Archives

Contribute to Our Research

Retroworlds – The Melvin The Moose Breakfast Show

While character meals are now a huge cash cow for Disney, and getting reservations for lunch with Pooh and Princesses has become something of a bloodsport for harried parents, character breakfasts from days of yore were much fewer and far between. You could have a quiet breakfast with Mickey and company on the Empress […]

Iran So Far Away…

Last weekend, Bob Allen and Carl Bongirno hosted Her Imperial Majesty Shahbanou Farah Pahlavi and her official party for a briefing and update on World Showcase. The Empress of Iran and her party visited the Magic Kingdom early Saturday evening before departing for a formal dinner on the Empress Lilly where she was joined by […]

Maps! Fort Wilderness, 1988

Fort Wilderness Resort, 1988

I’m sorry that things have been a little mappy lately, but they’re just so darn interesting. I promise I’m working on some meatier stories, though. Time takes time!

In any case, we’re at Fort Wilderness in 1988. You may or may not know of my intense love for Fort Wilderness, but […]

Maps! EPCOT Center, 1989

EPCOT Center, 1989

This one’s for Hoot Gibson.

Is there really anything I can say? Horizons. Motion. Imagination. Seas. Kitchen Kabaret. Radok screens. Cronkite.

Where’d I put the time machine…

Related Posts…The World of MotionThose Were The Days, My Friends…Maps! The Magic Kingdom, 1989Maps! The Disney-MGM Studios, 1989The Progress City Radio Hour – Episode 59 – Energy!

Maps! The Magic Kingdom, 1989

The Magic Kingdom, 1989

Look! Skyway! 20K! Birthdayland! No Splash Mountain!

And if you squint, the unmolested Tiki Room. Ahh, 1989.

Related Posts…The World of MotionDateline: Walt Disney Imagineering – DreamflightMaps! EPCOT Center, 1989Maps! The Disney-MGM Studios, 1989The Progress City Radio Hour – Episode 58 – Town Hall: Davy Feiten, Part II