Just more Stuff,,,,,

[Born 2 Fish]

1982, Walt Disney World Eyes & Ears reports on a new resort - Cypress Point Lodge will be a medium-sized hotel facility, located on the south shore of Bay Lake near our Fort Wilderness Campground Resort. Encompassing 550 rooms and 50 log cabins on the beach, Cypress Point Lodge will offer a romantic notion of a turn-of-the-century hunting lodge secluded in a deep forest. Neither the trees nor the buildings dominate the entire area; but blend together in a natural harmony.. One can almost hear the crackling fireplace and feel the large wooden beams offer a haven of security and comfort.

This hotel will never be built ... but years later the Wilderness Lodge will.

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Born today on Nov.4, 1916, legendary newsman Walter Cronkite, the second voice of Epcot's Spaceship Earth, is born in St. Joseph, Missouri. He also appeared in the 1981 TV special Walt Disney: One Man's Dream and the 1989 broadcast of the opening of Disney-MGM Studios. Cronkite appeared and narrated Back To Neverland a film about animation featuring Robin Williams and Disney’s Animators that was originally shown in Disney-MGM Studios at Disney World. To promote TRON’s 1982 release, Cronkite recorded a segment about the film’s cutting-edge special effects for his science-related summer series Universe. (Best known as anchorman for the CBS Evening News for 19 years, Cronkite was often cited as "the most trusted man in America.")

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Nov.4, 1918, actor Art Carney, best known for his role of Ed Norton on TV's classic sitcom The
Honeymooners, is born in Mount Vernon, New York. His Disney credits include the

 

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Nov.4, 1918, actor Art Carney, best known for his role of Ed Norton on TV's classic sitcom The
Honeymooners, is born in Mount Vernon, New York. His Disney credits include the

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[Born 2 Fish]

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Nov 4,1918 actor Art Carney, best known for his role of Ed Norton on TV's classic sitcom The
Honeymooners, is born in Mount Vernon, New York. His Disney credits include the

1976 TV special Christmas in Disneyland and the 1985 Disney Channel Premiere Film The Blue Yonder.


(there, all better now )

 

[Born 2 Fish]

My birthday is Nov.19,,the day after Mickey Mouse's birthday, but tho I am not as old as Mickey he holds his age much better than I.
Why do I mention this now, on Nov.6 , ??? Because we are at the Fort now visiting Mickey !!!

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Nov.6, the 2009 A Christmas Carol is Disney's third retelling of Charles Dickens' classic tale in 26 years. Disney released Mickey's Christmas Carol in 1983 and later distributed The Muppet Christmas Carol for Jim Henson Productions in 1992
(which Disney later acquired the rights to).

 

[Born 2 Fish]

Nov.7, 1966, the man, the magic the legend, Walt Disney is admitted to St. Joseph's Hospital on S. Buena Vista Street in Burbank, California. The cancer has spread and sadly doctors believe Walt has between 6 months and 2 years to live. (Surgery will be performed the following day.)

 

[Born 2 Fish]

Nov.8, 1966, doctors at St. Joseph hospital in California perform surgery on Walt Disney. On this morning, surgeons find his left lung to be cancerous and remove it. His oversized lymph nodes are an indication that Walt does not have long to live. (After two weeks of post-operative care he will be released from the hospital.)

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Disney's Haunted Mansion movie was not the first attempt to tie a feature film to the attraction. In the early 1990s, when Jeffrey Katzenberg was head of the Disney Studios, he wanted to produce movies based on theme park attractions. A Haunted Mansion script was commissioned ... but it languished in development.

 

[Born 2 Fish]

Songwriters Robert and Richard Sherman wrote "It's A Small World (After All)" for the 1964 World's Fair.
Since then, it has become the most translated and performed song in the world!

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Non.9, 1994, Disneyland closes the turnstiles at the end of this day on one of its oldest and most popular attractions, the Skyway - a gondola lift attraction. The Skyway, opened since 1956, is closed due to the enormous impending cost to retrofit it for earthquake safety.

Exactly five years after the grounding of the Skyway at Disneyland, the Skyway at Florida's Magic Kingdom carries its last guest. It had been a popular attraction ever since Walt Disney World first opened in 1971.

 

[MedicBill]

Songwriters Robert and Richard Sherman wrote "It's A Small World (After All)" for the 1964 World's Fair.
Since then, it has become the most translated and performed song in the world!

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Non.9, 1994, Disneyland closes the turnstiles at the end of this day on one of its oldest and most popular attractions, the Skyway - a gondola lift attraction. The Skyway, opened since 1956, is closed due to the enormous impending cost to retrofit it for earthquake safety.

