A nice image of the old Disneyland Marque sign. It appears the poor visitors in the lower left hand of the photograph did not read and are now finding out that Disneyland is closed. Behind the sign is the Park employees parking lot. During this time, maintenance and construction was performed on the Mondays and Tuesdays the Park was closed. Maybe that is why large construction projects (Tomorrowland 1959, Nature's Wonderland, Small World) were completed a lot faster than the construction projects of today?
It is strange to think of the park as being closed for practically 1/3 of the week. You're right, I'm sure it made life a lot easier for construction crews, they could get cranes and things in there and really go to town for those two days.
ReplyDeleteWhat a great photo. There's just so much visual clutter now - the Tower of Terror with it's odd positioning and windowless backside (a serious mistake in my estimation, and unfortunately another example of that attraction being done "on the cheap" - but I digress). Here you can clearly see the entrance to the park beckoning: "To all who come to this happy place . . . "
ReplyDeleteYes, in the off season the park was closed Monday & Tuesday. The lot would be open and the the outside newsstand would be open to accomodate visitors and explain the situation. This was SOP during late 60s and early-mid 70s too. Don't know when they went to full time operation. See National Lampoon's "Vacation" to get a sense of how it must have felt for the poor souls who arrived those days.
ReplyDeleteMon-Tue closed ended about the same time they stopped ticket books for attractions and went full-day ops.
ReplyDeleteYou could tell who the old timers are as they still have Mon-Tue off.