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Disneyland in 1979

Pictures of Disneyland and the Disneyland Hotel in 1979.
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Postby montezooma » Wed Jan 23, 2008 8:57 am

I am loving this post. Great to see other peoples theme park memories! Keep it up.
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Postby Mr.Wood » Wed Jan 23, 2008 9:16 am

Thanks for the great pics.I miss the Skull Rock area and the Chicken of the sea restaurant. It sucks they got rid or the Sky Way. Or should I say it sucks the reasons "why" they got rid of the Sky Way. I have one of the rollers that was on the towers. I friend of mine was involved with the removal. They weigh a ton. Thanks again for the pics.
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Postby montezooma » Wed Jan 23, 2008 9:32 am

Mr.Wood wrote:Thanks for the great pics.I miss the Skull Rock area and the Chicken of the sea restaurant. It sucks they got rid or the Sky Way. Or should I say it sucks the reasons "why" they got rid of the Sky Way. I have one of the rollers that was on the towers. I friend of mine was involved with the removal. They weigh a ton. Thanks again for the pics.


Why did they get rid of the skyway???? I am in the dark
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Postby coasterdad » Wed Jan 23, 2008 12:44 pm

ADA rules sidelined that ride. They didn't want to spend the extra money to remodel the stations and it's kinda hard to have wheel chairs for the ride.
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Postby Mr.Wood » Wed Jan 23, 2008 6:49 pm

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Postby sfmmfreak101 » Sun Feb 03, 2008 11:42 am

Great pics and memories, Thanks for Sharing! I specifically like the one with Skull Rock.
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Postby summerof72 » Wed Feb 06, 2008 4:32 pm

man, these are great! i so wish i had been able to go back in the day...

didnt make our first trip till 2001.

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Postby ECZenith » Fri Feb 08, 2008 2:43 am

Old DL photos are always fun, thanks for sharing!

I have a dumb question, I'm not sure if anyone would know this... When The Disneyland Hotel themed their swimming pool to Peter Pan, did they just move the old Fantasyland skull rock (as seen in one of these photos) poolside or is that a completely new skull rock they made for the pool?
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Postby Movieguy » Fri Feb 08, 2008 6:45 am

It is so awesome to be able to look back at Disney's past like this. Thanks for sharing these. =)
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Postby Mr.Wood » Fri Feb 08, 2008 9:14 am

ECZenith wrote:Old DL photos are always fun, thanks for sharing!

I have a dumb question, I'm not sure if anyone would know this... When The Disneyland Hotel themed their swimming pool to Peter Pan, did they just move the old Fantasyland skull rock (as seen in one of these photos) poolside or is that a completely new skull rock they made for the pool?

No it's all new (sort of) A lot of the "props" used were from the old character parade. The boat is a section of the float that Cpt.Hook and Smee stood on. Disneyland is big on recycling.
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