Dan - Me too! I look back at my pictures; especially the street performers, the Osborne Lights and now even the World of Disney and I get sad. I know things have to change sometimes but it seems like so many things are happening at once now.
According to Steve Birnbaums Official 1983 guide. At that time The Contemporary and The Polynesian started at $95.00 to $210.00 for a suite. So I guess we can backup a few years and I'll bet it was pretty close to that. Sounds cheap now, but when salaries were less then $10K per year that was hard to come up with.