I've tried, and it is almost impossible to even find pics inside the Main Street Penny Arcade back in the day, let alone the one in Bear Country. And many other things.

As a kid that grew up minutes from Disneyland and went to Bear Country when it first opened and for years after, I don't even remember this game.

Honestly, the novelty of Bear Country did not last very long. At least for me.

Best site I have found for all things Disneyland past is-

https://www.yesterland.com

This is all I got.

"Teddi Barra’s Swingin’ Arcade survived the arrival of Critter Country, although video games replaced some of the old-fashioned, one-of-a-kind machines."

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You're welcome!

I've spent hours when I was at work looking for old Disneyland tidbits on the internet, but anything about the arcades is very scarce.

Can't find anything about Space Mist which they served outside Tomorrowland Terrace and was presented in dry ice to give it that effect.

Can take you an an Adventure Thru Inner Space though just as it was when I was 5 years old when it first opened. Before the late 70s when all the loogies were hanging from the snowflakes.

Like I said, I was 5 years old when they first redid Tomorrowland and it was quite a thing to behold. By the late 70s, maintenance wasn't Disneyland's strong suit, but it was a great place for teenagers like myself at the time to hang out for around $10.

Started taking my own daughter there it the late 90s with passes year after year and the new Tomorrowland was never as spectacular. But we had a lot of fun.

Helicopter crashes and someone falling out of the Matterhorn are some of the first I remember hearing about. Then my young daughter looking at Thunder Mountain saying it did not look safe and a few weeks later we found out it wasn't. But, with the amount of visitors, you are more likely to get killed driving there. There is also the urban legend some guy had a heart attack when the Haunted Mansion originally opened as a walk thru. Then it sat there closed for years before it became a ride.

One of my earliest memories was getting scared shitless in this thing that I was going to fly out of it as I don't remember seatbelts and I was riding high on mom's lap. I was only two or so as that is when it shut down to make way for the new Tomorrowland which opened in 1967.

They had real car headlights on them. lol.

Still, the second incarnation of Tomorrowland from 1967 is still the best.

Apparently they came up short with the budget the third time around and it shows.

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So, is that where those pitch and bats I used to love ended up at? I know at least one of them had to be a United Star Slugger or something similar. There were no pinballs but they did have a couple of bingo machines.

We waited years for Space Mountain to finally open and by the time it did I was around 16. We went to one of those nighttime private parties that were not so private where rides did not require tickets. Needless to say we were pretty spaced the first time we rode Space Mountain.

I could tell a little more about that evening but let's just say it ended in that little room off Main Street where they put all the bad people.

I finally talked my young daughter into riding it right when it became Rockin' Space Mountain with The Red Hot Chili Peppers blasting Higher Ground. It was really a very impressive makeover of the ride.

Skyway is the other time they put us in that room for swinging the buckets and shutting it down twice on the same ride.

They sealed up the Matterhorn inside and out where you could no longer see all the tracks and cars racing around the inside or the skyway and added a couple yetis and strung two cars together in the late 70s. When they closed the Skyway in the 90s, they sealed the holes in the side.

Yesterday they announced they are planning on reopening Disneyland on July 17th. On the 65th anniversary of the park's original opening.

I have serious reservations whether that will happen or not.
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