This video was recently announced as an addition to the Library of Congress as part of the National Film Registry. It's a home video of a family who won a trip to visit Disneyland in 1956, shortly after the opening of the park. It's a great window to a world that I'm too young to have known. The video follows the family from submitting their entries to the contest, their TWA flight to California, and video of Knott's Berry Farm, Hollywood, Universal Studios, Catalina, and of course, Disneyland.
Whatever Happened to Manuel’s?
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This recently acquired San Diego slide from March 1958 baffled me, as I
didn’t recognize this building which according to Google was located in Old
Town ...
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