by Todd James Pierce | Dec 6, 2011 |
To celebrate Walt Disney’s 110th birthday, we here at DHI are kicking it back old school. We—meaning Paul—has uncovered an unreleased 1937 radio interview with Walt Disney. The interview was conducted by NBC radio veteran, Elza Schallert on March 12,...
by Todd James Pierce | Sep 23, 2011 |
I’ve been working on a couple short videos about the history of the park. But I realize I haven’t posted up anything for over a week. This image is from May, 1959–just four or five weeks before the attraction opened to the public....
by Todd James Pierce | Sep 6, 2011 |
Phantom Boatsby Todd James PierceAs long as we’re on the subject of boats, I recently was going through a box of 1955 / 1956 Disneyland slides and found a nice never-before-published image of the shortest-lived attraction at Disneyland–the boats in...
by Todd James Pierce | Sep 2, 2011 |
Clowns in the Magic Kingdomby Todd James PierceSo what do we have here? A clown, battery-powered model boats, and two-dozen Mousketeers. An odd event that would happen only once in the history of Disneyland.In partnering up with outside companies, Disneyland opened...
by Todd James Pierce | Aug 22, 2011 |
How to Capture a Disneyland Dragon by Todd James Pierce Back when Disneyland was new, the company would regularly allow sponsors and partner-companies to use images from the park to advertise their products. A few of these ads—such as for the Hudson Hornet—would...
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