Archive for the 'Amusements' Category
Googie Getaway
December 26th, 2006A photo gallery showing views of the Disneyland Hotel when it first opened. The stylish planter in the pic below? Fantastic.
Toot Toot, Hey, Blip Blip
November 30th, 2006Chek out this funky 1980 commercial for a handheld electronic game called Blip. I started watching it and immediately thought, “Hey, I had this.” The game was kind of like pong, and as I recall the moving blip of light would cause the machine to make little whirring noises. It pretended to be an up-to-date […]
The Cold Wardigans
November 24th, 2006Mr. Jenkins has posted scans from a fascinating fallout shelter handbook from 1962. Very Kennedy-era, and yet paranoia never really goes out of style. Yes, in forty years the Department of Homeland Security’s Chicken Little warnings will seem quaint as well.
At flickr, I’ve just posted some scans from a 1956 McCall’s magazine fashion shoot taken […]
A Face That Could Crumble Stone
November 12th, 2006In honor of his recent passing, I present Bill Griffith’s impressions of Jack Palance in a 1988 Zippy the Pinhead strip. GSN just reran an old ’60s Password in which the movie toughguy faced off against Lauren Bacall. Mr. Palance may have been a pretty effective actor, but he was a terrible Password player.
The Children’s Half-Hour
November 3rd, 2006I got a couple of ’80s kiddie video tidbits to share here. Finding the original My Buddy commercial on YouTube was a distinct thrill for me. This jingle is comedy gold, folks, especially the razzle-dazzle way the unknown little boy (possibly a girl) singer delivers it. Pray tell, what is that kid doing now? Probably […]
There’s a Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow
October 27th, 2006Disney history blog 2719 Hyperion is currently doing a series of posts on the 1939 New York Worlds Fair.
Were I sent back in time to the ‘39 Fair, I would probably make a beeline for the Donut Pavilion, where fairgoers could eat a plate of donuts served by waitresses in donuty costumes. The restaurant was […]
I’ve Seen the Light
October 11th, 2006“You are so Markie Post in every single Lifetime movie.” — Will Truman, Will & Grace
Too campy. Somebody on YouTube did an eleven minute Lifetime movie parody starring Judith Light. It goes without saying that Ms. Light’s role is played by a fetching-looking guy.
Justin Time for a Field Trip
October 5th, 2006The proprietor of This Justin details a road trip to visit the huge fake Egypt erected for Cecil B. DeMille’s 1923 version of The Ten Commandments. What hasn’t been reduced to shards of broken plaster is now buried under a sand dune located 100 miles north of Los Angeles. And the site is likely to […]
The Happiest Ephemera on Earth
October 1st, 2006Yowza, this is cool. When Dan Goodsell arranged to sell a friend’s vintage Disneyland souvenir collection, he photographed the lot and posted them to this incredible flickr set (the photos also reside in the Classic Disneyland Souvenirs group). Among my faves is the tattoo set below. See more of Goodsell’s amazing retro collectibless at his […]
Treasure Hunt
September 10th, 2006Over the weekend I started a new flickr group called Classic Disneyland Souvenirs. It’ll hopefully be a nice showcase for things like the 1957 Tom Sawyer Island map below (I’m still in the process of adding stuff). We already have 15 members and anyone is welcome. Tell your friends!
All This and BBQ
August 28th, 2006After reading Tiki Central’s forum discussion on the Tahitian Terrace, I sorely wish my family had gone there before it closed. Many fondly remember Disneyland’s extinct restaurant with entertainment from Pacific Islander dancers and fire-eaters, apparently. Rare pieces from the eatery are displayed including a vintage ’60s employee manual (via Robot Action Boy and Eye […]
Plastic Dreams
August 20th, 2006I want to go back in time and attend a Tupperware party. Here’s the next best thing — Tupper Diva boasts a neat-o collection of memorabilia such as ads, brochures and perky postcards (”See you at my Tupperware Party!”). Dig through the website for the PBS’s great doc Tupperware! for more. They’re fantastic, made ‘o […]
The Jell-O Program
August 12th, 2006Good entry from Christopher: Things Radio Taught Me. Vintage radio programs of all kinds get a lot of play here at Chez Scrubbles. He prefers Jack Benny and Fibber McGee & Molly; I’m fascinated with Suspense, the long-running weekly anthology which plopped a different current star into a hair-raising tale. Even Judy Garland did one.
Both […]
Another Krazy Kartoon
August 7th, 2006I love finding goodies from otherwise unnoteworthy old movies. Here’s The Hot Choc-Late Soldiers, an animated segment from MGM’s poky all-star comedy revue Hollywood Party (1934). Notable as one of the few things Walt Disney made for a competing studio, the cartoon was introduced by Mickey Mouse in a novel animated/live action scene (unfortunately that […]
Parking Lot Nostalgia?
August 6th, 2006Group weblog Re-Imagineering neatly examines certain extinct things about Disneyland in a series of posts called Elemental Losses. Air focuses on the Skyway, removed in 1994 supposedly because of potential lawsuits from people “falling” out of the ride. Earth is on the parking lot (Disney’s California Adventure took over the acreage in 2001), or rather […]
