Riveting information on the back.
Friday, April 8, 2011
Disneyland Spring Fling - April VIP (1992)
It’s time for another VIP ticket for Disneyland, we've seen VIP tickets before here for 1982, 1983, 1988 & 1994. This VIP ticket from April 1992 is a special Spring Fling April VIP ticket which also included a $5 discount on Queen Mary & Spruce Goose tickets. It’s nice to see the graphics department putting their new Intel-486DX2 (clocked at 50 MHz - lookout!) PC’s to good use with Print Artist 2.0 to create this fine piece of early 90’s goodness.
Riveting information on the back.
Riveting information on the back.
Thursday, April 7, 2011
Magic Mountain Complimentary Ticket - 1980
Time to head two gallons (or $68) north of Disneyland and visit Magic Mountain in sunny Valencia California. This complimentary ticket from 1980 reflects the recent ownership change to Six Flags but still has the pre-Six Flags artwork (trolls included). The ticket itself (minus the stub) is the exact size of a check; the serial number is even in MICR print on the bottom.
The lawyers had a field day on the back of this ticket, Six Flags must have had already had this legal mumbo-jumbo from their other park’s tickets, thereof hereto! “Weldon, Williams & Lick - -Ft. Smith Ark” was the printer and maker of this fine safety paper.
This ticket is good anytime in 1980 but Magic Mountain is pretty much only open weekends in the off season. Here’s a calendar for the entire year so you can plan ahead.
Let’s add some color to this post with this November 1976 advertisement for “Fanciful curvilinear tensioned membrane structures” which of course were “part of the magic of Magic Mountain”. ALERT: Metro Monorail spotted - lower right photo - ***SAVE THE METRO***
The lawyers had a field day on the back of this ticket, Six Flags must have had already had this legal mumbo-jumbo from their other park’s tickets, thereof hereto! “Weldon, Williams & Lick - -Ft. Smith Ark” was the printer and maker of this fine safety paper.
This ticket is good anytime in 1980 but Magic Mountain is pretty much only open weekends in the off season. Here’s a calendar for the entire year so you can plan ahead.
Let’s add some color to this post with this November 1976 advertisement for “Fanciful curvilinear tensioned membrane structures” which of course were “part of the magic of Magic Mountain”. ALERT: Metro Monorail spotted - lower right photo - ***SAVE THE METRO***
Wednesday, April 6, 2011
The American Home Magazine - September 1957
Welcome to Magazine Monday on Wednesday, I would have had this posted on Monday but there’s just so much time and so little to do. Wait a minute, strike that - reverse it.
From September 1957 its The American Home Magazine, published from 1928 to 1977 when it merged with Redbook.
There are only two pages in this “Rare Antiques in Disneyland” article but it’s pretty high on the interesting scale and I’ve got some “before and after” things to checkout.
Where did some of this stuff go?
Here’s the collector print “Ready to frame”.
I hope you’re ready for a heap of vintage advertisements because this magazine is busting at the seams with them. Does the fact that this is the one and only car advertisement in this woman’s magazine does say something about who made car purchasing decisions in 1957?
Neato Kitchen!
I want to live in this house.
And this one.
And this one too.
Ah yes, one those low-quiet toilets that looks a lot cooler than its works.
Six lovely pastel colors. Hey is that lady half naked?
Who else agrees with me that this is the coolest darn refrigerator you’ve ever seen? Has anyone ever seen one of these in actual use? I want one! I wonder what kind of brackets held it up on the wall.
A more conventional appliance from GE - even in pink they look battle ready.
How about some laundry soap for your new automatic? That guy looks like Andy Griffith.
Cheer washes so white you can see the different. Isn’t it neat that these brands are still around?
Paging Andy Warhol.
These last two have some of the simple yet warm and comfortable drawing style that symbolizes the later part of the 1950’s.
There are only two pages in this “Rare Antiques in Disneyland” article but it’s pretty high on the interesting scale and I’ve got some “before and after” things to checkout.
Where did some of this stuff go?
Here’s the collector print “Ready to frame”.
I hope you’re ready for a heap of vintage advertisements because this magazine is busting at the seams with them. Does the fact that this is the one and only car advertisement in this woman’s magazine does say something about who made car purchasing decisions in 1957?
Neato Kitchen!
I want to live in this house.
And this one.
And this one too.
Ah yes, one those low-quiet toilets that looks a lot cooler than its works.
Six lovely pastel colors. Hey is that lady half naked?
Who else agrees with me that this is the coolest darn refrigerator you’ve ever seen? Has anyone ever seen one of these in actual use? I want one! I wonder what kind of brackets held it up on the wall.
A more conventional appliance from GE - even in pink they look battle ready.
How about some laundry soap for your new automatic? That guy looks like Andy Griffith.
Cheer washes so white you can see the different. Isn’t it neat that these brands are still around?
Paging Andy Warhol.
These last two have some of the simple yet warm and comfortable drawing style that symbolizes the later part of the 1950’s.
Tuesday, April 5, 2011
Whittle's Want You!
This undated photo from Knott's Berry Farm features none other than Whittles himself!
Accoring to the vintage handwriting on the back this is indeed Whittles.
Accoring to the vintage handwriting on the back this is indeed Whittles.
Monday, April 4, 2011
Disneyland in Slides - January 1967 - Part 2
We saw the first half of this Janaury 1967 set back in June (link) as always, the second half is not as nice as the first half but still fun to look at.
Sunday, April 3, 2011
Friday, April 1, 2011
The "F" Ticket
In June of 1959 Disneyland added the “E” ticket to its lineup of letter attractions tickets. The “E Ticket” has since become part of the American Lexicon. What's not as well know is that in the spring of 1964 Walt was looking for ways to increase Disneyland’s ticket revenue, that World’s Fair thing was costing him a bundle.
As was customary, Walt left the details to his trusted employees and they came up the idea of “plusing” all the existing E-ticket attractions at once and moving them to a new “F” Ticket. Rumor has it Walt was not keen on the use of the letter “F” (as in failure or worse) and the idea was quickly scrapped. What you are looking at here is an extremely rare June 1964 limited test run of Disneyland’s only “F” ticket.
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