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Sept.22, 2010,,
Disney’s Animal Kingdom celebrates Elephant Appreciation Day with a host of activities for children and families at Rafiki’s Planet Watch.

Although Elephant Appreciation Day is celebrated every September 22, for the care team at Disney's Animal Kingdom ... every day is Elephant Appreciation Day. DAK is part of a breeding program coordinated by the Association of Zoos and Aquariums that focuses on sustaining the elephant population in North America.

Have you hugged your elephant today ?

 

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Sep[t.23 ,2001
President George W. Bush orders American Flags to be raised full staff on this day around the country for the first time since the tragedy of September 11th. A ceremony is held at noon at Disneyland's Time Square to raise the flag. Disneyland Resort President Cynthia Harriss and the CEO of the Walt Disney Company Michael Eisner are in attendance. Fifty white doves are released while the flag is raised.

 

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"Haven't you got the word? We're in full color." -Walt Disney

Sept.24, 1961:
Sunday: Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color makes its debut in color
and on NBC (for the series' 8th season on television). Hosted by Walt himself, the episode consists of "An Adventure in Color," "Donald in Mathmagicland," and a brand new character called Professor Ludwig Von Drake - voiced by Paul Frees. The episode is sponsored by RCA, who runs commercials during the show promoting their new RCA color television. (Before this, the series had been called Disneyland and then Walt Disney Presents - but both broadcast on ABC and in black & white.)

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Sept. 24, 1961:
Construction begins on a one story pavilion to house General Electric's Carousel of Progress (an attraction shipped in from Disneyland) at Disney World's Tomorrowland.

 

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Sept 25, 1931: Disney's Mickey Mouse cartoon Fishin' Around is released. In this short (directedby Bert Gillett) Mickey and Pluto fish in a "No Fishing" area ... until they have to escape from a pursuing game warden!



If this happened many decades later, I'd think that Frank had something to do with this!

 

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Sept 25, 1902:
Songwriter Hall of Famer Al Hoffman is born in Minsk, Russia. At age 6, he and his family moved to Seattle, Washington. Starting out as a drummer, he moved to New York City and began writing songs. Along with Mack David and Jerry Livingston, Hoffman wrote such classic Disney tunes as "A Dream Is A Wish Your Heart Makes" and "Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boo" (for Cinderella). Among Hoffman's non-Disney hit songs: "Hot Diggity"
(a #1 hit for Perry Como), "Papa Loves Mambo," and "Mairzy Doats."

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The original Disneyland Monorail was a round trip sightseeing ride with no stops.
In 1961, the monorail track was expanded to connect the park with the Disneyland Hotel.

 

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Sept. 26,1984:
Disney World's Frontier Shooting Gallery changes its name to Frontierland Shootin' Arcade.

wow, I sure miss that shoot'n gallery, usta do that every time we went to MK.

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Do you know what Walt's favorite drink of choice ?

I don't know if it was his favorite, but Walt was known to have Scotch and water after work.

 

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1953,,
Artist Herb Ryman and Walt Disney continue to sketch out plans for an
amusement park to be built in California. Meanwhile in New York, Walt's brother Roy meets with the 3 major TV networks, seeking financing for Disneyland. Unfortunately CBS TV executives are not interested. NBC's
parent company RCA, stalls in making a commitment. But ABC's Leonard Goldenson eagerly agrees to participate! (The final agreement - which won't be signed until April 1954 - will include a $500,000 investment from ABC-Paramount, guarantee for $4.5 million line of credit, in return for 35% interest in Disneyland and a weekly one-hour TV program with Disney films and production for TV.)

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Mickey Mouse has a wardrobe that supermodels would envy. Mickey's closet currently holds about 175 different complete outfits that range from casual to the most formal.

Minnie Mouse has even more outfits than Mickey.
Minnie's closet Minnie has over 200 outfits !

 

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It would take one person over 60 years to stay in every single room in the Walt Disney World complex!

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The buses that carry people throughout the resort could actually make that equator trip as around six times each week of the year! Yes, the buses rack up about million miles each year.

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Statistics show that there are as many t-shirts sold every year as there are people in Chicago, Illinois! That's right almost THREE MILLION t-shirts pass through the gates every single year.

 

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Sept.30, Walt Disney World's Preview Center, located on Buena Vista Boulevard, closes. It featured displays of models and drawings of Disney's new Florida theme park - which will open the following day. (The boulevard will later be renamed Hotel Plaza and the Preview Center will become the headquarters for the Amateur Athletic Union.)

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"The day before, the whole company was so busy getting ready and it went down to the wire. I remember being at the Contemporary around five or six in the evening and the sod hadn’t been laid. And several of us cast members went out and helped. And people were calling out, ‘Remember to put the green side up!’ It was really just the Disney family total immersion and you did whatever you could if someone needed help." -Debbie Dane, WDW's first ambassador & former Preview Center hostess


Tomorrow…we raise the curtain for the beginning of the October Preview Month of the Magic Kingdom in Walt Disney World. Planning began in 1965. Now…$400 million and six years later and untold gallons of blood, sweat and tears, the public will visit this most ambitious creation in the history of the Disney organization…It will be a great and memorable day…for all of us. This does not mean that it won’t have its frantic…hectic…confusing moments. If your costume doesn’t fit…a tram breaks down, and other things don’t happen like they should, don’t get up tight. That, as they say….is show business.

