The Man Who Built Disney World (It Wasn’t Walt Disney) - Events & Spots That Changed Florida Forever
Roy O Disney History of Walt Disney World
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Transcript
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welcome everyone adam the woo here as a
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recording of this friday march 4 2022
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standing at the threshold of market
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street here in celebration florida where
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the fountain i suppose is too early
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for the fountain to be on and be quite
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operational but this is basically a
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makeshift version this town
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of one of walt's two visions
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of his florida project
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epcot center
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was kind of sort of what this was
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supposed to be a place where people
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lived
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shopped etc this is not exactly
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like what he had envisioned for epcot
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but in a roundabout way disneyland no
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longer
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owns the property of celebration and the
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other florida project
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which back when they did the press
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conference him and his brother roy
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disney who is basically going to be the
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focus of today's video i know walt gets
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a lot of credit as he should for the
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imagination coming up with the ideas
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but the person who built wdw
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was roy disney
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and that's who i want to talk about and
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the reason i am doing this episode not
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going to be stepping into the parks
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today also
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a friend of mine just flew in to oia
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from california orlando international he
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is arriving soon
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and i only have a very few select
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friends that really embrace the history
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of the disney corporation walt roy
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the back story
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he doesn't know what he's in for
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but because he can't check into his
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hotel till around one or two p.m i'm
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going to take him out this morning and
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show some of him some historical spots
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that i think he's going to like i'm
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inviting you to join me
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as i talk about and as me and my friend
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talk about roy disney shall you and this
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will also tie in with the 50th
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anniversary of wdw
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october 1st
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of last year of 21 was the technical
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50th anniversary
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but their celebration
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goes on for oh there's a leaf blower i
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hear a leaf blower
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off in the distance the whole
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celebration goes on for a year and a
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half
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and instead of going to the parks
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and doing park things
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why not talk about the history and give
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a little backstory of how
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it all began
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here in central florida
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starting in the mid 60s and
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progressing up to the opening in 71. my
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shadow looks very lengthy there
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in the road
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just focusing on the yard work that's
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happening over here and of course i got
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to start off with a piping hot
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caffeinated beverage
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i have now acquired
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coffee for the morn and
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brickie
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has arrived hello
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you have done a red eye they call it
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jedi my first time ever in celebration
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and it is awesome
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first impression i really really like it
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you know they're building something out
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disney's building something out in the
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desert and the palm springs area rancho
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mirage
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so coming out here has even kind of more
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interesting you know because knowing
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that they're taking a crack at it again
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yeah and uh
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it's uh so much better than what people
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make it up
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so i was just doing in my intro we're
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gonna i'm gonna take you on a little
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tour of some wdw roy history today
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we're gonna start here in celebration
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and celebrate the 50th of walt disney
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world and talk about roy because i know
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roy holds a special place in your heart
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too 100
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the weight that he took on in his
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brother's absence
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why is that not a movie
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and i like i like that you're not a
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hundred percent awake right now i can
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tell you're kind of sleepy like did you
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sleep at all on the flight no i was
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editing the video
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now the fountain does not appear to be
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on but i want you to notice something
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over here brookie
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there
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from the area you just flew from yeah
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you might recognize a name right here
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look
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burbank is that the airport you flew out
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of no lax you fled it but close enough
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burbank adjacent
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i always look at the mileage though i
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would have guessed this about 2500 miles
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right not 21.97 it seems it seems a
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little short yeah i think it's 2500
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actually kind of nice house not even not
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too warm yet it probably warm up but
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right now not too warm all right i gotta
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ask what does this market street remind
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you of
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this remind you of anything yeah
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like if main street usa went on vacation
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made sure that's good right
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like if main street usa is like we're
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gonna go to the beach
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i love it have you ever been to the
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disney studios in burbank yes yeah you
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know the building that the the dwarfs
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are holding up yeah the designer his
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name is michael graves yeah
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that's a mic that's a piece of michael
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graves work
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he did a uh the humana building in
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louisville kentucky where i'm from
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really yeah so
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his work is so noticeable he also did
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the uh swan and dolphin yep right
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spotted office here not michael graves
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for the misfits exactly i would
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always have to mention that not
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not danzig era misfits michael graves
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era misfits all different architects
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architects
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worked on all this
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and then of course down here market
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square what is this right here
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it's now the bank bank of america but
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originally this was a preview center
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which i'm going to take you to
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not the celebration preview center i'm
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going to take you to the walt disney
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world preview center i've always wanted
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to see that
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you want to get going let's do it all
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right give me your thoughts on the
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7-eleven best 7-eleven i've ever seen
