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I was born about the same time that Disneyland opened in 1955, and was fortunate enough to have parents that took me there whenever they could. I have scrapbooks from those days, including original ticket books and park maps. I remember most every attraction mentioned in this video. I also remember seeing Walt walking around, handing-out autographs. There were smokers everywhere. I also remember the façade of The Haunted Mansion being completed (it seemed like MANY) years before the ride opened. Outside the Haunted Mansion, there was s "now hiring" sign for ghosts. It crossed my young mind that if I killed myself, could I get a job in the Haunted Mansion? This video is wonderful. Thanks for the memories!
My middle-school Spanish teacher worked at Disneyland during the summers. He told us the favorite job for all the young men was the pack mules. They were the only Disney employees allowed to grow facial hair.
The pack mules ride is seldom discussed. It was so great to hear the producers of this video discussing the attraction. It was really one of my favorite rides as a young child. I was very young when they let me sit on the mule and go for a ride. When the ride disappeared, I remember feeling sad and wondered what happened to the mules. To this day, when I walk past that area, I think about what the pack mules were like and having my folks letting me go for a ride.
As a young girl visiting Disneyland, I loved the mule train trail ride . The trail was beautiful. I was sad when we returned to Disneyland a few years later and it was gone. The canoe ride went away also I think.
When Disney Dan started talking I was like "Dear God no, not another intro skit to a crossover episode", then Kevin fucking saved my life there thanks bud
LIL, you know you are old when you remember most all of the attractions shown here. I vividly recall the first time I rode on Rocket to the Moon as a very young kid. I honestly thought we had really flown to the moon! I recall coming out of the ride and asking a man if he had seen us take off in the rocket. He obviously was a cool guy cause he very enthusiastically said he had indeed watched our flight. Good memories. Thanks for posting this!
I remember all of these attractions (except the bra store) I was in several of the photos in this video; I'm the red headed kid. My Dad worked for Disney, so they called in the entire family for promotion videos.
@@mr.bnatural3700 That is so cool! You're a part of Disney history. I wonder how many millions of people have seen you.. that's a trip. Any advice for a nerd with a lot of passion for this stuff? I would love to design things like this or even just to work on others ideas and help them come to life... but I don't think I can handle 8 years of schooling for that. I can already sketch somewhat decently, buildings and interiors and such, and actually account in for safety codes. I'm going to make it happen. I don't expect to be remembered, but I want to do something I can point at and say "I helped build that". .. and then watch it get torn down in a few years. Lol
I really, really wish I could go back in time to the 50's and visit Tomorrowland. Something about that whole 50's retro-futuristic theme fascinates me.
True. Now we have the technology developed from that time, so Karens can get on Facebook and say the moon landings were fake and the earth is flat. Hardly progress and certainly not what the public of the 50's would have thought we would be doing.
It's because now everyone's vision of the future is so dark, and I'm sick of it I still have a happy vision of the future, more optimistic. That retro futurism needs to make a comeback. Futurism in general needs to make a comeback. It's exciting and it gives people hope and inspiration.
@@theVoyage It's only going to get bleaker as time marches on. Mostly because the companies that sold us those now-retro-futures were, then as now, slowly killing us.
You know how boring it MAY be when your parents take you to the store to buy necessary clothing... THAT is why the Intimate Apparel gift shop is long forgotten. Let's be real here, buying underwear/necessary clothing is the LEAST of our interests when you're at a theme park, especially when the clothes are OVERPRICED...
I was worried the Indian attraction would have Peter Pan levels of embarrassing stereotyping, but I am very happy to hear how progressive and respectful it was! I kinda wish it stayed around, though perhaps Native Americans teaching their culture is better done in a place that isn't so commercial. As cool some of these attractions are, it's kinda hilariously how dated some of them are like the mules, the Phantom Boats, and the... Aluminum Hall of Fame.... And... Wizard of Bras
There was good reason some of them didn't last very long - mostly because of not aging very well. I'm wondering how "Wizard of Bras" even got in the park in the first place - did someone mislead Walt into approving it? ("It's MEANT to be a place the adults can get away from the kids for a few minutes, the kids aren't SUPPOSED to go in there in the first place!")
Monsanto brought us PCBs, DDT, Agent Orange and Roundup! They didn't bring us CFCs, but maybe those were in the hall of chemistry, too? Also blister-agents like Mustard Gas? [EDIT:] Leaded gasoline was a mind-numbing nightmare, too.
It's so impressive that opening day at Disneyland saw really innovative attractions throughout the park. Of course there was going to be some filler, like the pack mules, but even then it offered more than a simple mule ride. The surrounding environment was the instrumental factor. It really got your imagination going. Thanks.
14:07 "The Tomorrowland area of Disneyland was one of the most heavily-sponsored parts of the park, with tons of companies trying to put a face and brand on the future." So what you're telling me is that Disney's version of the future is one where everything is sponsored by some corporation? That is both hilarious and sad.
Disney's park vision was heavily informed by his involvement in World's Fair-type expositions, and corporate sponsorship of individual exhibits was a _huge_ part of the culture of those, too.
"The Indian Village located right next to Aunt Jemima's Pancake House". I don't even know why I laughed but I did. EDIT: I would totally have enjoyed all these attractions, especially the chemistry and aluminum museums. I'm very curious to see more of the statues that were part of the "Chemitron".
yeah I miss when we celebrated different cultures instead of punishing people for suggesting they're different, and when people understood chemicals are a good thing.
LOL, the little boats! I burst out laughing when you said they let the guests drive them. Because I can remember in Disney World they had them too. I don't remember the year but, yea, they let my brother and me each have a boat, and we were pretty young as I remember. What happened? Well, at one point we really slammed into each other hard. Real hard! We didn't know how to drive boats. But they saw the incident and angrily escorted us back to dock and told us to get out. Like it was our fault. You were the people who put kids in boats with no idea if they could do it. We never drove a boat!? Huge lagoon in Disney World too. I remember they'd let you just go anywhere out there. It was great fun but wow, what a bad idea.
