A collection of images and other items from Disneyland, theme parks and other amusement parks. Also look for images and items I find interesting, amusing or both.
Saturday, March 21, 2009
Frankenstein's Photo Gallery Movieland Wax Museum
A great idea in the early years of operation of the Movieland Wax Museum was to have lucky kids pose with the Frankenstein monster and have their picture taken. The Frankenstein monster wax figure looks dead on to the Boris Karloff characterization of the 1930s. I am sure kids then took the picture home and put them with their Aurora monster models. The reverse has nice advertising for the attraction. One of my favorite tag lines is Actual Movie Lights-Scenes- Props. Movie lights being the first and most prominent item.
Do you know Movie Land just closed? (Just as in like 2 years ago)...I went the final week.
ReplyDeleteAnd took a picure like this...with....wait for it.....
George Burns!
Kinda awesome.
I wonder what happens to all the amazing movie lights now???
My brother was smart, he had his picture taken with Frankenstein's Monster back in the 70's. I remember that Frankie was missing a few fingers, they were probably snapped off and kept as souvenirs!!
ReplyDeleteActual movie lights! Can it be true?
ReplyDeleteNice piece. I don't recall seeing that wording on these before.
As much as I miss seeing the place close, the liquidation auction was a lot of fun!
I never did visit MWM. I now live only a couple of miles from there, and get a little sad when I pass the closed-down building. Until I pull in to the parking lot and grab a cuppa joe from the Starbucks out front...
ReplyDeleteI collect these images. If anyone decides to sell these, please let me know.
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