Main Street 1996

I was scanning some old family photos and what do my weary eyes see? Disneyland! Naturally, as soon as I scanned these photos, I had to share them with you.

I am pretty sure that this lovely display was inspired by 101 Dalmatians - ya think?

That's it for now. Still looking for a job, and hoping to start temping soon. Got all the paperwork done and hopefully the phone will start ringing.  When I find more photos (and you know I will) I will share them here.

Disneyland Cinco de Mayo 1975

Here are some horrible photos from 1975. Most people would look at these and ask, "Why on Earth did you bother to scan these?"

Well, we know the answer to that, right? Because we are Disneyland geeks and we look at the backgrounds!!!

Apparently, I was very happy to pose with the Big Bad Wolf!

And since it was Cinco de Mayo, I had to take a photo of the little Mexican children on Small World, LOL!

Hope you enjoyed these. More to come soon. Still no job but hey, now I can scan old photos!

Disney in bleach?

No, you're not imagining things. I did say Disney in bleach. You are never going to believe what I found on Pinterest and I had to share it with you. Mind you, I am not very creative so I would never attempt to do a design like this but my sister does draw beautifully so I will convince her to do it for me! OK, enough talk - click on this link to see an adorable Dumbo T-shirt done at home with bleach!

So as I was drooling over that adorable shirt, it occurred to me that I did indeed have a ruined T-shirt in my closet. It was a brand new black T and I'd only had it a couple of months when it was ruined by some bleach that someone has splashed on the washing machine and failed to wipe it up. I couldn't make myself throw it out so it lurked in my closet until it was called into service on days that required old grubby clothes.

I pulled out the shirt and took it to the kitchen and inserted a plastic cutting board in the shirt. Then I grabbed a cheap make up brush and poured some bleach into a tiny bowl and began to "paint".

My intention was to decorate a good portion of the front of the shirt but I soon tired. Well, tired isn't exactly true - I got frustrated because I just can't draw. And as if that wasn't bad enough, my makeup brush had disintegrated! The bleach ate it up, LOL!

I was about to give up and realized that I had not yet "painted" the spot on the shirt that has originally ruined it. I quickly did a lame flower (above), then I let it dry completely. Once it was dry, I washed the shirt so that I could wear it tomorrow. The cool thing? I can continue painting in spurts whenever I want.

When I finally convince my sis to do a Disney design for me, I'll be sure to post it!

Route 62 Window Shopping

After we ate at the Route 62 Diner, we had to walk off out lunch so we stopped at an interesting shop that was part thrift shop and part artistic showplace. Right off the bat, I was intrigued by the eclectic collection of items!

These yard art cactus "plants" are very cool.

They had plenty of vintage fashions.

And look what somebody did with old license plates. You could even custom order them!

I fell in love with this little guy!

OK fans of retro - What's in the box?

Behold! A fancy desk phone!

This actually had me transfixed - I stood and stared at it for almost five full minutes. The details were intriguing.

 

There are some very talented people in this world. I love all of this odd metal work.

Who painted me???

Wait til you see this! These were from the late 30s early 40...toy kitchen items made of wood! BEAUTIFUL!

That wraps up my trip to the desert. Hope you enjoyed it!

Route 62

Yes, Virginia, there is a Route 62.

After we left Pioneer Town, we were mighty hungry so we decided to stop at a diner we had seen earlier when we first started our adventure.

The Route 62 Diner, to be exact. Unfortunately, they don't have a website but I can tell you that I did enjoy my lunch and if I am ever in the area again, I would eat there.

The decor is your "classic" 50's style...the coolest thing for me were all the old 45 records on the wall.

We got there after the lunch crowd so we had the place pretty much to ourselves.

Here's my sandwich and looking at it now, I want one.

Come back tomorrow and you'll see the cool shop we explored.

Pioneer Town

This post is a continuation of a little trip I blogged about back in February. My friends and I visited Amboy and on our way back to Palm Desert, we stopped at a place called  Pioneer Town. I had never heard of but it's there and it's cool. Not much was going on the day we stopped in but that's OK - I liked having the entire town all to myself!

There are a few souvenir shops to browse in...

And several spots for photo ops...

And little critters that follow you!

I think we were there a total of 45 minutes and I'd like to go back in the Spring when there is more going on.

The road to and from was pretty cool, too.

I just love these old two lane roads.