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Anchovy
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 Posted: Sat May 22, 2004 9:44 pm Post subject: Fantasy Barndoor |
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I bought a postcard on ebay the other day because it had a cool logo'd deluxe on it. Upon closer inpsection it is a barndoor deluxe! Does anyone have more photo's or information about this bus? How cool would it be to get shuttled to Disneyland in a barndoor deluxe?
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DMNCLNR
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Location: Newport Beach Ca
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| Posted: Sat May 22, 2004 9:46 pm Post subject: |
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I actually live very close to that hote! i have never seen a barndoor down there on harbor though. would be sweet if they still had it!
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Skim
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That definitely is the ultimate logo bus.
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j.pickens
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| Posted: Sun May 23, 2004 6:24 am Post subject: |
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Based on that T-bird, that photo was taken at least in the mid '60's.
So the bus was at least 10 years old at the time.
I wonder if it survived.....
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SHSC
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| Posted: Sun May 23, 2004 8:26 am Post subject: |
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| I actually live very close to that hote! i have never seen a barndoor down there on harbor though. would be sweet if they still had it! |
The motel still in business? Is it still clean or is it rundown?
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BryanM
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Just look at that postcard.
How can people not like old Cali/florida. I love going through the little coastal town that look like they havent changed a bit.
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coad 
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| Posted: Sun May 23, 2004 3:30 pm Post subject: |
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| SHSC wrote: |
| perfektenemy wrote: |
| I actually live very close to that hote! i have never seen a barndoor down there on harbor though. would be sweet if they still had it! |
The motel still in business? Is it still clean or is it rundown? |
Well, here's what's at 1734 Harbor Blvd (directly across from Disneyland) now:
http://www.castleinn.com/
Too bad, but the cool thing is that the bus probably spent its whole life hauling happy families to Disneyland and back. That bus would have good karma if it still exists. |
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SHSC
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| Posted: Sun May 23, 2004 3:50 pm Post subject: |
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| coad wrote: |
| SHSC wrote: |
| perfektenemy wrote: |
| I actually live very close to that hote! i have never seen a barndoor down there on harbor though. would be sweet if they still had it! |
The motel still in business? Is it still clean or is it rundown? |
Well, here's what's at 1734 Harbor Blvd (directly across from Disneyland) now:
http://www.castleinn.com/
Too bad, but the cool thing is that the bus probably spent its whole life hauling happy families to Disneyland and back. That bus would have good karma if it still exists. |
I should have guessed..
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NorCalWeekender
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LOL...heck, I think my wife and I stayed at a hotel a couple doors down from this place last summer. Would have been cooler if it still looked like the fantasy inn! 
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| coad wrote: |
| That bus would have good karma if it still exists. |
and peanut butter and jelly an inch thick over the entire interior.
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TimB
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| Posted: Mon May 24, 2004 9:14 am Post subject: |
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I know for sure that the bus was NOT around by the mid eightys. When I was younger I used to work at the happiest place on earth. To bad I don't know of any old timers to ask if they remember it.
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crofty
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That's a strange angle in shot.
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SHSC
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| Posted: Mon May 24, 2004 12:55 pm Post subject: |
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| crofty wrote: |
| That's a strange angle in shot. |
Its probably like a 20mm lens.
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