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Building a digital Disneyland archive and thesaurus (Parkendium, https://mediagraph.io/parkendium). Archivist.

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Jason Schultz @jason.parkendium.com · Oct 17

To all new followers: welcome! I will be your tour guide for the next 30 years, until Disneyland's 100th birthday.

Building a digital Disneyland archive at Parkendium (mediagraph.io/parkendium), currently featuring over 225,000 assets in the Public Archive.

Jason Schultz @jason.parkendium.com · 3h

First visit to Disneyland this Halloween season tomorrow—I will look forward to photographing the lands with no decorations.

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Frank H. Woodward @fhw.bsky.social · 1d

Fanboy Nation interviewed me and fellow producer Ernie Alonzo about BOB GURR: LIVING BY DESIGN and its upcoming screening at the Newport Beach Film Festival (Oct 19th). Look for a surprise appearance by Bob in this video.

Frank H. Woodward's 'Bob Gurr: Living By Design' Come to NBFF - Interview

YouTube video by FanboyNation

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Frank H. Woodward @fhw.bsky.social · 6h

The Newport Beach Independent has some nice things to say about "Bob Gurr: Living By Design" and a film I'm looking forward to "American Clown"

On Gurr: "The real joy of the documentary is listening to Gurr, who at 93 still has a spring in his step and a story or two to tell."

Reviews: Clowning Around and Disney Designs at Newport Beach Film Festival - Newport Beach News

“American Clown” “Be a clown, be a clown, all the world loves a clown.” Those lyrics by the great Cole Porter were written in 1948, at a time when we did love clowns like Emmett Kelly and the clowns i...

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Jason Schultz @jason.parkendium.com · 3h

I worry I will tell them “Jason says hi!” and they will look at me as if I didn’t know my own name.

Jason Schultz @jason.parkendium.com · 3h

(There are actually seven baby possums I need to capture at once.)

Jason Schultz @jason.parkendium.com · 4h

I was delighted in the early 2000s that we were still handing out this Jiminy Cricket ephemera to Guests on our rainy Disneyland days.

Joe G @joeguajardo.bsky.social · 4h

Rainy Day at Disneyland 1982

Jason Schultz @jason.parkendium.com · 4h

Yes!

Jason Schultz @jason.parkendium.com · 5h

Now I want to know what this 2010 scoop was.

Jason Schultz @jason.parkendium.com · 5h

Per the narration: "Hardly a natural material appears in anything like its original state anywhere in the building."

Jason Schultz @jason.parkendium.com · 5h

And here's a group of alt.disney.disneyland folks gathered at Carnation Ice Cream Parlor on its final night in 1997. Founders of Laughing Place, MousePlanet, MiceAge, and Parkendium are pictured!

Photograph of members of the alt.disney.disneyland Usenet group and a few Carnation Ice Cream Parlor Cast Members, on its final night of operation on January 3, 1997.

Jason Schultz @jason.parkendium.com · 5h

Not in a House of the Future, anyway!

Jason Schultz @jason.parkendium.com · 5h

It's been over 28 years, but I still wonder why this "Happy New Year from the Cast of Carnation Main Street" was taken on its final day of operation in January 1997, or what it was used for!

(This is my personal happenstance photograph of a posed shot for an official photo.)

Disneyland Hourly @disneylandhourly.parkendium.com · 10h

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Jason Schultz @jason.parkendium.com · 6h

Unfortunately not restricted to the internet. Here's from a "historical" book in the past couple of years, with a "photograph" of "Lillian Disney" and another "person."

Scan of a published photograph showing extreme denoising, rendering the photograph more of an abstract painting.

Jason Schultz @jason.parkendium.com · 6h

My only interaction with artist Drew Struzan was a couple of years ago on Twitter. He had shared his Indiana Jones Adventure poster and I responded with my very old digital photograph of it from 1996.

He questioned its "very old" status, but I still think it's a decently old *digital* photo.

RIP.

Screenshot of a Twitter archive exchange. I had responded to Drew Struzan, "Here's a very old digital photograph of the poster prominently on display at The Disney Gallery in New Orleans Square, March 31, 1995."

His response (not pictured), questioned it being "very old."

I responded "For a digital photograph!"

Jason Schultz @jason.parkendium.com · 16h

Hey, I predicted the future!

Disneyland Hourly @disneylandhourly.parkendium.com · 16h

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Jason Schultz @jason.parkendium.com · 1d

Echoes of the destruction (and subsequent "rebuild") of inaccessible Fort Wilderness on Tom Sawyer Island at Disneyland.

1991 photograph of a lively Tom Sawyer Island scene around Fort Wilderness.

2007 photograph of a half-torn-down, being-rebuilt Fort Wilderness.

Jason Schultz @jason.parkendium.com · 1d

Mark Twain cake #2 is modeled after Irene Dunne’s 1955 dedication, where she remarked “It’s listing!” as the overloaded boat nearly went under the water line.

Mark Twain cake, listing.

Side view of Mark Twain cake

Paddle wheel view of the Mark Twain cake

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Frank H. Woodward @fhw.bsky.social · 1d

Come see all the good stuff we kept IN the film on October 19th as part of the 2025 Newport Beach Film Festival.

An Outtake from BOB GURR: LIVING BY DESIGN

YouTube video by Frank H. Woodward

Jason Schultz @jason.parkendium.com · 1d

I finally made it!

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Cabel Sasser @cabel.panic.com · 1d

@jason.parkendium.com parkendium spotted on tiktok

Jason Schultz @jason.parkendium.com · 2d

Attempt #2 tomorrow?

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Jason Schultz @jason.parkendium.com · May 20

Wife’s impromptu attempt #1 at this cake. Marrrrk Twaaaaiiiin!

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Hastin @hastin.net · 2d

This way to the exciting world of Gold Medallion Homes and the builder of the month!

Jason Schultz @jason.parkendium.com · 2d

Banger of a directional sign in Disneyland's Carousel Theater, which I have only seen in this single photo taken by a young @tomkmorris.bsky.social.

#SignageSunday

Jason Schultz @jason.parkendium.com · 2d

This Innoventions equivalent doesn't have the same juice.

#SignageSunday

Blue and yellow sign in the Carousel Theater at Disneyland in 2000, pointing to This Way To The Future | Innoventions Exit.

Jason Schultz @jason.parkendium.com · 2d

Banger of a directional sign in Disneyland's Carousel Theater, which I have only seen in this single photo taken by a young @tomkmorris.bsky.social.

#SignageSunday

Jason Schultz @jason.parkendium.com · 2d

Today at Anaheim City Hall

#SignageSunday