Old Disney Park photos

[SteamBoatWillysKin]

keep them coming!

 

[YEKCIM]

(Also posted on the Dis Photography board)

~YEKCIM

 

[klmall]

(Also posted on the Dis Photography board)

~YEKCIM

Yekcim - WoW! These are wonderful! I can't believe you have a Swan Boat going under a walkway to the Castle! I rode in one. Thanks so much for sharing with us!

 

[Diznotyzed]

I agree, YEKCIM, all your pictures are wonderful, but the one of the Swan Boat is amazing! It's so nice to see something I never got to see for myself! (or at least I don't remember seeing them - first trip was March '78. I've heard the memory is the first thing to go)

 

[YEKCIM]

Thanks for the kind words. I shot Kodachrome and Ektachrome slides almost exclusively, since I got my first camera at 12 years old (I'm 52 now...). My brother and I made three trips to MK in the 1974-1975 time frame (MK *was* WDW in those days) and I'm finally getting around to making digital copies of them. Believe it or not, these were *not* digitized via a transparency scanner. Instead, I projected them onto a 20" X 30" piece of FoamCore, and photographed the projected image with my Nikon D50. The results exceeded my expectations and I judge them to be as good, if not better, than what I could do with my (older) flatbed scanner, and MUCH MUCH faster!

Those posted here are just a few of the slides from that time period. A good many of the others are Instamatic 110 format, and the film is T-I-N-Y. I'll give those a shot this weekend and see what I can come up with.

I have dozens of Carousels of slides from vacations here, there, and yon, from about the early 80's, and I hope to use this little shortcut to convert them all to digital.

~YEKCIM

 

[HockeyDad]

Bump...keep them coming!

 

[kimmar067]

...WHEW, talk about a 'blast-from-the-past'!!!

 

[jenseib]

I think it was taken out due to an accident that a CM lost his life in. I am not sure if that is the sole reason, but I'm pretty sure it was related. It disappeared right after the accident.

What year was the skyway taken out? I remember it ,but not sure if I actuall yremember it from the 780's when I was a small kid there ,or from the mid 90's when I went back again for the first time as an adult. For some reason I think it was there in the 90's. But I could be remembering wrong.


this thread is so cool! I'm only to page 5 and I have seen so many great pictures. I'll ahve to dig the old ones out at my moms. I wnet right after it opened . I thinkl with in the first year, if I'm not mistaken.

 

[Xcited4Disney]

I'm not sure what year this was. Maybe 1982? First one is me and my Minnie! My parents made this pic into poster size for my room. I loved it so much! The second pic is my older sis lifting me up in the crowd. I have lots more at my mom's but since I'm at work this is all I have access to.

 

[klmall]

What year was the skyway taken out? I remember it ,but not sure if I actuall yremember it from the 780's when I was a small kid there :

According to this site:http://waltdatedworld.bravepages.com/id57.htm the Skyway was taken out in 1999.

 

[klmall]

Thanks for the kind words. I shot Kodachrome and Ektachrome slides almost exclusively, since I got my first camera at 12 years old (I'm 52 now...).

Those posted here are just a few of the slides from that time period. A good many of the others are Instamatic 110 format, and the film is T-I-N-Y. I'll give those a shot this weekend and see what I can come up with.

I have dozens of Carousels of slides from vacations here, there, and yon, from about the early 80's, and I hope to use this little shortcut to convert them all to digital.

~YEKCIM

YEKCIM - I was cleaning out a closet the other day in preparation for painting and also found boxes of those teeny, tiny 110 format slides. Please let me us (me) know how your work progresses. I still can't find any pictures of my 1979 (first) trip to WDW so I'm hoping maybe they are somewhere unlabeled in these slides. I'm in your decade so we must be sharing camera history!

Thanks again for sharing your efforts!

 

[jenseib]

Well it (the skyway) WAS there on my 3 trips in the 90's. I knew I remembered it ,and I guess I never thought about it being there now when I went a few weeks ago. I NEVER rode it that I know of (unless my parents took me on it) But I remember seeing it. I hate those things! They seem so scary to me!
I got to go back an look at more of the pages now!

 

[jenseib]

Here is a few from 1995

 

[jenseib]

These are from May of 1997

EPCOT.. A topiary shaped like Chip squirting water out!

MGM Star Tours

Magic Kingdom

 

[Tea Rose]

I love these photos! Keep em coming!

 

[YEKCIM]

YEKCIM - I was cleaning out a closet the other day in preparation for painting and also found boxes of those teeny, tiny 110 format slides. Please let me us (me) know how your work progresses. I still can't find any pictures of my 1979 (first) trip to WDW so I'm hoping maybe they are somewhere unlabeled in these slides. I'm in your decade so we must be sharing camera history!

Thanks again for sharing your efforts!

Here are a few that I posted to a thread on the Dis Photography board, all made with the Kodak Pocket 30, 110 format slide:

Considering the age (30+ years), the medium (110 format) and the conversion method (see below), I'm pretty happy with them.

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Redundant, but noted again, in case anyone is interested in trying this method:

Conversion method: projection onto 20" X 30" foam core board, using Kodak Carousel slide projector, captured using Nikon D50 dSLR, 18-135mm lens, ISO 200, f/7.1 aperture, shutter set by camera, based on CW average auto-metering. Some PP (crop, sharpen, straighten, adjust WB, adjust contrast) done in Picasa2. How's that for el-cheapo (Nikon equipment notwithstanding)?

~YEKCIM

 

[suzimar57]

that picture of the swan boat is wonderful!!!

 

[YEKCIM]

Are all three pix appearing on the page? I can see the bottom two, but only the link for the first one. Weird.

~YEKCIM

 

[Diznotyzed]

Conversion method: projection onto 20" X 30" foam core board, using Kodak Carousel slide projector, captured using Nikon D50 dSLR, 18-135mm lens, ISO 200, f/7.1 aperture, shutter set by camera, based on CW average auto-metering. Some PP (crop, sharpen, straighten, adjust WB, adjust contrast) done in Picasa2. How's that for el-cheapo (Nikon equipment notwithstanding)?
~YEKCIM

Thanks for jumping through those hoops! The results are wonderful! More! More!

 

[YEKCIM]

More! More!

I'll try to get a few more uploaded/posted tonight, after I return from the salt mines. In the meantime, here are some more recent snaps (7/06) if anyone is interested: http://s76.photobucket.com/albums/j11/fasteddiew/DisneyWorld 2006/

~YEKCIM