Sorry…this is the 3rd comment. I am 66 years old. I have visited Disneyland since I was 4 in 1962. I rode on the Pack Mules, the Mine Train, Mike Finks Keel boats, saw the Golden Horseshoe review, rode the canoes, saw the Indian Village, rode the skyway buckets, saw Flight to the Moon then later, Mission of Mars, Tomorrowland And Fantasyland Autopias, Carrousel of Progress, and ate a dry tuna sandwich at Hook’s galley. We used ticket books….which were ok, but limited you to get on inly 10 or 15 rides. ….ok,ok….I will shut up now. Happy Holidays to you, your Rockstar fiancée, and your son.
I Loved that sandwich. It was tuna salad with chopped pickles and celery on a hoagie roll. Kraft cheese melted on the top bun. With a choice of Fritos or Lays. 😋
I’m 66! And I was there in 65 when I was 7. And Yes! Rode all those! My favorites were The Mule ride & the Native American Village with the Daily shows. 🥰👍🏻
1960 was my first visit!! I was 7, I went with a day camp group. The chaperone sat in the hub, and you'd tell her what you wanted to do, she'd give you the correct ticket and off you'd go! CAN YOU IMAGINE??!! Unescorted kids "doing the park" on their own. It was a Very Different Time. Lovely memories.
THIS! This right here is why I love what you do, Justin! I’ve been following you since the beginning, and you never fail to impress. I’m always comparing pictures from yesteryear and the present, its always fascinating. love these videos!
My first trip to Disney was in 1962. My first time flying to LA to visit my Aunt, Uncle, and Cousins after my High School Graduation. Loved it. Thank you, Justin.
Ok.... I went to Disneyland for the first time in 1971. My family moved from the Philly Burbs to Phoenix AZ. Bob's square buckets were still there. The Desert mine train was still there....and those are 2 things I still miss!!! We left Phoenix, back to the Philly burbs. in 1988...Never got to ride Big Thunder. Thank you for your documentary film making and positivity!!!! Love you and your famiia and crew SO much!!!! 58 now and really working on going to Anaheim for 2 weeks ASAP... (2-3 years) 🙂
Duuudee I saw you filming this video in front of pirates and wanted to say hi but was too shy. Looked like you were on a mission :3 It was such a nice day at the park and so dope to see you in your element.
Hi Justin, That’s some excellent film from the past. I was thinking, those scenes are too clear and the color was too vivid for the film to be 8mm, and then near the end you explained that it was 16mm film. That amateur filmographer did a great job holding the camera steady. Thanks for converting that vintage film to video and sharing it. I think those type of vintage films and still photos of theme parks adds a lot of uniqueness and value to your channel. 😀 Cheers
Always look forward to your posts.......park history, DL or Knott's, is my favorite. My years at DL were 1960-70 when we lived near the park.....but visit every few years still.....I love the old park...NWRR the MOST!!! Thanks
It was this type of video that hooked me on your channel. I was babysitting my grand daughter one evening while she was scrolling through videos looking for art lessons. This was my first introduction to TH-cam. I caught a glimpse of this guy walking through Disneyland (My mostist favorite place) wearing a Star Trek jacket (My mostist favorite TV show) talking about Disneyland then and now. Been hooked ever since. Disneyland and I are going to be 70 at the same time. I really hope I get to go.
Started going to Disneyland in 1962 at 6 years old . We would go once a year . Loved watching the cowboy gun fight in Fronterland riding the mine train and riding tha Mark Twain . Going on the dark rides and riding Dumbo and then my favorite ride Casey Jr. By the way my daughters name is Casey.
Thank you Justin. Brings back my childhood vacations at Walt's Place! It was so nice and uncrowded, not like today. But my grandkids love it as much as I did and still do. Thank you for doing a fantastic job always.
I went the first week. wasnt it great when we all fit on the sidewalks!My fave gift was TinkerBells wand that glowed in the dark!I didnt even like tuna but those sandwiches were so good!!!!I still have nightmares of those sky buckets and being stuck on them for an hour while my date swung it a bit!
