Imagineering Disney

Here’s another blog of interest to Disneyphiles:

What it’s about:

“Welcome to our unofficial Disney blog where we share our thoughts about Walt Disney Imagineering and the Disney parks of yesterday and today. We launched this blog in 2009. Our small volunteer staff is made up of a few people who have at one time worked for the Walt Disney Company.”

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And here below are some interesting articles you might like as an introduction.

The Haunted Mansion Like You’ve Never Seen it

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The Haunted Mansion Like You’ve Never Seen It [Part 2]

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Disneyland Turns 59

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THEN and NOW: Walt at Disneyland

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271 Years Before Pantone, an Artist Mixed and Described Every Color Imaginable in an 800-Page Book

by Christopher Jobson
Published on Colossal, May 5, 2014

In 1692 an artist known only as “A. Boogert” sat down to write a book in Dutch about mixing watercolors. Not only would he begin the book with a bit about the use of color in painting, but would go on to explain how to create certain hues and change the tone by adding one, two, or three parts of water. 

[read the article]
http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2014/05/color-book/

The Doritos Origin: Repurposed Garbage from Disneyland

reported by Emma del Valle on Death and Taxes, May 1, 2014
additional report by Robert Sorokanich on Gizmodo, May 4, 2014

Shortly after Disneyland opened in 1955, the founder of Frito-Lay received permission from Walt Disney to open a Mexican-styled restaurant in Frontierland. “Casa de Fritos,” the restaurant, featured Fritos corn chips in many of the dishes and an elaborate animatronic vending machine featuring the “Frito Kid” dispensed bags of the snack with the help of “Klondike” who brought up the bags up from a mineshaft.

One of the salesmen from Alex Foods, the tortilla supplier to the restaurant at the time, noticed stale tortillas in the garbage and gave the kitchen a tip: instead of trashing the stale tortilla, cut them up and fry them.

[read the complete "DeathandTaxes"article]
http://www.deathandtaxesmag.com/219962/the-doritos-origin-story-repurposed-garbage-from-disneyland/

[read the complete "Gizmodo" article]
http://gizmodo.com/how-doritos-went-from-disneyland-dumpster-to-multi-bill-1571523236

The Fairest of Them All

Filmic Light

Snow White Archive

A fan-based online archive for all things Snow White.

Historical documentation, authentic memorabilia, vintage and contemporary merchandise, and short observations related primarily to the subject of walt Disney’s Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.

40 Must-See Photos from the Past

Astonishing photos from the past, thanks to Reddit user epicnesshunter.

[read the article on Pulptastic]

20 Years of Cartoon Network

Blog-runner of Notcot.com featured this prize had at San Diego ComicCon International 2012: the commemorative poster celebrating Cartoon Network’s 20th birthday (officially October 1, 2012). It features characters from almost every original, animated Cartoon Network series, plus a few from co-productions and acquired shows.

The image comes from the combined creative talents of (in alphabetical order) Branden Collins, Jacob Escobedo, Petrika Jansen, Bryan Mon and  Dan Thompson with help from Damond Dunlap and Jason Grissom.

Read the whole article:
http://www.notcot.com/archives/2012/08/20-years-of-cartoon-network.php

Disney History This Week

By SALLY FRENCH / For the Register

July 17, 1955: Grand opening event of Disneyland. July 18 is the opening for the general public.

Read the full article with 12 more interesting facts at Orange County Register site:
http://www.ocregister.com/entertainment/history-363256-disney-look.html

Remember When...

Remember when--- All the girls had ugly gym uniforms? And wore tennis shoes not $200 Nike’s!?

It took three minutes for the TV to warm up??

Nobody owned a purebred dog?

When a quarter was a decent allowance?

You’d reach into a muddy gutter for a penny? 

Your Mom wore nylons that came in two pieces?

You got your windshield cleaned, oil checked, and gas pumped, without asking, all for free, every time? And you didn’t pay for air? And, you got trading stamps to boot?

Laundry detergent had free glasses, dishes or towels hidden inside the box?

It was considered a great privilege to be taken out to dinner at a real restaurant with your parents?

They threatened to keep kids back a grade if they failed... and they did it!

When a 57 Chevy was everyone’s dream car...to cruise, peel out, lay rubber or watch submarine races, and people went steady?

No one ever asked where the car keys were because they were always in the car, in the ignition, and the doors were never locked?

Lying on your back in the grass with your friends... and saying things like, ‘That cloud looks like a... ’??


Playing baseball with no adults to help kids with the rules of the game?

Stuff from the store came without safety caps and hermetic seals because no one had yet tried to poison a perfect stranger...
And with all our progress, don’t you just wish, just once, you could slip back in time and savor the slower pace, and share it with the children of today.

When being sent to the principal’s office was nothing compared to the fate that awaited the student at home?

Basically we were in fear for our lives, but it wasn’t because of drive-by shootings, drugs, gangs, etc. Our parents and grandparents were a much bigger threat! But we survived because their love was greater than the threat. 

And our summers were filled with bike rides, Hula Hoops, and visits to the pool, and eating Kool-Aid powder with sugar.

Didn’t that feel good, just to go back and say, ‘Yeah, I remember that’??
I am sharing this with you today because it ended with a Double Dog Dare to pass it on... To remember what a Double Dog Dare is, read on... And remember that the perfect age is somewhere between old enough to know better and too young to care. 
Send this on to someone who can still remember Howdy Doody and The Peanut Gallery, the Lone Ranger, The Shadow Knows, Nellie Bell , Roy and Dale, Trigger and Buttermilk.?

How Many Of These Do You Remember??Candy cigarettes...

Wax Coke-shaped wax bottles with colored sugar water inside...

Soda pop machines that dispensed glass bottles...

Coffee shops with Table Side Jukeboxes...

Blackjack, Clove and Teaberry chewing gum...

Home milk delivery in glass bottles with cardboard stoppers...

Newsreels before the movie...?

Telephone numbers with a word prefix...( Yukon 2-601). Party lines...

Peashooters...?

Hi-Fi’s & 45 RPM records...


78 RPM records...
Green Stamps...


Mimeograph paper...

The Fort Apache Play Set... 

Do You Remember a Time When Decisions were made by going...?‘eeny-meeny-miney-moe’??

Mistakes were corrected by simply exclaiming, ‘Do Over!’??
‘Race issue’ meant arguing about who ran the fastest?


Catching The Fireflies Could Happily Occupy An Entire Evening?

It wasn’t odd to have two or three ‘Best
Friends’...?


Having a Weapon in School meant being caught with a Slingshot?

Saturday morning cartoons weren’t 30-minute commercials for action figures?

‘Oly-oly-oxen-free’ made perfect sense?

Spinning around, getting dizzy, and falling down was cause for giggles? 

The Worst Embarrassment was being picked last for a team?

War was a card game?

Baseball cards in the spokes transformed any bike into a motorcycle?
Taking drugs meant orange flavored chewable aspirin?

Water balloons were the ultimate weapon?
If you can remember most or all of these, Then You Have Lived!!!!!!!

Pass this on to anyone who may need a break from their ‘Grown-Up’ Life...
I Double-Dog-Dare-Ya!