Pictures of the Fort and Magic Kingdom circa 1972

[stacktester]

Yesterday is not fast enough. I love looking at the old pics.

 

[OK GRUMPY]

These pictures are awesome what can I say! Please keep them coming!

 

[Tri-circle-D]

Great photos SCCamper.

Of course I want to see more!

This photo intrigues me:

The more I look at it, the more I am convinced that this is not one of the Fort Wilderness Trading Posts. Can you read what the sign says above the door in the original photo? Or can anyone zoom in on it and read it. I can't.

The whole thing looks very un-Disney. The overgrown plants. The cheap looking sign. The generic ash trays by the door. It just doesn't look right.

The wide, concrete area at the entrance is not present on either of the current trading posts. The door with the side-lights also does not look like either of the current doors. The roof line doesn't look right. It looks like there is a step up to the porch, which is lined with bricks. Also not present on either of the current trading posts.

Of course, this could have been a building that was subsequently torn down, but it just doesn't look like Ft. Wilderness to me.

TCD

 

[Donna]

i've zoomed in as far as my laptop would allow. it appears the first word is "campground", the rest is blurry when you zoom in. I think the overgrown plants are large hanging baskets, you can tell when you zoom in. I'm still thinking it might be the settlement trading post, just in the very early days. The cement and pavement could have been changed over the years, although i don't recall stepping UP to get in to the store.

 

[Tri-circle-D]

i've zoomed in as far as my laptop would allow. it appears the first word is "campground", the rest is blurry when you zoom in. I think the overgrown plants are large hanging baskets, you can tell when you zoom in. I'm still thinking it might be the settlement trading post, just in the very early days. The cement and pavement could have been changed over the years, although i don't recall stepping UP to get in to the store.

I think the sign says: "Campground parking for Campers and Guests Only." I don't think that there was ever parking at the Settlement Trading Post, or that cars could even drive near there. I also believe that the train passed in front of the Meadow Trading Post, so it would not have made sense for this sign to be there. You are right, though, Donna, this could be how things used to look, but it just doesn't look very Disney to me. Weird.

TCD

 

[SCCamper]

Great photos SCCamper.

Of course I want to see more!

This photo intrigues me:

The more I look at it, the more I am convinced that this is not one of the Fort Wilderness Trading Posts. Can you read what the sign says above the door in the original photo? Or can anyone zoom in on it and read it. I can't.

The whole thing looks very un-Disney. The overgrown plants. The cheap looking sign. The generic ash trays by the door. It just doesn't look right.

The wide, concrete area at the entrance is not present on either of the current trading posts. The door with the side-lights also does not look like either of the current doors. The roof line doesn't look right. It looks like there is a step up to the porch, which is lined with bricks. Also not present on either of the current trading posts.

Of course, this could have been a building that was subsequently torn down, but it just doesn't look like Ft. Wilderness to me.

TCD

You could be right about this picture. It was among all of the other Disney photos so I'm not sure. The sign says, "Campground Facilities for Campers and Guests only".

 

[stacktester]

Who cares what the sign says. Pictures my friend, pictures.

 

[Tri-circle-D]

I found this post on Ynottony's Then and Now Thread:

I found these 'then' photos on line, so I don't have any info. about them. But I am betting some of you all do!


Then

Now

Now, I really don't think the photo of the Trading Post from SCCamper is from the Fort. It's still a cool photo. I wonder where it was taken? Probably at another campground near the Fort.

TCD

 

[SCCamper]

Here are several more.

 

[BradyBz12]

Anyone know where/what this was?

DH remembers being at MK circa 1976, when he was 6, and there was a ride (not the train) that went through an Indian village "with flames and stuff"

Anyone?

 

[thecplusplusguy]

My family went to Fort Wilderness every year from 1972 to sometime in the early 80's. I really love these pictures, I just wish my father lived closer so I could look at our old pictures. He is actually down in Florida.

Dan

 

[Shan-man]

Wow, the teepee folks have been staying at the group camping area for a long time, hunh?








Just kidding, I know that was in the MK,

 

[Donna]

the only "ride" that goes past the indian village that isn't the train is the liberty belle steamboat that goes around the waterway and tom sawyers island. could that be it?

 

[Tri-circle-D]

Anyone know where/what this was?



DH remembers being at MK circa 1976, when he was 6, and there was a ride (not the train) that went through an Indian village "with flames and stuff"

Anyone?

On the Community Section of "Theme Parks Attraction and Strategies" section of the Disboards, there is a thread where people post old park photos.

This was posted there:

I don't know what ride this is from - my guess would be Jungle Cruise or Tom Sawyer - anyone?

If you look at the photo posted by SCCamper, I think you can see the same Native American figure leaning over a campfire in the back of the photo, just right of center. The second photo that I posted above seems to be of the same scene, but taken from the opposite angle, and closer.

I know that there is an Indian Village, of sorts, that you can still see when riding the MK train from Frontierland to the stop before Tomorowland. I don't recall it being as elaborate as the old photos, but my guess is that these old photos are of that area.

TCD

 

[SCCamper]

If I recall, this picture was taken from the riverboat. If you look in the background of the picture, you can see the railroad track.

 

[Tri-circle-D]

If I recall, this picture was taken from the riverboat. If you look in the background of the picture, you can see the railroad track.

That makes sense! I see the railroad track, now that you point it out.

I think this explains the two photos, too. SCCamper's was taken from the river boat. The second photo was taken from the train. So, this is the area that I was thinking of. There are still remnants of this village that you can see from the MK train.

TCD