Buena Vista Street (2012)

[TP2000]

For those outside of California who may have missed this little bit of news last week, the old CALIFORNIA letters that sat in front of DCA's main entry from 2001 to 2011 have found a new home. Disney just donated them to the State Fair!

They are being refurbished and shipped up to Sacramento to sit outside a newly remodelled entrance at the California Exposition Center. The Cal Expo Center is our State Fairgrounds where the California State Fair is held every July at the state capital of Sacramento.

Here's what the new entrance to the California State Fair at the Cal Expo Center will look like once DCA's old letters are installed there later this year...

A little bit of Disneyland history gets shipped up to Northern California! :wave:

 

[sponono88]

^ And that's not the only piece of DCA 1.0 that will be reused, here's a list of where the other items will end up:

The cab of the California Zephyr train that was formerly the home of Bur-r-r Bank Ice Cream and Bakers Field Bakery was donated to the Western Pacific Railroad Museum in Portola, Calif.

The sun icon that welcomed visitors to Sunshine Plaza was donated to the City of Anaheim for future use.

The giant toy train from EnginEARS Toys will be donated to Children’s Hospital of Orange County (CHOC Children’s) for future use.

Postcards and displays from the Greetings From California store at the main entrance of Disney California Adventure park were donated to many Southern California nonprofit organizations and educational facilities, including the Boys & Girls Club of Tustin, the Anaheim Family YMCA, the Child Abuse Services Team office in Orange, the Environmental Nature Center in Newport Beach, and Betsy Ross and Orange Grove elementary schools in Anaheim.

Signs and character displays from Greetings From California were donated to Pretend City in Irvine.

The Reboundo Beach surfboard basketball game was donated to the Boys & Girls Club of Garden Grove.

Benches from throughout Disney California Adventure park were donated to the City of Anaheim for use in public spaces.

http://disneyparks.disney.go.com/blog/2012/05/disneyland-resort-donates-iconic-california-letters/

 

[Cosmic Commando]

I hope they can find a place for the giant tile mural at the Resort somewhere; it was the only good part of that entrance!

 

[sponono88]

Al Lutz has an update today, in it you can find a description of the Carthay's interior (it seems like this is the one time regular guests will get better treatment than the club 33 folks!)

But just wait until the general public gets a look at the lavish décor of the Carthay’s public lounge and dining rooms. It’s going to be a bit hard to explain to the Club 33 crowd that their private lounge has a far more casual and downscale feel to it, while the general public gets the ultra-luxe treatment in the swanky interiors swathed in silk brocade and ankle-deep carpeting at both the downstairs lounge and upstairs dining room. The Snow White mural on the vaulted ceiling of the main dining room in particular is one of those jaw-dropping moments as patrons enter the main dining room.

source: MiceAge

 

[nemofinder22]

Glad to see more Disney make its way up north

A Starbucks sign can be seen outside the FF&P Cafe
http://www.mousewait.com/disneyland/lands-talk/372487/Live-from-Buena-Vista-Street-look-what-I

 

[sponono88]

New official photos of Carthay Circle Restaurant and Lounge have been released, and wow is it beautiful!

See more photos here:

http://www.mouseinfo.com/forums/con...teriors-carthay-circle-restaurant-lounge.html

Celebrating "Opening night at the movies" during the Golden Age of Hollywood, Carthay Circle Theatre is a spectacular new landmark at Disney California Adventure park that will open officially on June 15th. Disney has released a series of new photos showcasing the beautiful interiors of both the Restaurant area upstairs and the Lounge area downstairs.

The historic design includes the Carthay Circle Restaurant upstairs with a menu created by award-winning Executive Chef Andrew Sutton. A relaxing a lounge downstairs offers a look at the story of Disney movie-making through the years. The interiors evoke the grand elegance of a classic movie premiere and historic photographs and artifacts create a sense of place and tell the story of the Walt Disney Studios.

 

[Californian Elitist]

new official photos of carthay circle restaurant and lounge have been released, and wow is it beautiful!

see more photos here:

http://www.mouseinfo.com/forums/con...teriors-carthay-circle-restaurant-lounge.html

holy smokes! This is the restaurant?!?!

 

[sponono88]

holy smokes! This is the restaurant?!?!

yep, stunning isn't it? notice the snow white mural that Al mentioned in his update.. can't wait to see close up pictures of it.

that page also shows photos of the downstairs lounge as well, which also looks really nice!

