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Bumbo the Clown, aka Andrew M. Beyer a Marine Corps Veteran of the 2nd World War. He married his wife Margaret in 1944 moved to California with a a baby on the way...after buying this truck with the merry-go-round in Boston and driving from Philly to Orange County and paying for gas by giving kids rides for 10 cents in towns they passed through. He was a clown for the rest of his life. He even would drive to low income neighborhoods to give free rides to the neighborhood kids. Stories of police, and even homeless people offering him money to make sure all the kids could ride the ponies, he never accepted the money he just made sure it happened. Thanks for posting this - I own items from his home from a recent estate sale and I did some research and thought I would share.
“The floors on which you are walking, the gently sloping walls around you, and even the ceilings are made of plastics.”
This picture was taken in 1957, the year when the House of the Future first opened. Since my dad was a budding young engineer and lived across the street from Disneyland in 1957, he probably ran right out and took this picture fairly close to opening day.
The House of the Future was created by the Monsanto Chemical company, who also created a few other attractions at Disneyland, such as the Hall of Chemistry. After Monsanto's Adventure Thru Inner Space (one of my favorites as a boy) opened in 1967, the House of the Future was doomed. Legend has that the demolition for the House of the Future was planned to be 1 day, but it ended up taking 2 weeks, because the wrecking ball kept bouncing off the plastic walls, so workers had to meticulously cut it into pieces using hacksaws.
This site (named Alpine Gardens) remained landscaped with waterfalls and walkways with a souvenir stand for about 30 years. In 1996, Triton's Garden opened here with jumping fountains and a sculpture of King Triton. Disney dumped King Triton in 2008, and inserted Pixie Hollow, which is still there today (2010).
When the ride first opened up in 1955, Timothy Mouse was holding a whip (see picture above), but somewhere along the way, public outcry pressured Disneyland to lose the whip, so they replaced it with a magic feather. Disneyland recently (2006?) snuck the whip back in, probably during their 50th anniversary to commemorate the original ride.
Thanks for the kind words Nawitka. The rocket that's in Disneyland today isn't the original rocket pictured in this photo. The rocket in Disneyland today is a replica of the original rocket from 1955. The original rocket was 50% bigger than the rocket in Disneyland today, but other than that, it's an identical replica.
This photo was taken from the back of the house at 2008 Norma Lane in 1958. The woman in the background is standing where the front door will be. The yellow car in the background is parked on Norma Lane. The property is surrounded by orange trees, which were all over the Orange County area at the time this photo was taken. This home is just a few blocks from Disneyland which opened 3 years prior to when this photo was taken.
This is a photo of the home at 2008 Norma Lane just as construction began in 1958. The front of this photo is where the front door will go. The garage hooks over to the left side but is not in the picture. Behind the house (and the surrounding area) is littered with orange trees, for which Orange County was named and was famous for at the time.
This is a picture of the Angel's Flight railway in 1956. It was dubbed "the Shortest Railway in the World". It was originally built in 1901 at the corner of 3rd and Hill St. It was dismantled by the city in the late 1960s when the area got demolished in a redevelopment effort. In 1995, reconstruction began to retun the Angel's Flight using 60% of the original material, except now it sits about halfway between 3rd and 4th street, with the base still at Hill street.
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Bumbo the Clown, aka Andrew M. Beyer a Marine Corps Veteran of the 2nd World War. He married his wife Margaret in 1944 moved to California with a a baby on the way...after buying this truck with the merry-go-round in Boston and driving from Philly to Orange County and paying for gas by giving kids rides for 10 cents in towns they passed through. He was a clown for the rest of his life. He even would drive to low income neighborhoods to give free rides to the neighborhood kids. Stories of police, and even homeless people offering him money to make sure all the kids could ride the ponies, he never accepted the money he just made sure it happened. Thanks for posting this - I own items from his home from a recent estate sale and I did some research and thought I would share.
It's been two years since the first comment. Why don't you correct this location?????
“The floors on which you are walking, the gently sloping walls around you, and even the ceilings are made of plastics.”
This picture was taken in 1957, the year when the House of the Future first opened. Since my dad was a budding young engineer and lived across the street from Disneyland in 1957, he probably ran right out and took this picture fairly close to opening day.
The House of the Future was created by the Monsanto Chemical company, who also created a few other attractions at Disneyland, such as the Hall of Chemistry. After Monsanto's Adventure Thru Inner Space (one of my favorites as a boy) opened in 1967, the House of the Future was doomed. Legend has that the demolition for the House of the Future was planned to be 1 day, but it ended up taking 2 weeks, because the wrecking ball kept bouncing off the plastic walls, so workers had to meticulously cut it into pieces using hacksaws.
This site (named Alpine Gardens) remained landscaped with waterfalls and walkways with a souvenir stand for about 30 years. In 1996, Triton's Garden opened here with jumping fountains and a sculpture of King Triton. Disney dumped King Triton in 2008, and inserted Pixie Hollow, which is still there today (2010).
Wow! Way off. You are looking at the African Velt, where the hand of man has never set foot.
When the ride first opened up in 1955, Timothy Mouse was holding a whip (see picture above), but somewhere along the way, public outcry pressured Disneyland to lose the whip, so they replaced it with a magic feather. Disneyland recently (2006?) snuck the whip back in, probably during their 50th anniversary to commemorate the original ride.
Thanks for the kind words Nawitka. The rocket that's in Disneyland today isn't the original rocket pictured in this photo. The rocket in Disneyland today is a replica of the original rocket from 1955. The original rocket was 50% bigger than the rocket in Disneyland today, but other than that, it's an identical replica.
This photo was taken from the back of the house at 2008 Norma Lane in 1958. The woman in the background is standing where the front door will be. The yellow car in the background is parked on Norma Lane. The property is surrounded by orange trees, which were all over the Orange County area at the time this photo was taken. This home is just a few blocks from Disneyland which opened 3 years prior to when this photo was taken.
This is a photo of the home at 2008 Norma Lane just as construction began in 1958. The front of this photo is where the front door will go. The garage hooks over to the left side but is not in the picture. Behind the house (and the surrounding area) is littered with orange trees, for which Orange County was named and was famous for at the time.
Sunset view from the backyard at 5846 Gleneagles Circle.
This is a picture of the Angel's Flight railway in 1956. It was dubbed "the Shortest Railway in the World". It was originally built in 1901 at the corner of 3rd and Hill St. It was dismantled by the city in the late 1960s when the area got demolished in a redevelopment effort. In 1995, reconstruction began to retun the Angel's Flight using 60% of the original material, except now it sits about halfway between 3rd and 4th street, with the base still at Hill street.