Friday, July 06, 2007

Souvenir Friday- Ford Times Article September 1961

From the Ford Times magazina, Disneyland- A Child's Garden of Fantasy by Art Linkletter and illustrated by Disney artist and imagineer Ralph Hullet. A nice description and anecdotes about Disneyland in 1961 by the host of House Party and author of Kid's Say the Darndest Things. Ford Times was a magazine you received a free subscription when purchasing your new Ford car or truck. This issue focused on tourist spots in the West, with Disneyland being one of the biggest. I have always wondered where the art to this articles is located, is it at Ford in their archives, Disney in the art morgue or waiting to be discovered?

3 comments:

Major Pepperidge said...

Those are some beautiful illustrations!
Ralph Hulett's son Steve has a blog (concerning news that might interest folks in the Animation Guild ), and he sometimes posts paintings by his dad:

http://animationguildblog.blogspot.com/

Type "Ralph Hulett" in the search box in the upper left of that page and you'll find 'em, easy as pie.

Matterhorn1959 said...

Thanks Major! I have been on the blog and looked at them. If I remember correctly he posted a nice lot of Christmas Cards his Dad had painted. I wonder if he has seen this article and also if he knows or has the paintings?

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