Now Open: 1966...again!

I'm pooped, so this is gonna be short.

Nice flyer...used to be rare, not anymore...weird Olde English font on back cover....

There is one more Coming Soon/Now Open flyer left, thank goodness. At this point, I'm ready to move onto something new.

Now Open: Dinosaurs Eat the Children of the World!

...or at least that's what my sick imagination thinks when I see this flyer.

This features the highlights of Disneyland's 1966 season. I am particularly fond of the art in this piece since it mirrors the attractions' respective posters.

I guess I'm supposed to be disappointed that I missed all of the listed Disneyland After Dark events, but I have to be honest...each one sounds worse than the last. Except for the fireworks. Those are always good.

Coming Soon: 1966!

Man, this brochure was a bitch to scan. It's full of weird folds and is kinda two-sided and designed to be read from the front and the back.

This brochure features all the World's Fair attractions that made it to Disneyland, although without that caveman seen behind Walt...him and his whole family never made it out of New York. The flyer optimistically predicts that Pirates of the Caribbean would open that year, but it did not, and Walt Disney therefore died before he could personally see the opening of perhaps the greatest Disney theme park ride ever. Sad.

Coming Soon: Great Moments with Mr. Lincoln!

Very cool and formerly uber-rare (until eBay, that is) flyer printed on thick-ish newsprint. GMWML came straight from the NY World's Fair and took up residency in the Disneyland Opera House. It's been overhauled over the years and was finally evicted in favor of Great Moments with Steve Martin over two years ago. I wonder if it will ever come back. I hope so. It's one of those attractions that's easy to pass by or only check out every few years. But the air-conditioning rocks and both the technology and message that give root to the show are both very worthwhile. And that One Brother song has always been a guilty pleasure.

Now Open: Below Decks on the Sailing Ship Columbia!

In February of 1964, Disneyland made a big deal out of the opening of the "below decks" area of the Sailing Ship Columbia. I guess with the World's Fair attractions in full prep mode, this was the best they could do for Disneyland in 1964. That didn't stop them from printing a nifty flyer, though.

This flyer comes in 2 versions: one is blank on verso and one co-features the Tiki Room. In my obsessive-compulsive days, I had both. Then I ditched the the blank one and kept this. For some reason, both versions are pretty tough to find.

Now Open: Enchanted Tiki Room (again!)

Here the 2nd version of the Tiki Room opening flyer. Nice green color, FANTASTIC graphics and best of all, another disembodied Walt head. For those of you who remember Dug Miller's fanzine, you will remember the endless possibilities and fun to be had with those Disney heads. Although the flyer implies that this was handed out for only one day, it was actually handed out for a few weeks after the attraction opened.

New Disneyland DVD

A digression...

That new Disneyland DVD is really something. I've had a bootleg of Disneyland USA on VHS for years, but this new print and DVD transfer is totally amazing. And the commentary by Maltin and Baxter is a lot of fun. I'm sure 98% of anyone reading this blog already picked it up, but if you haven't, DO!

Now Performing: Papotin's Revue!

Originally, I thought this flyer was from a return engagement in 1964 since the showtimes are different from the flyer I posted yesterday. But I am probably wrong about that. Seems that his show was, according to some very knowledgeable comments about yesterday's post, performed only in the summer of 1963. This flyer is so non-Disneyland that I wouldn't be surprised if it was printed and distributed by Andre Tahon himself.

Now Open: the Enchanted Tiki Room!!

Great and colorful fold-out flyer with both illustrations and full-color photos (very rare in this kind of hand-out.) Would love more info on Papotin's Revue. Does anyone know anything about the show? Is there any film of it, whether shot at Disneyland or not? And whatever happened to that guy?

Guest Contibutor: Stuff from the Park!!!

Thanks to the extremely generous Matterhorn1959 from the Stuff from the Park blog, I bring you this...the Opening Today flyer that I mentioned a couple of weeks ago. It's the flyer that was handed out on June 12, 1960, the day that Nature's Wonderland opened to the world. How many of these flyers could possibly have survived? I'd say....one. This one. And thank goodness it fell into the hands of PJ or no one would even know it existed. Pretty cool. And thanks again to the SFTP blog for allowing me to post it.