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The Original Disneyland Hotel Sign
Pre-Opening Brochure from 1955
Join me for a trip through the World's Most Exciting Hotel. This blog covers the evolution of the Disneyland Hotel through the Wrather years, 1955 to 1989. Hope it brings back some wonderful memories.
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- Yesterland
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- 1957 Disneyland Hotel Brochure
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- Second Brochure After Disneyland Hotel Opening
- Interior Conference Room Photographs
- Rare First Convention Brochure 1956
- Great Letter from Jack Wrather
- Back on Track (no pun intended)
- 1963 or 1964, Wrather's at the Disneyland Hotel
- Deviation from 1961
- Mouseketeers at the Disneyland Hotel Pool
- 1961
- Great Shot of the Mouseketeers at the DH Pool
- Colorized Richfield advertisement
- RCA TV newspaper ad 1955
- What's That on the Table?
- Rare Inside Guest Room Photo, 1956
- August 1955 Overhead
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6 comments:
Always thought the addition of the Monorail to the Hotel was pretty spectacular - looking forward to more of your posts...
So did Walt Disney. Now he had a working model of his transportaion solution for LA County and beyond. I used to love checking in to the Hotel, leaving my baggage at the bell desk and catching the Monorail into the Park. They almost never let you check in early at the Disneyland Hotel so you would always have a few hours at the Park. Staying at certain two story Garden Villas was always close to the Monorail Station and not a long walk.
Exciting stuff Don, thanks for the post!
In '61, my eyes and those of every kid in Thousand Oaks, California would get wide as saucers whenever we came down the 101 Freeway into Calabasas, just before entering the San Fernando Valley, and saw The Sign: that big billboard with the cutout of the Monorail soaring above it. "Now! Ride the Monorail to the Disneyland Hotel!"
The billboard was removed years ago, and an auto dealership stands there now, but the memories remain.
That's what I hoped would be a result of this blog.....happy memories. Your's is a really nice one and I can almost see that billboard myself.
Speaking of memories, the mini golf course figures prominently in my own personal greatest Disneyland story ever (too long to share here). Its so rare seeing pics of that thing; like the hotel and the motels, it made the area outside the park part of the fantasy too.
The Monorail is such a lovely way to get that much needed nap in the afternoon.
I have memories of riding it at night back to our room. The day was long but totally memorable, and it was so peaceful and relaxing to just sit back, listen to the spiel in that darkness, and watch Disneyland and Anaheim glide by, knowing that we had a nice warm bed to look forward to back at the hotel, and an exciting day at the park tomorrow.
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