Originally Posted By Dr Hans Reinhardt I found an exceptional phtostream of old Disneyland photos on Flickr today that show rare views of the park in its early years. Be sure to check out the pic of the Mickey Mouse Club Circus and the Viewliner bridge (complete with Harbor Blvd's power lines in the background). <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/wishbook/sets/72157601900852423/" target="_blank">http://www.flickr.com/photos/w...0852423/</a>
Originally Posted By unforgetabledal That picture of the power lines really says allot about how things have changed around Disneyland! Thank You for posting the pictures!
Originally Posted By x Pirate_Princess x My girls and I loved looking at those!! Alex (my oldest) then said she wished we had a time machine to go back to "old" Disneyland.. if only...
Originally Posted By Dr Hans Reinhardt I'm glad you both enjoyed looking at the pics. I'm always fascinated about the evolution and change of Disneyland from its early days.
Originally Posted By CuriouserConstance Cool, Hans. Look at this Pig. And look at the kids expressions looking at him. And the kid pointing out his dirty white shoes. <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/wishbook/1338918452/in/set-72157601900852423" target="_blank">http://www.flickr.com/photos/w...00852423</a>
Originally Posted By Dr Hans Reinhardt That pig's proportions look so weird! Those teeny legs and feet and that huge head and torso! This shot of the Skyway before the Matterhorn was constructed is one of my favorites: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/wishbook/1337279709/in/set-72157601900852423" target="_blank">http://www.flickr.com/photos/w...00852423</a>
Originally Posted By CuriouserConstance Wow, there was a lot of those bucket things on the Skyway. It looks so weird without the Matterhorn. Barely recognizable.
Originally Posted By CuriouserConstance <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/wishbook/1338234174/in/set-72157601900852423" target="_blank">http://www.flickr.com/photos/w...00852423</a> Look at the obvious eye peep hole in the dwarf hat lol.
Originally Posted By CuriouserConstance <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/wishbook/1338418210/in/set-72157601900852423/" target="_blank">http://www.flickr.com/photos/w...0852423/</a> This one is cool. Does that sub say Ethan Allen because of the store Ethan Allen? Or is that some reference I'm not aware of?
Originally Posted By CuriouserConstance "Practical Pig had one in his hat too. lol" I just saw that, lol. The pig looks like his face is getting sucked in at the nose point.
Originally Posted By CuriouserConstance Nowadays if they made the eye windows so obvious they'd have hoodlums spraying mace and stuff into them.
Originally Posted By FerretAfros Also interesting to see that Snow White is either engaged or married! Check out her hand in that picture. The Ethan Allen sub is because all of the original names for the subs were based on people in US history around revolutionary times (and possibly real US subs of the late 50's?). When they changed the paint scheme from grey to yellow in the late 80's, several of them got new names to make them sound less Cold War-inspired. When they switched to the Nemo version a couple years ago, I think that they used most of the first-generation-yellow names, but one or two of them may have changed.
Originally Posted By Dr Hans Reinhardt Ethan Allen was a Revolutionary War hero. Check out this pic of the Kodak Camera Shop on Main Street. It's almost shocking out un-themed the interior is along with the cast member uniforms. Fans today would be outraged if something like this were opened in the park now: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/wishbook/1338460020/in/set-72157601900852423/" target="_blank">http://www.flickr.com/photos/w...0852423/</a>
Originally Posted By Dr Hans Reinhardt "Also interesting to see that Snow White is either engaged or married!" I noticed that too and assumed that Prince Charming gave it to her.
Originally Posted By FerretAfros Here's a pretty good one of the Monorail passing through the parking lot. In the background, you can see the steel skeleton for the first half of the first DLH tower (the one that faces into DTD) going up. (The second half of the tower was added a few years later, once demand required it) <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/wishbook/1338928646/in/set-72157601900852423/" target="_blank">http://www.flickr.com/photos/w...0852423/</a> And when did the Main Street Cinema switch over to non-stop Mickey cartoons? It looks like there's something else showing (Pathways of Life Lillian Gish) here, which I don't think I've ever heard of before. <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/wishbook/1337525541/in/set-72157601900852423/" target="_blank">http://www.flickr.com/photos/w...0852423/</a> It's also really interesting to see some of the really old color photos from night time. I don't know if I've ever seen any from the 60's before, but there are a couple from the original Tomorrowland, so they have to be pretty old. Great find, Hans!
Originally Posted By FerretAfros This is a really interesting picture from inside it's a small world. Of note are the obvious seams in the set, where it was pieced back together after getting moved across the country after the Fair. It also looks like the skin on the dolls was originally a much shinier surface than what we have now. Additionally, it even looks like they had a different mold for creating the heads, since they really don't look like the more round and cartoony faces we're used to now. I don't know why they would have changed it, or when it happened, but it's just interesting to see that they changed something so fundamental. <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/wishbook/1338055843/in/set-72157601900852423/" target="_blank">http://www.flickr.com/photos/w...0852423/</a> It also looks like they completely redid the paint scheme withing the first decade or so of the ride being there. I know that it was changed at some point, but I had always thought it was a much more recent thing. Mary Blair thought that white was the most festive color, but that was taken out quite quickly. Recently, that look has returned, but as a projection surface of sorts for color-changing LEDs, so it's still not an all-white finale. <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/wishbook/1337986148/in/set-72157601900852423/" target="_blank">http://www.flickr.com/photos/w...0852423/</a> And it's very cool to see the pre-Fantasmic! stage on TSI. I've heard that there was one there, but I'm not sure if I've ever actually seen a picture of it. Anybody know who/what performed on it? <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/wishbook/1338304494/in/set-72157601900852423/" target="_blank">http://www.flickr.com/photos/w...0852423/</a>
Originally Posted By Dr Hans Reinhardt "And when did the Main Street Cinema switch over to non-stop Mickey cartoons? It looks like there's something else showing (Pathways of Life Lillian Gish) here, which I don't think I've ever heard of before." I believe that switch was done in the 80s. Frankly I wish they'd go back to the original programming. Yet another example of how Disneyland is becoming more and more about Disney and little else. "And it's very cool to see the pre-Fantasmic! stage on TSI. I've heard that there was one there, but I'm not sure if I've ever actually seen a picture of it. Anybody know who/what performed on it?" The date on the photo is 1979 and if I remember correctly Disneyland was doing a summer night concert series with C list headliners on that stage in the evenings during the time.
Originally Posted By CuriouserConstance "Ethan Allen was a Revolutionary War hero." Well, now I feel like an idiot.
