Originally Posted By Dabob2 Love this pic of the old yellow and blue-green parking lot trams. <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/wishbook/1373379245/in/set-72157601900852423" target="_blank">http://www.flickr.com/photos/w...00852423</a>
Originally Posted By mawnck >>I saw Kool & The Gang on that stage. Back in the day ...<< Sigh ... if only you could see "C list headliners" like that at DL now.
Originally Posted By Dabob2 Way, way back DL used to have A-listers, especially jazz (Walt loved jazz) - Louie Armstrong, Duke Ellington (who I saw live at DL - how cool is that?), Count Basie, et al. Even into the 70's they had acts who were perhaps just passed their prime but still were well worth seeing... Three Dog Night and the Temptations are two I can think of seeing in the 70's.
Originally Posted By crapshoot "Even into the 70's they had acts who were perhaps just passed their prime but still were well worth seeing..." I saw Mickey Dolans, Buddy Rich, Peter Noone, etc. mid to late '70's.
Originally Posted By crapshoot <<(complete with Harbor Blvd's power lines in the background).>> I'm actually quite amazed that pics showing wide vistas in this set lack more of the outside world. And notice how barren the berm is in 1957. Nice Hans, great find!
Originally Posted By Dr Hans Reinhardt >>I saw Kool & The Gang on that stage. Back in the day ...<< I saw Sister Sledge perform on the Space Stage once. "Sigh ... if only you could see "C list headliners" like that at DL now." Yeah. When I said C list I was thinking that they'd be C listers now, but at the time they weren't. "Nice Hans, great find!" Thanks!
Originally Posted By TheParsec Great Pics! I was 6 years old, 1976, when I first went to Disneyland. It's nice to see what the park looked like before that! Also brings back lots of memories going in the 70's and 80's! I remember watching Jan and Dean on the Space Stage, sometime in the 80's.
Originally Posted By Pollyana I am in awe of what the women wore back in the days. Beautiful dresses and always neatly combed hair. The little girls were just like mommy. Our standards have changed over the years, and it makes it more fun to look at the pics. Thanks for sharing!
Originally Posted By Disney_Blonde I take for granted the trees of today! Don't get me wrong, I love the Disneyland of old, but just how lush & full the park looks with the now big, beautiful trees :-D Everything looks kind of smallish without them
Originally Posted By MickeyChick Did anyone notice the sign on this one, proclaiming "Liberty Street Grand Opening 1958". <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/wishbook/1338772134/in/set-72157601900852423" target="_blank">http://www.flickr.com/photos/w...00852423</a>
Originally Posted By MickeyChick Oops, let's try that again. I grabbed the wrong URL. <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/wishbook/1338862230/in/set-72157601900852423/" target="_blank">http://www.flickr.com/photos/w...0852423/</a>
Originally Posted By Witches of Morva ORDDU: Thank you so much for sharing these photographs with us, Dr. Hans, duckling. Somehow I knew there was a good reason to keep you around the Laughing Place Pond. Thank you for helping to underscore this fact.
Originally Posted By FerretAfros I did see that. I'd always heard that the walls in that area (the Maxwell House-later egg house-porch) was originally built as a temporary construction wall for Liberty Street, much like the walls that are all through DCA these days. However, since Liberty Street was never constructed, the walls just stayed, there, and the original temporary construction walls became a permanent facet of the park. It does seem like they have changed some through the years (the 'room' on the second floor is gone and the paint is a different color), but the general texture of the walls and their location are exactly the same as they are today, over half a century later. Not bad for a construction wall! Though, what struck me more about that photo was how completely empty the park was. Even on a rainy Tuesday in February, you'd have a really tough time getting a shot like that today!
Originally Posted By WDWdreamin I am so amazed by these pictures. I first went to DL in 1987. Thank you SO much for sharing. The biggest things I noticed were the So Cal plants rather than the manicured trees of today and the outside stuff showing, but the attractions that are no longer around would be so cool to visit via that time machine. Those old characters look horrible.
Originally Posted By crapshoot <<Those old characters look horrible.>> Yes they do, and I dearly miss them. Be sure to check out the Tony Curtis film, Forty Pounds of Trouble. It's a romp that ends up inside Disneyland 1962.
Originally Posted By Dr Hans Reinhardt "Did anyone notice the sign on this one, proclaiming "Liberty Street Grand Opening 1958"." Woah, great catch. I didn't see that.
Originally Posted By Dr Hans Reinhardt "Though, what struck me more about that photo was how completely empty the park was." i wish it was still that way. It would be like Disneyland heaven for me.
Originally Posted By tashajilek Those are great pictures! Skull rock looked really cool i would love to see it
