Hey, it's Matt Parrish. Thanks for joining me on the Hub, a Wedway Radio presentation.

This week on the Hub, we'll check in with our friends Jocelyn Martins and Pam Forrester for the

Magic for Less Travel as they school me on an offering that only Disney provides.

It's a concierge level service that allows you to travel

with exclusive experiences into Disney and around the world.

And we're going to talk about an early iteration of the Carousel of Progress

that you may have never even heard of.

Music iteration of the Carousel of Progress that you may have never even heard of. I never intended for this show to be the Disneyland that never was or the Walt Disney

World that never will be.

But every once in a while, I stumble on some literature or an artifact that piqued my interest.

Did you know that a very early iteration for the Carousel of Progress

wasn't a Carousel at all? And it wasn't even found in Tomorrowland? Now we know the Carousel

of Progress from its version at the 1964 World's Fair, the Carousel Theater in Disneyland and

Tomorrowland, and of course its final resting place at Walt Disney World in Tomorrowland,

but the earliest version of the Carousel of Progress, again, wasn't a carousel, and it wasn't

even found in Tomorrowland.

Its home was in Edison Square, and on this episode of The Hub, I'll walk you through its

four separate show scenes and introduce you to its host,

Wilver K. Watt.

The In the 1950s, In the 1950s, as the Wed Corporation was figuring out what it wanted to do with Disneyland,

a number of different challenges presented themselves.

How would they expand?

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