Originally Posted By alexbook Flying Saucers (1961-1966) "Showing more ambition than practicality, Disneyland opened its unique version of Space Age bumper cars in early August of 1961. Appropriately enough for Tomorrowland, what bumped in the Flying Saucers attractions weren't cars at all."
Originally Posted By alexbook Grandma's Baby Shop (1955) "A charming shop for infant clothes and accessories opened along with the park on July 17, 1955. Unfortunately, the shop, itself still an infant at barely two months old, would be the first one on Main Street to fold ('fold' as in 'close,' since other clothing shops continued to do lots of folding)."
Originally Posted By alexbook Hurricane Lamp Shop (1972-1976) "Sometime in 1971 or '72, a Main Street room that had formerly been part of the corner Upjohn Pharmacy became home to the Hurricane Lamp Shop. Victorian hurricane lamps with glass chimneys and oil-burning wicks might've seemed like appealing items for turn-of-the-century Main Street, but guests would 'glow' out of them in a few years."
Originally Posted By alexbook International Street (Never built) "From 1956 to 1958, a tall wooden wall near the Opera House on Town Square carried a sign that announced a new area, International Street, was under construction and was due to open soon. Behind the sign, and visible to curious guests through small viewing holes, were photographs of what the street would look like."
Originally Posted By alexbook Jimmy Starr's Show Business Souvenirs (1956-1959) "Nicknamed Stage Door Jimmy, Jimmy Starr was a long-time Hollywood insider who started working in the movies in the 1920s and eventually had careers as a newspaper gossip columnist, publicist, press agent, novelist, screenwriter, and minor actor. From the spring of '56 to the fall of '59, a collection of his Hollywood memorabilia filled a leased space located to the left (north) of the Opera House on Town Square."
Originally Posted By alexbook Kids of the Kingdom (1967-1977) "The Kids of the Kingdom was the name of an energetic musical ensemble that performed in Disneyland from the late '60s to the late '70s. The Kids weren't exactly kids in the manner of the preteen Mouseketeers; these Kids were college-age singers and dancers."
Originally Posted By alexbook Love Bug Day (1969 & 1974) "DVDs of Diney's 'The Love Bug' include brief snippets of film showing an unusual day in Disneyland history. Love Bug Day was first held on March 23, 1969, to celebrate the box-office triumph of 'The Love Bug,' which had debuted late in '68 but gone into wide release in March of '69."
Originally Posted By alexbook Marshal's Office (1955-1956) "Adding a touch of authenticity to Frontierland, a small one-story Marshal's Office stood on the right-hand side of Frontierland's main street. The little wooden building was at the far end of the row of Western-themed structures; immediately to the east (heading back towards the Plaza Hub) was the Miniature Horse Corral (later the Frontierland Shooting Gallery), and the west was the open El Zocalo plaza and the dock for the 'Mark Twain.'"
Originally Posted By alexbook New Orleans Barbecue (1956-1957) "Listed just once in a souvenir book was New Orleans Barbecue, which appeared under the Frontierland heading in the 1957 edition. No location or description was offered, though it was probably along the row of eateries that included the Oaks Tavern and Aunt Jemima's Pancake House."
Originally Posted By alexbook Our Future in Colors (1956-1963) "For the first two years of its existence, this exhibit was listed in the park's souvenir books as the Dutch Boy Exhibit, Our Future in Colors. Then, from 1958 to 1963, the souvenir books named it simply the Color Gallery."
Originally Posted By alexbook Port d'Orleans (1995-2002) "Some of what used to be the old Le Gourmet shop at the back of New Orleans Square became a smaller cooking-related shop in the mid-'90s. The park's 2000 souvenir book called Port d'Orleans 'a lively mart that features items imported directly from Louisiana, such as a variety of spicy Cajun sauces, beignet mixes, and coffees with chicory.'"
Originally Posted By alexbook Quasimodo's Attic (1996-1997) "In the summer of 1996, the new Quasimodo's Attic replaced the five-year-old Disney Villains shop in Fantasyland. This prominent location in the Sleeping Beauty Castle courtyard next to the Peter Pan Flight attraction was given to Quasimodo merchandise to help promote that year's 'The Hunchback of Notre Dame.'"
Originally Posted By alexbook Rocket Man, Space Girl, and Space Man (1965) "For a couple of weeks in the winter of 1965, jet packs were all the rage. At the movies, James Bond was soaring out of harm's way in the opening sequence of 'Thunderball,' that year's winter blockbuster."
Originally Posted By alexbook Space Station X-1 (1955-1960) "In the spring of 1955, with more artists on hand than money, Walt Disney decided to install an elaborate painting instead of an elaborate attraction into the middle building on the left-hand side of Tomorrowland. In keeping with the land's Space Age theme, the exhibit room was called Space Station X-1, its position supposedly in orbit above the rotating earth."
Originally Posted By alexbook Town Square Realty (1955-1960) "Listed in all of the park's souvenir books through 1959 was, of all things, a business called Town Square Realty (aka simply Real Estate in some of the books). Located to the right of the entrance into the Opera House, this was an actual office for an actual realtor who was selling land in Apple Valley, a largely undeveloped area some 80 miles northeast of Anaheim."
Originally Posted By alexbook Ursus H. Bear's Wilderness Outpost (1972-1988) "Disneyland has had three Outposts in its history. Preceding the Safari Outpost and the Indiana Jones Adventure Outpost was Ursus H. Bear's Wilderness Outpost, a new store for the new Bear Country that opened in 1972."
Originally Posted By alexbook Viewliner (1957-1958) "Not satisfied with the old-fashioned Santa Fe & Disneyland Railroad orbiting Disneyland, the miniature Rainbow Caverns Mine Train chuffing through Frontierland, and the charming Casey Jr. Circus Train winding through Fantasyland, Walt Disney decided to add a more modern train to the park in 1957. What was modern in 1957 hardly looks modern now, of course, and so the inelegant Viewliner is usually remembered as one of the oddest contraptions ever to run on Disneyland tracks."
Originally Posted By alexbook World Beneath Us Exhibit (1955-1959) "In 1955, the Richfield Oil Corporation sponsored two different locations in Disneyland. One--the Tomorrowland Autopia--used gas, while the other--the World Beneath Us Exhibit--promoted it."
Originally Posted By alexbook Yacht Club (1955-1966) "At one time Disneyland had its own Yacht Club, though it wasn't as posh or exclusive as it sounds. Basically a place for fast food, the Yacht Club was a freestanding eatery alongside the Tomorrowland lagoon and the short-lived Phantom Boats (hence the 'yachts' reference)."
