Souvenir Friday- Monsanto Home of the Futurre Postcard

Continuing the Monsanto Home of the Future souvenirs, a great large postcard featuring the kitchen at the Home of the Future. The colors are definitely ahead of its time, the postcard being given out in the 1960s and the green being a 1970s color.

Trip Report Great Escape New York Part 6

Final post of my trip to the Great Escape. Just some random shots. First up is a picture of the sign for the first coaster you see when you arrive at the park.

A larger Ghost Town was also built when they added a mine train roller coaster. The undertaker is nicely themed.

Stocks for the misbehaving children (and adults.) Check out the large banana won by a proud customer. One of the odd things was that a bunch of teenagers were wearing capes.

The Ghost Town Marshall.

What ghost town is complete without a cemetery?

Outside of the park was this great Ice Cream stand that had Dole pineapple Whip!

World's Fair Wednesday- 1958 Brussels Atomium

A few images of the Atomium at the Brussels World's Fair. Viewing these images, I have decided to add a visit to the structure is on my bucket list. Make sure you wave to your friends.

Another view from the same location.

A great view of the attraction through the trees.

My favorite with the lovely water feature in front of the structure.

Trip Report Great Escape New York Part 5

Part of the amusement park was a small ghost town attraction. The ghost town is made in the same scale as the storybook houses. The ghost town and humor was influenced by Knott's Berry Farm. Here is a view of the ghost town. The park is a very pretty park with lots of trees and shade, unlike many of the Six Flags amusement parks found in other areas.

A nice little painting inside one of the buildings.

What ghost town is not complete without a blacksmith shop.

The signs inside the various buildings are filled with humor.

A view of the town with the school house.

Dancers in the saloon.

Check out the hands at the poker table.

Things From the Gate- 1966 Santa Fe Disneyland Brochure

A very nice colorful brochure that was given out by Santa Fe, the Official Railroad of Disneyland. During this time period, many people still traveled by train, although jet travel was becoming more common. By the way, sorry about the bad merge of the interior foldout of the brochure.

Trip Report Great Escape New York Part 4

A view of some of the rides found at the Great Escape, as the park is not just a storyland or ghost town. First up is a cute auto ride with the cars being themed to classic cars from the 1950s and 1960s.

Bumper cars are always a fun ride. Unfortunately due to the wet weather, the cars were not running.

A fun version of their off the shelf carnival ride the Matterhorn or Super bob. It was themed to a crazy 1960s Go Go dancers and named the Cannonball Express.

Their big classic wooden roller coaster is the Comet. The coaster was moved from Crystal Beach amusement park in Canada. It is a great ride, one of the top coasters in the United States.

Trip Report Great Escape New York Part 3

One of my favorite vignettes at the Great Escape was the 3 Little Kittens. The sculpting on the figures is very interesting. The yellow cat reminds me of the Popeye character The Jeep.

Souvenir Friday- Yellow Monsanto Home of the Future Brochure

From 1958 is this brochure for the Monsanto Home of the Future. Similar to the green brochure I posted a week ago, this one has some different graphics and different layout. Always a fun and interesting brochure to look at to see what the future was going to be. I am still waiting for this home, flying cars and a personal jet pack.

Trip Report Great Escape New York Part 2

A nice attraction at the Great Escape is this Alice in Wonderland Walk through. You walk down a slope that is covered to look like the rabbit hole and then enter a room where everything is larger...then exit and walk back up the hill with all these great fiberglass characters. Finally you exit under an arch made out of the living flowers. Very cool and as you can see, some interesting sculpts of the characters. First up is the rabbit and the hole.

A close up of the White Rabbit.

The shrinking room with the larger than life furniture.

A large Alice stuck in the house.

My favorite the Cheshire Cat.

And his grin.

The Walrus is looking happy.

The Tweedles also look happy.

The Caterpillar kind of looks like the Great Garloo.

The Mad Tea Party was tough to photograph.

The Mad Queen and her playing cards.

The arch with the living flowers.