Dateline Disneyland: 1965-1967. Young "maidens" were recruited to perform as mermaids in Disneyland's Submarine Lagoon.
Today, this kind of public display might generate some pretty intense reactions. You'd have your fundamentalist furor. You'd also get guys folding up singles longways, standing at the lagoon railing waiting for a lap dance.
Maybe things weren't all that different forty years ago. Legend has it that the mermaids were flushed down Disneyland's drain after one-too-many male guests fell victim to the sirens' song. Those poor men lept into the lagoon, looking for love in all the wrong places.
(Of course, there are other accounts that suggest that the mermaids' extinction was caused by the intense amount of chlorine used in the Submarine Lagoon. Seems these poor fish-girls got all dried out. Ewwww.)
Living here the future, there's something very innocent and playful about the whole affair. And sexy, too.
Walt, you were a genius!
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