Disneyland in the 50s...
Our friend, Bob, spent some time recently digitizing his family's old slides. He knew I would love to see these of Disneyland, not too long after it opened (1955).
In 1925, Roy was hired by the Hyperion Studio after a short conversation with someone he took for the office boy (it was Walt). This was the beginning of Roy's lifelong personal loyalty to Walt Disney. Walt paid for Roy's training at the Chouinard Art School, and took him on in the Art Department. Roy's strength was judged to be as a story and gag man, and by the start of the fifties he had moved away from animation. As the studio's production of cartoon shorts and features wound down in the mid-fifties, Roy was assigned to do storyboards for the upcoming Mickey Mouse Club. That's when Walt Disney selected him as co-host for the show, for all three seasons. In addition, not only did he help pick the cast, but rumor has it he was the designer of their "Ears". Man, I was so born in the wrong decade.
"I don’t want the public to see the world they live in while they’re in the park.
I want them to feel they’re in another world"
— Walt Disney
2 comments:
Ha! I hadn't seen the photos yet (Bob shared with you before me!) I love the clothes in both your photo and his. His sleeves (rolled up?), your red socks and cute outfit - looks kinda like matching balloon shorts under the dress. Such sweet times.
Fun times, thanks for sharing Denise.
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