Sparkling Pine trees line Hollywood Blvd. for the 1945 Santa Claus Lane Parade:
Category: Photography
Season’s greetings, poppets! This is an image floating around the interwebs from the January, 1940 edition of Better Homes and Gardens. A year or two ago this same house sold to a perfectly beguiling man who fully appreciated the home’s heritage. He did a sensitive restoration, and, when he happened…
That’s the standard line, anyway. Disney’s animation was happy and Fleischer’s was hallucinatory. Frankly, when I was a kid early animation freaked me out. Only when I was older did I appreciate what innovators both these men were – and by then my dad had stopped grousing about Walt, possibly…
A lot’s been written, positive and negative, on the man and the company – I’m not going to add to that stew – I’ll just say before there was a multinational fully diversified corporation – there was a young man with talent and ambition and organizational aptitude.