Exactly five years after the grounding of the Skyway at Disneyland, the Skyway at Florida's Magic Kingdom carries its last guest. It had been a popular attraction ever since Walt Disney World first opened in 1971.

Did they ever give a reason why they closed it in Florida? The Skyway was always one of my favorite rides.

 

[Born 2 Fish]

Today is ,,,11/11/11
not likely I'll live to ever see that again.




Nov.11 1955, ticket books (at a cost of $2.50 per adult, $2.00 per junior, & $1.50 per child) are
available for the very first time at the new Disneyland theme park. "A Day at Disneyland" contains three A, two B, and three C tickets (D tickets won't be added until the following year and E tickets in 1959).

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Nov.11, 1956, the Muppets make their first network television appearance on "The Steve Allen Show." (Decades later, the Muppets will become part of the Disney family.)

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Nov.11, 1968, Apollo 7 (the first manned mission in the Apollo program) is launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida for an 11-day earth-orbital mission. The crew consists of Commander Wally Schirra, Command Module Pilot Donn Eisele, and Lunar Module Pilot Walter Cunningham. Around the wrist of Schirra ... is a Mickey Mouse watch!

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Nov.11, 2003, the ExtraTERRORestrial Alien Encounter at Walt Disney World
closes forever at the end of this day. A "theater-in-the-round" attraction in Tomorrowland, it was a darkly humorous science-fiction experience that used binaural sound to achieve many of its effects. Although only opened
since 1995, it had developed a cult following among Disney fans. (It will be replaced with Stitch's Great Escape.)

 

[Born 2 Fish]

Did they ever give a reason why they closed it in Florida? The Skyway was always one of my favorite rides.

I think it had something to do with kids spitting from the ride,, JUST KIDDING !! I really don't know,,but my best guess it had something to do with Disney and $$.

 

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Nov.12, 1946, Walt Disney's Song of the South, released by RKO, debuts at the Fox Theater
in Atlanta, Georgia. The film, based on the books by Joel Chandler Harris, is Walt's first major plunge into live-action filmmaking (although it also contains animated segments). The kindhearted storyteller Uncle Remus (portrayed by James Baskett) tells a young boy stories about trickster Br'er Rabbit, who outwits Br'er Fox and slow-witted Br'er Bear. The premiere is sponsored jointly by the Atlanta Junior League and the Uncle Remus Memorial Association. In attendance is Walt Disney himself, who makes introductory remarks, introduces the cast and then surprisingly leaves the theater before the film starts. There is concern that Song of the South will encounter controversy. (The film and its hit songs including "Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah," will later provide the inspiration for the Splash Mountain attractions at Disney theme parks.)

I Love this movie, definitely is one of my all time favorites. I even have it with me in the camper right now !!

(Oh, did I mention we are at the Fort right now ? )

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At the beginning of the Chinese Dance segment of Fantasia's "The Nutcracker Suite", Hop Low, the tiny mushroom, does a little jump while criss-crossing his legs. Animator Art Babbit supposedly got the idea from The Three Stooges - it's one of Curly Howard's signature moves!

See there,,my beautiful wife hates the 3-Stooges, but they even had influence on Disney creators,

 

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Fantasia is thought to be the first American film to be released with no credits at all shown onscreen (not even the customary "Walt Disney presents") other than the film's title, the words "Color by Technicolor", and the words "Distributed by RKO Pictures". The written credits at the end of the film were added for the 1990 50th anniversary edition.
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Nov.13, U.S. President Bush speaks to supporters during a $2,000-a- ticket luncheon at the Disney Grand Floridian Resort in Florida. (It is his 17th visit to Florida since taking office.)

oh my,,that's a cheap lunch compared to today's Presidential speeches/talks.
Ya spose he was giving folks a break because WDW was already costing them a fortune,

 

[Born 2 Fish]

Nov.14, 1965, Walt and Roy Disney and other company executives arrive in Tallahassee, Florida for the next day's official press conference in Orlando to announce the Disney World project. On this evening the Disney group join Florida business and political leaders for a reception at the governor's mansion.

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Nov.14, 2002, Kermit the Frog receives a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

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Over at Epcot, Club Cool (formerly known as Ice Station Cool) re-opens. Located in the Innoventions Pavilion, Club Cool offers complimentary Coca-Cola soft drinks from around the world.

We had the pleasure and fun of visiting Club Cool on this trip, I love sampling all the different soda !

 

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As simple but very good, as the food is, quite possibly my all time favorite restaurant,, on Nov.15 1993, the Garden Grill Restaurant (a rotating restaurant with Character Dining) opens in Epcot's The Land.

