More Haunted Mansion!

And more pins! Here is the pin that I was purchasing on Disneyland's 55th birthday that led to my discovery of the special limited pins featured in my Art Corner post from last month. This pin is a copy of the roadside billboard that advertised the opening of the Haunted Manison back in 1969. I know I have a photo of the actual billboard somewhere, but I have searched high and low through my computer files and can't find it!


Here's a set of five pins featuring the Haunted Mansion's changing portraits. I wish they had included the original April-December portrait in the set instead of the newer Master Gracey portrait that replaced it (The Master Gracey portrait is original to Walt Disney World's Haunted Mansion and wasn't added to Anaheim until 2006.)

When exposed to black light, these pins/paintings change to their alternate versions. Disney is selling a mini blacklight flashlight that clips onto the back of a bat-shaped lanyard medallion.

You might recognize the bat from the queue posts inside the Haunted Mansion.

Haunted Mansion - 41st Anniversary!

Today is the 41st Anniversary of Disneyland's Haunted Mansion. In honor of the occasion, let's take a look at a vintage Haunted Mansion souvenir. This postcard booklet was purchased during one of my childhood visits to the park back in the early seventies.

This last pic shows the Hitchhiking Ghosts before "Phineas" (the first one on the left), had his eyes removed. I would like to know why they were taken out. For years now, they have been just dark empty sockets. To see how he appears now, click here for Daveland's post on the Hitchhiking Ghosts and check out the very last pic of this guy.

Happy 41st Anniversary to a Disneyland classic!