 

[Californian Elitist]

yep, stunning isn't it? notice the snow white mural that Al mentioned in his update.. can't wait to see close up pictures of it.

that page also shows photos of the downstairs lounge as well, which also looks really nice!

Definitely stunning! So gorgeous. I wouldn't feel comfortable walking into Carthay with jeans and a regular shirt on.

I'm gonna check out those other photos now, I don't think I saw the mural.

 

[sponono88]

Definitely stunning! So gorgeous. I wouldn't feel comfortable walking into Carthay with jeans and a regular shirt on.

I'm gonna check out those other photos now, I don't think I saw the mural.

you can see it in the photo I posted, the vaulted ceiling has a large painted mural on it I expect to see hidden tributes to Snow White here and there hidden throughout the restaurant.

 

[Californian Elitist]

you can see it in the photo I posted, the vaulted ceiling has a large painted mural on it I expect to see hidden tributes to Snow White here and there hidden throughout the restaurant.

Oh my goodness, I didn't know the ceiling was the mural! WOW. Unbelievable. I am in love. Carthay is like the Snow White Castle Disneyland was supposed to get but never did. Now we can kind of have both Snow White and Sleeping Beauty.

I can't wait to find the photos that pay tribute to the film. It'll be like a treasure hunt looking for everything.

 

[sponono88]

Here's another great photo by MouseInfo that was posted today

http://www.mouseinfo.com/gallery/showimage.php?i=54364&catid=newimages

http://www.mouseinfo.com/gallery/showimage.php?i=54363&catid=newimages

 

[Californian Elitist]

Here's another great photo by MouseInfo that was posted today

http://www.mouseinfo.com/gallery/showimage.php?i=54364&catid=newimages

http://www.mouseinfo.com/gallery/showimage.php?i=54363&catid=newimages

If this picture had been in black and white, I don't think I would have been able to tell if it was old or photoshopped. Stunning.

 

[TP2000]

holy smokes! This is the restaurant?!?!

No kidding!!! Is this really a restaurant inside the New DCA??? And where the old sun hubcap and a churro cart used to be???

Al Lutz said this would be a "jaw dropping" dining room to walk into in his last update, but he wasn't kidding!

I can't even believe it. The change this area of DCA has seen in the last three years is nothing short of amazing. Truly, truly amazing.

 

[HMButler79]

I trylu am not over it yet. Anyone who even thinks this is NOT better than ANY rest. or eatery at WDW is clearly under major delusions and needs help. This is Pars/Tokyo theming in California. UNREAL. I would love to see the drink.cocktail menu.

 

[sponono88]

Facts and figures about BVS in a recent press release:

89.5 – Height in feet of the Carthay Circle Theatre on Buena Vista Street – 12.5 feet taller than Sleeping Beauty Castle at the end of Main Street, U.S.A., in Disneyland Park

1937 – Year “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs” premiered at the original Carthay Circle Theatre, lending inspiration to the Carthay Circle Theatre icon now on Buena Vista Street

200 – Number of seats in the Carthay Circle Restaurant dining room, in addition to a 56-seat terrace and the 68-seat Carthay Circle Lounge

235 – Approximate number of different wines offered at Carthay Circle Restaurant, including 35 by the glass; also 16 craft beers

20 – Number of passenger seats on each Red Car Trolley, with additional space for a wheelchair

623 – Number on one of the Red Car Trolleys, representative of the 600 series of trolley cars built for the Pacific Electric Railway; also reflects 1923, the year Walt Disney first arrived in California

717 – Number on the second Red Car Trolley, representative of the 700-750 series of trolley cars built for the Pacific Electric Railway; also reflects July 17, the month and day Disneyland opened in 1955

779 – Trees planted in Disney California Adventure during the five-year expansion

3,000 – Number of jobs Disneyland Resort added from 2010-2012

23,000 – Number of cast members employed at Disneyland Resort, making it the largest single-site employer in Orange County

http://disneygeek.com/news/releases/2012/2012_06_06_numbers.php

 

[sponono88]

The Citizens have arrived!!! They are out and about and ready to interact with guests See the first photos of them here:

http://www.mousewait.com/disneyland...AKING-NEWS-The-citizens-of-Buena-Vista-Street

 

[Californian Elitist]

Awesome!!!

 

[Californian Elitist]

Only one week left!!!!!!!

 

[Californian Elitist]

The Carthay Circle Restaurant will open up with 92 sommeliers, which will apparently be a first time ever, in the entire world. That's a lot of people who know wine very well!

http://disneyparks.disney.go.com/bl...ia-adventure-park-to-open-with-92-sommeliers/