historical satellite photos of WDW?

[VA_mouseman]

Hello all .... don't know if this is the best board to post this question, but I'll start here.

I'm looking for historical satellite photos of the WDW property, if available. I have a long fascination with the growth of WDW since '71 (additional parks and resorts, of course).

I know that the current imagery (google maps for example) has a ton of detail, but it's all relatively current.

Are there any satellite photos that would show what WDW looked like in 1971, when the MK opened? Or the mid 80's, after Epcot? Or the 90's when there was the extended growth in resorts, etc.

Thanks!

 

[VA_mouseman]

moderators - feel free to move this thread to another forum if necessary!

 

[crazy4wdw]

Check out this link for some overhead views of WDW: http://www.disneypix.com/Multimedia/Satellite.htm

These images were taken around 2002. There was a site named something like "Disney from Space" which had lots of satellite images of "the world" but I can not locate it.

 

[Monk_&_Duck]

On Google Earth if you click on the icon on the top that looks like a clock, you will be in historical imagery and there will be a bar that you can scroll back to several dates between 1995 and now. The quality on some of the images is not as good as others but it is pretty cool to see the changes, most notably Animal Kingdom, BLT, and the change from Disney Institute into SSR.