Happy 2 B Me
I have ears --just not Disney Ears.
- Joined
- Mar 23, 2011
I remember the skyway. It was one of my first rides the first time I visited DL.
The one picture with the strawberry field on the left side is the road we took to the Disneyland camp ground. Oh, the good old days. We rode our bikes to DL hotel and took the monorail into park. The monorail stop was at that time located at Dl hotel. There were numerous stores and a couple of places to eat on a lower level of DL hotel. They all had entrances from the out doors.
I remember my first visit to DL like it was yesteday. Even then I wanted to work there. but no -- I thought returning home after vacation was propably a better idea. I was 18 and was in first year of college--parents thought I made a good choice to. I will always wonder what if I had decided to stay-- oh well.
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The Autopia cars
The boats for the Jungle Cruise, all these vehicles were built at different Southern California manufacturing locations.
This would have been amusing to see on the Freeways in 1955. I dont remember what was inside these crates, but Im sure it looked funny! For anyone local that is the 101 and that's City Hall in Downtown. The other building in front of it is still there too.
Here is opening Day at Disneyland .for those who were there, kinda reminds you of the lines at the Expo, eh?
Walt preparing to board the train
Can you imagine crowds like this today?
And Frontierland looks so ..Frontierlike!
My how things have changed!
Now Walt was a great businessman. He decided having an Indian Village would be a great idea. So he made them build it!
Here is the Columbia being assembled.
Evidently this guy just loved to climb up into the rigging of the ships, his family business did all the building and maintenance for Disneyland. He had other contracts, but his favorite was when he got to climb around like this. OSHA would have had a field day!
Christening of the Columbia
I think that this is Admiral Joe Fowler who built much of DL and MK, or I could be mistaken. I think he is the one in the foreground, not sure who the military man in the left of the picture is.
And this is the (what do you call this ride? Jeez how quick the memory goes) it used to go through the Matterhorn and started over near Autopia. Both DL and WDW lost their versions of the ride. But evidently it was kept running while the construction was going on. Tony Baxter thought this was hilarious, notice no fences! Disney construction without fences!
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