After reading the other thread about Marceline on this forum, and the blog from a few years back, I thought I'd post my own Trip Report for Marceline.
IT'S A DISNEY DAY
You may be wondering, "what does Disney have to do with Missouri? There are no Disney theme parks there!" Well, the town that Disney always called his hometown, even though he was born in Chicago, was Marceline, MO. It's about 80 miles from Columbia, MO, and I have wanted to go up there for years. As part of a road trip that included the visit to family in Lake of the Ozarks and Columbia, MO, this year was to be the year that we would get to Marceline. To my surprise, both parts of the family wanted to go, too, so we all piled in an 8-passenger van to go.
Our first stop was at the Walt Disney Hometown Museum, located in one of Walt's favorite places in town, the Santa Fe Railroad Depot.
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As soon as I saw the front window, I was enchanted -- a window, just like the ones on the 2nd floor windows of Main Street USA in Disneyland!
June 19 to 21 018 by jeanniesisters, on Flickr
The only Disneyland ride ever to be taken down at DL and sent somewhere else was the Midget Autopia, which was open from 1955 to 1966. After Disney decided it didn't belong in his park because adults couldn't ride it, he had it packed up and sent it to Marceline. The ride was there in the park until it pretty well fell apart.
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Inside the museum, we were given a tour by a docent who had met Walt on a number of occasions, then told to go look and take all the pictures we wanted. This surprised me because a blog I'd read had said that no photos could be taken inside. So here are quite a few.
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Upstairs in the museum were all sorts of models of Disneyland (CA), including this one of the Castle:
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After touring the museum, we went to eat lunch at a place called Suzie-Q's. The food was good, plentiful, and inexpensive! Everyone ate well but left room for dessert -- later.
Our next stop was to let our granddaughter get down and run, at E.P. Ripley Park. If that name sounds familiar, he was a president of the Santa Fe Railroad and knew Walt well. It's also the name of an engine at Disneyland.
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This wishing well caused my daughter and I to break out in a rendition of "I'm Wishing" from SNOW WHITE.
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This gazebo made the two of us break out in different music -- I was doing "William Tell Overture" and she was whistling "Turkey in the Straw". So what made us do that? We both know this gazebo as the inspiration for the Disney animated short, "The Band Concert".
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IT'S A DISNEY DAY
You may be wondering, "what does Disney have to do with Missouri? There are no Disney theme parks there!" Well, the town that Disney always called his hometown, even though he was born in Chicago, was Marceline, MO. It's about 80 miles from Columbia, MO, and I have wanted to go up there for years. As part of a road trip that included the visit to family in Lake of the Ozarks and Columbia, MO, this year was to be the year that we would get to Marceline. To my surprise, both parts of the family wanted to go, too, so we all piled in an 8-passenger van to go.
Our first stop was at the Walt Disney Hometown Museum, located in one of Walt's favorite places in town, the Santa Fe Railroad Depot.
June 19 to 21 015As soon as I saw the front window, I was enchanted -- a window, just like the ones on the 2nd floor windows of Main Street USA in Disneyland!
June 19 to 21 018 by jeanniesisters, on FlickrThe only Disneyland ride ever to be taken down at DL and sent somewhere else was the Midget Autopia, which was open from 1955 to 1966. After Disney decided it didn't belong in his park because adults couldn't ride it, he had it packed up and sent it to Marceline. The ride was there in the park until it pretty well fell apart.
June 19 to 21 045Inside the museum, we were given a tour by a docent who had met Walt on a number of occasions, then told to go look and take all the pictures we wanted. This surprised me because a blog I'd read had said that no photos could be taken inside. So here are quite a few.
June 19 to 21 023Upstairs in the museum were all sorts of models of Disneyland (CA), including this one of the Castle:
June 19 to 21 035After touring the museum, we went to eat lunch at a place called Suzie-Q's. The food was good, plentiful, and inexpensive! Everyone ate well but left room for dessert -- later.
Our next stop was to let our granddaughter get down and run, at E.P. Ripley Park. If that name sounds familiar, he was a president of the Santa Fe Railroad and knew Walt well. It's also the name of an engine at Disneyland.
June 19 to 21 059This wishing well caused my daughter and I to break out in a rendition of "I'm Wishing" from SNOW WHITE.
June 19 to 21 062This gazebo made the two of us break out in different music -- I was doing "William Tell Overture" and she was whistling "Turkey in the Straw". So what made us do that? We both know this gazebo as the inspiration for the Disney animated short, "The Band Concert".
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