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Frank Stanek The podcast train keeps on rolling, as we have some new episodes of The Progress City Radio Hour for you. For starters, we have an extensive two-part interview with former Disney executive Frank Stanek, who began by flipping pancakes at Disneyland in 1961. He went on to work at the 1964/65 […] Here’s to the future and you! In the lead-up to the creation of Epcot Center during the 1970s, a common refrain from Disney publicity was that, in many ways, Walt’s futuristic dream for the city of EPCOT had already come true in the Florida swamps. The underlying systems and technologies in use at […] Three years goes by pretty quick, doesn’t it? Not that much has changed. Aside, of course, from the sweeping global pandemic that has kept us locked up inside for four months. There’s at least one positive (?) outcome of all this cabin fever – there has been plenty of time for podcast shenanigans. I’ve […] Disney Imagineer George McGinnis with a model of the Indiana Jones Adventure ride vehicle. This one is tough to write. Disney Imagineer George McGinnis has died at the age of 87. George was the last Imagineer personally hired by Walt Disney, and in his thirty years with Disney he worked on many classic […] It’s Friday! And you deserve some retro Walt Disney World goodness. This video comes from 1993. It’s one of a series of videos produced by General Motors for guests to the World of Motion pavilion at Epcot. Guests to the pavilion’s TransCenter were given a postcard they could send away to receive a free video. […] |
 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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