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The Progress City Radio Hour – Episode 30 – The Glorious Fourth!

The Progress City Radio Hour picks up our fife and drum for another celebration of the Fourth of July! In this patriotic episode we’ll look back at how Disney parks celebrated the Bicentennial, and examine some very early concepts for Epcot’s American Adventure. We’ll also walk you through a lengthy televised spectacle of […]

This Month’s Podcasts: Into the Wilderness!

Bob Baranick and Phantom Manor

Another month means another wave of Progress City Radio Hour episodes! This month we head off into the wilderness with a wide range of frontier discussion and yet another interview with a veteran theme park designer.

First comes our Wilderness episode. Here we grab our musket and […]

New Podcasts: Interviews and Snowy Things!

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 […]

RCA Leads The Way!

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 […]

Podcastin’!

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 […]