This is really well shot! Keep in mind that back then running regular 8 millimeter film cost almost a dollar a minute. Adjust that for inflation and you’re looking at about $12 today. Most people couldn’t afford to shoot home movies. And most of them were very badly shot because people were so concerned about the price that they swing the camera all over the place trying to get everything in on a single roll of film. 🎥
I was born in 1956. I started remembering Disneyland back in 1963. I do remember the Mermaids swimming and lounging on a big rock. Right in the Submarine ride lagoon.
My first visit to DLand was in ‘67. (Walt passed in ‘66). My fav, the House of the Future was to the right of Sleeping Beauty castle (Florida has Cinderella Castle). A cool dill pickle for ten cents was my treat on Main Street. Subs were powered by smelly diesel that gave me a headache. People wore their Sunday best clothes to Disneyland. After I became a teenage DLand employee I was told that Walt would walk around the park saying hi to the workers. They told me he valued “doers” more than “book smart” people.
I’ve got some old footage of the pig races in Frontierland. I’m digitizing all my dad’s footage now. Some awesome stuff on there. Can’t believe he carried that huge camera on his shoulder. Knotts log ride, Conan show at universal. So much good stuff that blew my mind as an 8 year old
Thanks for the shot of the INA Insurance Welcome Center at Disneyland in the 1960s. My father worked for INA and it was forgotten that Walt wanted a welcome center for guests to ask questions and get maps.
Did you say 1955 DIsney! GREAT SCOTT, its Howdy Doody time! I think the Disney I know in 1985 is by far the most memorable! Ah, the decade when the DeLorean time machine were build!
Did anyone else notice the last thing you hear after the marching band goes by is a mother asking her kids, "Do you have to go potty?" What a way to end a clip. LOL
Quite spectacular. The movie quality is rather exceptional. 1960 was the same time NY's Freedomland opened, and it certainly mirrored Disneyland in many aspects. You can't make a profit on a theme park if it is closed half the year due to weather. That is why the '64-65 World's Fair was just those 2 years. I have and sent some pictures and movies from '68 and some bumpy footage of the Mule Pack Ride. And of Course, the Bertha Mae picture. Really well done. Thanks.
I was born in California, and even though I do not live there now, I would travel back to my home state, and every so often the family would go to Disneyland. I remember the parking lot. I remember the skyway. And I am sure I drove the autopia car, when they didn’t have those guide rails to keep the cars in lanes. One of my favorite attractions was the Carousel of Tomorrow. I was fascinated by any animatronics in the park. Sadly we didn’t get very many photos while at Disneyland, because, well tbh, it was all about the experience, and the “shot”. I would have liked more photos though, as it would have probably triggered more memories of my youth. I can’t say how many times I’ve been to Disneyland, but each time was an experience. The only thing I never liked were the ticket books, where you had to buy more E tickets for the better rides, because they didn’t put very many in the books. And being lower middle class, we were not able to buy more E tickets. The last time I was at Disneyland, was 18 years ago, and I got to take my daughter with me. It may be one thing to be there as a child and experience all that Disneyland has to offer, but it is quite special to see it through the eyes of your child. For what fits worth, even though Disneyland has changed a lot, there is still a bit of magic left in that place. Maybe I will go back one more time. Thanks Justin for taking us back in time.
My absolute favorite Disney Treasure is Disney after Dark; which includes the grand opening, Disney 1O, and the piece de la resistance, Disney After Dark; a grand circle tour hosted by Walt Disney.
My family used to stop for breakfast (and above all - coffee) at the Hill's Bros Coffee Garden / Maxwell Coffee Garden / American Egg House every time we went to Disneyland. They changed the name and menu a lot over the decades. We would sit at a patio table and watch the crowd. So frustrating that our filmmaker steadfastly ignored absolutely everything behind him, and focused only on the boats. I guess that's where the action was, but I would still love to see what stood where Pirates, the French Market, the Mansion and the rest of New Orleans Square stands now.