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"The day before the brand-new Haunted Mansion opened at Walt Disney World in 1971, the first
custodial crew cleaned out all the cobwebs. The Imagineers had to go back in and reapply all the cobwebs!" - Wayne Culver (a fixture of Disney's clean team in Orlando and Anaheim for 39 years)

 

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OCT. 1,,2011

HAPPY BIRTHDAY Walt Disney World !!

Walt Disney World turns 40! At 9:45 a.m. at the Magic Kingdom, a parade of Disney characters work its way to Cinderella Castle for a ceremony with Walt Disney World President Meg Crofton. Folks who have been Cast Members for 40 years participate, and a sing-along with the Dapper Dans barbershop quartet is held.
Special 40th anniversary merchandise is offered for sale and creators of limited-edition artwork are on hand for autographs. In the evening, an expanded edition of "Wishes" fireworks display fills the sky at 9 p.m.

Almost 10,000 visitors converge near Orlando, Florida, to witness the grand opening of Walt Disney World, which includes the Magic Kingdom (Disney's second theme park) and two resorts.

 

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Oct.2, 1950:
Peanuts, created by Charles M. Schultz, first debuts in seven U.S. newspapers.
As a boy, Schulz was interested in comics, especially Popeye and the characters created by Walt Disney.
Back in the '30s, he wrote to Walt Disney asking for a job ... but didn't get one. In 1996 Schulz will be honored with a sidewalk star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame ... right next to Walt Disney's!

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Oct.2, 1959:
Rod Serling's The Twilight Zone makes its debut on CBS-TV with
an episode called "Where Is Everybody." In this episode, actor Earl Holliman
plays a man who finds himself alone in a strange and seemingly deserted town. He is dressed in an Air Force jumpsuit, but does not remember who he is or how he got there. Sensing he is beeing watched, he wanders the town in hopes of finding another living creature. He finally collapses next to a street crossing, and presses a button labeled "walk." It is revealed that the walk button is in fact a panic button and that he is really an astronaut named Mike Ferris who has been confined in an isolation room as part of his training!
The successful series will later be the inspiration for Disney's Tower of Terror park attractions.
(Ironically an inspection certificate outside the tower's elevators at WDW in Florida has the number 10259 written on it. 10259 ... October 2 '59!?)


'Up there', up there in the vastness of space, in the void that is sky, up there is an enemy known as isolation. It sits there in the stars, waiting- waiting with the patience of eons, forever waiting ... in the Twilight Zone.

 

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Oct.3,,1955:
Disney's second TV series Mickey Mouse Club is launched on ABC. It is a daily series featuring the talents of 24 kids known as the Mouseketeers (though over the next 4 years the show will have a regular but ever-changing cast of preteens). Mickey Mouse Club also features cartoons, educational segments, singing, dancing, serialized adventures, and special guest stars. Led by adult leaders Jimmie Dodd and cartoonist Roy Williams, the show airs during the late afternoon/pre-dinner hour, primarily aimed at a pre-teen audience. (The Mouseketeers have already made their first TV appearance on the ABC broadcast of Disneyland's opening in July 1955.) Todays is Fun With Music Day.

Now its time to say goodbye to all our company
M-i-c (See you real soon)
k-e-y (Why? Because we like you)
M-o-u-s-e

 

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Ooooopps,,sorry, I'm late!



The Wonderful World of Water ski show took place on the Seven Seas Lagoon at WDW between 1972-1973. Viewed from a "special" vantage point (the grassy hillside between the Magic Kingdom monorail station and the lagoon) shows were offered to guests five times daily.


"Come along! Hop up here! We'll go for a jolly ride! The open road! The dusty highway! Come! I'll show you the world! Travel! Scene! Excitement! Ha ha ha!" -Mr. Toad

 

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Oct.6 1963:
Actress Elisabeth Shue, Dr. Cynthia Lair of Epcot's Body Wars attraction, is born in Wilmington, Delaware. (Body Wars was a ride at the Wonders of Life pavilion from 1989-2007.) Shue was also the narrator of Walt Disney Pictures' 2002 Tuck Everlasting. (Movie fans will recognize her from such feature films as The Karate Kid, Back to the Future Part II, Back to the Future Part III, Cocktail and Leaving Las Vegas.)

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Oct.6 1927:
Walt Disney watches the Warner Brothers preview of The Jazz Singer (one of the first films to feature sound) at the Warner Theatre in New York City. Walt realizes that he needs to add audio to his cartoons.

 

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Oct.7, 1998:
Buzz Lightyear's Space Ranger Spin, housed in the space formerly
occupied by Take Flight, opens at Walt Disney World. Presented by Mattel,
the first interactive dark ride at the Magic Kingdom will have an official opening November 3.