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you ever seen a 7-eleven looks like
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you're in on sunset boulevard absolutely
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not even when i was on sunset boulevard
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this is amazing straight ahead downtown
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orlando
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lake eola is where i'm headed
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the site of the florida project press
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conference
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a historical place
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made it over to lake eola
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fun fact across the way there that
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amphitheater
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that you see on the other side of lake
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eola is named after walt disney
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walt disney amphitheater over there on
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the distance
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back in november of 1965
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at this
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now apartment
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building this hotel
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was where the florida project was
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announced back then they did not know
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the name of what the the property would
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be called
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but it happened right over here walt roy
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and the then governor
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back in 1965 of florida
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had a huge press conference right here
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off lake eola
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now as i've always heard the story goes
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basically walt
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was buying a bunch of property under
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different names
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all around central florida and no one
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knew about this and there was one
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very
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ingenious detective like
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media person who found out
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what was happening
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so the press conference was impromptu it
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was not planned it was almost like you
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need to address this now
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before it kind of whirlwinds out of
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control that's why you i don't know if
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you know any of this history or not yeah
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yeah
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kind of whirlwind it out of control get
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ahead of it walton roy flew over on
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november 15th of 65
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and so it wasn't really like something
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that they planned on doing but if they
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didn't
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then the the rumor mill would have been
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would have been started so that's why
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they ended up doing this this is called
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the cherry hotel or cherry tree
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hotel and i've never been inside this
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building
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today i'm going to try to get inside and
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see if i can find the room
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where it
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happened but it wasn't called the
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florida product and do you know why it's
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called walt disney world and not just
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disney world uh to pay tribute to walt
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to pay tribute to walt roy wanted his
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brother to be honored because disneyland
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in anaheim it's one word right there's
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no walt in front of that yeah
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so think about this if walt
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had lived up until october of 71
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it would just be disney world it
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wouldn't be walt disney world
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because he would have not wanted to have
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that name before that only the last
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night
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things that make you
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wonder
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or make me wonder
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okay i had to look it up it's called it
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was called the cherry
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hotel
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and the entrance they pulled into up
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here
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see a vehicle
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going by was where their car pulled up
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the governor
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walt and roy now walt himself even
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stated that he was the one with the
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ideas
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but he would leave his brother
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up to the money aspect and the building
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aspect so in all reality
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roy
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built walt disney world
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wall just had the ideas i believe there
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was a banner going across here
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going across here as well
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and there's this big metal tree over
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in the front section
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i think it's just basically condos or
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apartments there's also a stardust
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lounge right here and a world of beer
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so there is this door that we could try
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to go in but i think the door they
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walked in was around the front now i've
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been here before years ago
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and i believe this has been a couple
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years ago i believe i mentioned they
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walked in here and their car pulled up
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but i was recently watching that news
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footage
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and i stand corrected they were around
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the front end
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over this way
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but i like this that there's a tiki bar
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here almost like traitor sam's
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do you call this like a trader sam's
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almost like of the future
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and tomorrowland
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this is some serious
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disney history right here
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see if it looks the same around here now
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here's a photo of that banner going
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across they have added on to the the
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building itself they kind of made a like
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a unique little
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structure in front of it but the windows
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and everything else match up the same
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so there's the approximate angle you can
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see this
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now called the m maa park side
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but that little distinct structure has
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been built onto but the banner went
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across there
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the banner was way over here
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and where they pulled up i am assuming
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is right over there on that kind of on
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that corner now this matches up a little
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better over here on the street side you
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got the cherry plaza sign there it's two
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guys walking down the sidewalk the
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shorter end of the building
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and then there's also
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those windows and where it says cherry
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plaza
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right there
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and then the road that runs kind of
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parallel is where
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governor roy and walt hold up
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right there looks a lot
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different modern day they would have
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pulled up right here the cherry plaza
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sign
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would have been right there
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and the windows are still up there even
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though they've kind of added this little
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protrusion
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onto it
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but that's the angle of the two guys
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walking in
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and then to quite a bit of fanfare and
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hoopla when
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walton roy pulled up right here and in
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some of the those videos and photos
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there was a residence right here a house
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over here of course
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since 1965.
