Buena Vista...What's the significance?

Lhriangel

Lhriangel

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Originally posted by wahooskipper
You know, I am surprised noone caught my mistake. Knott's isn't in Buena Vista, it is in BUENA PARK. I don't know if there is a City of Buena Vista. There is a Chula Vista.

I think it is ironic that Disneyland is in Orange County and part of WDW is in Orange County.
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Opps my mistake too. I swear... on my part let me blame it on a midterm in calc last week, paper due today and Milton midterm on Wensday :).

But.. I think the Buena is what totally threw me off.
 
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JLW11Hi

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I'm going with NoBody on this one. Buena Vista was the name of the street the stuido was at, but it can be a common name. Buena is in a lot of names, especially in California, where many spanish named places can be found. "Good View" fits in pretty good with movies, so why not call the distribution company that? (And "good view" sounds cooler in Spanish anyways :) )
 
prberk

prberk

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This naming of divisions by significant streets in company history is a tradition that went beyond Buena Vista Street (where the current studios and headquarters are, and have been for a long while).

Hyperion Books (http://www.hyperionbooks.com/contactus.html) was named after the street on which Walt Disney's first studio was located, where many of the original Mickey Mouse shorts were filmed.

Lyric Street Records (Walt Disney Records Group's country music label in Nashville) is named after Lyric Avenue in Los Angeles, where Walt and Roy bought adjacent lots after their new studio was first successful in their fledgeling careers. Go to http://lyricstreet.go.com/ and read the history at the bottom of the page.

I strongly suggest visiting the Walt Disney Family Museum at http://disney.go.com/disneyatoz/waltdisney/index.html for lots of info about Walt and his company that will inspire you and give you better understanding of cool things today.
 
Woody13

Woody13

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jmarc63

jmarc63

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Originally posted by MrPromey
Oh, and don't forget Pasadena and Englewood. ;)

Before Disney, the area that we today know as Lake Buena Vista was pretty much nothing but swamp land and maybe an orange grove or two. If I remember correctly, at one time, letters that were mailed out from WDW had a WDW postage cancelation on them (I don't remember for sure though) In any event, today it all goes out with Lake Buena Vista on it. Since that's a relatively new area in the grand scheme of things, I would give good odds on that name coming from Disney. :)

As far as looking up the information about the connection with Disney, I have it in a book but I've got dozens of books on Disney so I wouldn't be able to tell you right off. I might have gotten it from the official Walt Disney biography. :confused: I'll have to look when I get home. :)
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Every thing in the borders of WDW/RCID except for the marked highways and the name of Reedy Creek were either built by disney and were named by them durring master planning in the 60's for the then known Floridia project. It isn't too hard to see why names from California also appear if floridia.

Also Bay lake was not the original name for that body of water, Not sure if Disney changed the name or not the Island had a fishing lodge on it when the property was bought
 
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disneypunker

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Originally posted by WDWspider
The one at Downtown disney Right? Didn't that use to be Buena Vista Village or something a long time ago?
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Yes many years it ago it was none as the village @ Lake Buena Vista. Then the Markeplace Village. Then they dropped the village all together and went to the the Downtown Disney that we know today
 

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