When I was a kid, there was nothing cooler than the crossover. Characters from different fictional universes appearing together was always ratings gold as far as I was concerned. GI Joe meeting up with Transformers? Proto-geek paradise. Daffy Duck playing piano alongside Donald? Exquisite. Any fellow nerd who has ever salivated over the idea of […]
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“Celebrities like Lawrence Welk participated in the Pro-Am … part of the 1975 WDW Golf Classic” Thank yeh, boys… Related Posts…Watercrafting – Layin’ Keel, 1975EPCOT: Origins – The Tripartite Plan, 1975The Progress City Radio Hour – Episode 59 – Energy!The Progress City Radio Hour – Episode 58 – Town Hall: Davy Feiten, Part IIThe Progress City Radio Hour – Episode 57 – Town Hall: Davy Feiten, Part I One of the many operational issues facing Walt Disney World when it opened in 1971 was inadequate transportation capacity. Walt Disney Productions simply ran out of time before the resort’s debut, and so the Magic Kingdom opened without enough operational monorails and watercraft to bring visitors in from the Transportation and Ticket Center. Every moving […] By 1975, Walt Disney Productions had given up any pretense that it was ever going to build Walt’s city of the future in Florida. The stirring images of Progress City had disappeared from their promotional materials, and by July of that year a Disney spokesman publicly stated that “the concept that was originally envisioned is […] THE “WORLD CITY” MODEL: Project designer John DeCuir completes an initial concept for the World City model, an amphitheater depicting a future community in the process of grown and adaptation.– Walt Disney Productions, 1975 In 1975, EPCOT Center was a far different creature than the park that debuted in 1982. Known then by the unwieldy […] |
 From the Progress City archives comes this collection of 33 tall tales and true from Disney history. Available in paperback, hardback, and ebook formats.  |
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