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Hello everyone, welcome to my latest sort of trip report! This is going to be very different than my normal ones, for this I’m going to be doing some throwback trip reports!
Over the past few months my mom has been sending me a bunch of old photos from our trips over the years (all the way back to 1986
), and I have absolutely loved seeing all the old photos of Disney and seeing how much has changed! So I decided to put together this throwback TR of sorts to share these pictures since I wouldn’t be surprised if others love seeing the old school photos of Disney as well!
I’m still not 100% certain how I’m going to set this up. We’ve taken dozens of trips since the 80s, and I don’t want to do full standalone TRs for each, so right now I think I’ll keep everything here and just do mini reports for each one and I think I’ll just change the title of this report to note what trip year the most recent post is. (this is all still up in the air, still need to dig through tons of pictures that mom has sent, so I have too much time to change my mind
).
I’m also thinking I’ll start at the more recent trips that were at least a decade ago and then work my way back in time, mostly because the more recent ones I have digital files so that’ll take less time and I can get started on sharing (need to scan in all the older photos). I’m also hoping to be able to post side by side pictures of retro vs modern Disney, but we’ll see, I may be biting off more than I can chew here!
Now for the mini-reports themselves, for the more recent ones I (obvs) remember much better than the ones from the 80s, so there will in theory be more narrative, and the super old ones will be mostly pictures. BUT, starting in the early 90s I did keep a daily journal, and during Disney trips I would write down every little thing we did, so I should be able to provide some decent information on those trips. Granted, those journals are all at my parent’s house currently, so I either need to take a trip up to MA to grab them or let my mom go through my “secret” drawer to send them to me. I’m not sure if I’m ready for my mom to look in the secret drawer yet…
Anyways! Hope you all enjoy this little experiment and like going through all the old photos just as much as I do!
Before we dive into all the retro Disney, here is a little sneak peak from 1996. This is the view from the BC prior to the villas being built and the trees growing. So cool we could see SE back then from the room!
This trip in 1996 was the first trip where I really fell in love with Disney, and begged my parents to go back. Fortunately, they also loved it, so we started doing yearly trips from there on out, which is why I now have hundreds, if not thousands, of photos to go through! Not a bad problem to have, and thankfully I took this week off for a staycation, so I actually have time to start sorting through everything!
Over the past few months my mom has been sending me a bunch of old photos from our trips over the years (all the way back to 1986
), and I have absolutely loved seeing all the old photos of Disney and seeing how much has changed! So I decided to put together this throwback TR of sorts to share these pictures since I wouldn’t be surprised if others love seeing the old school photos of Disney as well!I’m still not 100% certain how I’m going to set this up. We’ve taken dozens of trips since the 80s, and I don’t want to do full standalone TRs for each, so right now I think I’ll keep everything here and just do mini reports for each one and I think I’ll just change the title of this report to note what trip year the most recent post is. (this is all still up in the air, still need to dig through tons of pictures that mom has sent, so I have too much time to change my mind
).I’m also thinking I’ll start at the more recent trips that were at least a decade ago and then work my way back in time, mostly because the more recent ones I have digital files so that’ll take less time and I can get started on sharing (need to scan in all the older photos). I’m also hoping to be able to post side by side pictures of retro vs modern Disney, but we’ll see, I may be biting off more than I can chew here!
Now for the mini-reports themselves, for the more recent ones I (obvs) remember much better than the ones from the 80s, so there will in theory be more narrative, and the super old ones will be mostly pictures. BUT, starting in the early 90s I did keep a daily journal, and during Disney trips I would write down every little thing we did, so I should be able to provide some decent information on those trips. Granted, those journals are all at my parent’s house currently, so I either need to take a trip up to MA to grab them or let my mom go through my “secret” drawer to send them to me. I’m not sure if I’m ready for my mom to look in the secret drawer yet…
Anyways! Hope you all enjoy this little experiment and like going through all the old photos just as much as I do!
Before we dive into all the retro Disney, here is a little sneak peak from 1996. This is the view from the BC prior to the villas being built and the trees growing. So cool we could see SE back then from the room!
This trip in 1996 was the first trip where I really fell in love with Disney, and begged my parents to go back. Fortunately, they also loved it, so we started doing yearly trips from there on out, which is why I now have hundreds, if not thousands, of photos to go through! Not a bad problem to have, and thankfully I took this week off for a staycation, so I actually have time to start sorting through everything!
My how it has changed!
Looking forward to your "retro" pictures from the other parks!
