Mousetalgia Episode 381: Don DeFore's Silver Banjo BBQ; Nelbert Chouinard
Mousetalgia! - Your Disneyland Podcast
Jeff Baham
4.4 • 776 Ratings
🗓️ 7 February 2016
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
Mousetalgia welcomes Ron DeFore to the show to discuss "Don DeFore's Silver Banjo Barbecue," which was located in Disneyland from 1957 through 1961. We learn about Ron's father Don, who, as an innovative live television broadcaster, caught Walt Disney's attention and became close to Walt, eventually opening his own barbecue restaurant in Frotierland at Disneyland. Ron talks about the restaurant as well as other stories about growing up with a backstage key to Walt's Magic Kingdom, including riding down Main Street in Autopia cars, becoming a Flying Saucer test dummy, sneaking around the Jungle Cruise, and riding in a parade with Walt Disney. Then, we welcome Disney Legend Alice Davis back to Mousetalgia to remember Nelbert Chouinard, founder of the Chouinard Art Institute, which was a critical institution to the Disney Studio during animation's earliest days. Also - restoring a Tiki Bird, constructing a Deagostini Disneyland model, "Disney"-scented candles, and more.
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| 0:00.0 | Moussela is a member of the Micechat podcast network |
| 0:04.9 | Micepod.com |
| 0:06.8 | Micechat.com |
| 0:09.8 | On to Carpe Kingdom |
| 0:12.1 | You are listening to Mousalja, February 8, 2016. |
| 0:20.8 | Hold on to your hats and glasses. |
| 0:25.4 | This here's the wildest podcast in the Wivers. Malstalgia. |
| 0:42.3 | Everybody meeting pretty? |
| 0:44.3 | Then on with the show. |
| 0:50.3 | Welcome to Malstalgia, your podcast about Disneyland, Disney California Adventure, and everything else to Disney. |
| 1:00.3 | I'm your host Dave, and with us today we have Jeff. |
| 1:02.4 | Hello, everybody. |
| 1:03.4 | Kristen. |
| 1:04.2 | I love barbecues. |
| 1:05.7 | And Becky. |
| 1:07.1 | Yum, yum. |
| 1:08.9 | So today we're going to start off with a Mousalgia Bits and Bites. |
| 1:16.8 | Mousalja bits and bites. |
| 1:20.9 | Kristen, what is a Mousalja Bits and Bites? |
| 1:23.3 | Well, this is when we have lots of good little things, not enough for a whole long segment, but we want to share. |
| 1:30.2 | So everybody just kind of brings a Disney something and we talk about it. |
| 1:33.6 | Yeah, that's right. |
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