It's almost like you're really there...

August 16, 2005 12:46 PM

Disneyland Postcards — "I have been collecting postcards from the park since the mid 80s', but only a few here and there...since then, I have acquired over 800 postcards, dating from the first one ever printed, to the current ones sold today." Includes 50 years of Disneyland postcards, the backs of cards and Then and Now shots of some of the more scenic places.
posted by Katemonkey (12 comments total)

And for sheer randomness factor, this one's my favourite.
posted by Katemonkey at 12:47 PM on August 16, 2005

Thanks Katemonkey, I loves me some postcards.
posted by cedar at 1:14 PM on August 16, 2005

Very nice.

Remember when the whole world seemed as simple and fantastic as Disneyland itself?
posted by caddis at 1:29 PM on August 16, 2005

Why did parents dress their children as sailors?
posted by Keith Talent at 1:34 PM on August 16, 2005

Lovely post, thanks!
posted by livii at 1:45 PM on August 16, 2005

Interesting, how over all that time the only thing that changed was the future.
posted by TwelveTwo at 1:53 PM on August 16, 2005

It's amusing how dusty, scraggly, and under-landscaped the 1955 Disneyland was!
posted by Lord Kinbote at 2:01 PM on August 16, 2005

love this, thanks kate
posted by matteo at 2:01 PM on August 16, 2005

This is great.
posted by Quartermass at 2:45 PM on August 16, 2005

I was just there to celebrate the 50th and it was just as I remember it. Thanks for the link!
posted by Moral Animal at 3:10 PM on August 16, 2005

I can't stand Disneyland, but it is fun to look at the loathsome stuff on the postcards. Do they still have mermaids? No, of course not. They had to make it even less interesting.
posted by pracowity at 3:46 PM on August 16, 2005

I went to Disneyworld (Orlando) in 1998, and I got to meet The Little Mermaid in the cave behind Captain Nemo's Nautilus. She was quite a sport, getting her picture taken with a (then) 26-year-old guy like me with no kids in tow.
posted by Lord Kinbote at 8:01 AM on August 17, 2005