tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29249921.comments2024-03-18T10:07:16.297-07:00DavelandblogDavelandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10720475138513029144noreply@blogger.comBlogger18937125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29249921.post-56953945475847589732024-03-18T10:07:16.297-07:002024-03-18T10:07:16.297-07:00Alas, with a new hip, my running days came to a cl...Alas, with a new hip, my running days came to a close. Now just a sprint or two at best...or fast walking. KSAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29249921.post-73915768926132069112024-03-18T07:25:16.480-07:002024-03-18T07:25:16.480-07:00Very cool. I love to hear about local stores like...Very cool. I love to hear about local stores like this that are tied into the community. I wish there were more, and thanks for giving them coverage. ...also, National Coconut day?Fifthriderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06480975804451839176noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29249921.post-23792094276432444162024-03-17T19:05:19.432-07:002024-03-17T19:05:19.432-07:00Hill crane service in Long Beach cal California pu...Hill crane service in Long Beach cal California put up the star every year tell me the name of your grandfather we have pics Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29249921.post-83444809368931417372024-03-17T09:07:17.210-07:002024-03-17T09:07:17.210-07:00Those small trees and bushes. The complete absenc...Those small trees and bushes. The complete absence of grass in most places... Some would see that as a negative but shots like this are why Disneyland survived. Everything was done on a budget and yet it worked. Some modern parks go out of business because they spent so much assuring it was all perfect on opening day. Only Disney would turn that mound of dirt into an attraction or label the weeds to give the place class. Reasoning like this allowed them to open in a reasonable condition and expand at a controlled pace. It's cool but also weird to see all that undeveloped landscape. Great shot of the short-lived circus in it's original location, too.Fifthriderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06480975804451839176noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29249921.post-67600085762643299952024-03-15T13:49:13.689-07:002024-03-15T13:49:13.689-07:00Great post! Shows the simple beginnings of the tou...Great post! Shows the simple beginnings of the tour. Imagine sitting and waiting for somebody to explain matte paintings while you just stared at a bunch of them hanging on the wall.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29249921.post-75770462000170437942024-03-12T19:11:01.333-07:002024-03-12T19:11:01.333-07:00That first shot. Why are there 5 people dressed a...That first shot. Why are there 5 people dressed as Justin Trudeau in an "innocent Halloween costume?"Fifthriderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06480975804451839176noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29249921.post-22990444607767629142024-03-12T06:34:01.763-07:002024-03-12T06:34:01.763-07:00KS - I don't acknowledge it enough, but yes - ...KS - I don't acknowledge it enough, but yes - I agree with Bryan - your inside memories are always appreciated!<br /><br />DBenson - I think the homage to Ruggles is great. It shows a great sense of humor on Papel's part to acknowledge what is now a fairly obscure movie. Being a pre-code movie with some racy scenes, it is doubtful it was seen much after its initial release, so even by 1955 most would have forgotten it.Davelandhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10720475138513029144noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29249921.post-73537301418491365702024-03-12T01:07:42.932-07:002024-03-12T01:07:42.932-07:00If memory serves, "If I Had a Million" c...If memory serves, "If I Had a Million" casts Ruggles as an oppressed milquetoast working in a china shop. His Scroogish boss fines him whenever an item slips from his nervous hands. Upon receiving a million dollars, Ruggles returns to the shop and cavalierly begins breaking things on purpose, freaking out the boss who doesn't yet know he can afford such mayhem. An odd choice of mascot for a glassware establishment.DBensonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01144515471557731622noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29249921.post-26926866017088925362024-03-11T19:14:50.959-07:002024-03-11T19:14:50.959-07:00Thank you for the nice comments!