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it's businesses now
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no longer residents over on this side
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they walked in this very door which is
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now
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the address 431a
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walked right through here there's a
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photo of walt walking through here the
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camera's kind of going back this way all
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right they were kind enough to let us
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walk through here she said the
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convention center area
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is gone they have remodeled this whole
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whole section
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but right here yeah this is exactly
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where they walk through
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and we didn't even realize this but the
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receptionist said oh there's a little a
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little history shrine
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she called it now brookie i'm going to
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blow your
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mind roy and walt walked right through
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here with the governor
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walking this way a lot right through
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here oh right here yeah what the heck
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i'm so glad we walked in here look at
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this
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hayden burns was the governor
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fun fact if you look it's a pretty
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amazing you know 45 minute press
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conference i highly recommend watching
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it the governor says oh by walt bringing
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his parks here tourism is going to
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double
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he was a little awful
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not only walt but of course who this
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episode is about roy and here's what it
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looked like
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back then information on here and this
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also states november 15th of 65
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exactly 13 months
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to the day
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doubled the tourism in florida yeah and
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then doubled it again and doubled it
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again and doubled it again
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this is incredible i'm glad i walked in
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and asked because i didn't think that
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they were going to have anything in here
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documenting this this is a pretty good
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book too i've always wanted to buy this
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but
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i never did this thing is massive
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beautiful cover and here is opening day
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which also opening day was on october
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1st but look this photo is from the 15th
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and
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roy did not give his opening day speech
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they almost had a three-week soft
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opening of sorts roy did his speech i
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believe on the 25th or 26th don't quote
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me on that
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but it was like three weeks later before
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walt
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did that open not walt but roy
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did that opening speech i keep i keep
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saying well i need to say roy
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because walt was not there
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only in spirit is that a disneyland
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photo is that carthy circle over the top
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of the train station i think that is
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disneyland yeah
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so they have a disneyland photo here it
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happens
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you know i've actually seen photos of
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walt superimposed on main street
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at magic kingdom oh really which is why
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because he never made it i talked to a
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cast member friend years ago
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and even he had no idea that walt never
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stepped foot in the magic kingdom only
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ever disneyland
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yeah this is cool
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so walking right through i could
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actually match a couple photos in here
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this they were very nice of us let's
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walk through here
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okay there they are walking in governor
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and walt
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roy beside him
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kind of giving a little smile there
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there's roy over the governor's shoulder
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and then
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they end up walking down and into
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kind of a very just not distinguished
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but unique looking
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door down at the end
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right here and i think that might still
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be there so just use your imagination
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from 1965
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then walking along here
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continuing this way
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and there are some elevators
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i'm thinking maybe it continued on a
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little bit this way though
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maybe past this fake wall
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past the elevators
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you know they could have gone into an
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elevator okay bricky and i are
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discussing this and
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he has the same opinion i do he thinks
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that is an elevator they were going into
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because you can still see that there's a
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tile
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the black concrete now which elevator
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not really sure but
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one of these elevators
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and that letterbox probably was there
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all right
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awesome
