Disney World - Annual Passport - 1993 by Kristen Decker on Flickr.
1993 Property Map by Kristen Decker on Flickr.
1981 WDW A Night With The Golden Greats by UFG8R on Flickr.
Via Flickr:
The good ol’ days. $10 bucks to get into the park for the evening and got to hear/see some great old groups, too. Wish I had a way to upload my old 8mm home movies of this event.
Empress Lilly Character Breakfast Ticket 1989 by Jeff_B. on Flickr.
Comp 1 Day Child Ticket 1984 by UFG8R on Flickr.
Comp 1 Day Ticket 1983 by UFG8R on Flickr.
Disney-MGM Studios Guidemap 1994 by partyhare on Flickr.
An aerial shot of the construction of Walt Disney World- notice the Haunted Mansion in the upper right-hand corner.
Vintage Disneyworld Photo by angelagafford on Flickr.
Monsanto’s Home Of The Future Brochure by Drive-In Mike on Flickr.
“The coolest house of all time!”
“This video was recorded at Disney’s Polynesian Village Resort in Spring of 1988. It was the WDW information loop that ran in the Disney World Resort rooms during that year. The recording is obviously not great quality as it was taken by placing our family VHS home video camera on the bed of our room and aiming it at the TV.”
I am always grateful for (and pleasantly surprised by) tidbits like this, a napkin or a park handout, a stray piece of video footage or a single photo of an obscure element, back from the days before unlimited photos and digital video, and the Internet ‘demand’ for parks ephemera and keepsakes.
Monsanto Home Of The Future Living Room by Drive-In Mike on Flickr.
“Dig that fantastic green carpet! From the HOF brochure.”
my first disney world trip! ‘97
Long Lost Disney:
So, I have recently discovered a deep fascination with the abandoned Disney waterpark called River Country. The original Disney waterpark opened in 1976 and closed permanently in 2001. It used mostly unfilted lake water out of Bay Lake. Instead of tearing it down, it has been to left to rot, slowly becoming nothing more than Florida jungle. I took a trip to Fort Wilderness today with the sole purpose of capturing some images of this area.
The area where the waterpark was is located near the Settlement off to the side behind the area where Mickey’s Backyard Barbecue is held. It is surrounded by a typical green Disney fence, but obviously has had more than one person try to catch a glimpse as parts of the fence are missing. I hope to get more pictures in the future, but this is all I have come up with for now.
i will reblog all fort and river country. i love my parking lot!
