Moon Over Fantasyland

This photo, taken on my first visit to Disneyland, sort of captures my state of mind - mild delirium - on one of my first nights there. 
The blob in the upper right corner is The Moon.

Cross Country to DISNEYLAND

 Stopping at the Chapel of the Holy Cross 
                                                         in Sedona, Arizona.

Designed by Marguerite Brunswig Staude, a student of Frank Lloyd Wright, the Chapel of the Holy Cross was completed in 1956 and is a favorite tourist attraction for many of those who visit Sedona. The Chapel of the Holy Cross was nestled beautifully into a red rock roost that has breathtaking views of the majestic Cathedral Rock, Bell Rock, Courthouse Butte and much of the eastern rim of Sedona.

You'll find the Chapel is just off of Route 179, at the end of Chapel Road.  It is open from 9 AM to 5 PM daily and is closed Thanksgiving, Christmas, Good Friday and Easter. 

See Also: http://www.redrockrealty.net/chapel.html

RCA Victor TV - Only $299.95

This is similar to our first television set in the early 1950s.

Not Small - Not REGULAR - New 21" OVERSIZE  PICTURE TUBE
Gives you a BIGGER picture.
Super Model
The HIGHLANDER

Wednesday Evening TV Listings, March 20, 1955 Harrisburg, PA.

Complete TV listings for Wednesday evening; morning and afternoon listings are printed below.

Movies, Highlights & Sports: 

Disneyland (7.30, channels 71 & 43) is featuring an ADVENTURELAND segment, two live-action True Life Adventure nature films.

Sunday PATRIOT-NEWS TV Radio & Screen Magazine Insert - MARCH, 1955

Harrisburg Sunday PATRIOT-News TV Radio Screen Magazine, March 20, 1955 

Cover: Eleanor Parker in INTERRUPTED MELODY, an MGM CinemaScope biography of Australian opera star Marjorie Lawrence. Eleanor is seen here as Carmen in one of several lavish operatic sequences included in the film. Inside were several photos of the star made up for various other operatic roles, including Wagner's Isolde and Saint-Saens' Delilah!

Top: Eleanor Parker as Marjorie Lawrence; Bottom: Bob Hope, ZsaZsa Gabor, Jackie & Barbara Cooper

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This was a tabloid-sized insert which was included with the weekly Sunday PATRIOT-NEWS, Harrisburg's major (and probably only) Sunday newspaper. (The Philadelphia Inquirer was also available in Harrisburg on Sundays).

In 1955 radio listings were still included but the first half of this publication was devoted mainly to the weekly TV schedule which was divided into evening Highlights and daily hourly listings.

Disneyland is listed at 7.30 Wednesday evening.

The middle section was often fiction, here a "complete novel".

The final sections were devoted to movie, theater, and entertainment listings, ads, and news, and concluded with misc domestic and "Do-It-Yourself" items.

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I once found several 1955 copies of this publication in a Pennsylvania flea market many years ago and they came to southern California with me. 

Due to the fragile (cheap) nature of the paper on which newspapers were printed complete items such as this one are no doubt rather rare and I treasure this small collection, virtual time capsules of another era.

Christmas & TV, 1957

Upper Left: Our relatively new RCA Victor television set.

DISNEYLAND, the television show, premiered on Wednesday, October 17, 1954. I know we had our television set by then. Other shows I remember watching in this somewhat cluttered '50s living room were Gunsmoke, Your Hit Parade, and the Ed Sullivan Show on Sunday evening.

But my favorite was Disneyland, and, to a lesser degree, Disney's legendary weekday daytime show, Mickey Mouse Club.

MMC was as repetitive and regimented as the Lutheran church services I attended at Christ Lutheran Church in Linglestown, and just a tad monotonous, but I watched it for the classic Disney cartoons. Seeing cartoons from the 1930s and '40s was a rare and exciting experience for an animation buff in the pre-video/DVD days of the 1950s.

The same held true for Disneyland which often included equally rare and classic animation on its Fantasyland segments.

Reception was still somewhat spotty and we had an aerial that somehow rotated. Harrisburg had about two stations, channels 27 and 55, and we also pulled in channel 8 from Lancaster.

It was a long way from today's 300 channels and nothing you really want to watch TV.
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Wednesday Evenings at 7.30: DISNEYLAND !

I had wanted to visit DISNEYLAND since I was in junior high in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania in the middle 1950s.

By 1955 my family had finally gotten a television set, a relatively huge RCA Victor floor model. And so every Wednesday evening at 7.30 the flames of my consuming desire to visit Anaheim, California, were fanned by Uncle Walt's weekly progress reports on his very own Magic Kingdom rising out of the orange groves of southern California.

But I didn't get there until 1971. This blog will present some vintage photographs from that momentous event.

To be continued.....

FANTASYLAND, September 1971

Enjoy. :)