New home for the California letters

[MrsPinup]

A little bit of Disney is comming to my back yard.

http://www.sacbee.com/2012/05/30/4524219/disneys-california-letters-to.html

The letters that used to be outside California Adventure will now be at Cal-Expo in Sacramento (home of the state fair). I know it's not the same, but I'm glad they are going somewhere and not just into storage.

Someone just told me this yesterday...very cool!

 

[S. S. Columbia]

The C-A-L-I-F-O-R-N-I-A letters have gone to "Yesterland"
by Werner Weiss
http://www.yesterland.com/california.html

Here are some photos from Werner Weiss' excellent article:


11-foot-tall letters welcome you to Yester California Adventure

[size=-1]Photo by Allen Huffman, 2009[/size]


Entrance inspired by a California postcard

Disney publicity photo © 2009 Disney


The back side of letters

Photo by Allen Huffman, 2009


Candy cane overlay for the Holiday Season

Photo by Allen Huffman, 2008


Late at night, when the crowds are gone and you’re standing in the right place, it
does look like a postcard after all.

Photo by Allen Huffman, 2009


Cal Expo: new home for the giant letters

Artist’s rendering from press release, May 30, 2012


Beginning construction of the California Adventure entrance letters in 2000

Photo by Tony “WisebearAZ” Moore, August 4, 2000


Three months before the grand opening

Photo by Tony “WisebearAZ” Moore, November 10, 2000

 

[Poohstick]

I am glad to see the CALIFORNIA letters will have a good home. I was afraid that they would suffer the same death as the EPCOT wand.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cSLW9xNGMhU