More Items up for Auction!

I've posted a bunch more items on the various auction sites.  I've got some CGC Peanuts comics on the ComicLink site starting on Oct 8, two nice pieces of animation on Howard Lowery's auction site this week, and a fantastic Jaime Hernandez page from Love and Rockets from 1987 up on Heritage, which starts accepting bids in late October.  Bid on my stuff!

Selling Everything but the Kitchen Sink!

As some of you may have heard on my other blog or through various social networking sites, I've been cleaning house and selling off everything that we don't have room for or just don't need/want any more.  I've currently got auctions running on both eBay and Heritage.  Check them out if you like movie posters and original comic book art.

RIP Ray Bradbury

Ray Bradbury passed away at the age of 91.  The man was a sci-fi GOD.  I had the pleasure of meeting him several times while I was growing up in Southern California, mostly at the dearly departed A Change of Hobbit bookstore in Santa Monica. 

My high school English teacher was good friends with him, and would always arrange a visit when her science fiction book club made the trek from Torrance to Santa Monica.

Haggis is ok, but ...

Back from our fabulous trip to Scotland, where much fun and great food was had.  We even had haggis, and despite its less than appetizing description, it is quite good.  But, when we saw these potato chips for sale, that's where I draw the line.

Disneyland Hotel Room Service Fold Out Menu

The last of my menus :-(  This is a really weird one, but weird = = cool.  A Disneyland Hotel room service menu.  Now that in and of itself would not be that interesting, except for the format:  It is a penta-fold menu, folded 5 times accordion-style, making this thing huge at 15x27 fully unfolded!  I love the art of Goofy with winged feet delivering your meal.

I could probably date this better than 1960s or 1970s based on the list of other restaurants at the hotel, but I don't have any ready reference material to do it, so if anyone can date this for me, feel free!

The list of items available is quite impressive, I'd love to see bottles of Disneyland Hotel Label scotch, bourbon, gin, vodka and rum.  Bet there's no character art on those labels.

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1970 Disneyland Blue Bayou Menu

This is a rare menu, from the Blue Bayou restaurant in New Orleans Square.  I've seen some of these from later years (1980s and 1990s), but the previous owner was kind enough to date this 1970 on the inside.

This is a large menu, approximately 9x13.  I love the color of this menu, a color that I always associate with the Haunted Mansion rather than Pirates.  Nice to see that my favorite Monte Cristo was available even in 1970.  Who knows, I probably ate one in the summer of that year.

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Disneyland Hills Brother's Coffee House Menu

This is a great vintage Disneyland menu, from the Hills Brother's Coffee House.  I don't really have any memories of this restaurant, we probably never went there when I was a kid since we stayed at the hotel and would generally have breakfast there.

Great red color on this menu, kinda like the Carnation menu from earlier, but this has a full page ad for Hills Bros coffee inside since there was nowhere near enough menu items to fill up the inside.  Again, this is a full sized menu, approximately 8x10, so larger than the Carnation menu.

It is difficult to date this menu with any accuracy, but at least we can ballpark it by the map of Disneyland on the back.  The monorail is present, but we still have old Tomorrowland, so sometime between 1959-1966 would be my guess.

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1975 Walt Disney Studio Commissary Restaurant Menu

This is a very modern studio menu from 1975.  It is different from all the other menus I've seen so far in that it has a center opening; very unusual.  The art on the menu is of Mickey and Minnie in their pie-eyed personas as was very popular in the 1970s.  Just check out that typeface on the cover too!

This is by far the most recent menu I have ever seen from the studio, and the only one to bear an actual date - April 1975.

The interior has a large section reserved for daily specials, which on this example is still intact.  More retro character line art throughout.

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1958 Walt Disney Studio Commissary Coffee Shop Menu

This is the last of the small sized (6x9) menus I have from the studio.  This features the same cover art as was on the Counter Service full sized menu from earlier in the series, although the art is a little less saturated in color - Mickey in particular looks a little pale.  This also uses the high gloss stock as we saw on the Temporary menu.

On this menu we see a return of the Fountain menu items on the back, and the interior art has some of the same elements as the counter service menu, just rearranged.  This is the first menu to feature any kind of date code, on the back as part of the Lord Menu Co. logo, there is the numeric code 1-58, which I take to mean January 1958.  The pricing also seems consistent with a 1950s menu.

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1950s Walt Disney Studio Commissary Menu - Coffee Shop Temporary Menu

This is a strange one.  This is a small sized (6x9) menu for the studio coffee shop, but printed on the front is the phrase  Temporary Menu.  The cover features art of Donald and Goofy with a giant bowl of salad in blue line art, whereas all the previous menus had full color cover art.  Also, this is a high gloss paper stock, the first menu to feature that so far.

Inside and on the back, it is a very plain menu, with no other illustrations of any kind.  There is a mark inside that reads Lord Printing Co., L.A. -- Menus, the first time I've see that mark.  I guess the fact that it was a temporary menu is the reason for the lack of illustrations.  Perhaps the studio ran out of the regular menus, or was in the process of redesigning them and just needed something quick and dirty.  It is the only one of this type I have ever seen.

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