Fantasyland in the Magic Kingdom, California

Disneyland
The Happiest Place on Earth

A Land Where Dreams Come True
Fantasyland is the Magic Kingdom's most magical place.  Here within the quint setting of a Bavarian village guests find storybook characters to delight and amuse.

Monorail and Matterhorn at Disneyland, California

Disneyland
Anaheim, California

Monorail - Matterhorn
Previewing the future of transportation, the first complete Monorail System in the United States carries guests over the Autopia, freeway of the future, and around the Disneyland Matterhorn Mountain.  Climbing steep grades and racing around sharp curves the Disneyland-Alweg Monorail trains run over a "concrete highway in the sky."
1959

Matterhorn Mountain, Skyway and Coca-Cola Sign

Disneyland
The Magic Kingdom (In California)

Matterhorn Mountain
The mighty Matterhorn rises above Tomorrowland, where unique new transportation systems offer an exciting preview of the future.

This postcard is postmarked in 1971 with a USA 6 cent stamp.

The sender writes:
I had so much fun at Disneyland.  We rode all the rides we could or wanted to ride then we went and saw the free things like "America the Beautiful".  It's a tour of America in a panoramic view.   The people that did this film took 9 cameras and put them on a platform so you can see where you're going and also where you had been.  It was really fascinating.  I will write some more soon.

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When Disneyland first opened you paid a fee of $1.00 to get in, but if you wanted to go on a ride, you needed to purchase a ticket for the price of that ride. 

Matterhorn Mountain, the Monorail and a Submarine

Disneyland
The Magic Kingdom
California

Matterhorn Mountain
A Disney landmark, the "Snow-capped" Matterhorn Mountain towers majestically over all of the Magic Kingdom.  High-spped bobsled runs carry guests down its slopes and through a Glacier Grotto inside the mountain.

Also featured on the card is the Disney monorail and Submarine.
1965

Matterhorn Mountain Bobsled Run

Disneyland
The Magic Kingdom, California

Bobsled Run
A bobsled finds a watery surprise in a glacial lake after twisting and careening down the icy matterhorn mountain.
1965/69 with written on the back

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The Matterhorn Bobsleds is an attraction composed of two intertwining steel roller coasters, which opened in 1959 at Disneyland in Anaheim, California. It is modeled after the Matterhorn, a mountain in the Swiss Alps. It is the first tubular steel continuous track roller coaster ever constructed and thus an ACE (American Coaster Enthusiasts) Coaster Landmark.

Located on the border between Tomorrowland and Fantasyland, it employs forced perspective to seem more impressively large. Throughout the day, climbers dressed in Swiss mountain-climbing garb may be seen scaling the peak, often accompanied by Disney characters such as Mickey Mouse and Goofy.

Matterhorn Mountain in Disneyland

Disneyland
The Magic Kingdom - California

Matterhorn Mountain
A Disneyland landmark, the "snow-capped" Matterhorn mountain, towers majestically over all of the Magic Kingdom.  HIgh-speed bobsled runs carry guests down its slopes and through a Glacier Grotto inside the mountain.

House of the Future in Disneyland, California

Disneyland
Magic Kingdom

House of the Future - Tomorrowland
The all plastic House of the Future, ultra-modern in exterior design as well as interior furnishings; in the background, Disneyland's Matterhorn.

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The Monsanto House of the Future (also known as the Home of the Future) was an attraction at Disneyland in Anaheim, California, USA, from 1957 to 1967.

The attraction offered a tour of a home of the future, set in the year 1986, and featured household appliances such as microwave ovens, which eventually became commonplace. The house saw over 435,000 visitors within the first six weeks of opening, and ultimately saw over 20 million visitors before being closed.

The building was so sturdy that demolition crews failed to demolish the house using wrecking balls, torches, chainsaws and jackhammers, the building was ultimately demolished by using choker chains to crush it into smaller parts. The reinforced polyester structure was so strong that the half-inch steel bolts used to mount it to its foundation broke before the structure itself did.