Beyond the Mississippi, passengers enjoy the scenic west with the freedom and adventure of the open road.

Here we are in the frantic forties and the music is better than ever.

And now ladies and gentlemen for the first musical portion of our demonstration we have...

Hello my friends and welcome or welcome back to the WDW Radio Show.

You're Walt Disney World Information Station.

I'm your host Lume Angelo and this is show number 156 for the week of January 31, 2010.

This week we're going to step aboard my Walt Disney World Wayback machine as we travel back to look not at a singular attraction but instead examine and explore the parks during a moment in time.

Turning the dials to 1986 we'll look at the expansion and changes that took place as well as what else Disney had planned for the future.

Stay tuned for a new contest and an opportunity for you to be a part of the show and win prizes along the way.

I'll play more of your voice mails at the end of the show so sit back, relax and enjoy this week's episode of the WDW Radio Show.

As you know on this show and with the articles on my site and in Celebrations Magazine I love looking at the show.

As you know on this show and with the articles on my site and in Celebrations Magazine I love looking back at Walt Disney World's history by going through what I call my Walt Disney World Wayback Machine.

Often times I'll focus on a land or an attraction or a show or yes even a restaurant but recently on the show we looked back at Walt Disney World during really a snapshot in time.

That was 1973 which was really interesting because we examined and explored Walt Disney World just a couple of years after the Florida Swamp Land was turned into a revolutionary vacation destination.

So I thought we would do it again but this time we're going to turn the dials ahead a few years to a time when the Magic Kingdom wasn't the only game in town and when Walt Disney World truly became the vacation kingdom of the world.

And just as he did on the Wayback segment to 1973 Ryan Wilson from the Main Street Gazette is joining me once again as we travel back in time Ryan welcome back as always.

Always a pleasure.

And you know I made it a point and I'm sure you'll appreciate this to call the vacation kingdom in the world because I'm sure you hear it all the time.

People call Walt Disney World the happiest place on Earth technically according to the tagline from the very beginning it was always dubbed the vacation kingdom of the world and that's why I was saying 1986 really starts to kind of come into its own.

You're right because you finally have two parks you have you know several resorts and you have more coming now that that are going to be planned and you're right it was a vacation kingdom to the world.

The happiest place on Earth was always really the moniker of Disneyland and the vacation kingdom was Florida's.

And that's when people say you know what Lou just go ride the rides and shut up already.

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