SOP Saturday (On a Sunday)- You're Onstage at Disneyland

In the early years, the Disneyland University and Van France were trying various ways to train employees and to maintain the standards that Walt Disney was trying to achieve at his new amusement theme park. This was the training that was rolled out in the 1962 training session I posted a week ago. This SOP is pretty slick and I love the art on the pages, especially the two Frontierland costumed employees with the Monorail in the background and the driver for Casey Junior. I believe the drawings are by Charles Boyer but they are not signed.

Souvenir Friday-Sunkist Citrus House Menu Late 1970s

This is one of the few Restaurant menu signs I own. I loved the smell of the Citrus house with the lemonade and orange juice. I also like the athletic history for the employees who worked at the Citrus house. They were the New York Yankees and Los Angeles Lakers in the Disneyland recreational sports leagues during this time period. And looking at this sign makes me hungry!

Two More Casa De Fritos Plus Frontierland

Two more images from Casa De Fritos.

And two nice images of the rustic directional signs in Frontierland. I do not think I have ever seen an image of the directional sign for the Mine Train. The giant hand is very cool.

Casa De Fritos 1966

As I have said before, Casa De Fritos was one of my families favorite restaurants in Disneyland. I remember the archway specifically. Here are some nice views of the signs from 1966.

Big Game Shooting Gallery Adventureland 1966

Today I present two nice images of the now extinct Big Game Shooting Gallery in Adventureland. The location is now the shops and stores featuring plush animals from the Lion King and Finding Nemo, Indiana Jones merchandise and surf designed clothing by Roxy and Paul Frank. But in the day it was a nice shooting gallery where one could imagine you were in the wilds of Africa on safari. However in these photos it appears the gallery is closed and you would have to settle for shooting at bears and a ghost town in the Frontierland Shooting Gallery. As a side note, who as a kid wore a bowler?

The sign in image one is owned by Richard Kraft and displayed on his website Finding Kraftland and can be seen in this photo:

Tomorrowland Signs and Art Corner Poster

The collection of photos taken in 1966 documentating the signs throughout the park is pretty comprehensive. I plan to stay with it for a while and show some of the obscure signs. Today are two of my favorite signs, the old Tomorrowland direction and light pole and the Art Corner Attraction poster. I love the old Tomorrowland directional signs and wish Kevin and Jody had created small versions of one of them. The other image is of the rare Art Corner poster. This is in reply to 2719 Hyperion post for Art Corner memories. Enjoy!

Chicken of the Sea Pirate Ship Signage 1966

Continuing the posts of the signage found throughout the park is this series taken of the signs seen around the Chicken of the Sea Pirate Ship and Skull Rock. These signs do show up in images of the ship, but not usually this close and direct.

SOP Saturday- 1965 Version Disneyland and You Employee Orientation Handbook

This is the 1965 version of the Disneyland orientation and employee handbook. Titled Disneyland and You, it describes the various rules, requirements and expectations for the job at Disneyland. I like the small graphic symbols used as topic headers especially the one for contagious disease.

Souvenir Friday- SFDRR No Trespassing Sign

A sign marked for the Santa Fe and Disneyland Railroad once used to keep guests out of backstage areas. Sign is painted onto very heavy metal. Sign is vintage 1960s and out of an estate of the cast member who was in charge of the railroad and Monorails.

Snow White's Adventures Signs 1966

Staying in Fantasyland with the sign photos, here is Snow White's Adventures attraction signage.

The front entrance sign with the nice shield. The Fantasyland rides in the courtyard had these shield designs featuring the characters and logo in a heraldic manner.

The D Ticket sign for Snow White.

One of the ride vehicles named Grumpy. The Mine Carts were designed by WED and built by Arrow Development. There were 13 mine carts with names as follows (number in parenthesis is of how many cars bore that name) Dopey (2), Doc (2), Grumpy (2), Sneezy (1), Bashful (2), Happy (1), Sleepy (1), and Snow White (2).

A rare shot of the entrance to the ride withe Seven Dwarfs Mine sign.

Tinker Bell Toy Shop Signs 1966

The Tinker Bell toy shop used to be one of my favorite places in Disneyland. In the store was a nice selection of Matchbox cars from England and Britains Toy Soldiers. The annual tradition was to purchase a knight in armor from the colletion of Britains. Each one of the boys in the family would pick one out. We would also get to pick out a Matchbox car as well. Now, Tinker Bell is a Princess shop without fun toys for boys.

On the second photo painted on the wall is a cute little boy with the title Pegleg Pirate. I cannot read what the character on the other side of the sign is, but it looks like the Pegleg Pirates dog. The sign also has great pixie and star accents similar to the stars and pixie dust that trail behind Tinkerbell on the opening sequence of the Disneyland TV show.

Sleeping Beauty Walk Through Attraction Signs

The entrance and exit sign from the now closed Sleeping Beauty Castle Walkthrough. The signs are very pretty with their crown shape and the vine design intertwined in them. The vines mimic the scene in the film where the castle is surrounded by thorns and vines put there by Malificent. And for Major, here is a close up of the mural for the Peter Pan load area. The mural shows all the characters from the film in front of a tree with the map of Never Never land to the left side.

Peter Pan the D Ticket Ride 1966

Two wonderful images of the Peter Pan Ride front facade in 1966. Peter Pan was a D ticket ride as the second sign points out. The bottom of the sign states that money was not accepted at the ride, you had to either use one of your tickets from your ticket book or a ticket purchased. In the first photo you can see the lovely mural at the load section.

Parking Lot Tram Signs 1966

At Disneyland in 1966, guests leaving the park would come to one of these areas designated by the pictured signs to board the Parking lot tram and head out to their cars. I know everyone misses the signs and the parking lot and the old trams, same as I do. The sense of arriving has definitely changed with the new trams and new parking structure. But with the new park and new Downtown Disney, the Disneyland area has changed for the better, becoming closer to what Walt wanted to acheive in Florida...a true destination. But the loss of the Hotel Tram is pretty significant. Now if I could only find this sign for my collection.