The Osmonds At Disneyland.

House of the Future

Movieland Wax Museum

Entrepreneur Allen Parkinson, who developed the over-the-counter sleeping aid Sleep-Eze, bought acreage near Knott's Berry Farm and opened Movieland Wax Museum in 1962. Parkinson spent $1.5 million on a 20,000-square-foot building that had a Hollywood studio feel. On opening day, visitors could scrutinize 60 life-size likenesses of contemporary and early-day stars in scenes from memorable motion pictures. Parkinson sold the museum along with the Japanese Village and Deer Park to the Six Flags corporations for $10 Million in 1970.Parkinson ended up building the largest wax museum in the United States before selling it. The curved front portico had 10 large crystal chandeliers. The museum was housed in a gleaming white building, and the interior was sumptuously appointed throughout.
A number of movie stars had visited Movieland in person through the years. Mary Pickford dedicated the new museum when it first opened in 1962. Over the years, Jimmy Stewart, George Burns, Dudley Moore, Ed Asner, Buster Keaton, Carol Burnett, Mae West, Sammy Davis Jr., Roger Moore, and the principal cast of Star Trek came to pay their respects.


On opening day the Movieland Wax Museum had 60 life-size likenesses of contemporary and early-day stars, posed in scenes from their most memorable motion pictures. The inside of the museum is made to give visitors the simultaneous feel of a Hollywood studio and theatrical production. Pictured here isGloria Swanson

More of Movie World Cars of the Stars.

Pictured Here is Jim Brucker Date unknown with Big Daddy ED Roth's Honda bought from Norm Reves Honda.

The daylight hours were spent wrenching and bolting; the evenings they were poring over parts catalogues. On the weekends the salvage yards were their targets where hidden radiator caps, fenders and highlights of a bygone era were theirs for the finding and a few dollars depending on how diplomatic their price-haggling.


The Brucker collection got a heavy boost when Twentieth Century Fox reorganized their studio and decided to sell some 30 antique cars. The Bruckers bought the entire collection.


The collection had provided props for television's "My Three Sons'' and Happy Days and several other series. Not only were the cars used by Hollywood's stars, but cars of former film idols that would dot the Brucker collection. A Rolls Royce, vintage: 29, once the prized property of Charlie Chaplin was parked five stalls down from Spitfire autos owned by Norma Talmadge and Daryl Zanuck.Pictured here is Charlie Chaplain's car.

MovieWorld Cars of the Stars.

Sleeping Beauty Castle's /storybook castle of Neuschwanstein Germany.

MAD KING LUDWIG lived here. Monument to one man's whimsy, the storybook castle of Neuschwanstein rises in the foothills of the Alps above a forest near Fussen, Bavaria. King Ludwig’s extravagance in building the castle earned him the epithet "Mad Ludwig," but today Neuschwanstein's value as a tourist magnet.

C. Fulton Shaw's Old Macdonald's Farm in Mission Viejo.

Old MacDonald's was a Farm attraction that featured trained animals at Knott’s Berry Farm. Fulton Shaw originated the Old MacDonald's Farm name at Knott’s, and then moved it to Mission Viejo in 1969 after a disagreement with the Knott’s Berry Farm management Walter Knott and his wife Cordelia Knott.