Originally Posted By Labuda Dalmatians want to now if you remember their walk-thru when the live-action film came out around '00?
Originally Posted By mickey_ring Remember when banner planes flew over WDW with ads for evening activities on Church Street Station? For the post about World Showcase transportation.... Remember when the double-decker buses saved a lot of walking?
Originally Posted By LadyandtheTramp Just for starters: Remember.... The raft ride down the flume at River Country; Pinning his all days pass to your 3 year old so he wouldn't lose it while WALKING around the Magic Kingdom; Renting the golf cart at the Club Lake Suites for the entire week while on the Gold Key vacation, just because you could and it didn't cost anything more; Wondering what was going in at the construction site as you drove in to the Magic Kingdom; Taking the train from the parking lot to River Country; Buy one coach fare, take the whole family along specials to Florida (to the real MCO, that hanger in the weeds); The surprise when, not knowing anything, the Electric Water Pageant floats by your room in the Contemporary wing the first time you stayed on-site, and you're looking out the sliding glass door wondering what the music is; Being jealous because your children got to go backstage on a Discover the Magic tour, and you couldn't go because you were over 15; and Getting to the customer service desk at 6 am. to pick up you Gold Key package (after staying the night before off-package so you wouldn't waste a day), so that you could take full advantage of all of the breakfasts (which of course was before you got so sick of food that you started skipping meals). I stop now not because I run out of memories, but because I can only do so much at one time. (And I love the Google toolbar spell check - works on these messages completely.)
Originally Posted By Mouskateer Remember when you locked the door to your house and you were on the way to Disney World... It was such a feeling, it brings tears to my eyes... You look at each other and say we're on our way.. Did we forget anything? LOL...
Originally Posted By mrkthompsn Remember ... "M - M -m -MMMM M - M -m -MMMM-mmmmm" (humming of "This is the time, this is the BEST time ...")
Originally Posted By Mouskateer Remember when Spaceship Earth was brand new and unobstructed... Pic Below 1983 <a href="http://www.filehigh.com/serve/14469/124223.jpg" target="_blank">http://www.filehigh.com/serve/ 14469/124223.jpg</a>
Originally Posted By nats30 Speaking of the fence outside of the Orlando airport. In 1974 we spent two das at disneyworld and then drove to cocoa Beach and when we passed the airport a plane was coming down to land and it was flying so low that I thought it was going to land on the car. As we passed the runway we saw the plane go over the fence and land. In those days that was a thrill ride.
Originally Posted By xzoocrew Remember when the main course at the Poly luau was served in half a pineapple that was scooped out into three different sections that held three different items? danyoung said- "Remember the great (and strange) Michael Iceberg and his Amazing Music Machine on the stage where Sonny Eclipse now entertains?" OMG do I. I was working there then and would go see him a couple of times a week after my shift. I'd never seen anything like it. I'll bet that huge amazing machine can be bought at Walmart for $49 now and is the size of a laptop. I even bought his record. Hey, does anyone remember records?
Originally Posted By mrichmondj Remember when the Hollywood Bowl theater was on Hollywood Boulevard instead of Sunset Boulevard?
Originally Posted By mickey_ring Remember when video cameras were two parts? The camera part was wired to a "portable" recorder. Remember when the WDW camera shoppes sold Kodak disk cameras???
Originally Posted By mrichmondj Remember when the WDW Bus System had all of these different "flags" painted on the side, and you had to decipher which flagged bus went to which destination?
Originally Posted By mickey_ring Along with that, remember when the Hotel Plaza Blvd. hotels were official to WDW and had decent spots to get on and off at the parks? Now they are banished to an unsheltered part of a parking lot.
Originally Posted By avromark Remember when video cameras were two parts? The camera part was wired to a "portable" recorder. Ours was an RCA the tape half would split in half leaving the tuning part at home, bringing the VHS half (it was silver), and attached via a thick cable to a black camera with a nice large padded strap, that would pull me down (I was lil thing then) We have a disc camera somewhere in the basement I think Remember before the Sienna decided to grind it's tranny on the last road trip to wdw, oh wait that was only for us
Originally Posted By mrichmondj Remember when all the good topiaries where along the monorail track between the TTC and MK?
Originally Posted By Mouskateer Remember when you couldn't understand why the restaurant (King Stephan's) in Cinderells'a Castle was named after Sleeping Beauty's dad..
Originally Posted By danyoung >I'll bet that huge amazing machine can be bought at Walmart for $49 now and is the size of a laptop.< I was really wowed by the thing first time I saw it. When I went back a few years later and a few miles smarter, I was surprised at how much of it was just window dressing. It was probably a pretty basic keyboard setup, but Imagineering made it into this big THING! Stil, it was a good show (although I always wondered if he might have been just the slightest bit unstable???).
