1967 prospectus for potential members of Disneyland's "Club 33"
From this post on Boing Boing: a 1967 prospectus for potential members of Disneyland's "Club 33", located in New Orleans Square.
My husband spent a year in which he visited Disneyland on a daily basis (recovering from a start-up adventure), and he was a frequent visitor to Club 33 -- courtesy of a company he was consulting with. The last time I was there we sat next to Brian Grazer (Ron Howard's producing partner). Kewl!
Here's my favorite quote: So get ready to go back in time to the age of three martini lunches, crew cuts, and pill box hats.
Enjoy!
No British men's club ever enjoyed a more masculine atmosphere than the Trophy Room. And the stories spun here are likely to be taller by far than those that fill a big game hunter's den.
The walls of the Trophy Room (the rich wood look and touch of natural finish cypress) are lined with samples of the hunter's skill. Over a period of years, friends of Walt Disney had given him a prize collection of princely value: African antelope, mountain goat, native spears, masks and plumes. And the room's most valuable decorative showpiece, a nine-foot long, solid ivory mammoth tusk.
Forty-two guests dining at pub-like, natural oak tables will find their attention drawn not only to these treasures, but to several other seemingly passive birds and animals around the room. Above the fireplace, an owl and two magpies. Nearby, a raccoon. Across the room, a leering, hungry vulture.
This is no ordinary menagerie. For when the feathers begin to fly, and the tall tales are spun back and forth across the Trophy Room, the voices may not be those of your luncheon companions alone. To the contrary: these Audio-Animatronic performers are as talented as the marvelous Macaws in the Enchanted Tiki Room, and as talkative as "mother" in the General Electric Carousel of Progress. And the wise old owl on his fireplace perch has one more extraordinary talent; for a tuppence or two, he can talk directly for you. He may even know your guests by name!
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