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2856.0 #16 DL Qual #9 8-20-12 3:04PM
So yesterday, I was working in the Indiana Jones Outpost store in Adventureland and had noticed something on the ground. If you know the store, there is a thick black line on the floor right in the front of the store. Also, there are a few steps down that connect the store to South Seas Traders. So I went home and did some research and found out that the Indy Outpost store used to be a shooting gallery. It was Big Game Shooting Gallery (like in the pics below) from 1962-1982. It was even featured in the early 1960s "New Adventureland ad" and on an early "B" ticket. This shooting gallery had a huge water tank that would have jungle boats and plants floating in it. If you would hit a target, a jungle animal would pop out from the side of the target. And that dark line on the ground, it was probably where counter used to be where guests would step up, insert their coins and take a shot at the targets. Then also, I discovered that Main Street also had a shooting gallery in the Penny Arcade from park opening to around 1964 (couldn't find a pic). Now, the shooting gallery we are most familiar of is in Frontierland next to Westward Ho Trading Company and Rancho Del Zocalo Restaurant. That gallery has been through many refurbishments including adding a roof, to air compressed bullets to now infra-red guns. And so at one point in Disneyland history, there were three shooting galleries in the park.
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The Adventureland shooting gallery was superior to the one in Frontierland because the guns had sights. Always saved the B tickets for the shooting galleries. - sr citizen space ranger  48.7 #3781 8-20-12 5:36PM Like(8)  Reply
You're welcome young whipper snapper - sr citizen space ranger  48.7 #3781 8-21-12 3:35PM
this is great! i like your sense of curiosity...looking til you find out. that is a gift. some would shrug it off :) - HandMeAChurroImmaFaint  1799.0 #42 8-20-12 3:37PM Like(1)  Reply
You'll shoot your eye out! - aprilinjune4  380.8 #355 8-20-12 3:49PM Like(1)  Reply
I so remember this. Everytime a talk about this attraction people think I'm nuts. But I'm older and remember alot of the early days of Disneyland. - splashphotoCM  880.9 #101 8-21-12 3:51PM Like(1)  Reply
Wow, that's really neat. I am going to look for that line now! - Sheilamo  318.2 #530 8-20-12 3:06PM Like  Reply
Great detective work. 🌟 - WishIWereThere  227.4 #1279 8-20-12 3:16PM Like  Reply
Nice investigating work! Side note: We love the Indiana Jones Outpost, you just can't find any Indy related items outside of there unless on Ebay and the pin ball machine is a must do every trip. - Linzee  517.2 #225 8-20-12 3:18PM Like  Reply
well that really stinks. Thanks for the headsup. - Linzee  517.2 #225 8-20-12 3:36PM
Thats so awesome! - PrinceTeaJack  786.3 #120 8-20-12 3:20PM Like  Reply
Good research man, thanks for sharing! - madsdad  1124.9 #73 8-20-12 3:25PM Like  Reply
the suspense is killing me!! I click "more" and nothing happens! :( - tuesday737  1076.5 #78 8-20-12 3:27PM Like  Reply
Close out your app and when it comes back up it will work. - Gia  785.5 #121 8-20-12 3:57PM
Neato - Dizkid  284.2 #707 8-20-12 3:28PM Like  Reply
Great little piece of history right there. Thanks! - PrincessLeia  263.4 #885 8-20-12 3:28PM Like  Reply
I vaguely remember it! Oddly, I remember the one in the Penny Arcade more than the one in Adventureland! - Gia  785.5 #121 8-20-12 3:58PM Like  Reply
There was also one in the Mercantile shop in Frontierland that still has reminisce of it and another was where teh Winne the Pooh store is in Critter Country - Dave   8640.6 #2 8-20-12 5:10PM
Really? Where was that one? - BaseballMickey_CM  2856.0 #16 8-20-12 6:07PM
which one? I will show you next time you are working, they were more of arcade shooting gallery's but never the less games - Dave   8640.6 #2 8-20-12 9:59PM
@dave the one in the Merchantile shop. I know we also used to have a rifle museum in there too - BaseballMickey_CM  2856.0 #16 8-20-12 11:21PM
I remember those too! And the rifle museum...my dad would always have to stop and look! Thanks for the memories - Gia  785.5 #121 8-21-12 7:46AM
bump for the night MWers - BaseballMickey_CM  2856.0 #16 8-20-12 9:53PM Like  Reply
yeah, and when you gave the CM your ticket, they would empty a "tube" of bb's that were like the size of maybe a small pea, into the guns and thats what we used to be able to shoot at the targets....thanks for the memories...*and I did not sing that to myself in Bob Hope's voice*.... - CVDisneyland  256.9 #934 8-20-12 10:03PM Like  Reply
Wow that's really cool to know thank you - Hendizl  1313.0 #61 8-20-12 10:12PM Like  Reply
Didn't one of the shooting galleries have live ammo the first year? I thought I read that somewhere. - secretagentangel  669.6 #154 8-20-12 10:23PM Like  Reply
That was the one in Frontierland - BaseballMickey_CM  2856.0 #16 8-20-12 10:43PM
You continue to drop some of the coolest Disney Knowledge! Love it!! Hope ur doing well btw ;-) - Jayjay  417.4 #308 8-20-12 10:38PM Like  Reply
Hi Jay jay! - BaseballMickey_CM  2856.0 #16 8-20-12 10:43PM
Love your stories BBM! - KissDclown  1088.1 #77 8-21-12 6:11AM Like  Reply
That is a cool bit of history you just discovered! Thanks for sharing it! - MoonWillow  371.9 #372 8-21-12 8:20AM Like  Reply
I love love love this post!!! Thank you for the info my friend! Fascinating! - Duchess_SMK  3291.1 #11 8-21-12 8:23AM Like  Reply
BBM - do you have dates on when the other shooting galleries closed? I'm thinking the one in Adventureland lasted into the late '70's, early '80's. - ThatKimberly  335.2 #451 8-21-12 8:31AM Like  Reply
yes, 1982 like said above - BaseballMickey_CM  2856.0 #16 8-21-12 9:58AM
Wow, this is so cool! Thanks for sharing! - Oinker34  867.7 #105 8-21-12 8:32AM Like  Reply
Coold history lesson BBMCM - MikeyMouse  63.8 #3513 8-21-12 4:08PM Like  Reply
Makes sense! Thanks - MarshaMouse  2869.5 #15 8-22-12 6:35AM Like  Reply
I love to hear about Disney history! Thanks for posting this. - CAscreaminfan  3.2 #23100 8-22-12 9:57AM Like  Reply

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