Jason Schultz

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.

While the old resort political action committee closed up shop after a corruption investigation, several new ones sprouted that are now quietly spending hundreds of thousands of dollars on their chosen candidates.

Still excited every time I tag a photo with Matterhorn circulation south, even though it's essentially an alley.

How many Splash Mountain souvenir portraits is *too many*? (Earnest question as I obviously have no idea.)

#25YearsAgoTodayAtDisneyland (10/26/2001) In the midst of a project I suggested to document all the menus for reference at City Hall, I captured these interior signs from the food court that was Hollywood & Dine in Disney's California Adventure.

My 10yo, reading this: "She doesn't even deserve a dog."

Pinning for future reference regarding keywording, although most of these are from Twitter and not currently in the Parkendium Public Archive. Castle portraits: 20,976 DCA Wheel portraits: 7,399 Floral Mickey portraits: 4,199 Mickey Pumpkin portraits: 1,298 Partners Statue portraits: 1,602

Interviewing Bob Gurr in 2000 "My truthful opinion of monorails is that they are really not very good."

Asking Bob Gurr if he was a member of the Monorail Society in 2000. "Maybe I am and maybe I'm not."

Disneyland Security used to be...different.

So a long, long while ago someone gave me some old photos of WED Imagineers at work (can't remember who, but thanks!). I shall now post them here for Tom and all of you to pore over!

Reposting for Bob's 95th. There's some Disneyland here, but also a lot of his other interests in California, hiking, and geography through which we connected!

Compare with the finished interior of a Starspeeder. Don't worry about the flash; it was just me and Rex on this trip. What are the odds it was his first flight?!

On Parkendium you can find the story of retiring Disneyland publicist Eddie Meck receiving his window in 1972.

Biggest lie in Disneyland #SignageSunday

#25YearsAgoTodayAtDisneyland (10/25/2001) After my closing shift, I took a few photos around Main Street. These are the ones that turned out sharp! An empty Main Street was the reward for getting through the last of the Guest concerns in City Hall.

On a microblogging platform, I don’t have enough characters to post about what I just experienced. Younger Jason, if you want to learn about and advance the study of Disneyland history, move to downtown Anaheim. Maybe the rest of you, too?

I’m spending a long weekend in SoCal visiting Disneyland, and I got caught in a rare thunderstorm last night. While I got pretty well soaked, I also got some pretty excellent stills from videos I shot:

It's that day of the year! Hope to see Stacia at the Anaheim Halloween Festival this year.

About to hop on the freeway on a Friday afternoon and know I will not see a billboard as good as this one.

We made a book! RURAL INDEXING: A COLLECTION OF AMERICAN BUILDINGS, SIGNS, AND SYMBOLS arrives from Rizzoli in March 2027. Our favorite themes and subjects from the thousands of places we've visited since 2010—450+ photos, many never published before. Preorder: linktr.ee/ruralindexingproject

The FIRST Disney Parks space station: Tomorrowland's Space Station X-1 (1955-1960).

This is from a small series of professional medium format House of the Future interiors I digitized from the negatives—all super rare for the perspective!

📷 Jason Schultz [Source on Parkendium]

Accidentally revealed to the kids that supercalifragilisticexpialidocious is a made up word. Thankfully… “You didn’t ruin my childhood! I was just confused.”

And this is how I learn that Bob Weis has a podcast!

When you want to make the soundtrack to The One and Only, Genuine, Original Family Band go through someone's head...

My first webpage was titled Wicket’s Disneyland Home Page. 🫡

I think it's highly likely that I am the only person to ever wear a Redd Rockett's Pizza Port opening crew t-shirt in Anakin Skywalker's Episode I home, summer 1998.

This is the only Santa I'll accept in Mickey's Toontown.