 

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Nov.17, 1963, another Disney plane tour of the eastern United States - to search for an ideal location for a new Disney park - commences. Walt Disney, Buzz Price and other company officials such as Joe Fowler, Donn Tatum and Card Walker leave on this Sunday aboard a private Grumman turboprop. The trip will include stops in St. Louis, Niagara Falls, the Washington, D.C. area, and finally Florida.

And I for one am soooo glad Walt picked Florida for the home of WDW !!

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Anyone remember the original "Rock" ?

Nov.17, 1925, film and television star Rock Hudson is born Roy Harold Scherer, Jr. in Winnetka, Illinois. Taking part in Walt Disney World's three-day opening festivities in 1971, Hudson also narrated the very first Candlelight Processional at Walt Disney World in December 1971 and again in 1973, 1974, 1977 and 1980.

 

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Nov.17, 1963, another Disney plane tour of the eastern United States - to search for an ideal location for a new Disney park - commences. Walt Disney, Buzz Price and other company officials such as Joe Fowler, Donn Tatum and Card Walker leave on this Sunday aboard a private Grumman turboprop. The trip will include stops in St. Louis, Niagara Falls, the Washington, D.C. area, and finally Florida.

And I for one am soooo glad Walt picked Florida for the home of WDW !!

I am actually surprised they looked at any cold-weather locations, let alone three! Can't imagine that there would be a flood of folks wanting to go to Niagara Falls in February.

 

[Born 2 Fish]

Nov. 18, 1932, Walt Disney is given an honorary Oscar "for the creation of Mickey Mouse" by
the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences at the 5th Annual Academy
Awards (held at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles). It is only the second honorary Oscar ever awarded by the Academy (the first one went to Charlie Chaplin). Disney's Flowers and Trees takes home the Oscar for Best Short Subject, Cartoon (beating out Mickey's Orphans). Although nominated for Achievement in Sound, Recording - Walt Disney Productions is edged out by Paramount Publix Studio Sound Department.
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Nov.18, 1978, Over on the west coast, in honor of his 50th anniversary, Mickey becomes the first cartoon character to have a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. The star is located on 6925 Hollywood Blvd.
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Nov.18, 1996, Radio Disney is launched at 5:58 A.M. EST with the song "Get Ready For This."
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Nov.18, 2010:
Disney announces that the Downtown area referred to as Pleasure Island will be renamed Hyperion Wharf and that the revitalization project is scheduled to be completed by Spring 2013.

 

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Nov.19, 1971, Walt Disney World's new Fort Wilderness Resort and Campground (located at 4510 North Fort Wilderness Trail) opens in Florida.

Happy Birthday Fort Wilderness !!
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Nov.19, 1999:
FastPass is first used in Disneyland for It's a Small World.

Really !?!?! Small World !?!?!?
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Nov.19, 1956, Born 2 Fish (fresh back from Fort Wilderness) turns another year older.
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Disney's Steamboat Willie is the first cartoon released with synchronized sound to attract widespread public notice & popularity - it is not the first cartoon with sound. Other cartoons with soundtracks had been exhibited before, notably Max Fleischer's My Old Kentucky Home (in 1926).

 

[Born 2 Fish]

While Disney World's Haunted Mansion boasts '999 Happy Haunts,' it also has one 'mouse' - a Hidden Mickey formed by an arrangement of dishes on the table in the
attraction's banquet scene.
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Scribner (a division of Simon & Schuster) releases the book Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life by Steve Martin. A memoir of his life, the comic-turned-actor/director describes his young years selling guidebooks at the newly-opened Disneyland. In the decade that followed, Martin worked in Disney's magic shop, print shop, and theater!

"I gave my cat a bath the other day. . .they love it. He sat there, he enjoyed it, if was fun for me. The fur would stick to my tongue, but other than that ... " -Steve Martin

 

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Nov.21, 1963, Walt Disney and a group of his top executives land at Herndon Airport (today known as Orlando's Executive Airport). In the midst of a tour of the eastern Unites States (since November 17) in search of an ideal location for a new theme park, Walt and his team head toward Ocala in 2 rented cars. Upon
arriving in Ocala, they check into a local hotel under assumed names (Walt uses the name William Brown). The next morning they will fly over the Orlando-area in search of a spot for Walt's East Coast Disneyland.

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Nov.21, 2001, Disney World unveils its holiday lights and decorations with The Osborne Family Spectacle of Lights at Disney-MGM Studios.
(Arkansas businessman Jennings Osborne received worldwide attention when he first created the luminous light show for his daughter more than a decade ago.) The glowing bulbs light Residential Street, Washington Square and New York Street in merry holiday displays that include 170 flying angels, two 30-foot-tall carousels, illuminated trees, and 50 lighted Mickey Mouse figures.