I laughed more at the part where they saw there was too much smoke, so they COVERED IT. As someone who works with servers and computers, one of the most important things you must do with anything motorized or electronic is allow it to "breathe", or else it'll heat up and can end up in either burning up, or melting down.
When I was little I took a ride at an open (no entry fee, pay at the ride) amusement park that to this day trusts children the wheel of a propper gas motor boat. It is a closed circuit with a set direction and a pre-launch briefing on the rules of the ride and the general handeling of boats. It pretty much operates like a gocart track on water.
Tomorrowland is a great example of how quickly technology progresses and it feels like Disneyland is always trying to play catch up even today! Hopefully we eventually get the Jules Verne Tomorrowland kind of like the area in Tokyo!
Before I learned about the history of Tomorrowland, I never thought it was actually trying to predict the future. I saw it as "science fiction" land, stories that are often set in the future- like the Jettisons (I was young and had a very limited frame of refence)
The space shows seem a bit naff, but then I remembered that in 1955, no one had ever been in space. It was even before Sputnik. Space travel was still at the wildest frontiers of the imagination.
I've seen Disney from opening day up to the 60's and 70's so many times. I used to work for a video production company. One of the things we did was transfer old 8 and 16 mm film to vhs or dvd. A lot of times it was in pretty bad shape and brittle from storage. I'd have to do a lot of work just to get a few good frames from some reels. I've had to go frame by frame taking still shots and then "reanimate" it if there was enough frames or turn it into a photo montage if not. But I also got to see some never published unedited film of WW2, Europe, Africa, Japan after the bombs and lots of just random scenes from the past. Mount Rushmore, Yosemite, Grand Canyon, Route 66 and all the little attractions that used to be on the roadsides. The earliest I saw was some 1920's Japan.
What made "Rocket to the Moon" so great was that the seats were pneumatically operated, the bottoms moving down to simulate the higher G of launch and landing, and up for the lower Gee in space.
A modern space station x1 would be phenomenal. Preshow would inform about preparing for space flight. Then in the main walk through area you could project the actual weather patterns in real time on the earth display. Have AR handhelds that could show more info or zoom in to your home town. Perhaps repairs need done and you help guide an astronaut on a spacewalk. So many options with today's tech.
I like the collaboration but can you try to process your audio to sound somewhat similar? The constrast been Dan's open sound and Kevin's heavily compressed sound is a little jarring and makes it feel like two different programs.
It's a difference in recording setups that you can't fix with after-the-fact editing. It sounds like Dan didn't have the environment for top-notch sound quality, so the only fix would be for Kevin to bring his setup down in quality as well. Which I guess is possible.
Promoted by Dorothy Gale, eventually coming into maturity in the mid 40s. Her friends she met on the yellow brick road were... Sanitary Man, then Tampax Man, then the cowardly clogian...who is so scared of periods he clogs up his butt with Tampax tubes from Tampax Man. Lol xx oh Dorothy's enemy.. The Wicked Witch of Wet Pants. 🤣🤣🤣
Back then new technology was something very interesting. Yes the metal has been around forever, but everyone was starry eyed and misty over the prospect of the future. Can you blame them? Even now people are fantasizing about living on the moon, or terraforming mars. We haven't changed really, other than in this country non whites are now nonsegregated, smoking isn't seen as healthy, and bras are MUCH better. Hahaha
Aluminum is STILL the metal of the future! Aluminum is amazing, it's light, and strong, and can be alloyed in different ways to create different properties. It's the most easily recycled metal, and is more recycled than any other substance, as aluminum retains it's value and properties when recycled unlike paper or plastic, and is cheap to transport, unlike glass or steel. Aluminum is what makes cars lighter and more efficient, makes airplanes light enough to fly, and makes MacBooks and iPhones light, durable and affordable. How DARE you take Aluminum for granted?!
I love this series! Have you ever heard of Old Indiana? It was a dinky amusement park in Indiana we would go to once a year, but a slow-moving train ride derailed and paralyzed one and killed others. After that, it never recovered and closed. At one point, six flags bought the land, was a nature preserve for a bit, but now it’s a hops farm. Just a thought!
The episodes just keep getting better and better! Really impressed with the detail and quality! (Also-you should cover Disney Quest and/or the Great Movie Ride at some point)
Actually there was also a mule train attraction at Knott's Berry Farm behind the Mine Train ride before the Roaring 20's addition. I remember riding both mule trains as a child.
After walking around all day, that pizza is the best!! You can order a whole pie if you want. It is good quick and great to sit down and chill for a bit.
That was such a random cameo to me. I heard him say "Ronnie Reagan" and I was like, "oh, what a coincidence," and then I heard his voice and almost jumped. I like how Kevin didn't even acknowledge our 40th president reporting on Disneyland.
I honestly love sponsorship like this. Where the people reading out their sponsorship roast themselves. It's genuinely a good lean, even if I never remember what company you're advertising for-- rather than just being open and saying "hey I'm sponsored, check 'em out" or trying to subtly (and failing to subtly) drop hints to your sponsor.
American Motors was an original sponsor of the DISNEYLAND television show...they acquired Jeep from Kaiser Industries in 1970 (but sold off Kelvinator a few years earlier)
I love these videos, just the right mix of quick paced and nerdy/informative for me, with a lot of footage I never saw yet. I’d LOVE for you guys to do a video on the ‘64 World’s Fair that goes more in-depth than most stuff you can see online, especially if you have photos or video footage.
Oh yeah. Mostly because a lot of them were either offensive by modern standards or unfeasible with huge crowds. If it wasn't for Big Thunder, Fronteirland might have changed into something else by now.
Could you do a longer episode about "WB Movie World", a german amusement park opened in 1996, trying to copy Universal and Disney-MGM? In the early days it was full with Warner Bros licenses, including a Daffy Duck 4D movie, a cheesy Batman show, a Police Academy stunt show and dark ride/flume ride hybrid with ALF and the Gremlins (!). 2005 it lost it's licenses and they bought a hotchpotch of IPs. The wacky Looney Tunes kiddie-flume-ride became a Ice Age ride, the 4D movie changed to SpongeBob than to Shrek and than to Ice Age (the IP is insanely popular in Germany), the Gremlins/ALF ride made room for a Van Helsing rollercoaster, they opened and closed a MGM Museum and in 2017 they opened a Star Trek rollercoaster. And that's just the tip of the iceberg. It's truely insane. :D
I think I remember going there while stationed in Germany. It was pretty cool, just around the corner from another great German Park Phantsialand. The only bad part is the museum was closed when we went.
