Early Tomorrowland Exhibits: The Dairy Bar

I don’t know a lot of info on this particular "exhibit" in Tomorrowland, other than its operating dates of January 21, 1956 to September 1, 1958. One thing I can speculate on is that Walt needed some cash and the American Dairy Association stepped up to the plate. Using the slogan, “Today’s Food Builds Tomorrow’s Man,” Disney was able to barely justify the presence of this exhibit in the middle of Tomorrowland. Guests could see what future farming might be like before partaking of a glass of “Nature’s most nearly perfect food” at the Dairy Bar. Note the Crane Bathroom of Tomorrow on the left side of this photo:

Here guests crowd around the displays:

Read the story of your dairy products while seeing the future of milk delivery in a helicopter!

Here’s Rusty Frost (or so the photo caption tells us) at the Dairy Bar:

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Miscellaneous 50s Shots

This one is like something out of “The Wizard of Oz”: “Toto, which way do we go?!?” This is a problem I never have in Tomorrowland...but hopefully in the future. At the time of this undated slide, there were lots of cool choices: The 20K Exhibit, The Skyway, Autopia, as well as a number of exhibits including The American Dairy Association, The Story of Aluminum, and of course the Hall of Chemistry. Shot #2 is almost identical to the one that the Major posted today; pretty ironic that I was scanning the same image just as he was posting. Pretty cool to see the DLRR tracks in the background:



It must be Christmas time in the park; the banners/flags outside the castle have also been changed to make them look more seasonal. According to the back of the slide, it was Edna’s Birthday. Let’s all join in a collective “Happy Birthday” to dear Edna. Just don’t ask me which one Edna is.



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