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Disney Dish Episode 340: Cinderella Golden Carousel’s costly transformation

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4.81.4K Ratings

🗓️ 20 September 2021

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Len Testa & Jim Hill start off this week’s show by sharing a survey that the Disneyland Resort sent out to Oogie Boogie Bash event attendees. They then look back at September of 1971 and the final frantic days of WDW construction. Show notes are here. 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.

0:03.7

It's me, Len Testa, and this is our show for the Week of Shmur's Day, September 20th, 2021.

0:09.4

On the show today, news, the Star Questions, and in our main segment,

0:13.6

Jim tells us what Walt Disney World was like two weeks before its opening in 1971.

0:19.2

Let's get started by bringing in the man who asks,

0:21.8

do you like seeing movies in theaters?

0:23.6

Or do you like eating candy in the dark while no one can interrupt you?

0:27.0

It's Mr. Jim Hill. Jim has it going.

0:28.8

It's going okay. Speaking of theaters, though, Len, 40 years ago,

0:33.2

when I was in college, I ran a cinema and acted Massachusetts at the Acton Twin.

0:38.0

Anyway, we had a cat that lived up in the projection booth that loved the real butter

0:42.3

that we used to put it up popcorn, and in fact, this cat loved butter so much,

0:45.8

it would periodically sneak out of a projection booth,

0:49.0

and then sculpt around the theaters, would then try to find somebody who just got

0:53.8

a hot butter put on their popcorn.

0:56.8

I always knew the cat got out because we'd be in the middle of some romantic comedy,

1:00.2

like The Good My Girl, and I'd suddenly hear this blood curling scream coming out of an

1:05.8

alternative because some poor soul was frightened out of their mind because this cat paw had come

1:10.7

out of nowhere and pulled at their popcorn bucket. I know of things coming out of the dark

1:18.7

in a theater. Can you imagine what that cat's firm must have looked like after

1:23.7

rolling around on the floor of a movie theater? The LeBrayer tarpids have nothing on the floor of a

1:30.2

especially one of those sloped, raked theaters like we were, the bottom three rows, you know,

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