Monday, February 25, 2008

"Guestbusters" - 1984 Cast Member t-shirt

In the Olympics Summer of 1984, while working in Day Custodial at Disneyland, I put together a t-shirt that a friend silkscreened for me. It had the Ghostbusters logo modified to show a mouse-ear-and-Hawaiian-shirt-wearing, sunglassed tourist being "exxed out" by the famous red symbol of a circle with a slash through the middle. The attached photo shows a "rough" of the final t-shirt artwork. Among cast members, the shirt was pretty popular and I sold out of my 100 or so that were made.

I recall a group at the
Stage Door Cafe in Frontierland had purchased several. Sadly, none of the shirts survived---to my knowledge. It was pretty cool to see CMs wearing them on their way in to work. Don't get me wrong, we loved the guests, but a little gallows humor and sarcasm was always welcome inside the berm.

2 comments:

  1. Yep, I had one of those shirts! How I wish I still had it, though I'm sure it wouldn't fit

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  2. Several of us in the Flights of Fantasy parade bought some of those and wore them often!

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Thanks for posting. Now please exit the boat the same way you came in---pushing, shoving and clawing at those around you. Enjoy the rest of your day here in this magical and wonderful place that we at the World Famous Jungle Cruise like to call..."Work."