Rare Pictures of Walt Disney at Disneyland With His Grand Children in 1960, Columbia Dedication in 1958

During my research of the 1960 pictures of Thailand King Bhumibol Adulyadej i've found these rare pictures of Walt Disney at Disneyland with his grand children on June 12, 1960. On the picture above, Walt is inside the locomotive of the Mine Train Through Nature's Wonderland, and the caption read: "Mr. and Mrs. Walt Disney; Tammy Miller -- 3 years; Joanna Miller -- 4 years; Chris Miller -- 5 years (grandchildren); Ron Miller; Diane Miller."

Below, Walt and his grand children always in the Mine Train Through Nature's Wonderland.



On the next two pictures Walt and his grandchildren stands near the famous AA Frontierland river beavers.





I'm adding also a few others rare historical pictures showing the "Columbia" dedication at Disneyland on June 14, 1958. Caption slip reads: L/R Rear Adm. Joseph Fowler, USN (ret.), ship construction supervisor; Walt Disney; Mrs. Richmond; Vice Adm. Alfred C. Richmond, Coast Guard commandant presenting a gift Bible to ship".

Brian Rechenmacher "Walt Disney at Disneyland" Artwork

Here is a series of artwork named "Walt Disney at Disneyland". The style will remind you the artwork of SHAG, but they're not done by SHAG! The artist is Brian Rechenmacher who is a great fan of SHAG and i think he did a real good work, didn't he? Brian website is HERE and after the pics i tell you more.

Now, yes, SHAG artwork is great undoubtedly - and a fantastic colorist - but if you Brian was inspired by SHAG, from who SHAG was inspired? I'm going to tell you a little secret and i'm almost 100% sure that SHAG know his work. I'm talking about an artist named Miroslav Sasek. Sasek did a series of book for children in the 1950- 60's about many cities of the world called "This is... New York or London, or Paris, Rome, etc..." which were immensely popular in the 1960's-70's. You MUST discover Sasek work as he was a GENIUS. When you will see his books you will probably think "it looks really like the 60's style" except that nobody was drawing like Sasek before him. I mean: he invented this artwork style.

The good news is that Sasek books are currently being republished and are just as popular as before. The bad news is they didn't did the scans for the reprinting rfrom the original artwork but from scans from the previously published books pages.  Which means that the colors are not as good and vibrant as in the original books. Although SHAG is great i find Sasek superior to him as there is more humor in his artwork. 
I always wished to be able to meet SHAG to ask him the question if he knows Sasek work as it is impossible that he don't know him, you'll see why. 

Here is the link where to find the newly published books on Amazon. But if you can afford it try to buy instead the original editions which are treasures! Look at THIS ebay page, the first versions are the ones copyrighted in the 1960's, not the years 2000. If you must buy only three of them, choose "This is..." London, or New York, or Paris, or Rome, or Hong Kong, or San Francisco. But don't miss "This is London" which is great. 
Also have a look HERE to see pictures from Sasek books.

Pictures: copyright Brian Rechenmacher