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Hi this is Len Testa. It's another episode of The Unofficial Guide Disney Dish

Podcast with Jim Hill and today we're continuing our tour of the Magic Kingdom

with Urban Designer and author Sam Genoe.

Sam's most recent book is Walt and The Promise of Progress City.

How's it going, Sam?

Oh, it's gone well.

How you doing, Lynn? I'm doing very well, thanks.

So we're beginning in're beginning this episode right smack

dab in the center of Cinderella Castle in Fantasyland.

Cinderella Castle, the ultimate beckoning hand, the ultimate weeny, the giant building that centers the entire park and is virtually visible from almost every area within the park.

So if you ever feel lost, just sort of look up and you'll see the little spires that dragged you into the Magic Kingdom in the

first place and we're standing in the archway which is kind of closed I guess because

they're doing a show out front which they do far too often for my taste because they

should leave this open for people to walk through.

It's really nice.

So we've got Cinderella's Royal Table restaurant on our left.

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