A Disney Christmas In Black & White - 1980

For today's post we have some Los Angeles Times newspaper clippings from 30 years ago. Up first, is an advertisement for the 1980 holiday season at Disneyland. The S.O.S. band was back at the park and the Lennon Sisters were performing as well. Michael Landon was the celebrity guest for the Candlelight Procession/Ceremony that year. I like the way that this ad was drawn as if it were needlepoint....or is it cross-stitch?

Come home for the holidays......come home to Disneyland!


Next, we have an ad from October of 1980 announcing auditions for the Christmas Parade at Disneyland. As we can see in the ad above, the Christmas Parade that year was "Fantasy On Parade" which was making it's return after being on hiatus for several years ("The Very Merry Christmas Parade" had taken it's place in 1977). I happened to go to the parade auditions one year later and was hired for the 1981 edition of "Fantasy On Parade."

And here's an ad from December of 1980 for the first re-release of the animated film, "The Aristocats."