The Story So Far: Tom Nabbe started his Disney career at the age of twelve shilling newspapers on Main Street in Disneyland. A year later, after bugging Walt Disney like only a twelve-year-old can do, he was hired to be the Tom in Tom Sawyer Island. Taking pictures, signing autographs, and baiting fishing lines with worms. […]
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I don’t know about you, but when I see old footage of Disneyland — footage from the 1960s or 1950s, before I was born — I feel something like an ache to turn back the clock. Inside me springs an anxious desire to travel back through time and visit the park in its infant stage,
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With the recent demolition of the Rivers of America and Tom Sawyer Island to make space for the new Cars and Villains lands at Magic Kingdom, I can’t help but mourn one of the most remarkable Disney secrets I’ve ever known. This “hidden Walt” is gone now, but I hope this record of its existence
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The newly opened Bengal BBQ dining area at Disneyland features a bevy of curious Easter eggs which appear to reveal a richly-hewn backstory that ties Disneyland’s Adventureland to Disney parks around the world through a mysterious club known as “The S.E.A.” Disney parks are known for their incredible spatial-storytelling techniques. They weave together seemingly unrelated
