1970's Magic Kingdom Slides

[smraynor]

I was going through some old things out of my Mother's closet and I found these vintage WDW slides in an old carousel (how many of you remember those?). I put the images in Photoshop and tried to clean them up slightly but I kind of like the red kodachrome tinge to them.

It takes a while to scan them so this is the first batch. I'll post some more soon.

The biggest thing I noticed was just how much the trees have grown up around the haunted mansion.

These were the slides you could buy at Disney so I'm guessing that others may have posted but still pretty neat nonetheless.

The link is here:
http://www.itats.org/vintage-walt-disney-world-magic-kingdom-slides-long-live-the-glorious-1970s/

 

[jazz0007]

I love seeing these old pics!! I have 1000's of slides to go through from my family....stacks and stacks of carousels that I just don't have time to go through! I'm sure there are a ton of Disney shots in there as we lived in Cocoa Beach for many years when I was little AND my dad was a pilot for Eastern Airlines. Eastern was of course Disney's airline....If You Had Wings...sing it with me!!!

Thanks for sharing!! Fun!

 

[smraynor]

Widen your world....

 

[Tiramisu]

Great pictures - I missed the 70s the first time around, so I love looking at stuff like this. Thanks for sharing.

 

[Pixie Princess]

Thanks for sharing the pictures! I can't get over how different the area around the HM looks today. Its almost as if they picked it up and moved it to a different part of the park!

P.S. I also enjoyed your article on air travel. My aunt was a stewardess for Delta for many years beginning in the mid-late 60s.

 

[PrettyFlower2]

Great pics!

 

[smraynor]

Thanks for sharing the pictures! I can't get over how different the area around the HM looks today. Its almost as if they picked it up and moved it to a different part of the park!

P.S. I also enjoyed your article on air travel. My aunt was a stewardess for Delta for many years beginning in the mid-late 60s.

Thanks for the kind words. It does look like everything was 'just planted'. I'm glad you liked the air travel article. It was fun finding those images.

 

[elgerber]

It's amazing the difference in the Haunted Mansion, but it's also amazing how much of it still looks exactly the same!
I loved the heads on Chip and Dale LOL, the costumes sure have improved since then.

 

[ktlm]

Those were great! Thanks for sharing!

 

[smraynor]

You mean they're costumes??

 

[MaleficentRN]

I'm amazed over how empty it looks!

 

[Sco]

I have only gone to DW over the last 5 years or so and really like seeing these pictures. I always had a problem with HM because you don't really get to see the mansion with the way the queue is and all the trees. It would be nice to walk up and see the foreboding mansion as you enter it. I like the interactive line now but still, it just feels like waiting in line to go on a ride rather than an entrance to a Haunted Mansion.

 

[BayouMickey]

Wow, we must be on the same wavelength.. I was just getting down all my slides from disney the other day too.. Did you bring them somewhere to make them digital or did you use something yourself? if so what was it?
Great job with the captions too!

 

[PoohsFan1]

Those are great and I can't wait to see what other pictures you have . I agree, the red tinge from the old photos are great and really show their age, I'm glad that you kept that.

 

[smraynor]

Wow, we must be on the same wavelength.. I was just getting down all my slides from disney the other day too.. Did you bring them somewhere to make them digital or did you use something yourself? if so what was it?
Great job with the captions too!

I feel the wavelength! I'm the chair of an art and Graphic Design department so I have access to some pretty professional equipment...I've also got a team of photo professors who are always there to support. But we used a slide scanner.

Thanks for the compliment ITATs is a site a run with another professor that covers a variety of topics (a lot of travel). We have a lot of readers and I'm thankful for that!

 

[smraynor]

Those are great and I can't wait to see what other pictures you have . I agree, the red tinge from the old photos are great and really show their age, I'm glad that you kept that.

I recently gave my students (I'm a professor of Art and Design at a University in NC) a lecture on the 'Design' of the original Brady Bunch intro. I had to explain the show and that it wasn't done digitally. They also think its weird that 'old cameras' didn't have a view screen.

I posted my lecture on my site...http://www.itats.org/a-visual-analysis-of-the-brady-bunch-grid/

 

[BayouMickey]

I feel the wavelength! I'm the chair of an art and Graphic Design department so I have access to some pretty professional equipment...I've also got a team of photo professors who are always there to support. But we used a slide scanner.

Thanks for the compliment ITATs is a site a run with another professor that covers a variety of topics (a lot of travel). We have a lot of readers and I'm thankful for that!

your most welcome! by and by, I wanted to commend you on the castle lecture when you first posted it way back when, but it slipped my mind. I visited some of these castles and except for Germany I had no idea the others were influenced as well. We actually called the one in germany, the "disney" castle

 

[smraynor]

your most welcome! by and by, I wanted to commend you on the castle lecture when you first posted it way back when, but it slipped my mind. I visited some of these castles and except for Germany I had no idea the others were influenced as well. We actually called the one in germany, the "disney" castle

Hey thanks! I'm in the process of developing a 'Disney Design' course for my University. I'm hoping to take the lectures and post them online to 'test the waters' so to speak. Appreciate the kind words.

 

[minnie mum]

Boy oh boy do those photos take me back. Thanks for posting the link. I chuckle when I look at what people are wearing in those pictures- and then realize that I was dressing like that too. And has the Haunted Mansion ever changed over the years! Anyone else remember how miserably hot the queue could get if it extended back along the water?

 

[bjakmom]

WOW! Thanks for that little trip down memory lane!
I love the man in the suit and woman in dress and heels in the background on Main St - yes, people actually dressed like that back then when they went to theme parks - they are not charactersLOL (at least I don't think they are). When I grew up here on the south jersey shore, families dressed to the nines to walk the boardwalk - then by my teen years it was cut offs and tee shirts.

I took my first job away from home in Ft. Lauderdale in Jan of '72 and everyone who came to visit wanted to go to the Magic Kingdom - it's been fun to watch and enjoy all the changes. Can't wait to see more pics - and I have to go find your castle lecture when I have time - I am fascinated by castles.