A Pair From August 1962

Here are two photos showing the iconic entrances to two "lands" that were mere steps from each other, but that took you into completely different worlds. The big wooden gates evoke a frontier fort (and there is the stockade to the right, where a skilled marksman could shoot a fly off of your hat). The "Frontierland" sign could have been made with one wide board, but I've always loved the split, as if they could only source skinny trees out on the plains. The young woman with the red shirt has an impressive helmet of hair that would repel any arrow. To the left, the Davy Crockett Arcade, and beyond that, the Pendleton shop, where everything was plaid.If you were in the Plaza and walked past Frontierland, you'd only walk a short distance to the entrance to Adventureland, with thatched roofs and bamboo as visual clues. Notice that there are walls to the left, where the Enchanted Tiki Room was being installed, to open the following Summer (June 23, 1963). Straight ahead is a fence of thin…