Beautiful Fantasyland, 1960s

Fantasyland has always been the most "Disney" of all the lands, with its movie-themed dark rides right near the Castle. It had lots more to offer as well, as we can see in this first great photo, taken (I presume) from a Skyway gondola as it backed into the Fantasyland chalet. There's the beautiful Chicken of the Sea Pirate Ship, the Mad Tea Party, the Carrousel, Casey Jr., and even the Matterhorn is part of Fantasyland. At first I thought that this was taken during the early part of the day with some low cloud coverage, but now I'm not so sure. The sky is definitely not as blue as in the previous picture. I guess the ship's sails were at the dry cleaners being Martinized, pirates hate dirty sails. For some reason I find those concrete benches painted in cheerful colors to be charming, they weren't used anywhere else in the park. Hello, Captain Guy! I just found a vintage article online that said that Guy Exon played "Captain Kidd". I was never aware that the peg-legged pirate had a…