Disney Dish Episode 271: Remembering Disneyland’s “Blast to the Past”

The Disney Dish with Jim Hill

Jim Hill Media Podcast Network

Leisure, Society & Culture, Places & Travel

4.8 • 979 Ratings

🗓️ 25 May 2020

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Len Testa starts off this week’s show by sharing some listener suggestions when it comes to keeping costs down when vacationing at the WDW Resort. Then Jim Hill looks back at some of the seasonal events that Disneyland staged back in the mid-to-late 1980s to get Southern Californians to visit that theme park during the slower times of year. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome back to another edition of the Disney dish podcast with Jim Hill. It's me,
0:04.2	Len Testa, and this is our show for the week of Schmer's Day, May 25th, 2020 and we're
0:09.4	celebrating Memorial Day today, too. On the show today, today, too.
0:12.9	On the show today, News, listener questions.
0:15.7	And in our main segment, Jim tells us about Disneyland's Blast to the Past event back in the 1980s.
0:22.2	Let's get started by bringing in the man who asks how long someone
0:24.7	has to be dead before it's considered archaeology instead of grave robbing. It's Mr. Jim Hill.
0:29.9	Jim how's it going?
0:30.9	Kind of a side tangent of that.
0:33.0	You know, Nancy and I...
0:34.0	You have a grave robbing story to you, Jim?
0:36.0	Sort of, sort of.
0:38.0	Well, Nancy and I live on 11 acres on what was previously a dairy farm.
0:44.8	We've discovered over time,
0:46.6	given the weird things that are coming up out of the ground,
0:49.1	like these amazing old bottles,
0:51.5	that sort of thing, like, this may have been where the dairy farm had its dump
0:56.7	That they then covered with soil and then dropped a house on top of so it's it's very slow archaeology and you don't have to dig just after every winter something rises up out of the ground and
1:06.9	as long as it's not a dead person or a cow I'm good.
1:09.9	John Deer Tractor.
1:11.3	Yeah, yeah. So it makes winter all that more exciting, Jim.
1:15.0	It does, it does, but we have a wonderful collection of weird little old-fashioned bottles that the ground gives up every so often.
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