Did you know that Disneyland usually sell Mickey Mouse lollipops way back? Yet, when I was little, I tried out my first Mickey Mouse lollipop there! Plus, Disney's California Adventure used to also have Burger Invasion as well! Odin's Windgnasher!
I cant remember what year it was, when me and my family visited Disneyland, but you stll have to buy ride tickets. I was too small for the E-ticket rides :) That was along time ago. It would have been either in the late 60's, or before 1974.
On board ships the steering wheel is called a helm. The bathroom is called a head becauseits a traditiongoing back to the age of sail when ships where small enoughthat theres was only one bathroomand that was at the head (front, bowl) of the ship. On navy ships the sleeping quarters are known as berthing spaces. A drinking fountain is called a scuttle butt, where they do the dishes is called the scullery (?), where you eat is called the mess hall, rooms are called bulkheads and the hospital is called sick bay. On today's ships where the helm is located is called the bridge, where they cook the food is called a galley also bosens mate is actually spelled boatswain's but still pronounced as if it's spelled as bosen's and on navy ships stairs are actually called and more akin to ladders.
OK, I take back everything I said about the cost of 8 mm film. Since you can see the sprocket holes on both sides of the image this is shot on 16 mm! So a single roll of film was only three minutes long! I would’ve sent you back somewhere around $50. So just in that for inflation something over $500! For three minutes!
That is so interesting that the fake flowers have never been identified as souvenirs... did they not get any branding? Is it me or were those Main Street vehicles going at quite a pace? Expecting guests to like... expect vehicles in the road? Poor Mr Wet Sock... squelching around the rest of his Disneyland Day! I don't suppose they sold souvenir socks back then?
I live Disney World. After spending my childhood in Disney World, I really dislike Disneyland. It's so beta, way too cramped, the woke CA bullshit, without the service tunnels it's so odd seeing employees muddling around and taking (vape) breaks behind buildings, the park (and the air) feels so dirty, and every time I have visited Disneyland I have gotten sick. That said, there is nostalgia for the original Disney theme park. Disney hass become way too corporate and cookie-cutter.
Sorry…this is the 3rd comment. I am 66 years old. I have visited Disneyland since I was 4 in 1962. I rode on the Pack Mules, the Mine Train, Mike Finks Keel boats, saw the Golden Horseshoe review, rode the canoes, saw the Indian Village, rode the skyway buckets, saw Flight to the Moon then later, Mission of Mars, Tomorrowland And Fantasyland Autopias, Carrousel of Progress, and ate a dry tuna sandwich at Hook’s galley. We used ticket books….which were ok, but limited you to get on inly 10 or 15 rides. ….ok,ok….I will shut up now. Happy Holidays to you, your Rockstar fiancée, and your son.
I Loved that sandwich. It was tuna salad with chopped pickles and celery on a hoagie roll. Kraft cheese melted on the top bun. With a choice of Fritos or Lays. 😋
Thank you for your comments!!!!! I love to read them as I watch the video for the second time! 💞💯💓
I’m 66! And I was there in 65 when I was 7. And Yes! Rode all those!
My favorites were The Mule ride & the Native American Village with the Daily shows. 🥰👍🏻
Did you get to tour the Monsanto House of the Future? It's one of my earliest memories of Disneyland.
1960 was my first visit!! I was 7, I went with a day camp group. The chaperone sat in the hub, and you'd tell her what you wanted to do, she'd give you the correct ticket and off you'd go! CAN YOU IMAGINE??!! Unescorted kids "doing the park" on their own. It was a Very Different Time. Lovely memories.
THIS!
This right here is why I love what you do, Justin!
I’ve been following you since the beginning, and you never fail to impress.
I’m always comparing pictures from yesteryear and the present, its always fascinating. love these videos!
My first trip to Disney was in 1962. My first time flying to LA to visit my Aunt, Uncle, and Cousins after my High School Graduation. Loved it. Thank you, Justin.
Ok.... I went to Disneyland for the first time in 1971. My family moved from the Philly Burbs to Phoenix AZ. Bob's square buckets were still there. The Desert mine train was still there....and those are 2 things I still miss!!! We left Phoenix, back to the Philly burbs. in 1988...Never got to ride Big Thunder. Thank you for your documentary film making and positivity!!!! Love you and your famiia and crew SO much!!!! 58 now and really working on going to Anaheim for 2 weeks ASAP... (2-3 years) 🙂
LOVE IT!!! only better with a side by side comparison.
Duuudee I saw you filming this video in front of pirates and wanted to say hi but was too shy. Looked like you were on a mission :3 It was such a nice day at the park and so dope to see you in your element.
Hi Justin, That’s some excellent film from the past. I was thinking, those scenes are too clear and the color was too vivid for the film to be 8mm, and then near the end you explained that it was 16mm film. That amateur filmographer did a great job holding the camera steady.
Thanks for converting that vintage film to video and sharing it. I think those type of vintage films and still photos of theme parks adds a lot of uniqueness and value to your channel. 😀
Cheers
I love a Time Travel adventure !
This is delightful Justin (year I was born 1960)
1967 😻
Love these, I saw myself in someone else’s home movies in the one you did at Knotts. ❤
Thanks Justin love Disney time travel to the past
Always look forward to your posts.......park history, DL or Knott's, is my favorite. My years at DL were 1960-70 when we lived near the park.....but visit every few years still.....I love the old park...NWRR the MOST!!! Thanks
Love your time travel videos, wish I could really go back
❤love it. Merry Christmas 🎁🎄 from us!!
Love all your videos. You are nostalgia
It was this type of video that hooked me on your channel. I was babysitting my grand daughter one evening while she was scrolling through videos looking for art lessons. This was my first introduction to TH-cam. I caught a glimpse of this guy walking through Disneyland (My mostist favorite place) wearing a Star Trek jacket (My mostist favorite TV show) talking about Disneyland then and now. Been hooked ever since. Disneyland and I are going to be 70 at the same time. I really hope I get to go.
Started going to Disneyland in 1962 at 6 years old . We would go once a year . Loved watching the cowboy gun fight in Fronterland riding the mine train and riding tha Mark Twain . Going on the dark rides and riding Dumbo and then my favorite ride Casey Jr. By the way my daughters name is Casey.
Thank you Justin. Brings back my childhood vacations at Walt's Place! It was so nice and uncrowded, not like today. But my grandkids love it as much as I did and still do. Thank you for doing a fantastic job always.
I feel sooo old. I remember it just like this…😮😮
Gteat idea, Justin. I love the vintage footage. Merry Christmas 🎄
it amazes me with prices at Disney parks what they are that there are still large crowds
I love these time travel videos Justin. Keep up the great work!
Thanks!
OHHHHH THE NOSTALGIA 😮
I went the first week. wasnt it great when we all fit on the sidewalks!My fave gift was TinkerBells wand that glowed in the dark!I didnt even like tuna but those sandwiches were so good!!!!I still have nightmares of those sky buckets and being stuck on them for an hour while my date swung it a bit!
This is really well shot! Keep in mind that back then running regular 8 millimeter film cost almost a dollar a minute. Adjust that for inflation and you’re looking at about $12 today. Most people couldn’t afford to shoot home movies. And most of them were very badly shot because people were so concerned about the price that they swing the camera all over the place trying to get everything in on a single roll of film. 🎥
This was amazing!!!!!! I started going to Disneyland when I was 2 in 1958. These videos you are showing are so good!!! Love you videos Justin!!!
Good stuff thanks.😎
I remember when I was a kid in the 60's riding in the front of that Monorail in the bubble on top! Cool video of Disneyland past!!!
Love this video with the old footage. Great job pulling it together like this! 👏
So cool. Great film! Thank you to the family for sharing it and you JustinScarred. Thank you
I was born in 1956. I started remembering Disneyland back in 1963. I do remember the Mermaids swimming and lounging on a big rock. Right in the Submarine ride lagoon.
Such a great video! Always love it when you discuss the past and have footage to share
22:10 The age old question.
