Is it Christmas?

Here it is, late September...
Home Depot, Target and half the other stores in town
have the Christmas decorations on the shelves...
and it's 113 degrees out side!!
Everything's melting...

What we need is a little Christmas!!!

Here's a couple of pictures I took
for my Christmas cards in the past...

I'm now thinking of the Cool California morning
when we walked around the park to take this picture...Aaaahhhhhh...
Feeling cooler already...

and the crisp night around 4 am
when I walked over to the front of the castle to get this shot...

Stay Cool till the Holiday's

1977 The Very Merry Christmas Parade

The Brand New Parade!
and my first job at the park.

Here's an article from the DL line 12/1/77

Here's a cast photo of everyone that was in the parade
[This was taken backstage facing toward
where the "New" parking structure now is...
I miss that Arco station]

This is Marilyn Magness presenting a cake to the cast
Marilyn staged and choreographed the whole parade

The Cake

And Believe it or not,
This is my "First" paycheck stub!

Wow! I cleared $8.57
and to think I was flying down from San Francisco to LAX
then taking a Greyhound to the DL Hotel for rehearsals!
[The flight was $12 , one way, the bus was $5 one way...
you do the math!]
I was working at DISNEYLAND!!!

O.K. O.K.
SO it's been a while since my last post!...
I was working again and the that crappy cold that last 6 weeks.

I went down to the park today for a friends Birthday,
my friend who signed me in asked
"Where the next Post"?

So here it is!
tickets
The Disney Company used to send out these Christmas cards to the employees
of the park, with enclosed Tickets or Passports

HERBIE!

THE LOVE BUG!

Very Merry Christmas Parade 1986

Disneyland used to have Herbie in the parade every Christmas,
He was a Filler/ Spacer unit.
[ A unit that fills in the gaps due to guest cross overs .
one that can start and stop easily and fill in a lot of space
until the other unit catches up]It was Herbie and a Comic Cop/Stunt Man.
The cop was on a mini bike that looked like
a Highway patrol Motorcycle.

The Cop would "Pull Herbie Over"
and Herbie would start in on him.
He'd would squirt Water at the cop
and the cop would spit it back!
Then Herbie would be chase the cop down the street...

Till Herbie would catch up with him and swallow him up...
and spit him out!

Then the Cop would get his foot caught
on Herbie's bumper
and be dragged down the street.
As the Cop laid in the street,
Herbie would back up and
let loose with CO2 in the cops face and
then A Happy Herbie drives away!!!!

This was my Christmas card that year.
This Picture was taken backstage in the bone yard,
where old floats and a tired ol' Herbie lay...


So what happened to Herbie?
He sat in the Backstage ,taking a couple of years off.
and then Disneyland made a Press Event out of it
and presented him to Dean Jones
[Yes, for keeps!]
I wish he would make a come back in the Parade!

Have a Safe And Happy New Year!
"Don't Drink and Drive"

Holiday Greetings!

Some of my Favorite Christmas Greeting cards from the past!

"Merry Christmas too you all...
With a bright and Cheerful call.."

The First Very Merry Christmas Parade

31 Years ago...
I got my job at Disneyland
Cast as a Dancing Penguin with Mary Poppins.
I was living in northern CA. at the time
and would fly down on weekends for rehearsals
[This was when a flight would cost $18 round trip!]

The Parade route

This was the audition/casting card.
I can't believe I kept this stuff!

Backstage Before the parade

My First DL I.D.

Our float was the last of the music box floats...
I love how it looks like Mary is being hung by the weather vane!
and he Balloon train behind us...