a historical artifact promoting Walt Disney’s “Victory Through Air Power” (1943)

 https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=122195072066392081&set=pcb.122195072096392081

Walt Disney seems to have preferred this tiller steered cool old runabout

Here with his wife Lillian, and in the back seat is Fred McMurray

https://www.tumblr.com/walt-at-disneyland/173195747218/celebrating-today-walts-mother-flora-call

Walt Disney cruising around the studio backlot on a miniature horse-drawn stagecoach.

The vehicle was part of the Disneyland Stage Lines which operated at Disneyland from 1955-1959. 

Original photo taken by Alfred Eisenstaedt - Burbank, California - December 1954.

https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=1571352008325494&set=a.530718349055537

https://www.tumblr.com/walt-at-disneyland/173195747218/celebrating-today-walts-mother-flora-call

Walt Disney and Ward Kimball at the Chicago Railroad Fair of '48

https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=1580481083455246&set=a.556940129142685

there's a really well done comic about the Duckberg F1 fan club, free online...

I can see why they made it narrow, and vertically scrolling online, but I do not like that since so many morons can't hold a cell phone horizontally for a panoramic photo, that the online comic gets a vertical treatment that's more annoying to look at than a horizontal one

I'm not sure who this online comic is targetting demographically either, do kids enjoy Mickey and a "friendly" Donald? Mad as hell Donald was always so much more fun to watch in cartoons. 

https://www.webtoons.com/en/graphic-novel/mickey-x-f1-racing-to-the-top/episode-1/viewer?title_no=9762&episode_no=1

https://kisaient.com/

Compliments to Kisai Entertainment for the visually appealing art! 

this is a hoot... what being in construction was like when building Disneyland in the 50s, before safety and OSHA

 

I just learned that the narrator of the Disney classic "The Brave Engineer" was Jerry Colonna

and I had no idea, that he also voiced the March Hare! 

Is it more surprising that I found this photo, of a Bantam advertising the dairy? Or that I already covered the sculptor that made that statue? I think it's nuts I've covered the statue already, YOU are getting your money's worth!

Finn Frolich made the sculpture of Indy 500 winner Tommy Milton: "Modern Speed", that I posted, https://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2011/08/finn-frolich-architect-and-scuptor-of.html

also made this dairy cow sculpture. 

I find it so damn amusing that because I cover stuff like the artist that made the sculpture for race cars, that over a dozen years later, I recognize this dairy sculpture, and know the artist by name. 

But... is this even crazier? 

The guy that took this photo? Worked on Fantasia. And Pinocchio. 

Then died in the jungles of Guatemala.  His remains were discovered 18 months later.

cataloger Herman J. Schultheis was born in Aachen, Germany in 1900, and immigrated to the United States in the mid-1920s after obtaining a Ph.D. in mechanical and electrical engineering.

 He moved to Los Angeles in 1937, and worked in the film industry from the late 1930s to the mid-1940s, most notably on the animated features Fantasia and Pinocchio. 

His detailed notebook, documenting the special effects for Fantasia, is the subject of a 14-minute short-subject included on the film's DVD.

 In 1949, he started employment with Librascope as a patent engineer. Schultheis was an avid amateur photographer who traveled the world with his cameras. It was on one of these photographic exhibitions in 1955 that he disappeared in the jungles of Guatemala. His remains were discovered 18 months later. 

If that doesn't convince you that you're getting content right here (now n then) that no one else is putting online for your enjoyment, from the Bantam, to the sculpture, to the photographer of the sculpture, who worked at Disney on Fantasia... then I deserve to be told where you can find better than what I'm doing

In 1915, Rhoda Agatha Rindge, heiress, married Merritt Adamson, ranch foreman, also USC Law school grad and captain of the USC football team. 

In 1916 Adamson established the Adohr (Rhoda spelled backwards) dairy business up the hill in the San Fernando Valley. 

By the mid-1920’s it was the largest certified dairy in the world. It was well-known for innovative and quality dairy production and for it’s marketing acumen and for it’s famous reddish-golden brown Guernseys. 

Sometime in the 1920s the milkmaid and cow sculpture was commissioned for placement at the dairy headquarters.

The Spanish land grant that made up Rancho Malibu was split into three parcels in 1905 after the death of Frederick Hastings Rindge. 

In 1916 Rindge's daughter Rhoda and her husband Merritt Adamson Sr. established a dairy farm named Adohr located at 18000 Ventura Blvd. in Tarzana. 

The farm was famous for breeding Guernsey cattle. Land was slowly sold during the depression and in 1948 the remaining 500 acres were sold to developers when the dairy farm moved to Camarillo. 

The Camarillo farm was sold for the Westview Park subdivision in 1969.

https://forums.aaca.org/topic/341211-period-images-to-relieve-some-of-the-stress/page/177/

https://bookendcollector.wordpress.com/2020/06/05/bookends-adohr-dairy-milkmaid-guernsey/

https://www.facebook.com/groups/709087063100668/posts/980538385955533/

https://calisphere.org/item/5c2ea593e115ecaeec43b937d8d38528/

Exactly HOW does grease and oil improve the way a car starts? Uh huh.., an example of nonsense advertising one product vs the competition when all of it is identical (gas, oil, filters, etc)

https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10161807431002343&set=gm.1414704103690209&idorvanity=169550661538899

US Navy Albina Engine and Machine Works ( a shipyard along the Willamette River in Portland, Oregon ) Disney military patch

The Albina Engine & Machine Works produced a number of freighters during World War I, but operated mainly as a repair yard during the 1920s and 1930s. 

The Albina yard expanded its workforce and production during Portland's World War II shipbuilding boom. 

It specialized in producing subchasers, vessels designed to combat German U-boats. Albina Engine & Machine Works also built Landing Craft Support vessels, cargo ships, and barges

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albina_Engine_%26_Machine_Works

of all things Disney could advertise for, these were for Nash in 1955

https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=26211214465131928&set=gm.1407421184418501&idorvanity=169550661538899

I just learned that there is a Facebook page for Disneyland Railroad

 https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=122127202106988751&set=gm.10163288539442319&idorvanity=8271842318

this is one dedicated Radiator Springs fan... he's ridden it 15,000 times. But what it took to get to ride it the first time is just as amazing as how many times he rode it after that

He is a huge Cars movie fan. He always wanted to ride Radiator Springs when it came out. But due to him needing reconstructive knee surgery and being overweight he could never ride it. 

He had to lose 150 lbs before he could have the knee surgery, and he did it, he lost 150 lbs, had the knee surgery and when he recovered the first thing he did was went to Disneyland to ride Radiator Springs, and he loved it so much that he never stopped. 

It has taken him 13 years to reach 15000. He uses the single rider line he averages about 13 rides per every time he goes. It makes him happy, it brings joy to his life and that's all that really matters.

https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10230014989020893&set=gm.1896991021195676&idorvanity=1339779966916787

Army Transportation Journal, April 1945.

https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=1054919594520261&set=gm.462519470586576

This was created for the Los Angeles Port of Embarkation & features the stork from Dumbo. 

I'd love to look through some of these magazines and see what the Army transportation magazine was covering

WW2 Tank Battalion patch art from Disney, the 710th, 714th, 751st, and 68th

https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth618304

https://www.wearethemighty.com/articles/forget-suicide-squad-this-was-americas-suicide-division/

https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth391665/

68th Tank Battalion

https://www.usmilitariaforum.com/forums/index.php?/topic/39012-68th-tank-battalion/

 68th Tank Battalion - 6th Armored

https://2719hyperion.blogspot.com/p/service-with-character-disney-world-war.html