Anaheim Vacationland tells the story of the area that surrounds Disneyland. The motels, shops, places to eat, the crazy extinct attractions like the Japanese Deer Park, Wax Museums, and so forth. The large full color 244 page book is a visit to a crazed time when everyone and his brother wanted to cash in on the success of Disneyland! When Walt Disney chose Anaheim as the city to build Disneyland in, everyone in the public and his own friends, thought he was crazy. All that was in Anaheim in 1955 was farm fields and dusty old roads. All that changed drastically in 1955 when the new theme park opened. Anaheim was now known as Vacationland. In this second edition of the sold out book by David Oneal, you will be treated to a treasure trove of historical photos, and first hand accounts of the effect that Disneyland had on Anaheim. Disney legend Bob Gurr, Marty Skylar, Buzz Price (the man who decided on Anaheim as the place to build Disneyland) and other Disney historians like Don Ballard and David Oneal take the reader from the Anaheim boom town of the 1950's and 60's to the decay of the 70's and 80's and eventual rebirth as the resort district that is today. 244 full color pages with amazing images of the Space motels, Tiki Motels, western motels and googie buildings! Plus explore the history of the Movieland Wax Museum, Japanese Deer Park and other areas of Vacationland.
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If you would like to look inside at the pages please look inside the book now at: anaheimvacationland dot com --David Oneal
Anaheim Vacationland is a wonderful book, that goes beyond, any book of it's type. The motels and their neon is amazing to look at, but even better than that, is the touching story of the author, David Oneal. --Orange County Register, August 2009
Buy this book for a trip to Disneyland, that time may have not forgot about! --Los Angeles Times, July 2009
Anaheim Vacationland is a wonderful book, that goes beyond, any book of it's type. The motels and their neon is amazing to look at, but even better than that, is the touching story of the author, David Oneal. --Orange County Register, August 2009
Buy this book for a trip to Disneyland, that time may have not forgot about! --Los Angeles Times, July 2009
About the Author
David Oneal is the founder of ExtinctAttractions.com, a web site that specializes in preserving the gone but not forgotten theme park attractions of the past 50 years. During the 1980's he and his family were very poor and lived in the rotting old Mom and Pop motels that dotted the Anaheim area. Today David is a successful video editor, working on some of network televisions top shows. In addition he runs his ExtinctAttractions.com site, and helps the current families that live in Anaheim's motels today.
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I do like the book as a record of an Anaheim that is long gone. So many of these Orange County icons have been demolished over the years and I'm thrilled to own this book as a visual record of what once was. Yet for the same reason I like it, I also dislike this book; the author appears to have stolen these beautiful images from archives and personal collections. Some of these photos were taken by friends of mine, Chris Jepsen and John English for example, and were lifted off of the internet while other photos were taken straight from the Orange County and Anaheim Archives. None of these images are credited or licensed from their rightful owners.
Yes, the book is a good collection of vintage Anaheim photography and ephemera, but since it appears the author stole much of that imagery, I have no choice but to lower my rating for this book.
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This review is from: Disneyland Anaheim Vacationland (Perfect Paperback)
This book hits all the right buttons for any Disney fan! This book is full of large glossy pages and written by one of the most honest authors I have ever read. Mr. Oneal tells his personal story of growing up in Anaheim with his little brother and shares how they experienced the magic of Disneyland with the blight of Anaheim during the 1980s. This book is a pictorial and verbal account of the realities of Disneyland and what happens to the city it inhabits [he accomplishes this with his perspective of a childs' innocence and hopefulness]. I have been a Disney fan for over forty years and there were stories in this book that I read for the first time. Anaheim Vacationland is different than any other Disney book I own, it is put together in a style that is truly original and fun to read. P. S. I do not know why they say this book is not currently available when I just purchased it at Extinct [...] for 30.00 dollars. Buy this book and happy reading! Stephen Coutu
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