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This is the place to read about little bits of information that you may not have known about Disney. Small little facts that you might find interesting.
I forgot to point out to you there is a mezuzah on Main Street at Disneyland California!! Yes, a Jewish mezuzah!! It is found between the Emporium and the Crystal Arcade on a door facade with the name Dr. Benjamin Silverstein! I don’t know if he was Walt’s doctor or what but it’s there,...
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The Morse code you hear at the New Orleans Square Train Station is actually the Disneyland Opening Day Dedication Speech. You can also read it as it is written on the brass plaque at the base of the flagpole on Main Street. My source of some tidbits is my eye witness grandpa! I’m sure...
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If you go into the Gallery and can provoke a Cast Member there, they may confide in you that strange and frightening sounds do sometimes “echo through the halls.” There was a Cast Member who refused to work there after some “experiences” and they know all about it! Related Posts:No Related Posts
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Has anyone ever pointed out to you the initials of Walt and Roy in the wrought iron fences, in the balcony where Guests who pay for the privilege of a balcony seating for Fantasmic! The initials are surrounded by, what else, a hidden MICKEY! Related Posts:No Related Posts
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The site where Pirates is built is the same site of the former land owners’ home. Mr. Ron Domingues’ father sold the orange groves to Mr. Disney with the condition that since his son would no longer have a job or land to inherit, that because of this “kiddie park”, he is giving up...
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Walt Disney’s baby picture is in the Baby Center on Main Street at Disneyland. I always thought of that as a Mary Poppins kind of place. His picture is in the entry way on the left, you don’t need to be in the company of wee ones to see it, but those junior potties...
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Did you know that the beautiful leaded glass doors at the entry to Plaza Inn Restaurant were saved from certain destruction from Marceline Missouri! My grandfather told me that one! It was either from a prominent home or a city building, the Court House I think, or perhaps the Library, any way it’s from...
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Oh, I almost forgot… the other Film props used after the film in the Park… the telephone booth from the Happiest Millionaire is in Club 33 (and it works, they keep it for Guests who need to make a local call and it’s on their nickel!!) Also in Club 33 is the hallway table...
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The flagpole base at Disneyland, just the ornate part up to the widest white part, at Town Square was purchased for $5.00!! Yep five dollars!! It happened that one of the people involved with the Park, before opening, ran his car into it in Los Angeles!! He knew Disneyland needed a flag pole and...
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The organ Captain Nemo plays in the 1954 film 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea rests in the ballroom of Disneyland’s Haunted Mansion, played by a phantom pounding out macabre dirges. Related Posts:No Related Posts
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The lighthouse lamp in Pete’s Dragon shone so bright that the film’s location manager needed to obtain special permission from the Coast Guard to light it for filming. The lamp, with its $6,000 Fresnell-type lens could cast a beacon eighteen to twenty-four miles – far enough to confuse passing ships. Source: The Big Little...
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Goofy debuted as a nameless audience member in the 1932 short Mickey’s Revue. BY the mid 30’s the affable canine appeared in newspaper cartoon strips as Dippy Dawg. The 1938 publication of The Story of Dippy the Goof hinted at the character’s new identity, but it wasn’t until the cartoon release of Goofy and...
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The voice of Tigger, Paul Winchell invented the first disposable razor in 1963. Good for six shaves, the plastic-handled, single-blade razor came in two varieties; a carbon-steel model that cost fifteen cents, or surgical steel for ten cents extra. Source: “The Big Little Book of Disney” Pg. 41 Related Posts:No Related Posts
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Ink and paint girls applied thousands of color blends to film cells, including a transparent paint especially effective for shadows and special effects. The downside; the paint’s secret ingredient, Asian ox bile, gave it a terrible odor. Source: “The Big Little Book for Disney Pg. 46″ Related Posts:No Related Posts
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The original mouse-eared beanies were handmade from the finest felt and cost $50 each in 1955. (The retail version cost $.69!) Annette lost her hat three times and had to pay for replacememnts out of her own $185-per-week earnings. After that, she wore her ears everywhere. Source: “The Big Little Book of Disney” pg....
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A Kansas City dentist wanting to promote oral hygiene sought the services of Laugh-O-gram Files. Walk Disney couldn’t make an appointment because he didn’t have the $1.50 necessary to reclaim his only pair of shoes from the cobbler. The dentist paid for Disney’s shoes, as well as his first educational film, Tommy Ticker’s Tooth....
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Roy Disney took a page from his brother Walt’s book when he oversaw the construction of Walt Disney World. Just as Disneyland’s Main Street U.S.A. honors all those who contributed to its creation by displaying their names on the second-story shop windows, Walt Disney World had a window that featured the names of all...
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