Hello all!
I made a guest post over the at the Everything Mickey blog. The focus was a families 1959 trip to Disneyland. Even I was surprised at some of the gems in that collection.
As I researched further I realized that the pictures were taken within weeks of the opening of Tomorrowland in 1959. Four rides has just opened, Autopia, Submari [...]
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Everything Mickey Guest Post
Hello all!
I made a guest post over the at the Everything Mickey blog. The focus was a families 1959 trip to Disneyland. Even I was surprised at some of the gems in that collection.
As I researched further I realized that the pictures were taken within weeks of the opening of Tomorrowland in 1959. Four rides has just opened, Autopia, Submari [...]
Mickey Mouse – 1965 New York Wo...
Mickey Mouse at the New York World’s Fair in 1965
As we discovered in the past, Walt Disney had a sizable presence at the 1964/1965 New York World’s Fair, where he perfected the technologies that would be used to build many of the rides at Disneyland. The same technology with updates is still in use at Disneyland, Disney World, an [...]
Disney’s Carousel of Progress &...
As we saw a couple of days ago, in 1964 Walt Disney’s Carousel of Progress opened at the New York World’s Fair in Flushing Meadows. It was built as the prime feature of the General Electric Pavilion. This picture was taken in 1965 towards the end of the Fair.
Vintage photo of the Walt Disney Carousel of Progress while at the 1964 [...]
Disneyland Skyway – 1968
The Disneyland Skyway was a gondola that took riders over the park from Fantasyland to Tomorrowland. These pictures were taken May 1968 by an unknown photographer.
It was built in 1956 and closed in 1994 due to structural faults in the supports at the Matterhorn.
Not being familiar with Disneyland in those years, I’m not sure what b [...]
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