This July 1970 slide was labeled as being shot from the Cosmic Age Hotel. What?!? Never heard of the place! Before we deal with that, let’s zoom in to the parking lot area that would eventually become Disney California Adventure. Those orange cones were a cosmic hint of the Cozy Cone Motel that would be installed in 2012! Nanook - I expect you to ID all those cars for us.
A quick check on ebay found these post cards for the Cosmic Age Lodge, located at 1717 S. Harbor Boulevard. GROOVY!!
It was part of the Stovall family collection that surrounded the park. From the Best Western website:
The Stovall’s family of hotels have surrounded the magic of the Disneyland Park since 1964. Hotel owner and operator Al Stovall wanted an out of this world experience for hotel guests coming to Disneyland, and he delivered! With flying saucers, spacemen and aliens adorning the hotel lobby, to a rocket van that would pick up guests from the airport, no detail was overlooked.…The sixties were coming to life! America was just entering the space race, skirts were getting shorter and shorter, and in a small town called Anaheim Walt Disney’s masterpiece was coming to life! Each hotel had its own space age feel and name! There was the fabulous “Inn of Tomorrow” (now Stovall’s Inn), the amazing “Space Age Lodge,” (now Pavilions Hotel), the “Cosmic Age Hotel,” “The Galaxy Hotel” and the “Apollo Inn.”
“…with all the convenience of the Space Age…” the back of the post card touts. What exactly does that include?
The lobby - wow! The tourists would flock to this place today.
“Acclaimed by thousands…”; can I see the source of that statistic, please?
A typical room. Are those plastic grapes over the bed? And check out that TV!
I’ll take two space bubble room dividers, please.
The pool; what do you think the chances are that the model lower right actually caught the ball?
Only 8¢ for postage? No wonder little Frances didn’t feel the need to write very much!
Based on Mr. Google, this place looks like it fell victim to the wrecking ball.
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