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Vacation's End
We will be returning to a more regular publishing schedule shortly. I very much appreciate everyone's patience and understanding. We are close to wrapping up our somewhat extended summer sabbatical....
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The Ghosts of Marceline: The Midget Autopia
It was a somewhat haunting experience, to say the least. My son and I arrived in Marceline, Missouri early on a Tuesday morning in the midst of an unrelenting thunderstorm. It served to make this very...
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Revisiting Tod and Copper
The Fox and the Hound seems to exist just off the radar. It is a fine and commendable film, but one that is rarely focused on, either by Disney fans or the Disney Company itself. Disney Home...
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Snapshot Missouri! - The Walt Disney Municipal Park
Our newest Snapshot! series will feature photographs from our recent road trip that took us to various Disney history sites in the state of Missouri. Relating to our post earlier this week on the...
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Windows to the Past: Donald O Duck
A marquee malfunction inadvertently gives the temperamental cartoon star an Irish heritage in this vintage photograph that was likely snapped in early 1948, based on the release date of the movie...
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Theme Parkeology: The Mark Twain Cave
Underground caves are a key element of many of Mark Twain's books, but most especially The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. Imagineers saw fit to include such settings on the various Tom Sawyer Islands at...
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Snapshot Missouri! - Kansas Avenue U.S.A.
It is a Disney historical fact. The concept for Main Street U.S.A., as it was initially conceived for Disneyland, and then subsequently exported to Disney Parks in Florida, Tokyo, Paris and Hong...
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Exploring Kansas City on WEDway Radio
"We're going to Kansas City, Kansas City here we come!" I am happy to announce that I have once again been the guest of podcasters Nate Parrish and Matt Parrish on their very popular and always...
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Dumbo: The Little Movie That Could
In Dumbo, Casey Jr. is the little engine that could, full of resolve and determination despite its small stature humble nature. Similarly, The film Dumbo itself is the little movie that could, a pure...
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Windows to the Past: The Shaggy Dog at the Palace
This particular Window to the Past, while highlighting a classic Disney live-action feature, also serves to illustrate segregation as it existed in the late 1950s. This photograph reflects an era...
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Snapshot Missouri! - The Zurcher Building
A number of sources have indicated that the Zurcher building in Marceline, Missouri was in fact the architectural inspiration for Disneyland's own Coca Cola Corner. There are certainly structural...
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Winnie the Pooh . . . and Nessie Too!
It was exceptionally well-reviewed, modestly successful (considering that it was overshadowed by a certain boy wizard) but certainly not exactly what you would call high-profile. And I must admit...
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Happy 40th Anniversary Walt Disney World
Explore the 2719 Hyperion Archives:Totem Pole ParkeologyA Great Role in the Wonderful World of ColorThe Greatest Dream of Walt Disney's LifeTheme Parkeology 101: Disney World 1979
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The Phenomenon of The Lion King
What can you truly say about a pure, undisputed phenomenon? For that is certainly The Lion King. Seventeen years after its initial release and unqualified critical and commercial successes, it has...
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Apple Every Day
I will be listening to an audiobook on my iPod as I drive my son to school. I've already read the latest news via my iPad and will be falling into a Raymond Chandler novel later on one of the iPad's...
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The True-Life Legacy Well Served with African Cats
I really love the Disneynature brand. Though a rather low key division in the increasingly overwhelming Disney corporate pantheon, it serves to rekindle and revitalize a legacy that Walt Disney...
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Freeze Frame! - Ty Wong Chop Suey
Tyrus Wong had been absent from the Walt Disney Studios for more than a dozen years when the Donald Duck cartoon Donald's Diary was produced in 1954. But he was still very much remembered. The proof...
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Donald's Diary: Bewitched, Bothered and Bogie
It's always fun to mine yesteryear popular culture from a vintage cartoon. Earlier this week we showcased a Freeze Frame! from the 1954 Donald Duck cartoon Donald's Diary that paid homage to Disney...
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Curse Resistant Pirates Sail into Home Ports
It is still somewhat beyond belief that a series of pirate movies based on a theme park attraction could become a 21st century multi-billion dollar entertainment franchise. Yet, as Pirates of the...
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Snapshot Missouri! - Walt Disney Elementary School
How cool would it be to go to school here! The entrance foyer of the Walt Disney Elementary School in Marceline, Missouri has changed little since its inception more than fifty years ago. Disney...
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