Walt Disney Family Museum

March 21, 2014, 12 Comments

On our way home from Palm Springs we took a little detour to the Walt Disney Family Museum in San Francisco, a place I wanted to visit during my last time to San Fran, but didn’t make it to. The decision to go was somewhat spur of the moment, made in the late evening the…

Disneyland on Film

October 5, 2013, 6 Comments

Hello it’s Patrick here to do another post with some new 120 photographs from our last trip to Disneyland. Unlike last time, where Janey was just too depressed to write about it, I’m here to explain some of the more technical side to shooting 120 film. When I first met Janey she was astounded that…

Toons

October 1, 2013, 6 Comments

Our last day at Disneyland was spent doing a lot of things Patrick and I had either not done before or hadn’t done in a long time… The early parts of the day were spent in Fantasyland, where we rode both the Storybook Land Canal Boats as well as Casey Junior. Both are fun attractions…

Are You Ready for Halloween?

September 29, 2013, 9 Comments

The real “goal” of going to Disneyland this go around was to attend one of Mickey’s Halloween Parties, something I’ve never done before. These parties, which take place during select nights during the Halloween season, are the only time when those over the age of nine are permitted to wear costumes, and since I love…

Where Dreams Come True

September 27, 2013, 9 Comments

Yesterday Patrick and I spent another wonderful day at The Happiest Place on Earth. So gear up for a pretty picture heavy post! After riding a few of the attractions in Fantasyland during our “Magic Morning” we hopped over to California Adventure to visit Cars Land and Tower of Terror. And just when I was…

Tiki Day

September 23, 2013, 20 Comments

Yesterday brought Tiki Day at Disneyland. Despite being only the second ever Tiki Day, there was quite a turn out! I wore my second vintage Enchanted Tiki Room garment (the first being this), a homemade dress of the fabric guests could buy at the park in the 1960s…

Family Disneyland Pictures

August 22, 2013, 10 Comments

Recently I was granted permission from my dad to begin scanning our family’s large slide collection. The first carousel I took back to Portland with me was one marked “Disneyland ’79 & ’81”. How could I resist? Also, we are going to Disneyland in a month! So I’m getting pretty excited! While I don’t think…

“Ole! Ole! It’s Showtime!”

July 3, 2013, 19 Comments

For those of you who have been reading Atomic Redhead for awhile will recall the treasure I came across back in January of 2012, a pantsuit made of Enchanted Tiki Room fabric. I learned from designer and former cast member, Kevin Kidney that in the mid-60s Disneyland not only sold mens shirts and ladies dresses…

If You Could…

January 16, 2013, 13 Comments

…go back in time for one day and experience something, what would it be? Not going back and changing something or doing something huge, but going back in time and simply witnessing or participating in something a large group did. March on Washington perhaps? Or V-E or V-J day? Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee? Or maybe…

California in 120

November 18, 2012, 4 Comments

The last time Janey and I went to California we took along an old Kodak Dualflex II and shot a few rolls of 120 film (You can see those photos here). This time we did it again, and since we drove we got to see the sights a little more. When we got into LA…