What a great concept for a series of videos! Sure brings back fond (and not so fond) memories. I started as a CM in the summer of 73. That oil embargo and price increase sure made it a challenge just to get to work at times. Keep up the great work, can't wait till the next one!
My 1st visit would not be until November 2001. My cousin brought me back a souvenir map back in 1983. I still have it, yet a bit dog eared from hanging on my bedroom ceiling and later folded and put away. I also had a 1980 vacation guide book that I bought with my own allowance money. I still have THAT as well. Great video as always!
I went once in Dec '73. The paint was still drying on POTC. We stayed in the Polynesian and a very young version of myself wadded out into Bay Lake and played in the water. No gator attacks back then. It took me until 2019 to finally make it back. I spent 3 weeks and stayed at 9 different resorts. They say you can't do it all. I beg to differ. I spent 5 decades planning that trip. I did it all.
Love these! I miss the Fiesta Fun center. Many hours spent there as a kid playing games and crawling inside the little theater there to watch disney movies :)
Brings back memories and gives me information about Disney that I didn't know. My first trip was in 1989 and I can't believe how different it has become. Thank you for this series.
Wish we had this still: 1. Campground train- love the idea of it to this day 2. Boats in MK which would be very pleasant to relax in Both seem very useful and ideal to this day.
@@grumpyofart8150 Well I am sure the track issue is more of an issue with not maintaining it like a railroad would do. Jumping of the train does not surprise me but why does that not happen in other areas where parks use trains? Wonder if there could have been solution. Thanks for the comment!
6:36 if that gas crisis never happened then those Disney Resorts would have been built, and it would have been cool to stay there if they existed today
Sometimes I really wonder what would have happened if people hadn’t complained about no Pirates and we actually got Western River. I know it wouldn’t be the crazy immersive thing I imagine, but it looked so cool and impressive considering the time.
fun fact: my dad’s dad wanted to go to walt disney world in 1973 but due to there trip to europe, his wife wanting to see her extended family & the oil crisis, they didn’t go to disney world until 1978
I love these. I do however want to make one small correction. The photo in the arcade at the Contemporary with the pinball machines, You have a scene of the new mousekateers (Shawnte, Nita, Kelly, Allison, and Mindy), That scene is from 1977, not 1973. this is from "The Mousekateers at Walt Disney World", which is currently on Disney +. They had not decided to have a new Mickey Mouse Club in 1973.
Off topic, but I needed to share something with the Disney community. I am DONE with Disney. My family and I have been loyal Disney customers for years. We own 600 Disney Vacation Club points, we have visited Disney World 20+ times, we have taken 4 Disney Cruise Line voyages and we've stayed at Aulani several times. I am sick of Disney inflicting its politics into my entertainment and vacations. I am tired of the immersion of the parks being ruined by political decisions about Pirates of the Caribbean and Splash Mountain. Song of the South was not a racist movie. I have seen it several times. I am disgusted by Disney's decision to coddle China. I am sick of Disney denigrating traditional values, values that actually matter to me and that I try to live by. As to Gina, her firing was the last straw. Disney can tolerate Kathleen Kennedy destroying Star Wars because of her politics, but Coran gets canned because she is conservative. Disney apparently employs a hypocritical double standard in its firing and hiring decisions. Gina contributed in a positive way to the only good property Disney is currently producing, Kennedy destroyed the most valuable IP of all time. Regardless, Gina should not have been fired for exercising her right to free speech. The essence of tolerance is respecting someone else's right to be wrong in your opinion. Too bad the dolts who run Disney missed that value in high school civics. Disney's brand used to equate to happiness for me, now I think Disney and I feel disgust.
What a great concept for a series of videos! Sure brings back fond (and not so fond) memories. I started as a CM in the summer of 73. That oil embargo and price increase sure made it a challenge just to get to work at times. Keep up the great work, can't wait till the next one!
My 1st visit would not be until November 2001. My cousin brought me back a souvenir map back in 1983. I still have it, yet a bit dog eared from hanging on my bedroom ceiling and later folded and put away. I also had a 1980 vacation guide book that I bought with my own allowance money. I still have THAT as well. Great video as always!