It's interes...Thank you for the nice comments!<br /><br />It's interesting to see that the Papel name carried on at Disneyland, for years after Ruggles China & Gifts changed hands. I've been doing some research regarding some of these items that you see in your Flower Market pictures; it appears some of these items also sold under different names (probably depending on <i>who</i> "wholesaled" them, and <i>where</i> they were sold in the country). (Maybe some of your readers know more about this, and can add some information, here-??) I plan to put together a few more related pictures and items to post, in the near future. Stay tuned.<br /><br />I should also mention that this flower pot souvenir is actually made of lucite [per what I've read], though it <i>does</i> look like glass - and is just as fragile. <br /><br />Also, regarding the infamous "doll lamp" in your Ruggles post, I have a little information and photos to share, too. Again, stay tuned.<br /><br />Thanks for letting me share....<br /><br />Sue"Lou and Sue"https://www.blogger.com/profile/10832854372696376918noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29249921.post-90873480062663432982024-03-11T09:18:16.327-07:002024-03-11T09:18:16.327-07:00Likewise, thank you Sue and Dave for sharing. I h...Likewise, thank you Sue and Dave for sharing. I have a new appreciation for those things now.Fifthriderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06480975804451839176noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29249921.post-35205924621050128862024-03-10T09:49:08.125-07:002024-03-10T09:49:08.125-07:00I love your stories KS. Keep them coming. It'...I love your stories KS. Keep them coming. It's cool to know a CM might be out there taking a break incognito, and just enjoying the park as a fellow guest, seeing it through different eyes.Fifthriderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06480975804451839176noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29249921.post-29598921189409211182024-03-09T12:28:39.944-08:002024-03-09T12:28:39.944-08:00I was going to crack some joke about the doll with...I was going to crack some joke about the doll with a bulb up her skirt but refrained. Not out of common decency, only because the world seems to have enough OnlyFans jokes at this point. Shops like this always amazed me because I could never imagine who would come to Disneyland then buy something like fine china, a bouquet of roses, or blown glass. I certainly never saw people leaving with giant porcelain lamps. As I got older, I found myself buying Arribas Brothers items strictly for the reason of capturing something from those shops I didn't understand as a child. I guess the short of it is I really appreciate you covering these moments in history. Honestly, it's a surprise the Ruggles China & Glass shop lasted almost a decade in that incarnation.Fifthriderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06480975804451839176noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29249921.post-8750699816857748982024-03-08T11:07:22.424-08:002024-03-08T11:07:22.424-08:00Many times during my first summer working at Hills...Many times during my first summer working at Hills Brothers, I'd change into street clothes, get a bite at the Inn Between and then go out onto Main Street. If I was lucky, I'd sit on the bench on the porch of the China Closet and watch the guests walk by. Since I worked some day shifts, it was a great way to let the afternoon rush-hour traffic outside the berm ease before I punched out and drove home. KSAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29249921.post-77936863938183158762024-03-08T10:57:39.904-08:002024-03-08T10:57:39.904-08:00Thanks for posting it and I am just glad it's ...Thanks for posting it and I am just glad it's not just in my brain now but all of yours as well! M Cooleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12575173372423669750noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29249921.post-55535728850343231192024-03-08T10:04:41.291-08:002024-03-08T10:04:41.291-08:00Mason - Thank you so much for bringing this album ...Mason - Thank you so much for bringing this album cover to my attention! It has been one of the most interesting rabbit holes a reader has turned me onto!<br />DaveDavelandhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10720475138513029144noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29249921.post-4675013911120604512024-03-08T09:32:26.125-08:002024-03-08T09:32:26.125-08:00This album cover was something I thought about on ...This album cover was something I thought about on and off for 20+ years. I am 50 years old now. It will be nice if we find out more over time. So far from my research the explanations vary greatly, say, from a musical band in "reconstruction era" costume to a hired photoshoot for the album cover itself. As far as what it actually depicts in any detail that still seems unclear as well. As mentioned in the post it would be hard to imagine Disney explaining this picture today and when I think back to the history of Indian Village with hired tribal members this image has none of the so-called "celebration" of that culture, whether one agrees or not with how it was all orchestrated in the end. This image is indeed more haunting both in terms of the slavery of our past but more acutely in terms of how these images get reconstructed and for what purposes now. <br /><br />On a personal level having gone to Disneyland as much as I did as a kid this image always resonated with my preoccupation with the "construction" of the park. I mean this literally as a kid but also as I got older wondering more deeply about the cultural constructions around identity and what not. The rafts pictured above, for example, always had a rudder which flopped in the jets of the boat motor because the visible rudder was indeed made of rubber! This was the sort of thing that got me thinking as a kid about how all this stuff was designed and how ultimately none of it was what it seemed to be! Much like this album cover indeed. It really isn't at all what it seems to be and yet this fits very nicely with much of Fahey's own approach to musical appropriation as well as his techniques of often spinning his own creative stories and webs of so-called misinformation.<br /><br />The Fahey album The Great San Bernardino Birthday Party & Other Excursions is a good example of this kind of avant-garde folklore which he so carefully curated over the years. He was also a huge proponent of saving the Desert Tortoise. And like so many other biographical notes, which can be found in the book How Bluegrass Music Destroyed My Life, he often seemed more tuned in with "history construction" and not necessarily any single interpretation etc. As some of you will know Orange County's history is more diverse and weirder than most are willing to admit, for instance Phillip K. Dick living in Santa Ana at the end of his life or all of those really terrible Wally George broadcasts that no matter how one looks at it now really was a sign of what was to come, oof. <br /><br />But let's see what the Internet might bring now that this cover is reaching a different audience but I will say none of my contacts who are more familiar with Fahey himself have a clear explanation of the image's provenance as well. M Cooleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12575173372423669750noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29249921.post-51332186830434265902024-03-08T08:57:26.567-08:002024-03-08T08:57:26.567-08:00Nanook - I noticed a few typos on the names listed...Nanook - I noticed a few typos on the names listed on the album cover, so they could have screwed up Whorf’s first name, too.Davelandhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10720475138513029144noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29249921.post-5861681838925709742024-03-07T11:56:53.640-08:002024-03-07T11:56:53.640-08:00Another fascinating post.