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i'm glad we asked and walked in here
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you know to like
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really enjoy history you always have to
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put it in context that when they
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announced this they didn't know it was
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going to change the world no right like
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they didn't know that walt wasn't going
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to make it like you really have to put
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in context of the moment of them trying
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to get ahead of the story trying to you
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know lead the narrative and not knowing
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what was going to happen like that's the
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best part they didn't know that they
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were going to just change the face of
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entertainment it was just the florida
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project yeah they didn't even know that
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they didn't have a name for it yet yeah
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it's just that's the part you got to
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keep in mind that we
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the press conference was
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six years before this photo was taken
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yeah i mean
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people would tell you that you were
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crazy if you were to tell them that this
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was what was going to happen in six
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years
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that just reaffirms the fact that it's
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always good to go in and ask somewhere
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because before i've been here before a
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couple years ago and i just assumed that
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it was the other entrance didn't even
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walk in and ask
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i've learned something new today i was
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great she was so nice to to let us see
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all of that that was awesome so from
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here so just to kind of keep up with the
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timeline
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they made the announcement and then
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before the park opened they came up with
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the name
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roy wanted it to be called walt disney
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world and even though he had a lot of
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pushback
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from some of the other people in the
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company he said no no no it will be
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called walt disney world not disney
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world and he said
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stop talking about it that's how it's
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going to be and other people wanted to
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change
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walt's vision he said
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do exactly what walt told you to do
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even though he has passed on
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it's going to continue like he wanted it
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and it did just something to some degree
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it's a shame that uh
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that that decision making wasn't there
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for epcot
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you know it would have been interesting
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to see what would have became of epcot
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if roy or wall could have had a creative
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hand in it where that truck is pulling
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up is where they got out roy and his
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brother
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and right over there is where it was
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arrived here now at bay hill which i
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believe is owned in some sort of
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affiliation with arnold palmer in fact
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there's a golf tournament
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happening at the moment but there were
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five little bungalows
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that were here where
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roy and his wife edna stayed as well as
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joe fowler and the other two
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other prominent names in the disney
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organization
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but this would be the road where it was
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on so you got
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one there
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two here
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three
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four and five now i learned about this
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place for my friend world of micah when
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i was telling him what i was doing today
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he said oh she'd go by roy's home where
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roy and edna lived he has been here and
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documented this before but i have never
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shown this in any videos
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so figure this is a good tie-in
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now according to him he was doing some
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research on it he says if this was roy
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and edna's house
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and they would have barbecues you can
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even find this if you research it enough
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they had barbecues
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roy and edna
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and joe fowler whose home was here
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so joe fowler who
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had a lot to do with disneyland and walt
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disney world and
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an homage to joe fowler there's fowler's
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harbor at disneyland
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and then the ferry boat that goes across
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seven seas lagoon here at walt disney
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world is the admiral joe fowler
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that was joe fowler's house for a short
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time
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up until opening day in 71
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and this here was roy and edna so you
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you yourself
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love joe fowler i do i mean he's one of
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the most interesting characters in the
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creation of disneyland retired naval man
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and walt really needed a heavy you know
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uh roy's doing finance walt's doing
