Robfasto's Picture of the Week - Epcot entrance pre Leave-A-Legacy - 1983

[Robfasto]

Picture Date: September 1983

Picture Location: Future World - EPCOT Center

Subject: This picture is liable to make a few people mad, me being on of them. It is a great view of Spaceship Earth and the EPCOT Center entrance area well before the Leave-A-Legacy change. Sure there was a lot of waste space but the view was just great.


Click on the picture to see a LARGER VERSION of it

 

[dxwwf3]

Yes that pic makes me sick

Leave a Legacy and the wand need to go.

 

[marni1971]

Memories of a past time...

..when money wasn`t everything to corporations

 

[Robfasto]

Memories of a past time...

..when money wasn`t everything to corporations

I could agree more...

 

[nowisthetime]

Back when Epcot was EPCOT Center. Oh those were the days. Wish they would come back again.

nowisthetime

 

[General Grizz]

 

[mousermerf]

What's so grand about grass and trees?

 

[mikebrakes]

It's not so much as the trees and grass being grand. It's more a matter of which do you prefer, trees and grass or a concrete structure that "for a small fee" you can add your photo to?

 

[dxwwf3]

What's so grand about grass and trees?

Anything looks nicer than the graveyard out there now.

 

[mousermerf]

The guy who designed legacy also designed the ball and it's been published that the legacy monument is the type of thing he wanted plunked down infront of it instead of trees and grass to offset and accent the shape - so why must we complain?

Its his ball, they did what he wanted, so why oh why must we pretend we know more about art than the artist?

 

[dxwwf3]

The guy who designed legacy also designed the ball and it's been published that the legacy monument is the type of thing he wanted plunked down infront of it instead of trees and grass to offset and accent the shape - so why must we complain?

Its his ball, they did what he wanted, so why oh why must we pretend we know more about art than the artist?

If that's what he wanted that's fine. I personally do not like it. I don't know more about the art than the artist, but I can have a personal opinion about the art. It's the same thing as liking or not liking a movie or song. I do not like Leave A Legacy and I definately prefer the way the plaza looked in the picture above.

 

[barnum42]

Its his ball, they did what he wanted, so why oh why must we pretend we know more about art than the artist?

I'll lay a pound of cherries to a bucket of ferrets that said architect did not want that sodding hand sticking out the side of Spaceship Earth!

I too hate the cemetery look. The open green expanse was far more pleasing to the eye.

 

[marni1971]

why must we pretend we know more about art than the artist?

Becasue it`s the ultimate discredit for an artists target - we, the guests - to hate his `art` so passionately.

 

[Horizons1]

Ahhh that picture brings back a flood of memories. Back in the golden days of EPCOT Center...........

 

[TinkerBell9988]

The Golden Days of EPCOT Center. . .

I remember them too, Horizons1. I wish I could experience them again.

Thanks for that picture, Rob! It brought back oh so many memories.

 

[dolbyman]

I remember them too, Horizons1. I wish I could experience them again.

download te ridethroughs and trubutes from that attractions :wave:

 

[DisneyRoxMySox]

That picture is beautiful!

Thanks for sharing..seriously :wave: