Thanks, I grew up there in the 50s and 60s. We never saw the tourist stuff -- except once at a baby luau. The cousin brought her Waikiki Hula group to celebrate her new cousin!
Well, the Mickey Mouse Club Headquarters at the Opera House means it's gotta be 1963-64, as Mr. Lincoln showed up there in 1965. Almost everything else lines up: Subs/Matterhorn 1959, no New Tomorrowland stuff yet (so pre-67), everybody looks like they come from 63-65, and Erik/The Phantom was a Main Street character in the mid-sixties, too. The fishing stuff would've been gone by the 1960s AFAIK, so it's possible that was spliced in from another trip.
My father was employed by GE, we got in without waiting, and I remember this. I was 10 years old and thought this was the most exciting thing that I had ever seen in my life!! Thanks for this wonderful memory!
Anyone would love Catalina Island. I heard about it in first grade in the Dick and Jane reader. The family went to Catalina. That was 1956. I finally went myself in 2001. Go there. It’s like no other place I ever was.
About 1982 I was working at Todd shipyard in San Pedro. The Catalina was there tied up to the pier and no one was allowed to go on it because it was tied up in some kind of legality. Well me and the kid I was I snuck on it. I got an engine room and they were giant connecting rods horizontal one on the right and one on the left. I don't remember exactly how long they were 10 or 15 ft. Amazing in all the damn park benches up on the main deck top deck rather. And it was riveted together it was not welded. That was some crazy s*** man and I've been on a lot of ships
1:56 Now THOSE are the dwarf costumes I LOVE - I LOVE the upright hats - they are what I grew up with. I really don't like the wee willy winky flopped over cloth caps they have had for the longest time now - they just look lazy and wrong!
Interesting, I remember seeing these films for sale at the photo store on Main Street along with Viewmaster packets and Panaview Color slides. It's a nice time capsule of attractions that no longer exists and people were able to splice their own personal footage into this film. It's too bad that the smart phone's replaced the Movie/video & still camera. Analogue photography was more fun.