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visionary stuff and joe's going around
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making sure things get done you got to
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have somebody to push over the things
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nobody wants to do
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so this is like corporate housing more
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or less like disney put them up right
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put them in this little area so they'd
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have a place to settle in while they're
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working on this project roy would work
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long hours come home to his wife edna at
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they would have a little bbq in the yard
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here talk about things
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pretty neat so the two houses that are
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so you got the one on the end it's the
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second one from the end these two
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fowler
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and roy oh
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and they're down on the end two other
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disney folks i mean they're beautiful
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homes and this is a really nice
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neighborhood but you can definitely tell
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that they were not expensive homes to
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build right
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cylinder blocks you can see all of the
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coaxial and everything that's on the
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outside of them they're all the exact
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same build just mirrored and flipped
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around and i forgot to mention when we
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were over at lake eola by the way i said
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we were going to go to the previous
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center next this is kind of a quick
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little stop off so we got detoured
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on the way over but i forgot to mention
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that at lake eola
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at the hotel that was a conference
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center where they did the florida
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project announcement that was the only
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walt did a public appearance anywhere in
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orlando and central florida that's a
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crazy fun fact that's pretty crazy
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that's pretty wild to even think about
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that wal only did he did there's walt's
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playing where he fly from burbank yeah
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supposedly that's going to be at d23
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they are restoring it it was here they
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moved it but it might be a d23 waltz
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plane so he would do that but it was
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never really documented and shown it was
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always just
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someone admiring roy's house driving by
21:53
or maybe just going to the golf
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tournament there's a golf tournament
21:55
happening right now too so history
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made in orlando with the documentation
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of the florida project announcement
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while it's passing boyd came out of
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retirement
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and basically there was a three-week
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soft opening
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of magic kingdom walt disney world
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roy did the announcement on the 26th
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27th and then i think it was nbc don't
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quote me on that did a special
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and roy and his wife watch the tv
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special
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right inside this very bungalow
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and it was said also side note when roy
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gave the opening speech you'll notice
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that mickey
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came out and was standing next to roy
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that was unplanned oh really i was hurt
22:39
i've always heard rumors that that was
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completely unplanned
22:42
mickey walked over and you always think
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why is mickey kind of awkwardly standing
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there yeah because roy did not want to
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walk out to the podium he's having such
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a hard time with the memory of himself
22:52
yeah so so mickey
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helped roy walk out but afterwards
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roy after he gave that speech went out
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into the seven seas lagoon on a boat
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and didn't want to even be in the park
23:04
because he wanted to give
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all the honor to his brother walt
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which the park is named after
23:10
but i mentioned that to also mention
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that
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either on the 29th
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of october or or the 30th of october of
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71
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that tv special of the opening of walt
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disney world which kind of opened up a
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whole can of worms and the popularity
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of central florida started then roy and
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his wife watched the tv special in here
23:30
and roy cried
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watching the tv
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a lot of tears were shed for his brother
23:37
inside all that's been documented and
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this was the bungalow that happened
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all right and with that solemn note
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i'm going to go over the preview center
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this is amazing man
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this is just amazing
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makes you think just anything that makes
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them makes it real makes them real
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people and you know like often i just
24:04
forget that they're brothers sometimes
24:06
because you know they had such a
24:07
business relationship and then you think
24:09
about it like they were brothers and
24:10
just the amount of respect that roy had
24:12
for his little brother and you know roy
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had the worst job i mean walt would
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dream it and then roy had to go find
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money for it like not the fun job at all
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and here's another interesting fact
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shortly after the opening speech
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shedding tears for his brother the
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memory of his brother not retiring
