Originally Posted By CuriousConstance Was it how little it rains, and how hot and humid the summers are? I disliked that too. I love rain and hate heat.
Originally Posted By skinnerbox <<Something else worth noting is that the small world queue is still using the configuration where you enter through the current exit, and exit through the current entrance. I'm not sure when they switched it (it was whenever they built that toy store at the 'exit'), but I think it was also in the early 90's.>> I believe it was reconfigured when the Light Magic show towers were added. I also believe, but cannot confirm, that the iasw gift shop was added to the new exit at this time. <<And at some point through the years, we've lost the trees on the roof of the building just behind the facade that are still in place in this photo. I always thought it looked better with them there, but I guess my opinion doesn't count too much.>> I believe the trees were ditched around the time ToonTown was added, but again, I'm not sure. It would make sense to remove them at that time, because you probably would have seen them from TT Town Square, which would have looked bizarre.
Originally Posted By Yookeroo "Back before the DLR and the parking structure, if you had an Annual Pass with Preferred Parking, you could park literally within 40ft of the ticket booths and park entrance." Preferred parking rocked.
Originally Posted By spaceace They still had the domes on the Monorail back then. I remember when DL looked like this. It was weird being on the Twain and see the DLRR bridge gone in Bear Country.
Originally Posted By Dr Hans Reinhardt "Was it how little it rains, and how hot and humid the summers are?" That and the freezing winters. I was not prepared for all the snow!
Originally Posted By DlandDug >>I'm not sure when they switched it (it was whenever they built that toy store at the 'exit'), but I think it was also in the early 90's.<< December '92/January '93, when Mattel became the sponsor of it's a small world: <a href="http://articles.latimes.com/1992-11-09/business/fi-195_1_theme-park" target="_blank">http://articles.latimes.com/19...eme-park</a> Light Magic ran in the Summer of 1997.
Originally Posted By 9oldmen Reversing the entrance/exit of iasw might also have had something to do with the opening of Toontown in early '93.
Originally Posted By DlandDug >>Reversing the entrance/exit of iasw might also have had something to do with the opening of Toontown in early '93.<< It was done for one reason, and one reason only: to direct the guests through the Mattel Toy Shop at the end of the ride.
Originally Posted By 9oldmen I'm guessing this to be late in the summer of '87 since I think the Railroad was open until about the end of the "Circus Fantasy" event that year(which happened early in the year right up until, and maybe during Spring break) and it remained closed for 18 months for the construction of "Splash". Also, this is definitely a peak season day, as both the big boats are operating on the river(with Fowler's Harbour vacant).
Originally Posted By cheesybaby Just look at that glorious WHITE castle! No pink! Just like it was for decades.
Originally Posted By Bellella For some reason that photo gave me a weird feeling of nostalgia. Although I didn't go to D-land for the first time till about 2 years after that photo was taken (I was in my formative years) I keep missing what used to be there. Oh, the old Tomorrowland! They ripped off the Rocket Jets and PeopleMover. Not that I don't like how the place looks now, but I miss the way it looked then. To think, back then Toontown didn't exist. Neither did Splash Mountain. Both were needed, I'd say. And that parking lot! That mass of asphalt that you had to navigate like crazy to find a parking space, and then your car! Those were the days!
Originally Posted By CDF1 This view gives one an idea of how much space is still there in the NE corner of Frontierland. I believe that at one time that area was rumored to be the site for the Discovery Bay area but that project was shelved, I believe, due to the utter failure of the "Island at the Top of the World" movie on which an indoor Balloon Ride was supposed to be based.
Originally Posted By crapshoot ", I believe, due to the utter failure of the "Island at the Top of the World" We all know the continuing saga of Discovery Bay. But to make the claim that every Disney attraction is only based on a "hit film" is incorrect. The 1959 film, Three on a Mountain is a nice film, but was no hit. Yet Walt Disney was inspired during the making of the film to build the Matterhorn Mountain Bobsled Ride. And there are others. Hopefully the newly planned Matterhorn Disney film will do the attraction justice. As it will have come full circle from film to attraction to film.
Originally Posted By DlandDug >>The 1959 film, Three on a Mountain...<< Never heard of it. Third Man on the Mountain, though, that was a great Disney film back in 1959...
Originally Posted By Dabob2 But strangely enough, though the mountain in the film is clearly the Matterhorn, and though the attraction was inspired by the film, in the film they call the mountain "The Citidel."
Originally Posted By Nobody And even stranger still, the outlet mall currently called "The Citidel" was the Sampson Tire factory, whose exterior looks like it could have been used in a movie that so far no ride has been based on.
Originally Posted By dldhistory Here is a aerial shot from 1965 to compare to the 1987 one.. <a href="http://dldhistory.com/disneyland/dlads/print/tms-820r.jpg" target="_blank">http://dldhistory.com/disneyla...820r.jpg</a> --Richard <a href="http://DLDHistory.com" target="_blank">http://DLDHistory.com</a> The Most Unique Disneyland History Site
