Originally Posted By iamsally My own personal favorite is my 50th pendant. We absolutely could not afford it and DH would not let me leave without it. <a href="http://www2.snapfish.com/slideshow/AlbumID=219196944/PictureID=5225578582/a=79203744_79203744/t_=79203744" target="_blank">http://www2.snapfish.com/slide...79203744</a> <a href="http://www2.snapfish.com/slideshow/AlbumID=219196944/PictureID=5225576022/a=79203744_79203744/t_=79203744" target="_blank">http://www2.snapfish.com/slide...79203744</a>
Originally Posted By Walter Elias About the pirate pistols: I don't know anything about this website, but they have several... <a href="http://www.maxarmory.com/index.php?p=catalog&parent=86&pg=1" target="_blank">http://www.maxarmory.com/index...=86&pg=1</a>
Originally Posted By monorailblue I guess my most prized possession is my first CM nametag. Good little Mickey Mouse is almost rubbed off, and the pinback came off a time or two, but I really do cherish it. Related is a gift certificate to Main Place awarded to me by the SAC management team in 1997. I had only be in Attractions for about 6 weeks at the time, and was flattered and honored to be singled out with a handful of A's and B's. I also enjoy my Disnelyand 50th Haunted Mansion organ sculpture. There aren't many intersections between the world of pipe organs and Disney, but that's one of them. There surely are others - - - I haven't digged it all out in such a long time . . . .
Originally Posted By bobiascastle My thousands & thousands of pictures of my family there. I can look at them over & over & over & over & over again. )
Originally Posted By Waistcoated Rabbit Ahhh my prized Disneyland possessions are my framed HM attraction poster annd my framed HM LP records.. I could just stare at themm all daayy hahah
Originally Posted By Doom Buggy Driver My 5 photo albums of family vacations at Disneyland, the photos I have bought from ToT, and Space Mountain. I also love my Villian pins, and my Halloween pins. I have tons of Haunted Mansion merchandise as well. But my favorite keepsakes are my videos and dvds that we make ourselves of full days in the park. We take one of our days in the parks usually a weekday and start taping all of the attractions we ride and visit. We have a Sony Night Shot video camera so even the dark rides come out well. Oh we also put black electrical tape over the power lights so that we do not disturb anyone else with our taping. I love watching them when I know it will be quite a while before I can get back to my favorite place on earth.
Originally Posted By SoThisIsLove Do you have any of your ride videos, etc. up on YouTube or anything?
Originally Posted By Walter Elias Family photos and videos HAVE to be on the top of the list. Each time we go to DL, which is about once every other year or so, we have had our kids stand by the little door outside of Alice in Wonderland. They would have fit perfectly through the miniature sized door the first picture we took. Now, they are teen agers and tower over it. I have the photos lined up on one shelf so you can see the age progression.
Originally Posted By Dabob2 I have a guidebook from just about every year I visited the park. I have one of the first year guides too, but since I wasn't alive till the 60's, the ones from my actual trips mean more to me (though the first year guide is cool to have). I have one complete A-E ticket book and quite a few partially or wholly used ones. I keep the latter because on the back inside cover they had a list of attractions with checkboxes; on most visits, I did check off what we went on, and then wrote "summer '72" or whenever it was on it. So I can look at those books and remember a particular visit very well. One from the summer of '76, for instance, I remember well my best bud and I went and quite spontaneously went on a Mad Tea Party kick - we rode it 5 times (5 checkoffs), and I remember well just deciding to ride it again and again, trying to outdo ourselves in how fast we spun, having to buy extra C tickets to do so. I also love all the large wall maps especially. They used to only put a new one out every 3 or 4 years, so you didn't have to buy one every time, but every time they put out a new one, I had to buy it (they were only 50 cents all through the 60's and into the 70's.) Of more recent vintage, I like my 50th anniversary hoodie jacket. Very good quality. And Jerry was so impressed with DL on his first trip in '95 (and the HM in particular) that he bought a pretty expensive original painting of the HM that is pretty dang cool.
Originally Posted By Dabob2 <Now, they are teen agers and tower over it. I have the photos lined up on one shelf so you can see the age progression.> My folks did that too, only at Knotts. There was this little miniature theatre there years ago (gone now, I think) that we looked like we could have fit into when we were small. Later as teenagers we happened to have looked at the picture album not long before we went, and decided to pose in EXACTLY the same pose in front of it again. Kind of like the Beatles 1962-1966 "red" double album compared to the 1967-1970 "blue" double album.
Originally Posted By ssturgeo Besides the memories, photos, videos, etc., that others have mentioned, I guess the souvineer I am happiest with are my Club 33 ears...an experience of a lifetime! Sharon Next Trip Nov. 16-22
Originally Posted By Walter Elias Dabob2, Yes, that's it exactly. I like the Beatles example. Ssturgeo, I would LOVE to be allowed in Club 33.
Originally Posted By Jim in Merced CA I have one of those large, fold-out Disneyland maps. It's from 1976. And it was pinned on my bedroom wall for many, many years. [what a nerd, right?] Dug it out about 10 years ago and had it professionally framed. And it hangs in our hallway. Gets comments by everyone who sees it.
Originally Posted By -PegLegPete- An Old metal Disneyland lunch box, & some childhood souvineers my parents bought me.
Originally Posted By Jim in Merced CA See, most guys my age had posters of Suzanne Somers or Farrah Fawcett tacked on their walls... Me? A poster of Disneyland. What....a.....nerd.
Originally Posted By lawdawg ///About the pirate pistols: I don't know anything about this website, but they have several//// Thanks W.E. for that link. I've been to several of those websites with the replicas and I haven't been able to find one like the one the I had. It very basic and had an authentic feel to it. I have three different worded "Saved Searches" on EBAY and have come close a few times. Someday I know I'll nab one.
Originally Posted By sugarplum My Mickey Mouse ring.... I've had it about 30 years. Though it doesn't fit anymore, when I look at it, it just takes me back to those annual trips when I was a kid. It was cheap, but priceless to me!
Originally Posted By retlawfan Wow. To narrow it down to one item is almost impossible. Different items are special in their own way. Large purchased item I think is a tie between a complete Oslewski Main Street and Thomas Kincade 50th Painting (#1). Small paper item would be an E-Ticket that I have framed. And obscure one of kind item (well sort of) would be a spike from the Disneyland Railroad. The memories though, and the people we've met and become friends with are the things that we'll always treasure.
Originally Posted By Walter Elias Jim, I guess you can count me in as one of those nerds as well. I also had a DL map pinned to my wall. I kept it for many years but I have no recollection of what happened to it. When I became an elementary school teacher, I bought a new one and hung it in my classroom. It was part of a display about Walt Disney that I made with a quote from an early employer of his. I forget the exact quote but it was something to the effect that Walt had no talent and would never amount to anything. Underneath the map of DL I put Walt's quote: "If you can dream it, you can do it. Always remember that this whole thing was started by a mouse."
