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B bungy Member Joined: Dec 17, 2005 Posts: 77	B bungy Posted posted on Sat, Jan 14, 2006 7:13 AM More Disneyland! Walt Disney used to walk around the whole of Disneyland, seeing that all was going well, if it wasan't either he waould speak to whomever right then, or a memo would come in. My cousin, Billie Lou, was trying to count yesterdays receipts in her car, which was illegally parked inside the Park, and Walt told her hse had to get out NOW! All individual shops had to have some sort of costume.. ours were shorts, aloha shirts, and Tahitian hand woven pandanus hats which we also sold. We had them in big stacks as they came out of packing crates.. all rolled up inside each other. Then, we had a bucket of water beside the display. Someone want a custom hat? We took one of the soaking hats out of the bucket, shook off the water, and proceeded to shape it and fit it for them, stuck it on their heads, took the $3.95 plus tax.. and off they would go.. happy campers! We had a real live???? shrunken head from Peru in a big glass battery jar (these used to be in all cars!), and the second year, someone stole it. The Security guards looked all over the jungle rides for it.. thinking maybe someone had hidden it there. They were on the look-out at the front gates too as all went home.. but never found it.. I wonder where he is!!! We lived in a farm house on 11 acres right across from Disneyland. I used to close out the registers, lock upo the shops, throw the recepits ($4000.) into by bike basket, and head home acroos the parking lot, thru the orange groves, onto Harbor Blvd, cross the street to Katella .. and our home was about a block from Harbor! Thatw as afetr 10:00PM Never felt afraid of traffic or anyhting! What a free life it was! The Mouskateers had a Christmas Circus.. and they were always needing people to put on the costumes of Disney animals for the Grand March,, so I would try and time my breaks for that time, rush over, grab whatever costume was available (Goofey??) and dance around the Big Top in my costume! The Big Moosekateer, Roy Williams, became good friends with mother and daddy, and at noon you would always find him, having lunch at our house. His job, besides the show they put on sevral times a day, was to sit on Main Street and draw caricatures of guests, and give them to them. When they were getting the Indian Village going, daddy strolled over one day, ran into the main Indian Chief, and they both stopped dead cold, called out each other's name, and did big bear hugs! They had known each other in OKla. where, we used to live before coming to CA. Daddy had a Pierce Arrow convertible, and the Chief rode in it in a Parade that some cummunity org. that Daddy belonged to, was putting on! That's all for now! Folks! Auntie Bungy

More Disneyland!
Walt Disney used to walk around the whole of Disneyland, seeing that all was going well, if it wasan't either he waould speak to whomever right then, or a memo would come in.
My cousin, Billie Lou, was trying to count yesterdays receipts in her car, which was illegally parked inside the Park, and Walt told her hse had to get out NOW!
All individual shops had to have some sort of costume.. ours were shorts, aloha shirts, and Tahitian hand woven pandanus hats which we also sold. We had them in big stacks as they came out of packing crates.. all rolled up inside each other. Then, we had a bucket of water beside the display. Someone want a custom hat? We took one of the soaking hats out of the bucket, shook off the water, and proceeded to shape it and fit it for them, stuck it on their heads, took the $3.95 plus tax.. and off they would go.. happy campers!
We had a real live???? shrunken head from Peru in a big glass battery jar (these used to be in all cars!), and the second year, someone stole it. The Security guards looked all over the jungle rides for it.. thinking maybe someone had hidden it there. They were on the look-out at the front gates too as all went home.. but never found it.. I wonder where he is!!!

We lived in a farm house on 11 acres right across from Disneyland. I used to close out the registers, lock upo the shops, throw the recepits ($4000.) into by bike basket, and head home acroos the parking lot, thru the orange groves, onto Harbor Blvd, cross the street to Katella .. and our home was about a block from Harbor! Thatw as afetr 10:00PM Never felt afraid of traffic or anyhting! What a free life it was!
The Mouskateers had a Christmas Circus.. and they were always needing people to put on the costumes of Disney animals for the Grand March,, so I would try and time my breaks for that time, rush over, grab whatever costume was available (Goofey??) and dance around the Big Top in my costume!
The Big Moosekateer, Roy Williams, became good friends with mother and daddy, and at noon you would always find him, having lunch at our house. His job, besides the show they put on sevral times a day, was to sit on Main Street and draw caricatures of guests, and give them to them.
When they were getting the Indian Village going, daddy strolled over one day, ran into the main Indian Chief, and they both stopped dead cold, called out each other's name, and did big bear hugs! They had known each other in OKla. where, we used to live before coming to CA. Daddy had a Pierce Arrow convertible, and the Chief rode in it in a Parade that some cummunity org. that Daddy belonged to, was putting on!
That's all for now! Folks! Auntie Bungy

Post #207521 by bungy on Sat, Jan 14, 2006 7:13 AM