Does Anyone Remember Prodigy? and the Dis'ers that were famous?

[DawnCt1]

If you remember Clarry Trice, Rudy Quackenbush, Ed from Jax, Lisa. Sign in!

 

[disney1990]

If you remember Clarry Trice, Rudy Quackenbush, Ed from Jax, Lisa. Sign in!

I most definitely remember Prodigy. "Round is a Shape" I remember all the planning that Clarry did before he died. My DH and I attended the 1st Prodigy get together.

 

[DawnCt1]

I most definitely remember Prodigy. "Round is a Shape" I remember all the planning that Clarry did before he died. My DH and I attended the 1st Prodigy get together.

Before the age of the E-ticket, I had my Delta airline tickets stolen from my room at the Yacht Club. It was the first year that the Yacht Club was opened and the safe was in the wall and not on the floor. It cost $50 per family member to fly home for "lost ticket affidavits". Not something that I welcomed at the end of our WDW vacation. $300! The Yacht Club did little to attempt to resolve the problem at the time. We were annual visitors. I posted my angst on Prodigy and there were 128 replies to my thread...all supportive. Clarry printed them and faxed them to Mark Pakala who was in charge of the DVC at the time. He forwarded them to Neil Olson, manager of the Yacht and Beach Club. Imagine my shock when Mr. Olson called me on a Sunday morning and asked if there was anything he could do to encourage us to return to WDW; I was boycotting for a year. He offered us any number of rooms at the concierge level for the lowest price we could book in; an upgrade. I got a rate of $135 per night. He also contacted Delta Airlines and they gave us a $300 credit towards our airline tickets. The following year we booked two rooms at the Yacht Club for 10 days. My family of six, my mom, my brother, wife, and two children went to WDW. It was magical. It was one of my mother's last trips to WDW before she died of breast cancer in 1995. Clarry is gone now, but I think of him often. You never know what connection you make that will make another connection, that will make an incredible, wonderful memory! Isn't that the butterfly effect?

 

[disney1990]

What a great story. I am so glad that you were able to spend one more vacation with your Mom at Disney because of Clarry.

 

[DawnCt1]

What a great story. I am so glad that you were able to spend one more vacation with your Mom at Disney because of Clarry.

It wasn't her last one, but it was her last vacation in feeling that she had really beat breast cancer and it was something behind her and all of us. It as a great opportunity for my brother and his family to come; the rate and concierge made it so much more do able for them. I remember Clarry every year. One year I met Rudy Quackenbush there. He was a regular poster, and I still talk to Ed in Jax several times a year. In fact, last October we had lunch together in WDW. Gail Hayden was part of that group, as was Janet H. etc. Janet and I planned our vacations at the Poly back in the mid 90's.

 

[Where'sPiglet?]

When I saw the thread title, I thought you meant Prodigy the internet service provider from back in the day. You know, the one that assigned you an email address that was a random string of numbers and letters. Mine was something crazy like PDGBQ at prodigy, and I was all annoyed because I was in high school and all my friends had cool names that they got to create on aol and I had this stupid set of letters.

Sorry, back on your topic that I know nothing about.

 

[DawnCt1]

When I saw the thread title, I thought you meant Prodigy the internet service provider from back in the day. You know, the one that assigned you an email address that was a random string of numbers and letters. Mine was something crazy like PDGBQ at prodigy, and I was all annoyed because I was in high school and all my friends had cool names that they got to create on aol and I had this stupid set of letters.

Sorry, back on your topic that I know nothing about.

That's the one! They had a very active Disney message board.

 

[sharonkurland]

Just about 2 years late on the conversation but I was part of that Prodigy group - went to every Gathering we had and I organized one of them...the 2nd or 3rd one, I think? Anyway, there is a decent-sized group of us who are still friends (me, Darlene K., Steve C., Joe H., Gary A., etc) and I'm in touch with a much larger circle of Gathering friends thanks to Facebook (feel free to find/friend me over there).