My first visit to DLand was in ‘67. (Walt passed in ‘66). My fav, the House of the Future was to the right of Sleeping Beauty castle (Florida has Cinderella Castle). A cool dill pickle for ten cents was my treat on Main Street. Subs were powered by smelly diesel that gave me a headache. People wore their Sunday best clothes to Disneyland. After I became a teenage DLand employee I was told that Walt would walk around the park saying hi to the workers. They told me he valued “doers” more than “book smart” people.
Had breakfast a few times in Hills Bros. Thanks for showing it again.
The dog Nana is missing from the Tinkerbell Toy Shoppe entrance.
I’ve got some old footage of the pig races in Frontierland. I’m digitizing all my dad’s footage now. Some awesome stuff on there. Can’t believe he carried that huge camera on his shoulder. Knotts log ride, Conan show at universal. So much good stuff that blew my mind as an 8 year old
This was awesome! Thanks Justin!
Thanks for the shot of the INA Insurance Welcome Center at Disneyland in the 1960s. My father worked for INA and it was forgotten that Walt wanted a welcome center for guests to ask questions and get maps.
I'd pay good money to hang out with you at Disneyland for a day. Talented, energetic, knowledgeable, thank you for brightening my life.
Did you say 1955 DIsney! GREAT SCOTT, its Howdy Doody time! I think the Disney I know in 1985 is by far the most memorable! Ah, the decade when the DeLorean time machine were build!
Did anyone else notice the last thing you hear after the marching band goes by is a mother asking her kids, "Do you have to go potty?" What a way to end a clip. LOL
Disneyland isn't as packed as today. I wish the park was like this today.
This is awesome!
I have never taken a canoe ride as well. The only attraction I have not done. I am “I have my picture with one of the three little pigs old “😂
Same!!!! and I am 58+ 🤪Disgusting!!! 🤦😂🤣
Quite spectacular. The movie quality is rather exceptional. 1960 was the same time NY's Freedomland opened, and it certainly mirrored Disneyland in many aspects.
You can't make a profit on a theme park if it is closed half the year due to weather. That is why the '64-65 World's Fair was just those 2 years.
I have and sent some pictures and movies from '68 and some bumpy footage of the Mule Pack Ride. And of Course, the Bertha Mae picture. Really well done. Thanks.
The tuna sandwich at The Chicken of the Sea restaurant was my favorite ❤
Good to see you yesterday! Lol! 👋
OMG!! Love your videos, 🎉🎉
I parked where DCA is now
Great video! 👏
Nana is missing from the bippity boppity boutique 😊
I was born in California, and even though I do not live there now, I would travel back to my home state, and every so often the family would go to Disneyland. I remember the parking lot. I remember the skyway. And I am sure I drove the autopia car, when they didn’t have those guide rails to keep the cars in lanes. One of my favorite attractions was the Carousel of Tomorrow. I was fascinated by any animatronics in the park.
Sadly we didn’t get very many photos while at Disneyland, because, well tbh, it was all about the experience, and the “shot”. I would have liked more photos though, as it would have probably triggered more memories of my youth.
I can’t say how many times I’ve been to Disneyland, but each time was an experience. The only thing I never liked were the ticket books, where you had to buy more E tickets for the better rides, because they didn’t put very many in the books. And being lower middle class, we were not able to buy more E tickets.
The last time I was at Disneyland, was 18 years ago, and I got to take my daughter with me. It may be one thing to be there as a child and experience all that Disneyland has to offer, but it is quite special to see it through the eyes of your child.
For what fits worth, even though Disneyland has changed a lot, there is still a bit of magic left in that place. Maybe I will go back one more time.
Thanks Justin for taking us back in time.
My absolute favorite Disney Treasure is Disney after Dark; which includes the grand opening, Disney 1O, and the piece de la resistance, Disney After Dark; a grand circle tour hosted by Walt Disney.
Nana is missing from the old toy shop in fantasyland!
Back in the day Disneyland had those ticket booths everywhere so you can buy an extra e-ticket when you ran out.
