I got a chance to visit Disneyland in the new decade of the 2020s, so I thought I’d update some old pictures taken during the first decade I ever visited Disneyland, the 1960s. Of course, I was so young back then, I can barely remember it. “Yeah, right, Tim!” (Thumbnail images)
The first place I always head for is Adventureland because it’s the quickest way to get to the Pirates of the Caribbean and the Haunted Mansion in New Orleans Square. (Travel&Leisure)
Not only has the Sleeping Beauty Castle been remodeled since the 60s, but look at that anorexic Minnie Mouse! I don’t know what that tree is blocking part of the view of the castle now? My friend, Tony, will know. (insider.com)
There isn’t that much “Wild West” in Frontierland anymore. (pendletonUSA.com)
The entrance to Tomorrowland: No, That’s not me in the old photo; even I didn’t dress like that back then. You can still see the People Mover tracks behind that rocket thing today. (CNN)
The Tomorrowland Terrace: Wow, the New Establishment! Just what you’d expect a band from the 1960s to be called. I’ll bet they were terrible! Behind them is the old Carousel of Progress, America Sings Pavilion. (Worthpoint)
Ah, a typical 1962 family at the main entrance to Disneyland. Grandma has gone to that big Disneyland in the sky by now, no doubt. (thisfairytalelife.com)
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Disneyland does not impress me. I am terrified of people in those horrid costumes, like anorexic Minnie Mouse. Horticulture students are encouraged to study the intensely cultivated landscapes there, but I am pleased to have missed out on that one. Anyway, I can not identify the tree that partly obscures the view of Sleeping Beauty’s castle, but I suspect that it is a pink melaleuca, Melaleuca nesphylla. It produces a delightful although mundane pink bloom, but is grown more for its sculptural and gnarly trunk.