Ramen Mendoza I'm thinking the toxic is more like Dollar Shave Club being such a common sponsor that its everywhere. If not, I'd wanna know why it's toxic too
The Monsanto brand name doesn't even go over these days. It was already on its way out when you made your post. Bayer bought Monsanto and discontinued the name. The deal was finalized on June 7, 2018.
@@racookster that's funny, because Bayer is also a horrible company, they sold VIH contaminated medicine because they didn't want to throw it away and loose money.
I hate the fact that “The Wizard of Bras” went over my head the first time I heard it but even more so, that I laughed out loud at “the land down undie.” Anyways, thank you for that, those were smooth like butter.
Another great video! Weird to think that, even though Walt insisted on no alcohol in Disneyland to keep it family friendly, he OK'd a lingerie shop! (Also, I know you mentioned it briefly here, but I've still got my fingers crossed for an episode on Nature's Wonderland.)
I honestly think someone mislead Walt about the lingerie shop ("It's SUPPOSED to be adults only, that's the point, to get away from the kids for a few minutes!") and then he axed it when he realized it actually was a terrible idea to have in the park.
I love it when you guys collab! I really do! I just wish the audio levels were a bit more even. Dan seems really loud when compared to Kevin’s audio. Makes watching with headphones kinda painful
There was a mule train at Knott’s. I remember clearly riding it when I was a kid and getting threatened and yelled at by an employee when I jumped off my mule too early and ran back to my parents.
and I loved the Trip to the Moon...and the one to Mars later....and Adventures through Inner Space was cool when you got to be smaller than a snowflake.
I've lived in California since 1955 when I was 7. I remember all these. Went on them all as Disneyland was a trip made by Summer camp I went to each year.
I LOVED the #6 ride's iteration "Mission to Mars", which was present in the Magic Kingdom in my youth. It highly impacted my career decisionmaking, and I almost, nearly, not quite, ever managed to become an astronaut. But for a while I did try. It turns out good grades and 20/20 vision really help.
Space Station X-1's closure is fascinating. I'm trying to imagine the kind of person who became "disinterested in space" in the late 1950s and early 1960s
until 1968, firearms were allowed in high schools, there was no age limit to buy guns and you could order machine guns from the Army. Didn't have a mass shooting at all until 1965.
they are not nearly as divisive as most people think. The NRA has become a scapegoat for people in favor of gun control since they are the most well known pro-gun organization, yet ironically people blame the NRA for mass shootings but not a single NRA member has been a mass shooter
I remember all of these from my first trip to Disneyland in 1963. The Davy Crocket Shootin' Gallery was so cool to me, with the bear walking back and forth or climbing the tree. You'd shoot him in his big glass reflector and he'd rear up and growl then reverse direction. If you were a good shot, you cold hit him in the big glass reflective tummy as well and and confuse the mechanics into which way it was supposed to go. One of my favorite memories of Rocket to the Moon was when the cabin would lose gravity. That was a pretty amazing effect as you felt you were rising out of your chair. My brother liked phantom boats/motor boat cruise because he'd like to get in a boat behind some girls and bump into them at any occasion. Space station X-1 seemed pretty real to little young me at the time, but I could never figure out how we got back to Earth so fast. I remember my dad laughing once in a while in the hall of chemistry because the displays were so corny. Kind of like a county fair with some money behind it. Incidentally, the pizza at Pizza Planet may not be all that awesome, but the Chicken Noodle Alfredo is amazing!
This was the strangest documentary of Disneyland I have ever seen. I loved every moment of it! Some rare clips that I have never seen before brought back wonderful memories of the 50s and 60s at Disneyland. I rode one of those mules.
Adventures Thru Inner Space was THE make out ride back in the day as it originally had few cameras and you could get really hot and heavy without a cast member bugging you, People Mover and the Sky Buckets being another great place to get your necking done.
One other point about the "Rocket to the Moon" ride: The bottom portion of the seats would lower a bit mechanically to simulate the G-forces of a lift off.
I was born at the end of the 1950s and lived rather close to the first Disneyland. I went there so many times, and remember many of these older attractions. There were ticket books that had maps of the attractions, and it was fun to spot the forgotten ones. My last time was when i was in junior high school. I was kicked off of Tom Sawyer's Island, escorted out by two men in civil war Union uniforms. I was told never to return. I was in full tomboy mode, getting too rowdy as i was with two longtime boys i knew since forever. I rode the wonderful shrinking world exhibit of Monsanto, and thought i had been spitting at my friends. I realized when it was over i had been spitting at an old lady in the car behind me--the cars were disorienting in the dark. I swore off my horrible behavior. No one seemed to notice. I stopped on a kiddie freeway thing which had miniature cars you could drive. My friends were far behind me, i wanted to wait for them. An aggressive fellow in a blue jumpsuit emerged from a secret door on one of the columns supporting the freeway above, and swore at me, royally chewing me out. It was my last visit to Disneyland. I wonder if they still have the photos they took of me at Tom Sawyer's Island, ready to deal with me if i return!
I remember the Rocket to the Moon. It was there on my first trip and I remember that when the rocket was blasting off, the bottom of your seat would sink in like as if you were experiencing high G blast off. It took me by surprise and everyone around me got a good laugh as I jumped out of my seat. Oh, and I happen to like the pizza there. It's better than the burgers at the Galactic Grill... That's not hard to do though.
Oh god I just had flashbacks to staying at Camp Davy Crockett (or as my brothers and I creatively dubbed it "Camp Davy Craphead") in France in the early 2000s. It felt like a traumatic experience, there were so many bugs and the whole place was uncomfortable and horrible.