There is some talk of a 20th Anniversary Gathering in 2013 - more to come as it gets closer.

BTW, I eventually married Joe H., also a *P/Theme Parks/Disney person, and we now live 9 miles from WDW. ;-)

It's only a hobby...only a hobby...only a hobby... (thanks, Clarry!)

 

[JerseyJanice]

Before the age of the E-ticket, I had my Delta airline tickets stolen from my room at the Yacht Club. It was the first year that the Yacht Club was opened and the safe was in the wall and not on the floor. It cost $50 per family member to fly home for "lost ticket affidavits". Not something that I welcomed at the end of our WDW vacation. $300! The Yacht Club did little to attempt to resolve the problem at the time. We were annual visitors. I posted my angst on Prodigy and there were 128 replies to my thread...all supportive. Clarry printed them and faxed them to Mark Pakala who was in charge of the DVC at the time. He forwarded them to Neil Olson, manager of the Yacht and Beach Club. Imagine my shock when Mr. Olson called me on a Sunday morning and asked if there was anything he could do to encourage us to return to WDW; I was boycotting for a year. He offered us any number of rooms at the concierge level for the lowest price we could book in; an upgrade. I got a rate of $135 per night. He also contacted Delta Airlines and they gave us a $300 credit towards our airline tickets. The following year we booked two rooms at the Yacht Club for 10 days. My family of six, my mom, my brother, wife, and two children went to WDW. It was magical. It was one of my mother's last trips to WDW before she died of breast cancer in 1995. Clarry is gone now, but I think of him often. You never know what connection you make that will make another connection, that will make an incredible, wonderful memory! Isn't that the butterfly effect?

That is an awesome story, Dawn!

No, I don't remember any of these names, and I think this is the first time I've ever even heard them, but I had to tell you I liked reading your story.

 

[Silent1CB]

We had Prodigy internet service way back in the early to mid 1990's, but I didn't know about a Disney group. After them, we switched to AOL, and that was my first experience with message boards. I was part of the AOL WDW board, and also on the RAPD boards by the late 1990's.

 

[Shadeaux]

Just about 2 years late on the conversation but I was part of that Prodigy group - went to every Gathering we had and I organized one of them...the 2nd or 3rd one, I think? Anyway, there is a decent-sized group of us who are still friends (me, Darlene K., Steve C., Joe H., Gary A., etc) and I'm in touch with a much larger circle of Gathering friends thanks to Facebook (feel free to find/friend me over there).

There is some talk of a 20th Anniversary Gathering in 2013 - more to come as it gets closer.

BTW, I eventually married Joe H., also a *P/Theme Parks/Disney person, and we now live 9 miles from WDW. ;-)

It's only a hobby...only a hobby...only a hobby... (thanks, Clarry!)

You beat me to it....I was going to mention that I had heard talk of a possible 20th anniversary gathering. We were at the 1st & 2nd and also had the pleasure of meeting Clarry before he died. Lots of good memories from the Prodigy days.

 

[CathrynRose]

I was an AOL Disney Boarder.

 

[DawnCt1]

I just remembered my old assigned Prodigy username. MKHH64A!! We are redoing our kitchen so I am pulling everything out of the cupboards, etc. I am not a "hoarder" but I always saved our calendars when the kids were little and my mom was going through breast cancer treatment. It helped me remember dates when I had to look back. Today I found them. Countdowns to WDW, my mom's appointments, the kids' open houses and baseball games. Of course, most of them are Disney calendars.

 

[OhhBother]

Prodigy was the first place I became "ohhbother" in honor of Winnie the Pooh. Ohbother with one H was taken, so I modified. And I've been ohhbother on multiple message boards ever since.

 

[TheDisneyGirl02]

I was on Prodigy too, but not on the Disney forum everyone is talking about - I was on the MMC forum! I met so many wonderful friends on Prodigy who I had the opportunity to meet at three tapings of MMC in 1994. I still keep in contact with many of those fans!