Today I am happy to present more Devlin family photos! Tom Devlin was nice enough to share these with all of us, and he gave me a little background on who the man in the pictures is:
The gentleman in the photos is my wife's father, Dick Bechelli. Dick along with his brother, Joe, owned Bechelli Belts which was based in San Francisco. The story goes that the Bechelli brothers were contacted by Disney to produce a souvenir Disneyland belt. It appears that part of the meeting included a visit to the park. (Apparently on a very slow and uncrowded day.)
There's Dick Bechelli, standing at the rail of the Chicken of the Sea Pirate Ship, looking like a real go-getter!
Tom continues: As you can see the slides have no date but I'm pretty sure this is no more than a year or two years after the park opened. I've tried to find out what the belt looked like but nobody on the Bechelli side of the family can tell me. I'm sure it would be quite the collector's item now.
If anybody out there is familiar with this rare souvenir belt, please chime in!
Tom shared some additional photos of his father in-law on the wonderful Daveland blog... see some of them HERE, and some more HERE.
Many thanks to Tom Devlin and his wife for sharing these fun family photos!
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