Yesterland

There's one site you have to visit if you love Disneyland history: Yesterland! It is full of accounts and pictures of long gone attractions that used to live and breathe in Disneyland. My own love of Disney would not have been watered and grown as it has, if not for this website where I've spent countless hours looking at pictures, reading about how Disneyland used to be, and imagining how it all was.

Thank you, Werner Weiss, Curator of Yesterland for all of the hard work you've put into Yesterland, a place many wish they could visit.

Thor at Disneyland

Just got back from the Disneyland Annual Passholder preview of Thor: Treasures of Asgard and Thor: The Dark World. It was a nice set up inside of Innoventions.

Pictures of the outside:

Pictures inside:

Explaining the exhibit.

Thor greeting the new arrivals to Asgard.

The Throne.

Thor & Me.

They even have Thor Photopass Cards.

 Oh yeah... the movie was excellent. It lives up to the high standards Marvel has set for their recent releases. May Thor live a long and prosperous life. . . . If he can.

Walt’s Barn in Griffith Park

A little known free Disney attraction is the Barn Walt Disney used to house his trains and tools at his house on Carolwood Drive. Now located in Griffith Park and open to the public on the third Sundays of every month, it is full of Disneyana and railroading ephemera. Lots of historical items and souvenirs fill the walls. Also on the grounds are a Retlaw1 Combine from the Disneyland Railroad before the cars were altered for quicker loading and unloading; and an exhibit about the upcoming Small World's of Walt, some of the original buildings from Disneyland's Storybookland Canal Boats and Casey Jr. Circus Train need restoration.

Roadway sign.

Western Village on the track that surrounds the Barn area.

Walt's Barn.

LA Live Steamers demonstration area.

Plaque for the Barn.

Carolwood Drive street sign, namesake to Walt's Railroad.

The Barn's inspiration.

C.K. Holiday Live Steam Engine (see next photo).

Walt and his Lilly Belle.

Disneyland souvenirs.

One of the original buildings from Storybookland in Disneyland that needs restoration.

Walt Disney's Railroads.

Car from Walt's Carolwood Pacific.

Plans for the backyard railroad.

Walt's Barn's next project.

Carolwwod Pacific layout.

Retlaw1 Combine.

Side panel.

A peek inside.

December 15, 2002 was Walt Disney Imagineering Day, to inspire the creativity of the citizens of Los Angeles.

Websites:

Carolwood Foundation: Site with information on visiting Walt Disney's Barn.

Carolwood Pacific Historical Society: The group of people preserving this wonderful portion of Walt Disney's life.

Small Worlds of Walt: Where you can learn more about helping to save the buildings from Storybookland.

Los Angeles Live Steamers: Which hosts a small scale train ride around the barn and other railroading activities.

A Few Pictures From Epcot...

Epcot's Dedication Plaque

Spaceship Earth

It's so beautiful, I had to get a lot of pictures!

Painting of Epcot for a Character Backdrop.

Spaceship Earths' Mural over the entrance.

Epcot Vinylmation Figures.

Temple in Mexico

Wonders of China

A German Square.

Venice, Italy

Japan's Pagoda.

Candy in the United Kingdom. :)

Two Earths.

Mission Space: Daytime

Mission Space: Nighttime

(Don't Forget: You can click on the pictures for a larger view!)