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Walt Disney’s A Desire Named Streetcar: The Main Street U.S.A. Secret Streetcar Society Engineless Horseless Horse-Drawn Streetcars — STREETCAR, AHOY! “It Was All Started by a Streetcar” Magical Experience
One hot Missouri day in 1901, Maynard Q. Street tripped on a railroad tie on his way home from the old timey gazebo factory. An old Railway Man helped him up and apologized, and, to make things right, he sent Maynard home with a gift: Some leftover railway rails. This inspired him to do something no one had ever done before: Find a bustling town center and build a street with rails going down the middle. So he did just that, and named the street “Main Street” after himself. But he kept the old man’s leftover rails in his coat pocket always, as a reminder of where the dream all started.
But what do you drive on rails down the middle of a busy street? Well, Mr. Street had a friend named Captain Nemo, who was a genius inventor. Captain Nemo surfaced his Nautilus in Missouri at the Main Street dock, where the submarine made berth. The Captain handed his bags to a young attendant named WALT DISNEY
and said, “I haven’t stepped ashore for eight years but this Main Street sure is something special!”
Captain Nemo met with Mr. Street and got right to work in Mr. Street’s suburban Mediterranean-style three-car garage. together they invented a carriage that ran by itself, no horse required! It was a marvel of engineering that only Captain Nemo could create. But just as they were going to take it on its inaugural ride in town, an old beggar horse appeared at the garage door. “Please, sirs,” said the horse, “I haven’t worked since the horse wars and I need to provide for my family.” The characteristically kind Captain Nemo (His many friends called him “Nemo Who Wouldn’t Hurt a Horse”) pitied the horse, and decided to board the engine up under the floor of the horseless carriage, never to be used, and put the local work horse workforce to work instead.
It was opening day, December 5, 1901, and the horse-drawn horseless cars were off to a beautiful start! That is, until two streetcars approached each other coming down the street from either direction. They were about to crash head-on! Mr. Street clutched his heart in panic, only to feel the LEFTOVER RAILS that he kept in his coat ever since that fateful walk home fun his old-timey gazebo factory days. Mr. Street acted quickly and used the leftover rails to build a split crissy-crossy passing track, just in time for the horses to use it and avoid crashing into each other at 60mph. Opening day was a success.
After a terrific day, Street and Nemo were taking the cars off the track and loading them up on the flatbed tow truck for the night. Suddenly, a figure appeared from the shadows. “Not bad,” the mysterious woman said. She was dressed in khaki and wore a safari hat. She continued, “The name’s Jill Jungle. I’m putting together a team. We’re calling it S.E.A.”
Cut to black. Roll credits.
The guests are now let out of the pre-show room and may board the streetcar for their ride up Main Street.
[NOT CLICKBAIT!!!]