Ep. 748: Disney California Adventure's First Quarter Century
Mousetalgia! - Your Disneyland Podcast
Jeff Baham
4.4 • 776 Ratings
🗓️ 6 February 2026
⏱️ 82 minutes
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Summary
This week, Jeff and Julia (from the Pal Around Podcast) go back in time to 2001 and take a stroll through the opening days of Disney's California Adventure in celebration of its 25th anniversary. Listen to our memories, anecdotes, and a few rare sound bytes as we pay homage to Anaheim's second Disney gate. As a special bonus, we take a quick trip back to the 2013 PNW Mouse Meet to revisit a classic Mousetalgia interview with Imagineer Kevin Rafferty about his work developing Cars Land for DCA. All this - and much more!
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to Mousetalgia for the week of February 8, 2026, Disney California Adventures 25th anniversary. |
| 0:20.3 | Hang on to them hats and glasses |
| 0:22.4 | because this here is the wildest podcast in the wilderness. |
| 0:28.3 | This is Mousalgia. |
| 0:30.6 | Carpe Kingdom Seize the Magic. |
| 0:49.1 | Welcome to Mostalgia, your podcast about Disneyland, Disney history, and living a Disney life, the best kind of life, a Disney life. |
| 0:53.0 | My name is Jeff, and I am your host this week, along with my good friend, Julia. |
| 0:54.3 | Julia, thanks for joining me today. |
| 0:59.9 | Well, thank you for having me. And happy birthday while we're recording this, by the way. |
| 1:08.1 | Appreciate that. It's been a great birthday. I went to the Legion of Honor in San Francisco, and we saw a new Impressionists exhibit. So very exciting day. However, today we're to talk about |
| 1:12.1 | Disney's California Adventure. Did you hear what I said there? Yes. Disney's California Adventure |
| 1:18.2 | because we're talking about the history. So let's call it Disney's California Adventure for this |
| 1:22.4 | case. We're going to talk all about California Adventure. Maybe just wander around to some of our favorite memories and favorite thoughts about it. |
| 1:29.9 | But it's been 25 years since California Adventure opened. |
| 1:32.7 | That's kind of amazing. |
| 1:34.2 | Kind of amazing. |
| 1:35.9 | A quarter of a century. |
| 1:37.2 | But before we get into that, before we get into that, let me thank my sponsor, MEI Mouse Fan Travel. |
| 1:42.6 | Mouse Fan Travel is a fee-free Disney authorized travel agency. |
| 1:46.3 | So anything you want to do, Disney, Disneyland, of course. |
| 1:50.2 | Like, book your Disneyland chip. |
| 1:51.4 | Book it now. |
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