[Jeff Chandler]

The weirdest thing I did not know about Disneyland not mentioned here is that before one can become an executive, they work in a Disney costume in a park interacting with people to understand the "Disney Magic".

Well, that's interesting. We had several friends who worked at Disneyland, and the ones who worked in costume were, for the most part, shall we say..."creative".

[Jeff Chandler]

The weirdest thing I did not know about Disneyland not mentioned here is that before one can become an executive, they work in a Disney costume in a park interacting with people to understand the "Disney Magic".

Speaking of the "Disney magic", Mrs. Chandler and I once went to a Holloween costume party where most of the party goers were Disney parade workers. There was one beautiful young woman there dressed as a 'southern belle'. She came with a short black female servant, kind of an "Aunt Jemima" type. Well, the short black servant was really white and the girl friend of the southern belle, who was really a man!

If you ever get invited to a party with Disney costumed personnel, don't pass it up!

[woofer]

before one can become an executive, they work in a Disney costume in a park interacting with people to understand the "Disney Magic".

My employer made all of us service managers take the "Disney Magic" course over three days at Disney World in 1990.

The most interesting part of the course (and the only thing I stayed awake for) was the tour of Unter Disney World.

Disney World is actually the second layer of the enterprise, built over all of the offices, maintenance shops and warehouses. All of the overpriced merchandise reaches the shelves above ground from below so the marks, I mean tourists, don't see any clutter, carts or shift changes.

[rintense]

I remember when I was in high school and visited Disneyworld... space goofy kept following me around the park. Creep. I thought it was cute until one of my friends said, 'that could be a girl, ya know!' Oh, and one of the cowboys (the bad one of course) in the Wild West show offered to buy me a drink after the show. And, the dolphins in the Living Seas were a bit too amorous for spectators. My friend's mother yelled out, 'OMG! Look at THAT! I didn't know they HAD one of those!' LOL! Never forgot that trip.