Disney Dish Episode 286: How was Disneyland Park different in the 1960s?

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4.7 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 7 September 2020

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Len Testa & Jim Hill start off this week’s show by discussing the significance of WDW’s decision to shutter the Polynesian Village Resort until the Spring of 2021. They then check out a selection of 50-year-old slides that a Disney Dish listener was kind enough to share with the show. If you'd like to see those images of 1960s Disneyland that Len & Jim are discussing on this week's Disney Dish, please follow this link: http://superfluffybunny.com/disney-dish-photo-essay-feature/1.jpg (Change the 1 to 2, 2 to 3, etc, to see the whole set.) 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.
0:06.0	It's me, Lantesta, and this is our show for the week of Shmer's Day, September 7th, 2020.
0:11.0	Happy Liberty to all of our listeners in the U.S. and Canada.
0:14.4	On the show today, news and new surveys.
0:17.5	In our main segment, Jim goes through a collection of Disneyland photos from the mid-1960s. Let's get started by bringing in the man whose
0:24.2	favorite gender-neutral pronoun is comrade. That's Mr. Jim Hill. Jim how's it going?
0:28.9	Yeah. If he was appropriate for Labor Day, why not?
0:33.3	Well, you know that there's labor and then there's labor.
0:35.9	Enforced labor, but we won't get into that.
0:39.0	Yeah, semantics.
0:40.6	All right, let's do a shout out to subscribers over at DisneyDish.
0:44.3	Bandcamp.com. Thanks to all of our Bandcamp subscribers. We hope you're enjoying our
0:48.6	exclusive walks through the parks. If there is a particular land or an attraction you'd like us to do.
0:55.0	Let us know through the website again Disney dish dot bancamp.com
0:58.0	and thanks to new subscribers AZN Blader Mike Mike K42, and Tate F, and longtime subscribers Drinkot, JWG, and Blood
1:09.2	Angeles, I think that's like the'm going to let's go with that
1:15.8	are some sort of blood orange dachary that's what I'm going to let's go with that okay
1:21.2	Jim as interns these folks were testing out serving lunches on roller skates at the 50s
1:27.8	primetime cafe in Disney's Hollywood studios and on their first day one of them slipped
1:32.2	in the kitchen causing a chain
1:33.9	reaction that sent dozens of kids meals into the ice cream blender, thus
1:37.8	creating the peanut butter and jelly milkshake we all know and love. True
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