Thirty20Eight #113 - Historical Listory: Main Street U.S.A.
The 3028: Theme Park History & Pop Culture Listory
Matt Parrish and Kevin Quigley
4.9 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 9 November 2019
⏱️ 81 minutes
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Summary
Thank you for listening to the Thirty20Eight, a show about Disney history and Disney listory. This week, Matt and Kevin dive into both the history and listory of Main Street U.S.A, discussing its roots, why it was developed, what inspires it, how it's really a combination of several mini-lands, and why it's important to the rest of the theme park. And then a FULL listory describing Main Street's best attributes for guests.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | The Main Street. Main Street. Meet me tonight on Main Street. |
| 0:38.4 | A land of warm welcoming colors and old-fashioned Victorian-style buildings, Main Street USA is the first land to greet |
| 0:45.8 | visitors to the happiest place on Earth. |
| 0:48.7 | Here in an atmosphere of turn-of-the-century America you can answer alarms in 1900 era fire engines. |
| 0:55.0 | Cutter around in 1903 vintage automobiles with fringed canvas tops. |
| 1:00.0 | Enjoy riding open airair double-deck buses |
| 1:02.8 | the type used in major cities at the beginning of the century. |
| 1:05.8 | Or experience the fun of riding a real horse-drawn street car. And the If you wish to leave Disneyland and return the same day during regular operating hours, |
| 1:37.0 | a valid Disneyland passport and a handstand are required for readmission. Welcome to the 3028 a show about Disney history and Disney |
| 1:57.1 | Listery. I'm Matt Parish and I'm Kevin Quigley. |
| 2:00.1 | No Kevin we've been exploring Disney on the 3028 for over 100 episodes, which is just, it's a lot of fun. |
| 2:07.1 | We do it together, we do it because we love it. There's a lot of work goes into it so you better love it. So every |
| 2:19.9 | part of it I love except for this one thing we've never covered this one thing |
| 2:24.2 | and I've always wanted to find a way to do it we've never actually dedicated a |
| 2:29.1 | show to one of the most important part of the parks to the parks experience the place where |
| 2:35.3 | so many visits to Disneyland and Walt Disney World begin. |
| 2:39.2 | Main Street USA. |
| 2:41.2 | Yeah, Main Street USA. |
| 2:42.2 | Main Street USA. Yeah, Main Street, USA. Yeah, we've never, I don't know why we've never, and it's so weird because it's such a major part. I think sometimes people like go into |
| 2:56.4 | Disneyland or Disney World and they they rush through Main Street and then |
| 3:00.5 | maybe go back later and shop and see some stuff but if most people just |
| 3:04.8 | think of it as a way to just get to all the quote-unquote cool stuff but there's |
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