Disney’s biggest live action star Annette Funicello sports smart western wear for an afternoon autograph session. Spin and Marty, signing beside her, go for a more casual jeans and t-shirt look. A uniformed Disneyland security guard protects the Mickey Mouse Club Stars form circle skirted and plaid shirted fans.
Speaking of the Mickey Mouse Club […]
Last week I WENT TO THE ENCHANTED FOREST WITH PEE-WEE HERMAN!
Paul-Pee-Wee Herman-Reubens and I were among a small group invited by a mutual friend to visit her family’s historic camp deep in the Adirondack Mountains. As fate would have it we were five miles from the Enchanted Forest, a children’s storybook theme park now […]
CHARLES PHOENIX’S RETRO DISNEYLAND SLIDE SHOW
the ultimate “E” Ticket to the Magic Kingdom in the 50s & 60s
—IN COLOR!
TONIGHT Friday, May 19, 2006 at 8:30 pm & Sunday, May 21, at 2 pm
“Ladies and gentlemen may I have your attention please. For your personal safety keep your arms and legs inside the vehicle at all […]
Sleeping Beauty’s Castle is slightly double exposed on the House of the Future. Its mid-evil meets mid-century! Medievalism and modernism have never been so close. For ten years, between 1957 and 1967, the all-plastic House of the Future was just outside of Tomorrowland perched on a pedestal steps from the castle They both represent fairy […]
Due to Popular Demand — A Final Tour Date Has Been Added - MAY 7, 2006!
This week the theme of theme parks continues. This is America’s lost theme park!
The city is on fire. Chicago is burning! A warm-weathered crowd of onlookers have paid to see it. Employees costumed as firemen rush to put the […]
The warm glowing atmosphere of Mars is well rendered on the side of a building while a big, huge silver metallic UFO is either taking off or coming in for a landing right on top of the awning that marks the entrance to FLIGHT TO MARS. The horizon line is low and jagged. A missile […]
In the background, telephone poles and electric lines service a fresh tract of modern ranch homes. Between them, on the other side of the green burm, a newly completed stretch of the Santa Ana Freeway makes a beeline from the Disneyland exit to the famous “stack” just forty or so miles northwest. Inside the burm […]
Two dapper gentlemen flirt with Cecelia and Marilyn, the most popular ladies in Buena Park. They never need to be fed or paid - just repainted. Over the years these fiberglass females inspired countless Kodak moments for millions visiting Don Knott’s Berry Farm. Claude Bell, the man that built the big dinosaur in Cabazon, California […]
Whooshing by on the highway in the sky, passengers travel in supreme space-age style between the Disneyland Hotel and Tomorrowland. I certainly hope they all heard the “Please keep your arms and legs inside the vehicle at all times” recording because there are no windows!
The monorail is like an airplane without wings, or […]
Recognize Helen? Those of you who have seen my Retro Southern California Slide Show you may recall her posing in front of a mint green, satin-finish shower in a sexy semi-see-thru nightie. Here she is again, this time sporting stripes, in front of my all-time, no-question-about-it favorite place in all of Southern California, the Watts […]
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