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which probably affected his health
24:33
dramatically a couple months later
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roy passed on yeah
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so it's almost like
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i finished my i've
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finished my my accomplishment
24:45
my brother has been honored the park has
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opened
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his vision was fulfilled
24:54
all right moving on the previous center
24:54
and now made it just on the outskirts of
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disney springs
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hotel plaza boulevard
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the amateur athletic union
25:04
which has that retro vibe
25:07
before magic kingdom opened his doors
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this was the only
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building that a guest could go in
25:15
on property the first major building
25:17
built on property a couple other smaller
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buildings
25:21
but as far as being one that you could
25:23
visit this was the very first one and it
25:25
still stands
25:26
all these years later here on hotel
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plaza boulevard
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got to walk over there match up a few
25:33
photos i found
25:36
you getting the retro vibes
25:38
this is great i mean you can tell that
25:40
it's from the time period but also not a
25:43
very expensive build out you know you
25:45
could like just look at the building and
25:46
tell exactly what it was intended to do
25:49
awareness and sell some tickets
25:51
and they did sell a lot of tickets
25:53
like an exorbitant amount
25:56
not for opening day but for just for the
25:58
few first few years the wd dw would be
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open
26:02
i had trouble saying that wdw i always
26:05
say that was short for walt disney world
26:08
they also had a gift shop so you could
26:10
this was the first gift shop
26:13
on walt disney world property as well
26:15
and they had a film that they would show
26:18
a preview
26:20
if you will of what was things to come
26:21
for the florida project
26:23
and magic eventual magic kingdom
26:27
and then have cast members and
26:28
characters here
26:29
quite an assortment online of vintage
26:32
photographs and videos
26:34
take a look at this
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preview center
26:38
shown right there that's the angle more
26:40
or less kind of
26:42
kind of from that a little bit closer up
26:44
those are walking up the second set of
26:45
stairs to go in
26:48
take a look at this one it almost looks
26:49
like an oversized bonsai tree
26:53
in the front
26:55
kind of from this angle
27:03
that tree's been removed and the sign
27:03
up front also removed
27:10
i believe there was a gazebo
27:10
over by the water over there back then
27:12
in those days as well
27:14
some of the original cast members
27:17
standing in front of the building as
27:18
well very unique architecture
27:22
distinctive and here's a photo of the
27:24
construction they haven't even paved the
27:25
roads around the side the parking areas
27:28
the road in the front is paved and you
27:30
can see some classic car alerts there
27:34
take a look at some of those vintage
27:35
vehicles this is kind of an aerial
27:37
perspective
27:39
and then the hotel boulevard down below
27:41
and take a look at pluto and goofy here
27:45
pluto is waving
27:47
actually right where my shadow is
27:49
my phone away that's where pluto was
27:52
standing
27:58
you were just telling me something so
27:58
repeat what you were just saying just
28:00
seeing that it's amazing that it looks
28:01
like an administrative building right
28:03
like if you saw this downtown this would
28:05
be the library or the dmv and it just
28:07
goes to show that they've always thought
28:09
about it as a small city this doesn't
28:11
look like anything that says theme park
28:13
whatsoever nothing here says theme park
28:21
and really nothing in the parks modern
28:21
day or even back then really looks like
28:23
this no
28:29
it literally just looks like what it was
28:29
supposed to be a welcome center
28:32
the sign was right there the welcome
28:33
sign was right there yeah
28:36
i've never been in this building we had
28:38
pretty good luck
28:39
at where the florida project
28:40
announcement was but right there's a lot
28:42
of photos online too of
28:44
cast members and
28:46
you know what would eventually be guests
28:47
taking the picture in front of the the
28:49
sign here
28:54
yeah i love this frank lloyd wright
28:54
style stacking of the different layers
28:58
yeah oh so it's been a while that's
29:01
great
29:02
was allowed inside for a moment was
29:04
talking to talking to the receptionist
29:05
she said it was all remodeled
29:07
you could definitely tell i got a quick
29:09
little look down the hallway it doesn't
29:10
look the same as this anymore but you
29:12
can see the windows
29:14
even from this inside
29:15
perspective the windows even looking
29:17
from outside
29:19
still look the same and he kind of had a
29:21
walkway
29:22
so if we were inside there was a walkway
29:25
that went this way that had a bunch of
29:27
kind of images of
29:28
things to come
29:30
at disney world walt disney world
29:33
all through there
29:35
now it's mostly just offices and whatnot
29:36
inside
29:37
there used to be topiaries
29:40
out here as well topiar's all around
29:43
the side
29:49
and there's the lake over there where
29:49
the gazebo was
29:56
if you were to put this building
29:56
anywhere
29:58
world showcase would be the area where
30:00
the future world future world is getting
30:02
epcot vibe it has that vibe it's that
30:04
same era the stacking design the
30:06
elongated the the levels of concrete and
30:09
using the landscaping like frank lloyd
30:11
wright did to separate space it's that's
30:13
the vibe
30:15
trying to figure out where those
30:16
topiaries exactly were i think maybe
30:18
around the other side the topi areas
30:20
look like they were in almost a little
30:22
planet so they weren't they weren't in
30:23
the ground
30:25
but the area the topi areas were
30:27
right over along this section somewhere
30:30
in this region
30:43
and here's a copy of the pamphlet now
30:43
disney at disney springs you can
30:44
purchase some of this retro merch they
30:46
have brought this this is the original
30:47
logo
30:48
but they have brought it back
30:50
and this was the entire pamphlet kind of
30:52
explained what was going to be happening
30:54
was open daily from nine to five
30:57
a motion picture describing the vacation
31:00
kingdom of the world
31:02
that's what they were calling it
31:04
featuring models construction
31:05
photographs artists renderings
31:07
the exciting walt disney world preview
31:10
center is now open open every day 15
31:12
miles southwest
31:14
of orlando florida
31:21
some serious history right here i'm glad
31:21
the building still stands
31:23
and according to this the scale model
31:24
was 600 square feet
31:27
that's a big model
31:29
600 square feet wow
31:33
and even more photos inside cast member
31:36
showing off
31:37
jose a photo on the wall there of the
31:39
contemporary
31:40
and then this is a picture
31:43
it's a three cowboy arrows in mickey oh
31:46
that's like maestro mickey right there
31:49
in the middle all right
31:51
that's going to do it for today
31:54
brickie adventures in design
31:57
do you want to give away how long you're
31:58
here for are you keeping it spoiler free
32:00
oh i'm here for a week baby you're here
32:02
for a week five days in the park three
32:04
days in the star wars hotel i'm i'm
32:06
chasing it you're doing the star wars
32:07
hotel yeah
32:09
well then you kind of started off with a
32:11
little
32:12
little history little pre-history of the
32:14
parks and now you're gonna go right into
32:16
the parks can i tell people what i've
32:18
been calling today yeah i've been
32:20
calling this the fifth gate tour by adam
32:22
the woo because it's literally been a
32:25
full afternoon of fun disney stuff and
32:27
for somebody who loves the vibes and the
32:29
design that's all this has been no
32:31
lightning no genie plus no waiting in
32:33
line just all vibes
32:38
what's the statement you always say
32:38
you're a vibe crusher not a ride crusher
32:41
i'm a vibe chaser a vibe chaser yeah not
32:44
a ride crusher he's a vibe chaser not a
32:47
ride crusher just the five
32:49
i like i kind of both i'm probably 75
32:53
vibe 25 rides that's a good mix it's a
32:55
hell it's good can you go on any rides
32:58
yeah i'm like a 90 10.
33:00
okay two percent of the time i'm like
33:02
all right but i like to ride it with
33:03
other people which is essentially
33:04
catching their vibe
33:15
i'm not short i'm not sure the last time
33:16
i was in the video with adam ever was
33:17
like how tall is this guy i'm not sure
33:19
side by side side by side just a couple
33:22
inches on me but adam has this move
33:24
adam has this move where he makes
33:25
everybody look like you're in that room
33:27
here you go grab the camera
33:29
grab the camera there we go see
33:32
see i'm not a short guy
33:34
511 just adam's very tall
33:43
i'll see you in the next video the vlog
33:43
is over