Ep. 638: Disney Legend Cicely Rigdon
Mousetalgia! - Your Disneyland Podcast
Jeff Baham
4.4 • 776 Ratings
🗓️ 10 January 2021
⏱️ 75 minutes
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Summary
This week, Mousetalgia is celebrating a Disney Legend who left a remarkable legacy due to her work with Disneyland. Cicely Rigdon, who started her career at the park as a ticket taker in 1957, quickly had an impact on Disneyland even as she began working in a ticket booth, and soon found herself working for the Tour Guide Department, eventually becoming the supervisor of Guest Relations, and then developing and leading the Disneyland Ambassador Program. Today we speak with Barbara Brock, a former Disneyland Tour Guide who knew Cicely, and Cicely's daughters Penny and Pamela, who share special memories of their mom. We also speak with an array of people who knew and worked with Cicely, and welcome Kristen Carr back to the show to deliver the latest Disney news.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to Mostalgia, Monday, January 11th, 2021. |
| 0:06.0 | Mostalgia is a member of the Mice Chat Podcast Network. |
| 0:26.0 | Hang on to them hats and glasses Because this here is the wildest podcast in the wilderness |
| 0:30.1 | This is Mousalgia |
| 0:33.9 | Carpe Kingdom, seize the magic. |
| 0:48.4 | Welcome to Mousalgia, your podcast about Disneyland, Disney California Adventure. |
| 0:51.5 | Well, neither of those so much these days, but everything else Disney. |
| 0:52.6 | We talk about that a lot. |
| 0:55.0 | My name is Jeff, and I'm here with my co-host, Kristen. |
| 0:55.5 | Hello. |
| 1:00.1 | And our special guest for the week, returning guest, Barbara Brock. Barbara, thank you so much for joining us on Mousalgia. Oh, thank you so much. It's an honor and it's wonderful to be back with you. |
| 1:04.7 | And Dave and Becky are not with us this week. They are on a much-needed vacation, but they'll be back soon. But this week, we are going to start off. |
| 1:14.3 | Actually, I'm going to have Kristen set up the show for you this week. So you can understand a little bit about what we're going to be talking about. And then we'll get on with the weekly roundup. |
| 1:19.0 | But Kristen, why don't you set up the show for today? Do you even know? Have you have you lost count? I think I have, which I think is a wonderful thing. I think that you're |
| 1:34.3 | definitely like in our top three of guests. And it's been so interesting because this last year, |
| 1:38.2 | you know, we've talked with a number of former Disneyland employees. And the name Cicely |
| 1:42.2 | Rigdon keeps coming up, right? Everyone's talking |
| 1:44.2 | about Cicely Rigden because she had such a huge part in the company's history that I think a couple, |
| 1:48.3 | maybe a month or two ago, I was like, we should just do a show on Cicely Rigden. And so here it is. |
| 1:53.1 | This is our Cicely Rigden show. I mean, she was, it's a D23 Disney legend, right? Had so many different, like, effects in the park, which we'll talk about in a little bit. |
| 2:02.6 | So we thought, let's have Barbara on in honor of Sicily because as a former tour guide yourself, |
| 2:07.7 | we thought who better to have on than talk about Sicily and to do a little Disneyland Roundup, |
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