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By Michael - February 24th, 2010 There’s a question that I’ve seen pop up often over the years in the search results by which people are redirected to this site. With all the hubbub leading up to yesterday’s return of Captain EO to Disneyland’s Tomorrowland, I’ve seen a new explosion of people asking this question:
What does Captain “EO” stand for?
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By Michael - February 20th, 2010 From the Eyes & Ears of Walt Disney World, March 18, 1977:
Frozen Meat Sale!!!
I don’t know exactly why this amuses me as much as it does. Perhaps it’s the boldly declarative title announcing, without apparent excitement, “FROZEN MEAT SALE.” Perhaps it’s the fact that the Gourmet Pantry somehow found themselves with an “abundance” […]
By Michael - February 17th, 2010 The Disney Look – Summer Options for Supervisory and Office Personnel
Once upon a time…
Dick Nunis was the head of what is now known as Disney Parks & Resorts.
Nunis had risen through the ranks back in Walt’s day, eventually receiving the assignment of traveling to Florida to whip things into shape when Walt […]
By Michael - February 16th, 2010 Long before the Pueblo Room was a glint in Dick Nunis’s eye, planning was underway for Walt Disney World. Who knows how long Walt had mulled privately over his ideas for a megaproject in the east; but even before the scope of his plans for the Florida scrub became apparent to the public, work was […]
By Michael - February 16th, 2010 Subtitle: 1,001 Arabian Flushes…
So ever since the long quest for photographic proof of EPCOT’s lost Danish bathrooms concluded, the hunt was on for those other lone bathrooms of EPCOT’s early days – the restroom complex that would one day be part of the Morocco pavilion.
World Showcase, 1982
While the Morocco showcase would not […]
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The Progress City Primer
 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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