I actually remember going to Journey To The Moon as a kid. It was fantastic, I can still imagine the image of Anaheim growing smaller and smaller as we blasted into space!
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Can you do a crossover with offhand disneyland
Defunctland you sold out hard
Defunctland when the guy said "Ronnie Reagan" was that actually Ronald Reagan bc it sure as hell sounded like him
gross
How do you spell S E L L O U T ?
I was born about the same time that Disneyland opened in 1955, and was fortunate enough to have parents that took me there whenever they could. I have scrapbooks from those days, including original ticket books and park maps. I remember most every attraction mentioned in this video. I also remember seeing Walt walking around, handing-out autographs. There were smokers everywhere. I also remember the façade of The Haunted Mansion being completed (it seemed like MANY) years before the ride opened. Outside the Haunted Mansion, there was s "now hiring" sign for ghosts. It crossed my young mind that if I killed myself, could I get a job in the Haunted Mansion? This video is wonderful. Thanks for the memories!
that's so cool! They don't have those hiring ghosts ads anymore but thanks for sharing.
Did you ever get to meet Walt?
@@ethanahmu6149 - No, I never met him. But I watched him hand out pre-signed autographs.
@@mattrost2574 Well hey maybe there is a way you can meet Walt and get that job...
@@GamingEpic9812 - Are you wishing me dead?
My middle-school Spanish teacher worked at Disneyland during the summers. He told us the favorite job for all the young men was the pack mules. They were the only Disney employees allowed to grow facial hair.
This is a rad bit of trivia.
Gary Steelman it
The pack mules ride is seldom discussed. It was so great to hear the producers of this video discussing the attraction. It was really one of my favorite rides as a young child. I was very young when they let me sit on the mule and go for a ride. When the ride disappeared, I remember feeling sad and wondered what happened to the mules. To this day, when I walk past that area, I think about what the pack mules were like and having my folks letting me go for a ride.
As a young girl visiting Disneyland, I loved the mule train trail ride . The trail was beautiful. I was sad when we returned to Disneyland a few years later and it was gone. The canoe ride went away also I think.
@@1houndgal they still have the canoes!! I went last year for my 20th birthday and they still have the Tom Sawyers Island and the canoes!
"Barbara, where *did* you get that bra?"
"Disneyland."
😂😂😂😂
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Could you imagine if they did the Mickie ha ha if you squeeze them
@@bloodvow333 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣❤
@@bloodvow333 dude id buy that at any price lmfao
When Disney Dan started talking I was like "Dear God no, not another intro skit to a crossover episode", then Kevin fucking saved my life there thanks bud
LIL, you know you are old when you remember most all of the attractions shown here. I vividly recall the first time I rode on Rocket to the Moon as a very young kid. I honestly thought we had really flown to the moon! I recall coming out of the ride and asking a man if he had seen us take off in the rocket. He obviously was a cool guy cause he very enthusiastically said he had indeed watched our flight. Good memories. Thanks for posting this!
I remember all of these attractions (except the bra store) I was in several of the photos in this video; I'm the red headed kid. My Dad worked for Disney, so they called in the entire family for promotion videos.
The seats in Rocket to Mars would move slightly up and down to simulate g-forces. On a school trip in 5th grade it almost clipped my finger off.
@@chaddraizin6616 damn
@@mr.bnatural3700 That is so cool! You're a part of Disney history. I wonder how many millions of people have seen you.. that's a trip.
Any advice for a nerd with a lot of passion for this stuff? I would love to design things like this or even just to work on others ideas and help them come to life... but I don't think I can handle 8 years of schooling for that. I can already sketch somewhat decently, buildings and interiors and such, and actually account in for safety codes. I'm going to make it happen. I don't expect to be remembered, but I want to do something I can point at and say "I helped build that". .. and then watch it get torn down in a few years. Lol
@@chaddraizin6616 holy crap
did Disney do anything about it?
"...the indian village, located right next to Aunt Jemima's Pancake House" is a whole damn essay.
For as fair as their attempt at authentic representation was for the tribes who came in, I also have to laugh at the audacity of its placement
Defunked should do an episode on that.
IKR so much racism...
@@fazman126 The things they use to get away with...
I'm not sorry, that is fucking hilarious.
I feel like we just blew by the fact that US President Ronald Reagan was the one doing the interview at the phantom boats
Cameron Frazier You mean that actor?!
lol i noticed right away that voice and name xD
I scrolled down in the hopes that someone could confirm that it was him. Thank you.
Bedtime for Boat-zo.
*crickets*
Back in the 1950s, Reagan was just a poor man's John Wayne.
I really, really wish I could go back in time to the 50's and visit Tomorrowland. Something about that whole 50's retro-futuristic theme fascinates me.
True. Now we have the technology developed from that time, so Karens can get on Facebook and say the moon landings were fake and the earth is flat. Hardly progress and certainly not what the public of the 50's would have thought we would be doing.
same, there's no longer any intrigue to curiosity in today's Disney.
It's because now everyone's vision of the future is so dark, and I'm sick of it
I still have a happy vision of the future, more optimistic. That retro futurism needs to make a comeback. Futurism in general needs to make a comeback. It's exciting and it gives people hope and inspiration.
@@ZeranZeran That's exactly it, modern scifi typically has a very bleak outlook on life, compared to the optimism of older works.
@@theVoyage It's only going to get bleaker as time marches on. Mostly because the companies that sold us those now-retro-futures were, then as now, slowly killing us.
This why I love this channel. When they get sponsored they don't try to hide it, they lean in and make it hilarious.
Ok, the Wizard of Bras is a genius mascot. I get why it didn't last, but someone has to bring that back.
I think Knotts has one
Bring the wizard of bras back? I say we need to watch out for that booby trap! 😂😂
He IS the mascot at my shop where we manufacture aircraft parts...
@@papa_NCF bruh i’ve passed by that place so many times, they’ve got a huge bra display piece in the front window
People lost interest in space in 1960? Geez, they should've stuck int out til the later part of the decade
that's crazy yeah
Yeah, that was a surprising comment. The moon? Been there done that.
check these 1960s and 1970s space conventions 2 hours away at the same time ruclips.net/video/7XGkol0lR0o/видео.html
That totally explains the the decline of science fiction in 1960's.
