D23: Disneyland Fond Memories of the Past

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4.8 • 799 Ratings

🗓️ 1 August 2025

⏱️ 89 minutes

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In this episode, Michael and Tom discuss a presentation that Michael attended at Walt Disney Imagineering and the Grand Central Air Terminal, D23 Spotlight Series: Disneyland Fond Memories of the Past, hosted by Stacia Martin and Becky Cline, the Director of the Walt Disney Archives. Michael also shares a brief history of the Grand Central Air Terminal.

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0:50.8	Hey there, hi, there, and welcome in episode 336 of connecting with Walt.
0:56.3	I am your host and is historian Michael Bowling, and I am joined by my co-host, producer, and good friend Tom Bell.
1:03.4	Tom, how are you today?
1:05.4	I am doing well, Michael.
1:06.9	How about yourself?
1:08.2	I'm doing well.
1:09.4	We up here in the Sacramento area, we have been enjoying our coolest July in over 30 years.
1:17.5	It's crazy.
1:18.0	It's been delightful.
1:19.4	It's in the 90s today.
1:20.9	Yeah, same here.
1:22.2	Of course.
1:23.6	A number of 100 degree days has been very limited so far. We had one.
1:28.6	We had one.
1:30.1	Even with the state fair, because you always joked about state fair weather up here,
1:34.2	because that's when it would spike to 113 degrees for, you know, three weeks.
1:39.7	But it's been wonderful.
1:42.3	But then, of course, the other half of the country is in this heat dome thing, which sounds horrible because then they get humidity, too.
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