Remember When....

[Lisa loves Pooh]

Sights and sounds of Disney....

Remember when the CM had to walk by and click, click, click, click, click, click, etc and shut the monorail doors manually.

As a kid--this was one of our games at home when pretending to be at WDW--shutting the doors!

(Pathetic, aren't I?)

 

[MI mom of 3]

BUMP

 

[teachprek2]

We stayed at the FW campground for $12 per night with an electric hookup!!! Disney had busses everywhere in the campground and I also remember e-tickets. Did anyone ever see the Electric Water Pageant in the late 70's?? I think it is the same today! The CR had a HUGE gameroom that took up the WHOLE lowest level and my sister and I thought it was great. Does anyone remember the skyway ride and 20,000 leagues under the sea? I hated that ride as a kid.

 

[MI mom of 3]

We used to stay in what was then called the Walt Disney World Village Villas, which was later the Disney Institute. We stayed in the Fairway Villas and the Treehouse Villas.

I remember when you could rent a golf cart and drive it over to the Village to shop. Just inside the perimeter there was cart parking which even had electrical plugs so you could charge the cart while you were in the Village.

I really miss the Village the way it was then.

 

[Uncle Albert]

Hi

I would love to go back in time and visit WDW in 1984 when there was only 2 theme parks and some of the classic attractions that are not there now. Like if you had wings. There is a web site that has all of the old and dead attractions and it is a hoot to see the CMs in there costums and the guests in there outdated clothes. I can't rember the address. I didn't get to go to WDW until 1994 and it was great but I feal nastalgic about old WDW.

How about a Kikkoman Burger from Advetureland Veranda? My wife was looking forward to one in 1994, She remembered them as a kid, but it was not there.

Uncle Albert

 

[Lisa loves Pooh]

Thanks Uncle Albert!
I never thought there would be a web site...but since you mentioned it, I thought I would search and this is what I found.
Does it look familiar?

http://www.waltdatedworld.bravepages.com/

Let's keep this thread only--would hate to see this weblink be the last posted memory!

 

[snowglobe girl]

I can remember when I went as a kid in the very early 80's, there was a car sitting out front that they were going to give away to the guest that would be a certain # of guest to enter the park since opening. I can remember hoping that it would be me (even though I was only about 7).

.....the penny arcade.

.....when they had maps available that were HUGE (3' x 3' ???). My brother and I would spread it across the floor in our living room and pretend we were back at WDW riding the rides...what I would give to have that map now. We played with it until it literally fell apart!!!

 

[floridagirrl2]

Gosh, you all have GREAT memories. I went to the MK in 1974 with my best frind and her church group--don't remember much except my friend informed me I screamed when a drop of water fell on my neck during the 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea Ride. Also, my friend was very well-endowed and one of the characters pantomimed,er, squeezing her endowment (my friend thought it was hilarious and made me take a picture of her and the character--some bear??, which I still have in a photo album somewhere).

I do remember some kind of ski-lift ride that's not there anymore...and I remember buying books of tickets with the different ride levels....but my memories are few and far between. I guess I have an excuse, seeing that it was 30 years ago when I was a high school kid!

 

[flyinglizard]

More geezing about the "good ole days" huh?... How about the hotels?

Remember when the Poly and the Contemp had soap and toiletries in the rooms with the hotel logos on the packaging? I still have some so I guess I can see why the "universal Mickey" packaging replaced everything. The soaps still smell good thirty years later.

Each hotel had free postcards, logo stationary, etc. There were always unique matchbooks too. Even at the Golf Resort and Lake Buena Vista Village.

But I really miss the original decorating at the Contemporary. That used to be our favorite hotel, but when they remodeled it and changed the decor, we kinda just lost interest. Change doesn't always make things better. Of course, the price increases helped too.

We loved the Mary Blair Indian prints in the Contemporary Hotel rooms that were scenes from the tile mural on the elevator tower. Anybody remember those 4 foot by 5 foot prints of Disney World (Magic Kingdom and Bay Lake) that were in every room at the Contemp and Poly? They pictured the three hotels that were never built: the Asian, the Persian and the Venetian. They were really cool.

I finally got one of those huge maps about 1986, and that is a whole story in itself. But I'll leave that for "geezing" on another day.

GEEZE ON!

 

[PamNC]

that Uncle Albert was referring to:

http://home.cfl.rr.com/omniluxe/wyw.htm


I know what he was referring to because he is my husband.

PamNC

 

[de2fan]

flyinglizard-


I still have all the stationery and postcards from my trip to the Contemporary in '83, along with the old resort ids, which we HAD to present everytime we got on the monorail to Epcot from the TTC. I've got photos of the CR room too, with those pictures you mention in them.

I remember when you only SAT in the monorail; the standing room middle divider wasn't there but the rows of seats were closer together. Also, you were seated on the monorail according to were you wanted to go, and the doors only opened in those sections at each destination.

 

[Tinkbell]

Originally posted by Simba's Mom
Being able to get dressed up like a Pirate and have your picture taken at Lafite's photo, outside POTC?
]

Oh, we did that! I love that photograph. The CM took several shots of us and used one we didn't purchase as a display. My neighbors saw our pic a few months later.

 

[bobbiwoz]

Discovery Island with the animal shows, sponsored by Friskies.

My favorite thing that's gone is the nature trail at River Country, you were so close to so many people, but it seemed like you were all alone in the world.

The real Tiki Room!

We remember when you rode the monorail to Epcot to see what it would be like before it opened.

Bobbi

 

[MI mom of 3]

Originally posted by bobbiwoz


We remember when you rode the monorail to Epcot to see what it would be like before it opened.

Bobbi

I loved that...we were there in May '82, we took that ride and it looked so great that we talked our parents into bringing us all back again the next year. We had to see it!!!!

 

[Lisa loves Pooh]

Wish I could have gotten the "sneak EPCOT peak".

We lived in Pennsylvania at the time--and all my family could do was.....DREAM....about it.

I finally got to see it in 1986--on a field trip--loved it when we could make ressies for dinner on the video phones..we were middle school students amazed at how they knew we were standing there . And it didn't occur to us to look for a camera.

(Isn't it weird how we are so accustomed to technology--that for surpises like that nowadays--we always hunt out the secret camera )

 

[disneyfett]

Another great site remembering the past:

http://www.yesterland.com