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About 300 Walt Disney World buses transport guests around the Florida resort, making the Walt Disney World fleet the third largest in Florida behind
Miami and Jacksonville!

 

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Oct.8, 1957, the Maxwell House Coffee House located on Disneyland's Main Street (in operation since December 1955) closes. It will be replaced by Hills Brothers Coffee House in June 1958.

I love Hills Bro coffee, that what I'm sitting here drinking this very moment ! Mmmmm.

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Oct.8, 1992:
Walt Disney's Grumman Gulfstream 1 makes its last flight when it touches down on World Drive, west of Disney-MGM Studios (today known as Disney’s Hollywood Studios). To be added to The Backlot Tour, the airplane was used to fly Walt Disney on secret scouting missions over Central Florida when he was looking for the perfect spot to build a second theme park.

 

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Oct.9, 1956,
Walt Disney pens a letter to the future (to be placed in a time capsule) from his Burbank, California studio entitled:
PREDICTION OF ENTERTAINMENT IN WORLD 50 YEARS FROM NOW.
Mr. Disney believes that the world will be overturned by technology.
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Oct.9,2003,
Epcot closes at 3:00 pm for a special evening press event for the
opening of Mission: SPACE. The dedication is presided over by Walt Disney Co. Chairman and CEO Michael Eisner, Hewlett Packard CEO Carly Fiorina and NASA President Sean O'Keefe. In attendance are legendary astronauts Buzz Aldrin, Jim Lovell and Wally Schirra. The event also includes beamed in remarks and well-wishes from Russian Cosmonaut Commander Yuri Malenchenko and NASA science officer Ed Lu - who are both aboard
the International Space Station.

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Singer-songwriter John Lennon, who rose to worldwide fame as one of the founding members of The Beatles, is born in Liverpool England.
In August 1965 Walt Disney met with Brian Epstein - manager of The Beatles - to discuss the possibility of the popular Fab Four performing songs for the upcoming film The Jungle Book. Later Lennon supposedly
nixed the idea and Walt ended up using semi-soundalikes to voice what wound up being vultures in the film.
In late 1973 Lennon visited Disneyland with his son Julian, girl friend May, ex-wife Cynthia (mother of Julian), and friends Mal Evans (once a Beatles roadie) and Jesse Ed Davis. Lennon, who had not seen Julian in 4 years, thought the Anaheim park was a good place to reconnect with his 9-year-old son.
On December 29, 1974 Lennon, while staying at Disney's Polynesian Village Hotel (today known as Disney's Polynesian Resort), signed the paperwork that officially broke up The Beatles. Although the group hadn't worked together since 1970, it took another 4 years for the proper legal paperwork to be agreed upon. He was the last Beatle to sign the documents thus ending The Beatles at Walt Disney World.

 

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According to Kodak (one time sponsor of Journey Into Imagination) 4% of all amateur photographs are taken at Disneyland and Walt Disney World.

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Pressed Pennies - a Fun and Affordable Disney World Souvenir

I collect these myself.

Scattered across Disney World are machines that will take your penny, and for a fee of two quarters, will press a unique pattern onto it. The designs vary from location to location, and are typically themed around the closest attraction. Most popular Disney characters are featured on one (or more) pennies, as are many attractions and shows; also, the parks themselves (plus the different Disney resorts) each have their own pennies!

If this sounds like something you'd be interested in collecting, try emptying out an M&Ms tube prior to your trip, and then stocking it with coins in this sequence: two quarters, one penny, two quarters, one penny, and repeat until the tube is filled. Doing this will keep your coins together, and will keep you from having to dig around for change.

It's much less expensive to spend $20.00 on pressed pennies then to buy one $80.oo sweat shirt at Disney.

 

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Oct.11, 1968:
Apollo 7 (the first manned mission in the Apollo program) is launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida for an 11-day earth-orbital mission. The crew consists of Commander Wally Schirra, Command Module Pilot Donn Eisele, and Lunar Module Pilot Walter Cunningham. Around the wrist of Schirra ... is a Mickey Mouse watch!

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The ExtraTERRORestrial Alien Encounter at Walt Disney World
closes forever at the end of this day. A "theater-in-the-round" attraction in Tomorrowland, it was a darkly humorous science-fiction experience that used binaural sound to achieve many of its effects. (It will be replaced with
Stitch's Great Escape.)

I do miss this ride, really liked it so much more than Stitch.

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Walt Disney World has the largest working wardrobe on Earth with more than 1.5 million operational garments in use and over 7,000 different garment types. In addition there are over 2 million pieces of entertainment costumes. (That's a lot of dry cleaning!)

 

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Animal Kingdom's
Tree of Life has hundreds of intricately carved animal images.
Ten artists and three Imagineers worked full-time for 18 months to create the animal carvings on it!

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Oct.12, 1986, the Golden Horseshoe Revue in Disneyland's Frontierland officially closes. The show, written by Wally Boag and Donald Novis, has been running since July 1955! On this night the show (which holds the Guinness world record for "greatest number of performances of any theatrical production") features Betty Taylor, who played Sluefoot Sue for 30 years, the longest-running cast member.