Kevin Kidney
Friday, February 25, 2011

Dapper Recapper

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You know how a wool coat smells when it gets wet?  Not great.  So it was especially considerate of last week's storm clouds to part for ...
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Friday, February 18, 2011

Dapper Day at Disneyland

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The original Disneyland designers frequently populated their renderings with guests dressed for a day of sophisticated entertainment.  No fl...
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Thursday, February 10, 2011

Bill Justice

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The man behind two of my favorite things, the  Silly Reindeer  and the equally  Silly Buffalo,  passed away this morning.  Bill Justice was ...
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Sunday, February 06, 2011

And now, let's eat!

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Here's the  authentic recipe  for the  Chicken of the Sea Tunaburger  precisely as served at the Disneyland Pirate Ship.  And guess what...
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Friday, February 04, 2011

Fish Tale!...Part Three

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White or wheat? Roll up your pant legs and let's wade out into the lagoon for one final visit with our favorite corporate mermaid and t...
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Saturday, January 29, 2011

Fish Tales...Part Two

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This 1955 ad art just shouts Yay!  It's beautiful, colorful, charming, and kind of gross.  Still if today's Chicken of the Sea execu...
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Thursday, January 27, 2011

Fish Tales...Part One

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As a shameless plug for our newest replica to be released this week , it only makes sense to spotlight one of Disneyland's greatest crea...
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Friday, January 21, 2011

Ask Any Mermaid You Happen To See...

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Original newspaper ad from the Independent Press Telegram, Long Beach, California, Friday July 15, 1955 . The pirate ship in this advertis...
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Wednesday, December 22, 2010

Charles Phoenix, The Retro Holiday Man!

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Charles Phoenix's laugh-out-loud retro holiday slide shows are a Christmas season favorite here in Los Angeles.  I've known Charles ...
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Monday, December 13, 2010

Paint Like It's 1930!

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Above is a sketch for an unused Walt Disney Studio greeting  card created by an uncredited artist in the early 1930s.  Over 70 years later, ...
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Sunday, December 05, 2010

Happy Birthday Walt Disney

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He would've been 109 today.
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Friday, November 12, 2010

Down By The Station, Early In The Morning...

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On November 13th, bright and early, Jody and I will be down at Disneyland for the release of our newest collectible based on a classic attra...
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Kevin Kidney
Art director, illustrator, writer, show designer, sculptor, puppeteer, and maker of things. Inconveniently enamored with outdated technology, and pretty much every kind of cultural aspect of the American early 1960s. Will pay big bucks to the guy who produces a plausible time machine.
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