A new resort has opened this week in on International Drive in Orlando, and with it, a piece of Disney history is being preserved. The CoCo Key Hotel and Water Resort-Orlando is at 7400 International Drive, miles from Walt Disney World. But Disney historians will… Read More »Coco Key Water Resort now open in Orlando
Actually, so early that the park was still just barely on the drawing boards. Don’t miss the Progress City, USA post on the origins of EPCOT. EPCOT Center’s path from concept to execution was, in so many ways, far more tortured than most Disney fans… Read More »EPCOT – the early early years
It’s tax day and Foxxfur is regaling us with stories of one of Founding Fathers and his place at Walt Disney World. Well make that places. And make that a portrait of Ben Franklin which it is believed was painted by Disney legend Marc Davis.… Read More »Ben Franklin at Walt Disney World
A veritable bonanza of Oswald the Lucky Rabbit posters over at Greenbriar. He also tells the tale of how ‘unlucky’ Oswald was for Disney. Ub Iwerks tried to warn Disney that Mintz was poaching his artists, but Walt wouldn’t believe it. The roof eventually fell… Read More »Oswald Bonanza
In a great piece of history telling, Yesterland dives into the urban myth that the iconic sculptures for the Swan and Dolphin hotels were accidentally incorrectly placed by the construction helicopter during construction leading to a forced name change for each hotel. After all, why… Read More »Swan and Dolphin Hotels, Urban Legend Explained
A friend recently pointed out to me that there’s an interesting milestone coming up for the Walt Disney Company. On February 14th of this year, the Walt Disney Company will have operated longer without Walt Disney than it did with him (the company having been… Read More »Major Disney Milestone Coming Up
A very long (11 parts) documentary style home video of EPCOT taken in 1983 is a marvelous look at this first of it’s kind theme park back when the park was fresh and new. My family came to EPCOT in 1984, but somehow, I wasn’t… Read More »Back to the Future with EPCOT 1983 home video
The Archive of American Television has put up a 6 part video interview with Roy E Disney. Filmed in 2007, the 2.5 hour conversation covers the early history of the Disney company and the role that his father, Roy O. Disney, and uncle Walt Disney,… Read More »Roy E. Disney interviewed