I will always be known by everyone who knows me as the Disney guy. Fuelled my love for coasters, for theming, & ultimately for tourism which is how I make my living.
Of course, I dream of a Tomorrowland that is no longer barren. Hopefully the return of the subs harkens that. Perhaps they will give the Astro Orbiter the height it once had, return the Peoplemover to moving something, & America Sings where we can learn folk music of America instead of bluetooth technology. (A guy can dream, thanks to Walt Disney). Don't get me wrong, I still love DL & still have much to experience there, no doubt, for the next 52 years or so.
Someday I’ll dig up my eigth grade end of year project which was a collection of art projects I’d done on DL. Mostly just tracing, but quite the obsession.
I even had a t-shirt made when I was a kid…with those velvet iron on letters. It said: Imagination is the only key to Disneyland.
The guy at the t-shirt shop really got into it, & crafted an old fashioned key out of the characters 8 & F.
That guy who made it remembered me years later, & we became friends. We even built a Haunted House in Monterey to benefit the boy scouts one year. Hows that for imagineering?
Never been to World
Never even been to DL for the holidays.
Joaquin & I have vowed to go this year since he’s from L.A. & had never been during the holidays either.
Nice pics! I remember that my Dad would always wear a suit to go to Disneyland and we would wear our Sunday finest. My earliest memories are from home movies. I do remember sitting with the engineer on the Casey Junior train and ringing the bell, riding Dumbo with my mom, and being scared on Mr Toads wild ride. I think I was around 2 or 3 so it would be 1958 or 59. I also remember the flying saucers, 20,000 leagues, and of course the sky buckets (that is what we always called them). My Mom had a friend that had a couple of kids around my brother's and my age. We would do a yearly Disney Birthday trip to celebrate all four of our birthdays. Then there was Grad Night.....I don't remember much about that but my program said there were a couple of good bands playing. We wore suits and ties and were searched for alcohol before entering. We went on it's a small world near the end since we were all so tired.