HAPPY BIRTHDAY To Walt’s Burbank Studio
I am not aware that the Disney Company has an official birthday for the Burbank Studio. If they were, my guess is that it would occupy the year 1940. This is reinforced by Disney's twenty-three which listed 2010 as the 70th anniversary in their Spring 2010...
Disneyland: Year One – pt. 1
Mark Twain - July 19, 1955 Disneyland: Day Threeby Todd James PierceThere are a number of odd things about the banner photo today. First of all, Tom Sawyer Island is still just a muddy rise--a heap of dirt leftover from river excavation, as well as a few...
Disneyland ’59 – The Rarest Parade of Them All
Submarine Voyage - Disneyland '59 ParadeDisneyland ‘59by Todd James PierceLost, that was the word on the street.Mermaids - Disneyland '59 ParadeFor years, the Walt Disney Company believed that they had lost the full video recording of “Kodak presents Disneyland ’59”—...
HANNIBAL CROSSING THE ALPS … AT EPCOT CENTER
A DHI BELATED HAPPY BIRTHDAY TOKEN ANDERSONFeaturing Hannibal Crossing the Alpsby Paul F. AndersonI was quite sad that I missed posting something on the March 17th birthday of my “adopted father” Ken Anderson. Many DHI readers know that Ken and I did a 34-hour oral...
Holidayland Pt. 2
Car Club Day (from Kustorama)A Visit to Holidayland (1959)by Todd James Pierce To be honest, I was planning to move on from Holidayland. I was hoping to touch down in the 1940s. But my brief trip to Holidayland last week inspired so much mail (via the DHI...
Holidayland: The Least Photographed Land in the Park
Holidayland: The Least Photographed Land in the Park by Todd James PierceSo, back in the 1950s, what was the least photographed “land” in the park? Coming in at SECOND PLACE would be Tomorrowland. I have boxes of old Disneyland photographs. ...
Walt Disney, a Couple of Cocktails, and the Mark Twain
Walt Disney, a Couple of Cocktails, and the Mark Twainby Todd James PierceBear with me for a moment.Mark Twain was, of course, the pen name for the American author Samuel Clemens, a man who wrote novels about Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer. But Mark Twain...
The Disneyland Monorail That Almost Was
Monorail Tales - Part 1 The Disneyland Monorail That Almost Wasby Todd James Pierce Back in 1954, as Walt was gearing up for Disneyland, he assigned Herb Ryman the task of creating concept art for the "Land of Tomorrow"--or Tomorowland, as it would later be...
Zorro Days at Disneyland (video)
Zorro Days at Disneyland by Todd James PierceThe post this Monday includes some very rare footage. I’ve owned these reels for years, and they contain the only film I’ve ever seen of Zorro Days at Disneyland. In fact, in this video, there...
THE DISNEYLAND FLYING SAUCERS
In response to the interest in Disneyland's Flying Saucers on the Institute's Facebook page, I took a few minutes to gather these photographs from the Institute's Flying Saucer Library (including two images that have, to my knowledge, never been seen before). I intend...
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