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The Progress City Radio Hour – Episode 31 – Scott Girard Town Hall, Part I

Disney landscapers lower the Liberty Oak into place in Liberty Square in 1971. Among the crew are Scott Girard (to the left, in orange shirt), Charlie Sepulveda (the yellow shirt, center), and Bill Evans (the mint green shirt, far right).

Today! The Progress City Radio Hour presents part one of our Town Hall […]

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 […]

A Walt Disney World Fever Dream

Long ago, we old people had something called “film”. Film was how we made pictures move, and some of us had machines called “projectors” that we would use at home to make the pictures appear on a wall or bedsheet.

Before the era of smartphone video, and even up to the advent of the VHS […]

Happy Halloween!

Happy Halloween from the corruptible mortals here at Progress City. Why not look at some links from Halloweens past, or just pay a visit to the greatest haunted house of all? This video tour of the Haunted Mansion, which can be downloaded here, is the greatest fan video of the attraction I’ve seen, and […]

Thanksgiving Special: Neverworlds – Disney’s America

“Every day, a diverse and unlikely society, made up of every culture and race on earth, is working together to build a great nation. We have a single vision – a new order based on the promise of democracy.

Our resources for building this nation are a rich mixture of land, family and beliefs […]