DISNEYLAND PRINCESSES

I just visited Disneyland again, and here we are (above) at Princess Island, or as I call it..."Princessneyland." This is the part of Disneyland devoted to little girls who wear princess costumes and come to hobknob with adult princesses. The place is just crawling with royalty!!!

Oh, yes...the "censored" symbols are there to cover up a friend who wandered into camera range and got into the shot. None of my friends will allow me to post their pictures so I'm forced to cover them up with these stupid signs.

Here's a theater where, between shows, kids get to chat with adult princesses. This is a terrible photo but I put it up so you could catch a glimpse of the three peasant girls who dance to entertain the people in line. They twirl around in flare skirts like they were at a ball dancing to a Strauss waltz. I wanted to stay to get a better picture but my friends were getting antsy. Princessney Land was just not their thing. 

 As you would expect, princess outfits were sold.

Now here's the interesting part...in the back of the princess shop I stumbled into a photographer's dream...the kind of thing the old LIFE magazine would have assigned their top photographers to. I refer to the fact that Disneyland has set up a beauty parlor there just for little princesses.

Imagine that...a kids' beauty parlor in the middle of Disneyland!

I could easily have spent an hour taking pictures but the place creeped out my friends who practically pulled me out of there.

 Outside, adult princesses were all over the place.

Boy, it looks like this little girl (above) has fallen head over heels for the Prince.

Here's (above) the princess with the hardest job: Snow White. She not only has to smile all day, but she has to speak in a high-pitched voice, like the character in the film.

After all these years Snow White is still a big attraction. Interesting, eh?