Nana
Missing Wood Carving
You should do more retrospective documentaries
My family used to stop for breakfast (and above all - coffee) at the Hill's Bros Coffee Garden / Maxwell Coffee Garden / American Egg House every time we went to Disneyland. They changed the name and menu a lot over the decades. We would sit at a patio table and watch the crowd.
So frustrating that our filmmaker steadfastly ignored absolutely everything behind him, and focused only on the boats. I guess that's where the action was, but I would still love to see what stood where Pirates, the French Market, the Mansion and the rest of New Orleans Square stands now.
Hello again Justin 😊
Did you know that Disneyland usually sell Mickey Mouse lollipops way back? Yet, when I was little, I tried out my first Mickey Mouse lollipop there! Plus, Disney's California Adventure used to also have Burger Invasion as well! Odin's Windgnasher!
13:38 WHO IS THAT GUY? He is in the matterhorn. How do I get up there?
I see 2 guys wondering around in the Matterhorn... WHY?
I cant remember what year it was, when me and my family visited Disneyland, but you stll have to buy ride tickets. I was too small for the E-ticket rides :) That was along time ago. It would have been either in the late 60's, or before 1974.
Love nostalgia Disneyland. FYI….. Insurance Company of North America (INA) . Was the 4th carving, Nana? Thank you Justin!
It’s kind of strange to think that most of the adults immortalized in this footage are no longer with us.
That dad is about to go full disney.
I have some videos from WDW and Silver Springs FL on my channel from 1987. Feel free to use that footage if you see anything useful!
By the way, the castle is actually BACKWARDS. Walt preferred it that way.
The 4th wood carved Peter Pan head was Nana, I believe...
@13:39 what is that guy doing walking in the Matterhorn?!!!
On board ships the steering wheel is called a helm. The bathroom is called a head becauseits a traditiongoing back to the age of sail when ships where small enoughthat theres was only one bathroomand that was at the head (front, bowl) of the ship. On navy ships the sleeping quarters are known as berthing spaces. A drinking fountain is called a scuttle butt, where they do the dishes is called the scullery (?), where you eat is called the mess hall, rooms are called bulkheads and the hospital is called sick bay. On today's ships where the helm is located is called the bridge, where they cook the food is called a galley also bosens mate is actually spelled boatswain's but still pronounced as if it's spelled as bosen's and on navy ships stairs are actually called and more akin to ladders.
They need to bring the flags back to the castle
W vid
If I'm not mistaken and the picture I looked on Google I believe it was Nana the dog
i was wondering, it there also old vintage Disney Christmad videos of it? or different theme moments?
OK, I take back everything I said about the cost of 8 mm film. Since you can see the sprocket holes on both sides of the image this is shot on 16 mm! So a single roll of film was only three minutes long! I would’ve sent you back somewhere around $50. So just in that for inflation something over $500! For three minutes!
Do you have any from 1961 and 1962
That is so interesting that the fake flowers have never been identified as souvenirs... did they not get any branding? Is it me or were those Main Street vehicles going at quite a pace? Expecting guests to like... expect vehicles in the road? Poor Mr Wet Sock... squelching around the rest of his Disneyland Day! I don't suppose they sold souvenir socks back then?
Was it Nana that is the missing carved character from Tinker Bell Toy Shop?
Nana
Whatever happened to Tyler?
The missing character is Nana.
Oh, yes where is the Pan Man? aka, Peter Pan.
The missing carving is Peter Pan
NANA
FIRST!!!!😊😊😊
Can we just call them Bobgerrsleds?
First!
Peter pan
I live Disney World. After spending my childhood in Disney World, I really dislike Disneyland. It's so beta, way too cramped, the woke CA bullshit, without the service tunnels it's so odd seeing employees muddling around and taking (vape) breaks behind buildings, the park (and the air) feels so dirty, and every time I have visited Disneyland I have gotten sick. That said, there is nostalgia for the original Disney theme park. Disney hass become way too corporate and cookie-cutter.
You’re fun.
Nana