No. 13: Mary Blair, Happiest Haunts Tour '11
Mousetalgia! - Your Disneyland Podcast
Jeff Baham
4.4 • 776 Ratings
🗓️ 1 May 2022
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Tour Disneyland with the Happiest Haunts - This week, Jeff takes you along as he seeks to foil a villainous plot on the Disneyland Happiest Haunts Tour, which takes place during Halloween Time at the Disneyland Resort. Find out if it's worth the added ticket price, and go behind the scenes to find out what you can expect from the 3-plus-hour walking tour. Plus, Oct. 21 would have been Mary Blair's 100th birthday, and to mark the occasion, we talk to Jeanne Chamberlain and Maggie Richardson, the nieces of Mary, who share some personal stories and memories of growing up knowing the influential Disney artist. Plus, Gay Days, Woody goes on vacation - and more!Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Remain listening, please. |
| 0:04.6 | Permaneseer Escuchando, for favor. |
| 0:07.4 | You're listening to Mousetalgia's best year ever. |
| 0:10.3 | An encore presentation of the top 52 episodes of the Mousalgia podcast curated by Team Mousalja. |
| 0:16.2 | Please note that all sweepstakes are wide and time-sensitive news may be outdated. |
| 0:18.9 | Now sit back, hold on, and enjoy Moustalgia's best ear ever. |
| 0:22.9 | Let's do it again. |
| 0:30.9 | Hey, Mousalja listeners, this is Kristen, and I'm here to introduce you to this week's episode |
| 0:35.1 | of Mostalgia's Best Ear Ever. |
| 0:37.5 | This week will be revisiting episode 154 that originally aired on October 10th, 2011. |
| 0:44.8 | So this is somewhat of an Emporium Week. |
| 0:47.0 | Jeff talks a lot about the happiest hauntz tour that he went on at Disneyland. |
| 0:50.5 | But the highlight for me and the reason that I chose this particular episode was we actually had a chance to chat with the nieces of Mary Blair. |
| 0:57.5 | So you have to remember, this is still early in Mousalges recording history. |
| 1:00.6 | I think we were only about two years in at this point. |
| 1:02.9 | And we were starting to realize that if we were going to do, you know, really in-depth Disney research and Disney historical reporting that people hadn't done already, we were going |
| 1:12.6 | to have to start to look at alternative sources. You know, a lot of these Disney legends are aging |
| 1:16.5 | and sadly passing away. And people like Mary Blair, like we're obviously not going to have a |
| 1:20.7 | chance to talk with her. She didn't have any kids, but she did have nieces, these two nieces, |
| 1:24.7 | who she was really close with. And luckily for us lived in the Bay Area and at the time we're starting to kind of make some products based on some of her artwork. So they were more than happy and more than gracious to sit down with us over the phone and chat with us about their aunt and their relationship that they had with her. I think looking back on this, it was kind of a turning point for nostalgia again and just trying to figure out how to do things in a different way. |
| 1:46.9 | And for me, was just really special because I love Mary Blair. |
| 1:50.1 | And anytime I have a chance to learn a little bit more about not only who she was as an artist, but especially who she was as a person, is just a really special treat for me. |
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