Disney Nostalgia Pictures

[bonofreak]

My brother, sister and I with our Dad.
We're enjoying our popcorn!

 

[caligirl stuck in va]

Love Love Love this thread! Thank you so much - I cannot wait to get my photos posted on here!!

 

[pixleyyy]

Here's my first meeting with Mickey in 1979.

And here is the edited version I made to use on my scrapbook page.

 

[Disneyluvr2]

Oh, I LOVE that black and white photo of you and Mickey!!!

 

[Diznygrl]

My brother, sister and I with our Dad.
We're enjoying our popcorn!

I love how the only barrier between the walkway and Rivers of America is some rocks and shrubbery!

 

[Sherry E]

My brother, sister and I with our Dad.
We're enjoying our popcorn!

That's a great picture - I wish that whole little area still looked like that.

I want to see more pictures of the ancient Mickey with his gigantic head and tiny body! Anyone have some of those to share?

 

[bonofreak]

I have often wondered if this really WAS Disneyland, but my Mom has written on the back that it is and my sister and brother are both wearing Disney hats and I am in the stroller with a bag of Fritos. I know that we used to get Fritos there at the Mexican restaurant; there was like a machine that looked like a man and the Fritos came out of him.

Does anybody know if it really did look like this in the very early 1960's? From looking at myself and my brother and sister I'd say this is probably 1962.

 

[Sherry E]

I have often wondered if this really WAS Disneyland, but my Mom has written on the back that it is and my sister and brother are both wearing Disney hats and I am in the stroller with a bag of Fritos. I know that we used to get Fritos there at the Mexican restaurant; there was like a machine that looked like a man and the Fritos came out of him.

Does anybody know if it really did look like this in the very early 1960's? From looking at myself and my brother and sister I'd say this is probably 1962.

It literally looks like a forest in the background, like it is some sort of mountain/lakeside location. Was Disneyland that wooded back then? If so, that's cool.

 

[DisGirl819]

I also have this picture in the thread where I was trying to figure out how to post pictures (thanks again to those who helped!) This is from 1964, it is my brother Jimmy, my sister Elizabeth and myself (the one in those very cool shades!) That is the sister who scared me with stories of real Pirates going to attack me the first time we rode that ride! Big sisters are great! Ha! Ha! I love how different those Skyway Buckets were back then!

I love this pic! There's a chain link fence around the teacups! And take a look at those teacups, wild!

 

[lavawalker]

It literally looks like a forest in the background, like it is some sort of mountain/lakeside location. Was Disneyland that wooded back then? If so, that's cool.

Hi, I usually just lurk on this thread and look at all the old pictures, but I showed dh the picture and he said it definitely looks like Disneyland to him. He said it was that wooded before they put in POTC and Haunted Mansion. I thought the trees looked too big and grown considering the park was only open a few years, but he said they brought in a lot of full-grown trees to landscape with.

I'm wondering if the photo is taken from Tom Sawyer Island?

 

[mt mommy]

My brother, sister and I with our Dad.
We're enjoying our popcorn!

I love that your dad has a suit coat on in DL!! Sometimes our society these days is just way to casual!

Great picture!

 

[PinkBudgie]

Hi, I usually just lurk on this thread and look at all the old pictures, but I showed dh the picture and he said it definitely looks like Disneyland to him. He said it was that wooded before they put in POTC and Haunted Mansion. I thought the trees looked too big and grown considering the park was only open a few years, but he said they brought in a lot of full-grown trees to landscape with.

I'm wondering if the photo is taken from Tom Sawyer Island?

Oh, it does look like it could be the island. I've been reading some on DL history and they did bring in a lot of trees. In fact, it is amazing how many things they have closed, open, or moved over the years.

 

[lavawalker]

I know that we used to get Fritos there at the Mexican restaurant; there was like a machine that looked like a man and the Fritos came out of him

Check out the link below.... is that your "Frito machine"? I had to look on Google images to see if DH or I recognized it. Neither of us did, but then I really don't remember eating in that Mexican restaurant until I was older...

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3220/2481435943_cb63f3ce72.jpg

 

[bonofreak]

I love this pic! There's a chain link fence around the teacups! And take a look at those teacups, wild!

Notice how differnt the Skyway Buckets were back then, too!

 

[bonofreak]

Check out the link below.... is that your "Frito machine"? I had to look on Google images to see if DH or I recognized it. Neither of us did, but then I really don't remember eating in that Mexican restaurant until I was older...

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3220/2481435943_cb63f3ce72.jpg

Gosh, Lavawalker, I wish I remembered it better to say that was the guy. But I was really young, in my memory he was sort of a Frito Bandito looking machine with the Fritos coming out in a big opening in his tummy! But I don't know if that is right or just the way I remember it!

Is there anyone here who really remembers it? Now I am really curious if this picture Lavawalker has was the way he really did look!

 

[bonofreak]

I'm sure I was NOT sopposed to be standing in the MIDDLE of that flower garden, but there I was!

 

[maitlynn]

these are just wonderful

 

[bonofreak]

This is my Uncle who was quite an entertainer (read:ham!) He was involved in Community Theatre and played piano and sang at restuarants. He was such a happy, people-person and had no fear of asking if he could join in! And he was always told yes! He once sang with the Barbershop Quartet at Disneyland, he asked if he could join them for a song or two and they said yes! They drew a big crowd, too! And here he sang and played in New Orleans Square. Oh if I had half his nerve (and a teeny bit of his talents!)

 

[Sherry E]

^Great picture!^

Sort of OT, but still regarding nostalgia.......Coincidentally, on my TR thread I was just talking about a friend of mine (the one wearing the white Mickey sweatshirt with the 'rear view Mickey' that we were all discussing a while back) who plays a bunch of different instruments, and who is currently fine-tuning his ragtime piano playing skills. Today, he mentioned the ragtime piano music in Disneyland (specifically, the old Carnation version of the ice cream parlor, not the current Gibson Girl version). I was posing the question in my TR - and maybe someone here can answer - about that very thing. I have not been into the ice cream place since it became Gibson Girl. Do they still have the ragtime piano in there, or did they get rid of it when it stopped being Carnation? I only vaguely remember it, but my friend, being a musician, looks for those sorts of things. Anyway, it got me wondering if the ragtime piano is still there or if it has been relocated or removed altogether? Does anyone know??

 

[PinkBudgie]

I don't remember a piano, but I remember an elephant. Is that the place? We stopped going there after DCA opened up because we liked eating at Burr Bank Ice Cream better. Easier to find somewhere to sit.