198-08:002017-02-07T05:51:27.198-08:00I could swear we have (probably "had" by...I could swear we have (probably "had" by this point) some sort of paper souvenir with that schoolhouse picture and typeface on it, although the mailable aspect of it doesn't ring a bell. Were they still handing these out in the '70s?Chucknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25922463.post-24739218145172444682017-02-07T00:27:26.154-08:002017-02-07T00:27:26.154-08:00These are really nice pieces of Knott's memora...These are really nice pieces of Knott's memorabilia, Major. Gee, I hope the school house isn't in the Knott's auction next month!TokyoMagic!https://www.blogger.com/profile/16340756514811789233noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25922463.post-54470880506830410382017-02-07T00:09:57.132-08:002017-02-07T00:09:57.132-08:00Major-
I wonder just how Miss. Duden would react ...Major-<br /><br />I wonder just how Miss. Duden would react if any of her students showed-up for class wearing one of those stylish mustache's-?<br /><br />Thanks, Major.Nanookhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07255357829181568172noreply@blogger.com