Monday, April 4, 2011

1967 New Tomorrowland Opening Day Invitation

Sorry for the delay between posts, but you know...life and all.

Here's a cool item that goes with the previously posted 1967 press ticket and program.  This is the invitation for the opening day of the 1967 Tomorrowland that brought us such favorites as the PeopleMover and Adventures Thru Inner Space. 

The whole thing was too big for my scanner, so here it is in pieces.  The first shot is the cover, and the second is the whole interior as one piece.  The third and fourth shots are close-ups of the interior, including that BEAUTIFUL conceptual painting that we all know and love.  I wonder if the RETLAW archives has that one...I'll have to ask.  I didn't shoot the text on the far right, but it says something about returning the enclosed RSVP card (which I don't have, alas) to confirm attendance.


****UPDATE***
It turns out that I DO have the RSVP card AND the envelope.  You know you're in trouble/old when you don't remember what you own anymore.  Anyway, here's a photo:





5 comments:

olddisneylandfan said...

Our family received one of these because my dad was press -- and we attended the opening. I remember this quite well and my brothers and I probably wore it out looking over it again and again as the big day approached.

Oh, how I wish we still had all of the goodies from the press days of the 60s!

MIKE COZART said...

That's a GREAT BIG BEAUTIFUL WOW!!!!!! I've got several press and pre opening items from New Tomorrowland 1967 ( a full size PeopleMover car too)but not the press invite!! Nice piece.

Matterhorn1959 said...

Great piece, thanks for showing it. It is on my want list.....

Major Pepperidge said...

OH MAN...

TokyoMagic! said...

WOWEEEEEEE!!!!

Why can't they just duplicate this Tomorrowlan in the next remodel job? They certainly won't be able to come up with anything better....EVER!