I've heard of Ed T...Another fascinating post. <br /><br />I've heard of Ed Thrasher, but not Christopher Whorf - who was an art director, famously designing the graphics for Neil Bogart's Casablanca Record & FilmWorks and Boardwalk Entertainment - among many other projects.<br /><br />But I certainly know of <i>Peter</i> Whorf, who was the art director at A&M Records and ABC/Dunhill Records, prior to starting his own design firm. He's perhaps best-known for creating one of the most memorable LP covers of all time - the album cover for the Herb Alpert's Tijuana Brass - <i>Whipped Cream & Other Delights</i>. Oddly enough, there appears to be no family connection between Chris and Peter...<br /><br />[All of this is very interesting, I suppose...] but it doesn't help answer the questions as to how and who was involved with granting permission etc. for the cover, seen here.<br /><br />Thanks, Dave.Nanookhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07255357829181568172noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29249921.post-49097890803545476082024-03-05T19:36:04.314-08:002024-03-05T19:36:04.314-08:00Senior was born Harold Alan Dinehart, but had his ...Senior was born Harold Alan Dinehart, but had his name legally changed to Mason Alan Dinehart in 1936.Davelandhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10720475138513029144noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29249921.post-19446047098977002532024-03-05T19:21:01.410-08:002024-03-05T19:21:01.410-08:00Kind of odd that there wasn't some requirement...Kind of odd that there wasn't some requirement for a "Jr." on his name in a heavily regulated industry like entertainment. Some union rule or something? Alan Hale Jr. had to.Fifthriderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06480975804451839176noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29249921.post-60248264557336584432024-03-04T18:39:54.471-08:002024-03-04T18:39:54.471-08:00The last time I climbed up to Huck's treehouse...The last time I climbed up to Huck's treehouse was probably 2014. Everytime I go, I touch each railing and study each detail. Will this be the last time I see all this? Will it be gone next time? Will I? Walt really knew what he was doing with the SFR Treehouse and Tom and Becky's place. Forgive me but the addition at Tarzan's was something I enjoyed, as was Tom Sawyer Island's addition of the pirate caves. Normally a purist, I really enjoyed those. I'm still happier to see a return to the more original treehouse format.Fifthriderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06480975804451839176noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29249921.post-8965740603759630902024-03-03T15:33:06.339-08:002024-03-03T15:33:06.339-08:00What's worse is this still goes on today. I h...What's worse is this still goes on today. I have friends in the business and when the topic comes up, they tell me it's all just a crazy conspiracy theory that Hollywood is full of rapists and pedophiles. They think it's all conjecture based on things in the past. The people who work in the industry and know it, turn the blindest eye they can, even when I confront them with "You know so-and-so and here they are in the news saying so-and-so raped them." They just shake it off. I've never seen an industry so established on falsehoods, but enamored with so much power. I can only be thankful that Shirley seems to have navigated those waters with better results.Fifthriderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06480975804451839176noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29249921.post-19249640383532280882024-03-03T10:57:47.880-08:002024-03-03T10:57:47.880-08:00It isn't discussed in the documentary, but yes...It isn't discussed in the documentary, but yes - that's what Loretta finally said. I don't believe she even discussed it until close to her death. She also did not want her daughter telling her grandkids the truth, either. One action...so many consequences. Truly sad.Davelandhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10720475138513029144noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29249921.post-44997868451417549372024-03-03T10:53:52.239-08:002024-03-03T10:53:52.239-08:00Loretta Young was raped, too. The encounter that r...Loretta Young was raped, too. The encounter that resulted in her daughter with Gable was not consensual.Melissahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06169920944565828337noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29249921.post-87251239801695865152024-03-03T09:31:42.091-08:002024-03-03T09:31:42.091-08:00KS - I'll keep you posted! Heading up there in...KS - I'll keep you posted! Heading up there in May.<br /><br />Bryan - Never thought of the comparison to Clifton's but yes…and I'm still smarting over the closure of that gem!<br /><br />Nanook - The writing in the Sturges films is genius!Davelandhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10720475138513029144noreply@blogger.com