Posted on 07/17/2005 6:30:46 AM PDT by Liz
As a kid, all the way until I was in my late 30s, I loved Disneyland and the entire concept of Disney. But the "homosexuali-zation" of Disney, combined with its PC-ness soured me. Too bad. They lost a terrific customer. Not that I "boycott" it, but we used to always FIRST consider Disney vacations. Not any more.
You are not alone........I believe they dumped Eisner so as to get the true believers back in the parks.
Poor old Bob Thomas. A square peg in the round hole called AP. Good article, though.
I hope so...I love Disney (proposed to my wife in Cinderella's Rose Garden in WDW) but hate eisner and everything he's done to the concept...poor Walt is rolling in his grave.
Walt's corpse is cryogenically preserved under one of the rides there, y'know.
They've got a bundle of copper wire wrapped around it.
Its spinning acts as a generator on Gay Day.
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Favorite early Disneyland ride =
Rocket to the Moon ride
A fantasy that soon became reality just 14 years later
1st Man to walk on Earth's Moon was American Eagle Scout NEIL ARMSTRONG
1st Man to walk on the Planet Mars in this new LIBERTY Century will soon be American Eagle Scout _____ _______ ?
Snort----Urban Legend.
They have to dump more than eisner, th company is infested with tommy hilfiger wanna-bes that have taken the cartoon out of the business.
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DISNEY's MICHAEL EISNER =
Close Friend of the CLINTONS
Yeah, "Bruce and the boys" were all hand-picked by Eisner (smirk).
I had heard his brother is. I know for a fact the ones who ruined the merchandise division are.
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I will NEVER FORGET being blessed to work in TOMORROWLAND's 'Space Bar' snack stand sitting at the base of Matterhorn Mountain. This was during my 1961 summer break in between my Freshman and Sophomore years at Loyola University of Los Angeles, now Loyola-Marymount.
A Summer that also saw my former Rancho Alamitos High School co-attendee STEVE MARTIN taking his dinner breaks in our break area right behind the 'Space Bar' ...away from his working the 'Enchanted Tiki Room.'
The Tiki Room was where STEVE first picked up his "Well, Excuuuuse Me" comic routine line. Seems a lady from the South and her kids were clogging up the aisle way instead of finding their seats. When white-uniformed show host STEVE came up to invite them to quickly take their seats so the show could begin, out came her now famous .."Well, Excu....." reply.
In high school as a Senior student leader, I had had the opportunity to help a resolution thru our Student Council to ask the Principal to double our monthly School Assemblies
...just so we could get one very funny Freshman STEVE MARTIN up there to entertain us with his early 'Saturday Night Live' type routines every 2 weeks instead of 4.
STEVE MARTIN was obviously THAT good from the very start and worth all the support we could give him.
For the pleasure, you see, really was ...all ours:
http://www.orgs.cc/RAHS60/
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I will also NEVER FORGET my reaction to our U.S. 7th Cavalry's being shipped thru the Panama Canal 40 years ago, exactly, on our way to the 1st Major Jungle Battles of the Vietnam War...
...seeing just how Mother Nature had gotten the jungles on our sides right.
Why, they were just like dear Uncle WALT's 'Jungle Boat Ride' in ADVENTURELAND..!!
(Photos)
http://www.lzxray.com/guyer_set1.htm
http://www.lzxray.com/guyer_set2.htm
http://www.lzxray.com/guyer_set3.htm
http://www.lzxray.com/guyer_collection.htm
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I remember seeing the fireworks every night from our back yard...especially on the Fourth. They used to hold huge parties (Spring Fling) after regular park hours with a band and dancing in every one of the lands for young adults and the place was packed.
I wonder how many people remember or even know what the term "E" ticket experience means (They had A-B-C-D and E tickets for the rides. The best rides in the park required an "E" ticket to get on.
As I recall it was also near the Monorail station, Autopia, the Submarine ride and the rocket ship
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From today's Orange County Register:
'50 Years of MAGIC'
http://www.ocregister.com/ocr/2005/07/17/slideshow.php
http://www.ocregister.com/local/disney
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Great memory there, lewislynn.
TOMORROWLAND, what a great place to be? Right down thar amomgst them future cars, submarines and rockets...
...as well as Unlce WALT's kids of all ages.
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