Yeah, apparently people got bored hearing about the Apollo missions in the 1970’s. How is space boring?!
"It was a lingerie store next to Grandma's Baby Shop."
The "oversized baby clothes" joke from Ralph Breaks the Internet is so much funnier now.
The whole bit with the bras I laughed so hard I think I almost popped some of my stitches from surgery yesterday
Jessilyn Gray well it's a gift shop attraction you would not expect at a Disney park.
How's that scar healing, stitches all gone by now right?
Augmentation surgery? ( Come on.. I had to ask......) LOL
Why walt Disney what were you thinking! KIDS COME HERE
You know how boring it MAY be when your parents take you to the store to buy necessary clothing...
THAT is why the Intimate Apparel gift shop is long forgotten.
Let's be real here, buying underwear/necessary clothing is the LEAST of our interests when you're at a theme park, especially when the clothes are OVERPRICED...
"We're going to see the wizard, the wonderful wizard of Bras!!"
Because because because because becaaaauuuuse!
@@ignignxkt because he makes wonderful bras
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I was worried the Indian attraction would have Peter Pan levels of embarrassing stereotyping, but I am very happy to hear how progressive and respectful it was! I kinda wish it stayed around, though perhaps Native Americans teaching their culture is better done in a place that isn't so commercial.
As cool some of these attractions are, it's kinda hilariously how dated some of them are like the mules, the Phantom Boats, and the... Aluminum Hall of Fame.... And... Wizard of Bras
There was good reason some of them didn't last very long - mostly because of not aging very well. I'm wondering how "Wizard of Bras" even got in the park in the first place - did someone mislead Walt into approving it? ("It's MEANT to be a place the adults can get away from the kids for a few minutes, the kids aren't SUPPOSED to go in there in the first place!")
Yeah, that Native American show sounded pretty cool.
Dracomut Can I ask you something? Are you Native American? And don't lie.
Nope, just a regular American with European ancestry
Dracomut then why you crying racism if it’s not your race?
"No space is necessarily wasted"
Discovery island still rotting for almost 21 years
That's at Disney World.
Disneyland and Disneyworld are two very different places.
"The Monsanto Hall Of Chemistry:" - that's a goddamn Simpsons joke, right there.
Showing us the wonders of plastics... well that didn’t age very well, now did it 😢
@@Thesupermachine2000
But it gave us Boomers the best catch phrase ever for the 60s. Better living thru chemistry!
Monsanto brought us PCBs, DDT, Agent Orange and Roundup! They didn't bring us CFCs, but maybe those were in the hall of chemistry, too? Also blister-agents like Mustard Gas? [EDIT:] Leaded gasoline was a mind-numbing nightmare, too.
@DutchDude93 how so?
@@dr.aabamamsphd1385"Better Living Through Chemistry" was DuPont, not Monsanto.
It's so impressive that opening day at Disneyland saw really innovative attractions throughout the park. Of course there was going to be some filler, like the pack mules, but even then it offered more than a simple mule ride. The surrounding environment was the instrumental factor. It really got your imagination going. Thanks.
At least you had good humor about getting advertised. Still love the video.
Anaussie Alright then
14:07 "The Tomorrowland area of Disneyland was one of the most heavily-sponsored parts of the park, with tons of companies trying to put a face and brand on the future."
So what you're telling me is that Disney's version of the future is one where everything is sponsored by some corporation? That is both hilarious and sad.
That's the 50s fur ye
Lol, pay attention, we are living that world as we speak.
@@isaacmalown7003 very cool Isaac, thank you for sharing
Disney's park vision was heavily informed by his involvement in World's Fair-type expositions, and corporate sponsorship of individual exhibits was a _huge_ part of the culture of those, too.
Which is not very far from the truth
"The Indian Village located right next to Aunt Jemima's Pancake House". I don't even know why I laughed but I did.
EDIT: I would totally have enjoyed all these attractions, especially the chemistry and aluminum museums. I'm very curious to see more of the statues that were part of the "Chemitron".
**collar pulling intensifies**
I let out a chuckle about the pancake House too!!
Jesseon They kept the racial stuff close together eh?
Perhaps you could call it, a ghetto.
yeah I miss when we celebrated different cultures instead of punishing people for suggesting they're different, and when people understood chemicals are a good thing.
LOL, the little boats! I burst out laughing when you said they let the guests drive them. Because I can remember in Disney World they had them too. I don't remember the year but, yea, they let my brother and me each have a boat, and we were pretty young as I remember. What happened? Well, at one point we really slammed into each other hard. Real hard! We didn't know how to drive boats. But they saw the incident and angrily escorted us back to dock and told us to get out. Like it was our fault. You were the people who put kids in boats with no idea if they could do it. We never drove a boat!? Huge lagoon in Disney World too. I remember they'd let you just go anywhere out there. It was great fun but wow, what a bad idea.
They still have boats to rent at the Polynesian resort and others.
I laughed more at the part where they saw there was too much smoke, so they COVERED IT. As someone who works with servers and computers, one of the most important things you must do with anything motorized or electronic is allow it to "breathe", or else it'll heat up and can end up in either burning up, or melting down.
When I was little I took a ride at an open (no entry fee, pay at the ride) amusement park that to this day trusts children the wheel of a propper gas motor boat. It is a closed circuit with a set direction and a pre-launch briefing on the rules of the ride and the general handeling of boats.
It pretty much operates like a gocart track on water.
Note also the complete absence of flotation devices.
I guess Disneyland didnt care if one of them tried to crash each other with the boats
BOY! It’s so great to be fat with cash now that we’ve sold out.
Disney Dan you guys are my favorite sell outs
Disney Dan your in the comments to
ehm.... Dan it's : AL-U-MIN-i-UM :P
I am Fus not in the mountains of PA Hahahaha
Why did I read that in Mickeys voice???
Tomorrowland is a great example of how quickly technology progresses and it feels like Disneyland is always trying to play catch up even today! Hopefully we eventually get the Jules Verne Tomorrowland kind of like the area in Tokyo!
