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A lot of you really enjoyed my Main Street Field Guide. I've just posted Part II. A thorough study of the Town Square area. Lot's of obsessive details in this round. http://www.itats.org/walt-disney-world-design-field-guide-main-street-usa-part-ii/ My goal for writing these is that I wanted...

I've spent the last two months gathering and researching info about the design, details, secrets, easily missed items about Main Street USA in Walt Disney World. I wanted it to be something for the real Disney fan... I'm a art and design professor at a small liberal arts college and I have...

I put this post of images from the early days of WDW with particular emphasis on the characters. I find it interesting to see how much the walk around characters have changed through the years. The Pooh costume is odd with the Honey Pot hat. Dumbo is also quite odd looking...

I've been trying to piece together as many pages as I could for a post about this comic book from 1971. I found the title pages with Mickey and the Gang. My daughter even got her little brother and they figured out the "Haunted Mansion Puzzle"...Good to know a 1970's comic can still get todays...

Walt and Mickey were lifelong partners and I was beyond excited when I found this rare footage of Walt recording the vocal sessions for a Mickey short. Its fun to see Walt embody the mouse. I also embedded the video of the cartoon so you could see their vocal talents in the actual cartoon. I...

Back again with another batch of cleaned up WDW slides from the 70's. Today we go to Fantasyland. Hop on the Skyway and be sure to drop by the Mickey Mouse Revue. What are your best memories of the Magic Kingdom of the 70's...

I wanted to post another batch of these cleaned up slides from the mid-late 1970's. Some awesome shots of Tomorrowland including the spires and a shiny new space mountain. Hope you enjoy! http://www.itats.org/walt-disney-world-slides-1970s-part-v-tomorrowland/

I've been sharing the other images I photoshopped and cleaned up from 1976...so here's another round with our destination today of Adventureland. Hope you enjoy! http://www.itats.org/walt-disney-world-slides-1970%E2%80%B2s-part-iv-adventureland/

Just thought I would post another batch of slides that I cleaned up in Photoshop. These were the commercial ones that you could buy in the Magic Kingdom in the mid to late 1970's. I'm particularly drawn to the hub photos. I like the partners statue but there is a nice quality that the...

Thought I would share some more Magic Kingdom fond memories with another batch of slides of the mid-1970's. All photoshopped and cleaned up a bit for your viewing pleasure. Notice the Tobacco shop and the wooden indian statue out front. I miss the days of unique shops on Main Street...

Hi everyone, I am writing an article about WDW Hamburgers and Fries. For this post I would specifically like to focus on French Fries across property. I'm steering away from Quick Service and more in the sit-down/gourmet direction. So what Fries blew you away on Disney property? What made...

I came across these series of letters from 1964 starting with a little girl who liked Woody Woodpecker wrote to Walt Disney. We all know that Walt Disney didn't create Woody but he knew who did. I'll let you read the results but it really shows that these guys had big hearts...

Hi all, As many of you know I am a professor of Art and Graphic Design at a local University. I have a colleague who is a digital photography professor and in a passing conversation told me that in the late 1970's she worked for some local Orlando area newspapers and that she often ended up in...

On our recent trip we were able to draw Olaf during the "Draw a Character" segment. It was a neat experience. I'm an art professor/drawing instructor and my daughter is an artist in training. I learned the most from the entire experience with some wisdom from my daughter. You can see our...

Growing up in the 1980's I had the obsession with the Super Mario Bros. game. Now I am a professional artist/designer who teaches at a University. I'm good friends with one of the Psychology professors and we collaborated on a poster. "Everything I Learned about Motivation I Learned from Mario"...

I am always on the lookout for creative story ideas and for those of you who grew up in the 60's and 70's and remember the classic Rankin/Bass Rudolph special I was surprised to discover that the original figurines were in a very unusual location for many years! It turns out they were given to...

Just in time for Thanksgiving I found this: I'm guessing they were drumming up some business for the newly opened WDW.

Thought I would give a shout out to Mickey on his 85th. It all started with him you know... I posted one of my favorite Mickey Drawings from Fred Moore Fred gave Mickey a lot of his personality and he didn't get as much attention as the "nine old men".

This is a long-shot but I am curious to see what everyone thinks. Since it's Halloween season one of my family's favorite movies to watch is 'The Ghost and Mr. Chicken'. We are big Don Knott's and Andy Griffith Show fans. Upon viewing last night I got inspired. Much of the design and visual...

As many of you know I am a professor at a small liberal arts college in NC. One of my former students (Courtney) works in the costumes area at WDW. She is part of the costuming crew that works on the Move it! Shake it! Celebrate it! Street Party or the Celebrate a Dream Come True Parade. She is...