I went once in Dec '73. The paint was still drying on POTC. We stayed in the Polynesian and a very young version of myself wadded out into Bay Lake and played in the water. No gator attacks back then. It took me until 2019 to finally make it back. I spent 3 weeks and stayed at 9 different resorts. They say you can't do it all. I beg to differ. I spent 5 decades planning that trip. I did it all.
Love these! I miss the Fiesta Fun center. Many hours spent there as a kid playing games and crawling inside the little theater there to watch disney movies :)
Thanks Tom awesome as usual you and your team do great work. The research is amazing can't wait for the next one.
TOM, Thx for doing Historical Disney videos!
Brings back memories and gives me information about Disney that I didn't know. My first trip was in 1989 and I can't believe how different it has become. Thank you for this series.
Wish we had this still:
1. Campground train- love the idea of it to this day
2. Boats in MK which would be very pleasant to relax in
Both seem very useful and ideal to this day.
@@grumpyofart8150 Well I am sure the track issue is more of an issue with not maintaining it like a railroad would do. Jumping of the train does not surprise me but why does that not happen in other areas where parks use trains? Wonder if there could have been solution. Thanks for the comment!
Funny how history can repeat itself.
Love this series keep up your amazing work top, thank, Richard a frountline worker in the u.k.
I love this series! Fantastic as always Tom :) Thank you
Wish the Rose Garden and Swan Boats were still around! Also, it's a major bummer the other "Monorail resorts" were never built!
Tom, the series just keeps getting better and better. Thanks for giving us such fascinating information.
Beautifully done Todd! Congrats! I hope you continue with this series.
Love this series. I was forgetting to read the articles so thanks for doing that.
This series is AWESOME and I’m astounded more people don’t follow this series.
Great series, Tom!
Enjoy this alot!!!!yes it bring back old memories!!!
You are so close to 100K subs...congratulations... That's just amazing...
Thank you for sharing this series... Loving it
This series is so good. I would love to see the same thing done for Disneyland.
The fun still shot of the kids playing skeeball is from the New Mouseketeers at Walt Disney World special - Yes?
Yay been waiting for this all week
Those were some big plans that would be amazing to see today.... really makes me wonder why they never came back to some of them.
6:36 if that gas crisis never happened then those Disney Resorts would have been built, and it would have been cool to stay there if they existed today
Sometimes I really wonder what would have happened if people hadn’t complained about no Pirates and we actually got Western River. I know it wouldn’t be the crazy immersive thing I imagine, but it looked so cool and impressive considering the time.
fun fact: my dad’s dad wanted to go to walt disney world in 1973 but due to there trip to europe, his wife wanting to see her extended family & the oil crisis, they didn’t go to disney world until 1978
I love these. I do however want to make one small correction. The photo in the arcade at the Contemporary with the pinball machines, You have a scene of the new mousekateers (Shawnte, Nita, Kelly, Allison, and Mindy), That scene is from 1977, not 1973. this is from "The Mousekateers at Walt Disney World", which is currently on Disney +. They had not decided to have a new Mickey Mouse Club in 1973.
7:01 no indeed you're not a crook Nixon, in fact we'd rather have you instead of Donald Trump
Off topic, but I needed to share something with the Disney community. I am DONE with Disney. My family and I have been loyal Disney customers for years. We own 600 Disney Vacation Club points, we have visited Disney World 20+ times, we have taken 4 Disney Cruise Line voyages and we've stayed at Aulani several times. I am sick of Disney inflicting its politics into my entertainment and vacations. I am tired of the immersion of the parks being ruined by political decisions about Pirates of the Caribbean and Splash Mountain. Song of the South was not a racist movie. I have seen it several times. I am disgusted by Disney's decision to coddle China. I am sick of Disney denigrating traditional values, values that actually matter to me and that I try to live by. As to Gina, her firing was the last straw. Disney can tolerate Kathleen Kennedy destroying Star Wars because of her politics, but Coran gets canned because she is conservative. Disney apparently employs a hypocritical double standard in its firing and hiring decisions. Gina contributed in a positive way to the only good property Disney is currently producing, Kennedy destroyed the most valuable IP of all time. Regardless, Gina should not have been fired for exercising her right to free speech. The essence of tolerance is respecting someone else's right to be wrong in your opinion. Too bad the dolts who run Disney missed that value in high school civics. Disney's brand used to equate to happiness for me, now I think Disney and I feel disgust.
Right on bud ✌