Before I learned about the history of Tomorrowland, I never thought it was actually trying to predict the future. I saw it as "science fiction" land, stories that are often set in the future- like the Jettisons (I was young and had a very limited frame of refence)
The space shows seem a bit naff, but then I remembered that in 1955, no one had ever been in space. It was even before Sputnik. Space travel was still at the wildest frontiers of the imagination.
It's me from the future, space is still the frontier you thought it was.
Gary Cooper...same name as the 1930s actor?? 👍
honestly the rides seem really coolto me and its a shame they're gone
@@outtherelivinginthepub1973 Yep.
I've seen Disney from opening day up to the 60's and 70's so many times. I used to work for a video production company. One of the things we did was transfer old 8 and 16 mm film to vhs or dvd. A lot of times it was in pretty bad shape and brittle from storage. I'd have to do a lot of work just to get a few good frames from some reels. I've had to go frame by frame taking still shots and then "reanimate" it if there was enough frames or turn it into a photo montage if not. But I also got to see some never published unedited film of WW2, Europe, Africa, Japan after the bombs and lots of just random scenes from the past. Mount Rushmore, Yosemite, Grand Canyon, Route 66 and all the little attractions that used to be on the roadsides. The earliest I saw was some 1920's Japan.
I miss Disneyland of the 80's,wont step foot there now!
Wow... How interesting! Thanks for sharing! 👍🏼
That’s so cool!
What made "Rocket to the Moon" so great was that the seats were pneumatically operated, the bottoms moving down to simulate the higher G of launch and landing, and up for the lower Gee in space.
when was a teen I used to smoke hash on the Monsanto interspace ride, was the safest place to toke in D-land
A modern space station x1 would be phenomenal. Preshow would inform about preparing for space flight. Then in the main walk through area you could project the actual weather patterns in real time on the earth display. Have AR handhelds that could show more info or zoom in to your home town. Perhaps repairs need done and you help guide an astronaut on a spacewalk. So many options with today's tech.
Future world Anyone?
I like the collaboration but can you try to process your audio to sound somewhat similar? The constrast been Dan's open sound and Kevin's heavily compressed sound is a little jarring and makes it feel like two different programs.
It's a difference in recording setups that you can't fix with after-the-fact editing. It sounds like Dan didn't have the environment for top-notch sound quality, so the only fix would be for Kevin to bring his setup down in quality as well. Which I guess is possible.
And the so-called humour was dire.
The quality of your videos is worth the wait
When I was a little girl, nearby Knott's Berry Farm had burro rides. I bet they were there before Disneyland was built.
I laughed when I saw "Wizard of bras"
Anime Psyclone the shop is still around but it's in Monrovia now.
i almost couldnt believe it was real lol
so did they sell bras with Minnie Mouse on them or something?
Promoted by Dorothy Gale, eventually coming into maturity in the mid 40s. Her friends she met on the yellow brick road were... Sanitary Man, then Tampax Man, then the cowardly clogian...who is so scared of periods he clogs up his butt with Tampax tubes from Tampax Man. Lol xx oh Dorothy's enemy.. The Wicked Witch of Wet Pants. 🤣🤣🤣
Disneyland...come see the wonders of aluminum! "crickets crickets"
ReviewsTechNow :)
Yes, the wonders of the most common metal on Earth. That's like saying "so what are people using iron for these days?"
Back then new technology was something very interesting. Yes the metal has been around forever, but everyone was starry eyed and misty over the prospect of the future. Can you blame them? Even now people are fantasizing about living on the moon, or terraforming mars. We haven't changed really, other than in this country non whites are now nonsegregated, smoking isn't seen as healthy, and bras are MUCH better. Hahaha
Aluminum is STILL the metal of the future! Aluminum is amazing, it's light, and strong, and can be alloyed in different ways to create different properties. It's the most easily recycled metal, and is more recycled than any other substance, as aluminum retains it's value and properties when recycled unlike paper or plastic, and is cheap to transport, unlike glass or steel. Aluminum is what makes cars lighter and more efficient, makes airplanes light enough to fly, and makes MacBooks and iPhones light, durable and affordable. How DARE you take Aluminum for granted?!
could have been "The Wonders of Asbestos" but Kaiser had deep pockets! lol
I love this series! Have you ever heard of Old Indiana? It was a dinky amusement park in Indiana we would go to once a year, but a slow-moving train ride derailed and paralyzed one and killed others. After that, it never recovered and closed. At one point, six flags bought the land, was a nature preserve for a bit, but now it’s a hops farm. Just a thought!
"Check out Disney Dan's Channel linked in the description." No link in the description. That cold Kev. COLD.
Daniel Campbell Bwahahaha. This is actually hilarious.
The episodes just keep getting better and better! Really impressed with the detail and quality! (Also-you should cover Disney Quest and/or the Great Movie Ride at some point)
Actually there was also a mule train attraction at Knott's Berry Farm behind the Mine Train ride before the Roaring 20's addition. I remember riding both mule trains as a child.
Dan Best You are right Dan. I have a picture of my sister riding a mule at Knotts behind the mine train building. Probably in the early 60's.
They still had it seasonally until the 1980s.
After walking around all day, that pizza is the best!! You can order a whole pie if you want. It is good quick and great to sit down and chill for a bit.
@10:22 ladies and gentlemen the 40th President of the United States(no joke that really him in the white jacket)
Ronald Reagan? THE ACTOR?!
I definitely had that “what!?” moment when they cut to Ronnie.
Love the back to the future reference there. Well done Brent
Isn't his grave a gender-neutral bathroom?
That was such a random cameo to me. I heard him say "Ronnie Reagan" and I was like, "oh, what a coincidence," and then I heard his voice and almost jumped. I like how Kevin didn't even acknowledge our 40th president reporting on Disneyland.
