March 10 - ...Dreaming

This is going to wrap up the guidebook to Disneyland in 1961. These are the most interesting pages to me because they highlight the ever-changing nature of Disneyland.



Here under dreaming, we see the concept sketches for Old New Orleans, the Haunted House, the Tree House, and the Rouges Gallery.





This is the back cover, which is an excellent resource to see what the park had to offer in 1961.



Coming up tomorrow will be the start of another lengthy postings, where I share Cast guides to Pirates of the Caribbean and the Haunted Mansion. Mixed into these will be a couple of maps from the 50th anniversary of Disneyland, and then following will be another guidebook, I think from 1964. With this one, I plan to highlight the alternations made between 1961 and 1964. After this, maybe the Epcot Center preview guide, which is wonderful for concept artwork and feels the most like a World's Fair book.

March 1, 2008 - Fantasyland

First two pages of Fantasyland. I love the photo of the father riding on Mr. Toad's Wild Ride. Its the suit I wanted to wear for my wedding, but I was out-voted.

February 29, 2008 - Main Street USA

Final 2 pages of Main Street USA.

February 25, 2007 - Walt Disney's Guide to Disneyland (1961) - Front Cover

Walt Disney's Guide to Disneyland - Front Cover, originally uploaded by Jeremy ES.

Another series of scans from long out-of-print books! Yay! As things move forward, this is going to become more the focus of this little blog than posting photos from the Parks with little nuggets of trivia.

I want to share the stuff I've accumulated over the last couple years as I've become a huge fan of the Disney Park experience. Hopefully, much of this will be items that are not easily available, espically in high quality online. There will be more maps coming, many of which are common, more guide books from the early days of the park, and SOPs for rides. Everything will be in high resolution, cleaned up as much as possible, and easily made available.

There will not be any current items scanned which are available for purchase in retail stores. When I get around to writing up book reviews, I will use excepts, but also link to information on how to purchase the titles.

There will still be the posts about my struggles to stop buying so much stuff. It is not going too well at the time, but we are trying to buy a better house, and things need to be bought. I still have not bought any toys this year, and the majority of purchases have been made using funds from selling stuff on Amazon. So while not nearly perfect, I am keeping myself aware of what I'm buying and not shopping with abandon.