Hard, non-ventilating hats are not worn in Florida due to the sticky humidity.
And velvet covered...?
Yeah, definitely something one would want to avoid wearing on your head in the 'Sunshine State'!
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I've lived in the deep South, so I know what you're saying. But they couldn't put some ventilating mesh holes in the top?
Back in the 1970's, the girls wore their hats at WDW.
And as long as we're back on the WDW Tour Guides, let's just go back to our old friend who thinks the Tiki Room was originally a failed dinner show with fearful customers covering their plates to protect their meal from bird poop.
She's likely a very lovely woman, and she obviously has passion for her job and Disney's interesting story in Florida. But her facts are all wrong, and she's going wildly off script. While
@SirWillow may not believe this,
I do not blame this woman, I place all blame firmly at the feet of WDW's training and management teams who are ultimately responsible for whatever their Tour Guides are saying to their paying customers. If she had management that cared about her, and cared about their product and their paying guests, they would have set her up for success with facts and an accurate script and effective daily supervision. WDW management failed her.
That said, here she is telling paying customers that the 13 branch tree in Liberty Square was
"specifically selected by Walt himself to be in the center of Liberty Square".
Really? Are you sure about that? Who told you that? Because it's wrong.
Walt Disney had no hand in designing Liberty Square. Walt had no idea that it would be a part of Magic Kingdom Park five years after his death in December, 1966. And in the months leading up to his death, when he only visited Florida a few times in calendar year 1966 and never would have been scouting trees in what is now Animal Kingdom where no part of EPCOT was planned to be built, would he have found this tree and decided to place it in an unknown land in a future theme park he wasn't particularly worried about? No.
This is what the plans for Magic Kingdom Park looked like in October, 1966 when Walt filmed his EPCOT '66 promotional film in the WED studio for potential corporate sponsors, about 60 days before Walt's death on December 15th, 1966.
Look familiar?
It's a cut-and-paste copy of Disneyland circa 1966. Plus... Ice Rink! Roller Dome! 3 Par Golf!
A year later in 1967, as plans for the Florida Project continued, the theme park portion looked different. Because it was more vague and obviously different than Disneyland, but obviously nothing like what showed up four years later in '71.
(Rivers of America moved to where Fantasyland is, a large Western River Expedition complex where Splash Mountain is, the Jungle Cruise or whatever the heck is happening where Tomorrowland actually is, a monorail that goes all over the place in the northwest corner where the Rivers of America actually is, etc.) The final plan for Magic Kingdom Park didn't really gel until late '68, and by then perhaps the tree in Liberty Square was found on the southern edge of the swampy property and was planned to be moved into place by 1970 or 1971.
The point? This WDW tour guide, again likely a lovely lady and passionate Disney fan, is telling her paying customers on an official WDW guided tour patently false information and wildly exaggerated urban myths. She isn't sticking to her script, if there was ever a script for this woman in the first place.
I blame WDW management, not the tour guide. They clearly aren't training their tour guides well, are not providing them with scripts that have accurate and truthful information, and are not auditing and managing the daily tour guide operation effectively to prevent lies and misinformation from being given to their paying customers. It's just embarrassing for them, but what's worse is that WDW managers and CM's don't seem to care. They just babble along about "Walt" and keep the dopey tourists wide-eyed with whatever fun fake story they heard in the break room.
And it's not just her, this particular tour guide without her hat.
YouTube is full of first-hand videos of various WDW official tours;
Keys To The Kingdom, From Marceline To The Magic Kingdom, Backstage Magic, etc. All of these videos have official WDW Tour Guides who just babble untruths and urban myths and and outright lies about the WDW parks and Walt Disney.
If the gang here would like me to link to more of these WDW tour videos, I'd be happy to. But it's not flattering to WDW management and their
apparently non-existent training and supervisory processes.