I honestly love sponsorship like this. Where the people reading out their sponsorship roast themselves. It's genuinely a good lean, even if I never remember what company you're advertising for-- rather than just being open and saying "hey I'm sponsored, check 'em out" or trying to subtly (and failing to subtly) drop hints to your sponsor.
city of angels baby
*d a l a n d d o w n u n d i e s*
That moon ride looks so cool! I can’t imagine what it would have been liked when first opened.
Not going to lie, Disney Dan's voice scared me lol
Gummi Goomi good.
Jk jk
well done sir lol
The intro and humor are absolutely awesome! Keep it up guys.
Now I need to know more about the magic of lobotomies
There’s a whole funky AMC / Kelvinator / Kaiser Jeep thing going on here that I had no idea of til watching this. Thanks!
American Motors was an original sponsor of the DISNEYLAND television show...they acquired Jeep from Kaiser Industries in 1970 (but sold off Kelvinator a few years earlier)
It's interesting to see opening day attractions that are gone. How the times have changed.
I love these videos, just the right mix of quick paced and nerdy/informative for me, with a lot of footage I never saw yet. I’d LOVE for you guys to do a video on the ‘64 World’s Fair that goes more in-depth than most stuff you can see online, especially if you have photos or video footage.
Ok. That intro was enough to make me give a like. Lol
Brandan Ray me too!
What I learned: Disney has abandoned lots of Frontier Land attractions
Oh yeah. Mostly because a lot of them were either offensive by modern standards or unfeasible with huge crowds. If it wasn't for Big Thunder, Fronteirland might have changed into something else by now.
Frontierland used to be one of the biggest lands in the park, now it's literally just two rides. I think people just got tired of the old west theme.
Could you do a longer episode about "WB Movie World", a german amusement park opened in 1996, trying to copy Universal and Disney-MGM? In the early days it was full with Warner Bros licenses, including a Daffy Duck 4D movie, a cheesy Batman show, a Police Academy stunt show and dark ride/flume ride hybrid with ALF and the Gremlins (!). 2005 it lost it's licenses and they bought a hotchpotch of IPs. The wacky Looney Tunes kiddie-flume-ride became a Ice Age ride, the 4D movie changed to SpongeBob than to Shrek and than to Ice Age (the IP is insanely popular in Germany), the Gremlins/ALF ride made room for a Van Helsing rollercoaster, they opened and closed a MGM Museum and in 2017 they opened a Star Trek rollercoaster. And that's just the tip of the iceberg. It's truely insane. :D
I think I remember going there while stationed in Germany. It was pretty cool, just around the corner from another great German Park Phantsialand. The only bad part is the museum was closed when we went.
Yeah, he definitely should cover this. This is a gold mine.
My grandma told me about this a while ago
DasFoyer there is one in Australia
I didn’t read all that you said, but I like it. Btw there’s one in Australia..
Loved growing up in So Cal and remembering most of these attractions!
Congrats on Season 2. Your videos are getting better and better.
God damn I had a feeling as soon as I saw this account that I was going to watch every video and so far I haven’t stopped
Still better than a Dollar Shave Club sponsorship...
Anaussie
How are they toxic
Ramen Mendoza I'm thinking the toxic is more like Dollar Shave Club being such a common sponsor that its everywhere. If not, I'd wanna know why it's toxic too
>tricked
They weren't tricked...
forest
If that were the case would Crunchyroll and Audible be Toxic
Say what you want but dollar shave clubs shave butter is the only stuff I'll use for the rest of my life
I can't imagine a Monsanto themed attraction would go over nowadays
The Monsanto brand name doesn't even go over these days. It was already on its way out when you made your post. Bayer bought Monsanto and discontinued the name. The deal was finalized on June 7, 2018.
@@racookster that's funny, because Bayer is also a horrible company, they sold VIH contaminated medicine because they didn't want to throw it away and loose money.
Even though they were terrible, I totally want a phantom boat. Imagine the price one of those would go for at auction....
I hate the fact that “The Wizard of Bras” went over my head the first time I heard it but even more so, that I laughed out loud at “the land down undie.” Anyways, thank you for that, those were smooth like butter.
Another great video! Weird to think that, even though Walt insisted on no alcohol in Disneyland to keep it family friendly, he OK'd a lingerie shop!
(Also, I know you mentioned it briefly here, but I've still got my fingers crossed for an episode on Nature's Wonderland.)
I honestly think someone mislead Walt about the lingerie shop ("It's SUPPOSED to be adults only, that's the point, to get away from the kids for a few minutes!") and then he axed it when he realized it actually was a terrible idea to have in the park.
Maybe the plan was to help create more families, thus drumming up more business...
Maybe it was a kids friendly shop?
Even Walt allowed alcohol on the property in the picnic area attached just not inside the park so maybe he wasn't so straight laced as it seems
Bras don't get anyone drunk.
Do you realize how much I enjoy your channel and how much you make me go back to my childhood and enjoy it? Thank you Kevin.
Freakazoid: "Oh no! Well, at least they still have those little motor boats."
noooo! they're gooone
These rides are defunct for good reasons. Another fabulous video as always!
Ronnie Reagan, take it away!
“ don’t mind if i do...”
I love it when you guys collab! I really do! I just wish the audio levels were a bit more even. Dan seems really loud when compared to Kevin’s audio. Makes watching with headphones kinda painful
Wow, I remember the rocket ship to the moon, I was in the USN in 1968. Adventures in Inner Space was pretty neat too.
There was a mule train at Knott’s. I remember clearly riding it when I was a kid and getting threatened and yelled at by an employee when I jumped off my mule too early and ran back to my parents.
An old-fashioned Victoria's Secret used to be part of Disneyland.......I'm at a loss for words.
Ikr wth
The intimate apparel bit was absolutely amazing, you guys went all out on this one
omg, I loved the mule ride! It was the best part when I was a kid in the 60's!
and I loved the Trip to the Moon...and the one to Mars later....and Adventures through Inner Space was cool when you got to be smaller than a snowflake.
Amazing intro bit
This video is also like a theme park ride because the audio level between Kevin and Dan rises and falls like a classic roller coaster.
OMG, I would have LOVED the Hall of Chemistry as a kid. Hell, I'd love it now!
