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The 3028: Theme Park History & Pop Culture Listory

Thirty20Eight #296 - Disney's Animal Kingdom 4: The First Decade (1998-2008)

The 3028: Theme Park History & Pop Culture Listory

Matt Parrish and Kevin Quigley

Places & Travel, Society & Culture, History

4.91.2K Ratings

🗓️ 8 January 2024

⏱️ 135 minutes

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Summary

Matt and Kevin reach the penultimate episode of their summer series with a look back on the first decade of Disney's Animal Kingdom, including first expansions in Asia and DinoLand and first closures.

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0:00.0

The The The So, Oh, Oh, The Welcome to the 3028 a show about theme park history and pop culture

1:39.7

Listry. I'm Matt Parish and I'm Kevin Quigley Kevin we we traveled Missouri this week

1:46.4

I stopped by our spiritual home Kevin the 3028 the real one so the 3028 what the number, what's the name of the street again?

1:55.2

Uh, Bella Fontaine. Yeah, 3028, Bella Fontaine Street. Don't go there.

2:01.5

No. Don't try to get into the house. There's a fence around it.

2:05.4

Matt of course, you know scaled the fence immediately broke in and just like hung out

2:10.8

and he didn't do any of that. he took a picture in front of the house and

2:14.8

we will put that up on our Instagram was really really cool that you were able to go there and like it's

2:19.8

it's just kind of neat that for so long nobody knew why we called it 3028 and now it's like oh yeah

2:25.8

This is why and now we're making like you know spiritual treks down to see it.

2:32.1

Yeah I think it's more remarkable that anyone ever found the show that was called the 3028 and associated with Disney in any way whatsoever.

2:42.0

That's the real surprise. But Kevin, I love these little trips. I try to take them when I can like you and I we met in Chicago. There's a Disney site in Chicago. Plus the you know the Columbia World's Fair.

2:54.4

It's from 1892.

2:56.4

And then also in Kansas City, you get the Laffagram,

2:58.9

which they're trying to refurb,

3:00.2

and then you got the 3028 Belafonte.

3:02.0

But I think it's really cool too is that you know if you watch something like I keep wanting to call it waking sleeping beauty that's not what it's called saving Mr Banks and you hear Walt talk about his paper route. It's funny just like driving down the streets of his paper route looking over at his elementary school like it's all still there.

3:19.0

Did you ever go there in a blizzard and like try to throw papers at places?

3:24.0

I did not, but I did tell my son the story when we were driving around he was like okay.

3:29.0

And I was like, no, it's a big deal you don't understand.

3:31.0

And he was like, okay, I was like, it started in this little garage.

3:34.5

Like he just couldn't put it together that like a dude and his friend are like working

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