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Harassed Mermaids
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AlohaStation
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06/26/2009
I think I would be guilty too if I had his job. [ Edited by: AlohaStation 2009-06-26 08:05 ] |
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Tom Slick
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06/26/2009
lmao! :lol: thanks for the laugh....Some of the comments are just as funny as the story itself! |
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exquisitecorpse
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06/26/2009
i kissed a weeki wachee mermaid once. |
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King Bushwich the 33rd
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06/26/2009
Meanwhile over in Anaheim, CA.. For a couple of years in the 60's, Disneyland use to have mermaids in the submarine lagoon. Female castmembers who would sit in the lagoon in mermaid costumes. I read somewhere that guys would jump into the water to get to the mermaids. Must have been some siren song thing. |
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Sharkman_75
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06/26/2009
Damn.....no photos?! |
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Chip and Andy
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06/26/2009
I am not sure that quite qualifies as an 'article' by newspaper standards..... Dude got fired for chasing some tail rim shot And I'm with you Alohastation.... if that was my job you know I would be in trouble in very short order. If not with the mermaid then certainly with the wife! |
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captnkirk
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07/30/2012
News Flash! This just in... |
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Brandomoai
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07/30/2012
Noooooooo!! |
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King Bushwich the 33rd
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07/30/2012
Interview with a 1966 Disneyland Submarine Lagoon mermaid with photos. [ Edited by: king bushwich the 33rd 2018-09-09 01:18 ] |
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VampiressRN
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07/31/2012
Great article....thanks King!!!! |
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msteeln
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08/01/2012
REALLY enjoyed the Edie-view. I'd completely forgotten about the lagoon mermaids, having seen them only once and never hearing a mention about them til now. Bring back the mermaids and the '60s! |
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Deke Kahala
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08/01/2012
Cool interview. Why doesn't Disney bring the mermaids back to the Lagoon? |
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Bruddah Bear
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08/01/2012
OSHA... ... and probably the union too. |
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AceExplorer
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08/01/2012
I am a former Disneyland castmember who worked in the Entertainment Division. The production manager I worked for, who was there working when the mermaids were there, occasionally made comments that the mermaid "atmosphere entertainment" program eventually stopped when the company came to realize that the chlorine and the sun exposure just became too problematic for long-term human performers. The submarine lagoon is more highly filtered for clarity and cleanliness, and also much more highly chlorinated, than your typical human swimming pool. Or so the older people around me always said. There's a good interview by Disney historian Jim Korkis with Edie here: I did a quick online search but could not easily determine in what year the mermaid program was stopped. But from the photos I found online, I see that many of those gals were very attractive and had very nice smiles. |
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Deke Kahala
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08/02/2012
That makes sense about the high chlorine and sun exposure. Still a shame that it didn't work, I bet it would be still cool. |
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christiki295
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08/05/2012
Technically, sexual harassment can only occur in the employment context, unless maybe the mermaid was harassed when in a mermaid school. However, I doubt mermans were contemplated when those rules were created. [ Edited by: christiki295 2012-08-05 21:42 ] |
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King Bushwich the 33rd
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08/06/2012
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King Bushwich the 33rd
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08/29/2012
Mermaids at the Republican National Convention However, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration insists that mermaids aren't real. |
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King Bushwich the 33rd
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06/30/2013
Mermaids in training at Disneyland |
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Hale Tiki
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07/01/2013
This thread is brilliantly bizarre. |
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Limbo Lizard
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07/01/2013
The link to the Sun-Sentinel article that began this thread no longer works. I think this is probably the same article: |
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King Bushwich the 33rd
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04/10/2014
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King Bushwich the 33rd
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05/10/2014
Cast member group photo at Disneyland. Image Missing: https://tikicentral.com/resize.php/uploads/2841/536e8540.jpg?w=1280&h=1280&fit=max&sharp=5&s=6e2f56e65829560046510e99e2779ba1 How did the mermaids get from Submarine Lagoon to here? |
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MaxPayola
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03/30/2016
Found this at a flea market, Disney Mermaid postcard Image Missing: https://tikicentral.com/resize.php/uploads/80965/56fb47b6.jpg?w=1280&h=1280&fit=max&sharp=5&s=d6a3c629c442eb2df6183d35cb80d29d |
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AceExplorer
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03/30/2016
Nice postcard! The photo was taken when the park's vegetation was still small. The last time I was there, the area in the background is now quite wooded and shaded by very mature trees. |
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tiki mick
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03/30/2016
Interesting. I always think about the golden age of Disneyland, like when I was really young, and wish I could go time travel back there...but the truth is, the vegetation was a lot shorter back then. The place looks better now, in all honesty. |
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AceExplorer
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03/30/2016
Yeah, I know what you mean. And I also think about long-lost family photos of me as a kid, in and around stuff that's now been torn down. Like the big pirate ship in Fantasyland -- I'm certain there was rum aboard even then!!! (I wrote "rum," so this is officially a tiki post. :) |
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King Bushwich the 33rd
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09/09/2018
A Brief History Of That Time Disneyland Employed Live Mermaids |
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