I've lived in California since 1955 when I was 7. I remember all these. Went on them all as Disneyland was a trip made by Summer camp I went to each year.
I LOVED the #6 ride's iteration "Mission to Mars", which was present in the Magic Kingdom in my youth. It highly impacted my career decisionmaking, and I almost, nearly, not quite, ever managed to become an astronaut. But for a while I did try. It turns out good grades and 20/20 vision really help.
Space Station X-1's closure is fascinating. I'm trying to imagine the kind of person who became "disinterested in space" in the late 1950s and early 1960s
Holy shit, a firearms display by the NRA? How times have changed.
Hell I think they stopped selling mock revolvers and rifles in WDW.
You'd never see anything like that today in theme parks - imagine the backlash that would result if someone tried!
They stopped selling toy guns in 2016 because of the rise of mass shootings.
Back when the NRA was just a sporting association instead of a divisive political organization.
until 1968, firearms were allowed in high schools, there was no age limit to buy guns and you could order machine guns from the Army. Didn't have a mass shooting at all until 1965.
they are not nearly as divisive as most people think. The NRA has become a scapegoat for people in favor of gun control since they are the most well known pro-gun organization, yet ironically people blame the NRA for mass shootings but not a single NRA member has been a mass shooter
I remember all of these from my first trip to Disneyland in 1963.
The Davy Crocket Shootin' Gallery was so cool to me, with the bear walking back and forth or climbing the tree. You'd shoot him in his big glass reflector and he'd rear up and growl then reverse direction. If you were a good shot, you cold hit him in the big glass reflective tummy as well and and confuse the mechanics into which way it was supposed to go.
One of my favorite memories of Rocket to the Moon was when the cabin would lose gravity. That was a pretty amazing effect as you felt you were rising out of your chair.
My brother liked phantom boats/motor boat cruise because he'd like to get in a boat behind some girls and bump into them at any occasion.
Space station X-1 seemed pretty real to little young me at the time, but I could never figure out how we got back to Earth so fast.
I remember my dad laughing once in a while in the hall of chemistry because the displays were so corny. Kind of like a county fair with some money behind it.
Incidentally, the pizza at Pizza Planet may not be all that awesome, but the Chicken Noodle Alfredo is amazing!
I can't stop fantasizing about those effing star chandeliers at 15:09.
They're beautiful! I wonder if they were taken apart for scrap or if they're still hanging somewhere.
This was the strangest documentary of Disneyland I have ever seen. I loved every moment of it! Some rare clips that I have never seen before brought back wonderful memories of the 50s and 60s at Disneyland. I rode one of those mules.
Oh hey! I recognize some of that footage. Fun surprise. Been following the channel for a while. Keep up the great work!
Thanks for uploading the great footage!
I love the irony of him talking about Disneyland's lingerie shop in a sponsored video lmao
"The Indian village next to aunt Jemimah's pancake house..."
Well, every part of that aged like milk
Adventures Thru Inner Space was THE make out ride back in the day as it originally had few cameras and you could get really hot and heavy without a cast member bugging you, People Mover and the Sky Buckets being another great place to get your necking done.
Keep up with the amazing content! Always coming back for more now!
Even "The Aluminum Hall of Fame" sounds more intriguing and exciting than anything at the silly park, today.
I miss Adventure Thru Inner Space. It was my favorite when I was a kid.
One other point about the "Rocket to the Moon" ride: The bottom portion of the seats would lower a bit mechanically to simulate the G-forces of a lift off.
I was born at the end of the 1950s and lived rather close to the first Disneyland. I went there so many times, and remember many of these older attractions. There were ticket books that had maps of the attractions, and it was fun to spot the forgotten ones. My last time was when i was in junior high school. I was kicked off of Tom Sawyer's Island, escorted out by two men in civil war Union uniforms. I was told never to return.
I was in full tomboy mode, getting too rowdy as i was with two longtime boys i knew since forever. I rode the wonderful shrinking world exhibit of Monsanto, and thought i had been spitting at my friends. I realized when it was over i had been spitting at an old lady in the car behind me--the cars were disorienting in the dark. I swore off my horrible behavior. No one seemed to notice.
I stopped on a kiddie freeway thing which had miniature cars you could drive. My friends were far behind me, i wanted to wait for them. An aggressive fellow in a blue jumpsuit emerged from a secret door on one of the columns supporting the freeway above, and swore at me, royally chewing me out.
It was my last visit to Disneyland. I wonder if they still have the photos they took of me at Tom Sawyer's Island, ready to deal with me if i return!
Great vid Defunctland and DisneyDan! The Phantom Boats ride looked awesome.
Be proud of sponsorship! It is an acceptable method of compensation of your hard work.
I took the mule ride many times as a kid. Loved it. Grew up in Fullerton and even worked at D'Land for a short time in High School.
I remember the mules! They were my favorite ride back then.
I remember the Rocket to the Moon. It was there on my first trip and I remember that when the rocket was blasting off, the bottom of your seat would sink in like as if you were experiencing high G blast off. It took me by surprise and everyone around me got a good laugh as I jumped out of my seat.
Oh, and I happen to like the pizza there. It's better than the burgers at the Galactic Grill... That's not hard to do though.
City of Angels BAYBEH~
Beatrice you have 50 subs simply because youre cute, im sad
Oh god I just had flashbacks to staying at Camp Davy Crockett (or as my brothers and I creatively dubbed it "Camp Davy Craphead") in France in the early 2000s. It felt like a traumatic experience, there were so many bugs and the whole place was uncomfortable and horrible.
Dear Kevin,
Please never attempt a seductive voice again.
Sincerely,
Everyone
I liked it.
2moist4me
He seduced me.
Disney Dan sounds like teddy from Bob's Burgers
Dear everyone,
Let him do what he wants to do. I don't care.
Sincerely,
People with lives
I actually remember going to Journey To The Moon as a kid. It was fantastic, I can still imagine the image of Anaheim growing smaller and smaller as we blasted into space!
Nice to meetcha, Disney Dan! You sound like JWittz!
Can't wait for Freedomland!
WheeledJustice i get this a lot
HE DOES!!!