DisneyWorld of Yesteryear

[Virgo10]

I love all these oldies!!! I'm going to post a link to this over on the CB.

I've got a few.

I actually liked the castle this way. I was glad to see it changed back though.

My daughter a looong time ago at Discovery Island.

Osborne lights from 1999.

The Annual Passholders Lounge.

Spaceship Earth when EPCOT was being built courtesy of my father.

Gigantic aluminum Christmas tree at the Contemporary circa late 70's.

The back of the Cakesil taken from the Skyway.

The destruction of Horizons.

 

[sunshine girl]

These are great! Very entertaining!

 

[jns]

Thanks everyone

great thread

 

[HSMndLKfan92]

I love the pictures. Totally makes me "home" sick. Virgo, I love the picture of Chip and Dale.

 

[Gdad]

Wow! How did I miss this thread? Very interesting pictures all.

I agree with you on the Horizons ride Virgo10

 

[Virgo10]

I found a couple more.

Bay Lake. This is another one from my parents late 70's trip.

The Contemporary.

My son getting married to a total stranger by the EPCOT robots. They were a riot!

 

[cinderellacm2000]

Seriously- thank you for posting to all of you! I am loving the pictures! I ran across a bunch of 1982 EPCOT opening postcards the other day and I am hoping to scan them in soon!

 

[Groucho]

I was digging around in some old boxes of my stuff that were in the rafters in my parent's garage over the weekend and came upon a treasure trove of old WDW stuff, from previous trips... a couple early-'80s pictorial souvenirs, a nice hardcover book from the mid-'80s that I've been going crazy looking for, some Mickey Mouse Club newsletters, details on a few family trips, prices, guide maps, a neat map that I bought around 1980 or so that had a disc inside that you could spin. You'd spin it until you saw a dot behind an attraction then on the back, there were details about it. Also a 1986 guide book.

It's funny, looking at some of the early Epcot stuff... virtually everything in Future World has been replaced since then... count me as one who misses Horizons, too, although my understanding is that the ground it was on was getting unstable to it had to go no matter what...

 

[DebºoºS]

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Miss Lily

Can-Can

 

[ChrisFL]

Spaceship Earth when EPCOT was being built courtesy of my father.

Actually, that isn't Spaceship Earth, that's the dome from the Montreal Expo back in the 60's. Spaceship Earth was built much higher off the ground and doesn't have water that close to it.

 

[Virgo10]

Actually, that isn't Spaceship Earth, that's the dome from the Montreal Expo back in the 60's. Spaceship Earth was built much higher off the ground and doesn't have water that close to it.

As far as I know, my parents had never been to Montreal. Did the dome there have monorail tracks around it. You can see them in that photo.

My father said that he was able to sneak into EPCOT. Apparently they were a lot less strict about keeping sites closed back in the 70's. I wish he had used ANY camera but a Polaroid! In the original photo I can actually see some of the inner workings of the ride. All I can think of is that Disney did some major landscaping to the land that is EPCOT.

I wish I could ask my father but he passed away more than 25 years ago.

 

[AbbysFamily]

As far as I know, my parents had never been to Montreal. Did the dome there have monorail tracks around it. You can see them in that photo.

My father said that he was able to sneak into EPCOT. Apparently they were a lot less strict about keeping sites closed back in the 70's. I wish he had used ANY camera but a Polaroid! In the original photo I can actually see some of the inner workings of the ride. All I can think of is that Disney did some major landscaping to the land that is EPCOT.

I wish I could ask my father but he passed away more than 25 years ago.

Wow... I hate to start something (or get in the middle), but I'd bet your parents did indeed make it to Montreal.

Take a look at this picture that I dug around the web for at : http://www.columbia.edu/cu/gsapp/BT/EEI/HEATLOAD/heatload.html Go to this page, then click on the picture for a bigger version.

I think the other poster is right about this picture. If you look closely there was a track of some sort...

Great identification on their part!

 

[AndrewWG]

Ok, so I have some oldies here. I know that they are all Magic Kingdom since that would have been all that existed back then. I have no idea when these were taken, but I would say late 1970's. This was a trip that my grandmother took back then. I have shown all of the pics from this trip, unfortunately. I wish there were more. Notice the total lack of shops on the left side of Main Street! Also, what is up with the size of Mickey's ears???

On to the pics...

 

[Virgo10]

Wow... I hate to start something (or get in the middle), but I'd bet your parents did indeed make it to Montreal.

Take a look at this picture that I dug around the web for at : http://www.columbia.edu/cu/gsapp/BT/EEI/HEATLOAD/heatload.html Go to this page, then click on the picture for a bigger version.

I think the other poster is right about this picture. If you look closely there was a track of some sort...

Great identification on their part!

Wow, a family mythology debunked! You've got to be right (both of you). My mother was actually the one who thought this was a photo of SE and last night I remembered that she was the one who told me about my father sneaking onto the site.

If they ever went to Montreal they either didn't tell me or they did tell me and I've forgotten. At any rate, that photo in the link certainly explains the weird topography in my picture. I should be happy to know where that was taken but it was more fun thinking it was EPCOT. Oh well.

 

[YEKCIM]

Ok, so I have some oldies here. I know that they are all Magic Kingdom since that would have been all that existed back then. I have no idea when these were taken, but I would say late 1970's. This was a trip that my grandmother took back then. I have shown all of the pics from this trip, unfortunately. I wish there were more. Notice the total lack of shops on the left side of Main Street! Also, what is up with the size of Mickey's ears???

On to the pics...

Nice shots, Andrew. Got any more?

~YEKCIM

 

[AndrewWG]

Nice shots, Andrew. Got any more?

~YEKCIM

Nope. I am still looking for the pics from when I went as a kid in like 1982 or so. I'll post them if I find them!

Andy

 

[ChrisFL]

Wow, a family mythology debunked! You've got to be right (both of you). My mother was actually the one who thought this was a photo of SE and last night I remembered that she was the one who told me about my father sneaking onto the site.

If they ever went to Montreal they either didn't tell me or they did tell me and I've forgotten. At any rate, that photo in the link certainly explains the weird topography in my picture. I should be happy to know where that was taken but it was more fun thinking it was EPCOT. Oh well.

Yep, oh well.

Here's another pic of it where you can see the inside of the sphere which you can almost make out in your picture:

 

[Sha]

im still learning about my PS.... but this was from a slide... had to restore the color... not great.... but still. I will hopefully get through the others that I have. (1972)

 

[Groucho]

My father said that he was able to sneak into EPCOT. Apparently they were a lot less strict about keeping sites closed back in the 70's. I wish he had used ANY camera but a Polaroid! In the original photo I can actually see some of the inner workings of the ride. All I can think of is that Disney did some major landscaping to the land that is EPCOT.

I wish I could ask my father but he passed away more than 25 years ago.

The other thing (despite the referenced photos ) that would make me think that it wasn't Spaceship Earth was that Epcot didn't open until 25 years ago... which would mean that a picture of SE under construction probably would be 26 years or less, which would make the timing pretty close for your father to have snuck in and photographed it.

 

[AndrewWG]

All,

I just found out (by reading an old letter) that the Disney photos I posted above are from a one day (only one?) trip on Oct 22, 1974.

Andy