This week when I was doing blog post on my ParkHopping.com site about how taking photos has changed between 1996 when I got my first digital camera and 2026, thirty years (!) later.
I realized … I did not have those tour photos in my gallery. They were not “photos of specific stuff” so I never added them. But, hey, preserve! A bad photo is better than no photo.
I have revised the Disneyland gallery and added these photos to the 1997 album.
But do you remember that time in the 1990s when Disneyland started celebrating Christmas in August?
No?
Let’s park hop back to twenty-two years ago today…
Here’s a photo from August 20, 1997. Notice the Christmas garland around Coca-Cola Corner…
Christmas in August on August 20, 1997.
I’d have gotten closer photos if I could have, but that area was off limits. Look again. Did you notice the ladder in the street, tripod stand in the left, or the large clump of electrical cable near the lamp post?
Disneyland was being used as a filming location for a Christmas commercial for the now-defunct Mervyn’s department store.
Christmas in August on August 20, 1997.
They had most of Main Street blocked off during filming.
Christmas in August on August 20, 1997.Christmas in August on August 20, 1997.
Guests were being routed down the left sidewalk towards Adventureland and Frontierland.
Christmas in August on August 20, 1997.
For Southern California folks, seeing movie crews filming is a rather ordinary experience. But, I suspect, seeing Disneyland decorated for Christmas in August was not. I was excited to see both.
Merry Christmas in August!
Some day you’ll have to me to tell you about the time I saw Shirley Jones (Partridge Family) filming in Toon Town for a Disney special…
