Over the years I’ve heard many rumors and myths concerning Disneyland’s Main Street U.S.A. It’s the first land you enter and it sets the tone for the whole experience, so there is no doubt its crafting was carefully considered by Walt Disney. I have heard that the facades of the bu...

One of the forum members of Tiki Central finally convinced his stepmom, Diana Lai, to tell her story of how she became one of the original VIP Hostess’ for Disney’s Enchanted Tiki Room. That’s Diane facing the camera in a postcard for Tiki Room (above). I returned to be interviewed...

Beginning on January 2nd, 1938 Disney and RKO broadcast the “Mickey Mouse Theater of the Air” a radio-variety show on NBC. It featured many regular Disney characters including Walt Disney doing the voice of Mickey Mouse for the first four episodes. The final show was May 15th 1938. Via t...

I was just about to log off for the night when this story came across my radar. A Fox News station in Tampa Bay is back on the old story that the Walt Disney Company is refusing to authenticate what a gentleman claims is the original drawing of Mickey Mouse. Well, duh. It’s obvious to anyone w...

With Anheuser-Busch, the last major “American” beer company possibly to be bought by a European company, the Los Angeles Times ran a piece on the history of the company in southern California .  I had already known that there had been a Busch Gardens in Pasadena at one time - unfortuna...

Help preserve an important piece of Disney history. If you can make it to the Kansas City area on Thursday, June 12 you won’t want to miss this event at the new Screenland Armor Theatre in North Kansas City. Kansas City was an integral and important time and place in the life of Walt Disney an...

Filed under: Found Footage, iPhone You have to smile a bit at the role Walt Mossberg plays in the geekosphere -- he's like the chairman of the Federal Reserve, what with the excitement that his offhand comments can generate. In this case, towards the end of a rather interesting rant about the obstac...

Earlier today I had the privilege of meeting many of the management from Disney's Animal Kingdom's Animal Programs. It's amazing how much stuff is going on there that we in Disney fandom, let alone the general public, just don't hear about. But more on that in later posts as we near Disney's Animal ...

Every once and a while, there is a great post that combines research, photos, history, and a bit of detective work to tie together some of the loose ends of what we know of the life of Walt Disney. Today, Jeff Pepper of 2719 Hyperion has just such a post. Having never been to Kansas City, I wanted t...

Today marks the 70th Anniversary of the premier of the film that started it all Walt Disney's classic animated feature Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. The Animation Guild blog has a great look back and Blue Sky Disney has a tribute and links to this amazing youtube of an RKO pictures promotional re...