I feel the same way. I went in 77 and I was nine years old. I felt I was in another planet in in the distant future. Unforgettable. ❤

😅🤣 I laughed so hard at that

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I was looking for this comment and it was right at the top 😂

Yea, I worked at D.W. from before Opening for the next 4+ years. Roy Disney actually came to my Department prior to opening to actually meet and shake hands with every employee or Cast Members as we were called. It used to be a family company, which is how Dick Nunis grew-up in it. After that it became Corporate and by the time Michael Eisner took over he needed Disney Security to accompany him everywhere out of his office. And now they have hired Colin Kappernick to write propaganda for them. WoW!

I think Walt Disney would be rolling in this grave if he could see what his company has become. Nothing but a pusher of the LGBTQ ideology. Today, most of the people at the top of the Disney company should be arrested for child endangerment.

My brother worked at the Crystal Palace in 1971 for $1.95 an hour and my mother for $2.35 at the Contemporary Resort. But, parking was 50 cents (today it is thirty bucks,) the monorail or the boat was $1.50 and admission was $7 a person. Ticket books were $7, and today they are not needed, but the cheapest admission is $139. You could get a room in the Contemporary for $21 a night, and today that can be $900. Many, many things have to be taken into account, but one thing is sure: prices have risen 40 times and more, but wages compared to inflation have only risen 10 times. You were much better off then.

The guy needs a brain. WHAT is the point of complaining to a kid that works for slave labor when he should complain to upper executives??

Walt was a great man. Disney was wonderful under his control. Now it is a grossly perverted and overgrown machine constantly "processing" children.

People are Strange.

Disney destroyed what was once a nice, beautiful city.

Much Better!

I know but if you go out to places like Polk County there’s still plenty of Southern accents.

So far gone sadly destroyed by Yankees

I was born in Clearwater and lived there until i was 10. When we moved to Michigan I was told I had a southern accent. I have no trace of it now. So, now I live in Arkansas and people say they can tell I am not from around here because I don't have a southern accent.

@@rustyshackleford4046 My brother in law is one. Born and raised in Safety Harbor and now lives is Port Richey.

lol... the accents are still southern........ way southern.... way way southern....South America... :(

ANOTHER thing that Disney has destroyed. Seriously, almost everything they touch, they ruin.

@Zazoo Kluk No, Disney's been destroying stuff since the 50s, possibly much longer. It's not comparable honestly. You know the famous "Jungle Cruise" ride? They stole half of it from The African Queen (Disney has openly admitted they got "inspiration" from the 1951 UA film). There's even a dispute as to whether Walt falsely took credit for Mickey (his early partner in business claimed for years afterward that HE had created him). If more people would study Disney's history, it is rather sinister and they've only gotten worse.

My dad told me years ago about how he remembered Disney land having cattle on it.

The orange groves were planted by farmers for pure profit. Not charity or goodwill.

It's not greed, it is population growth. Supply and demand. Happens all around planet earth.

Instead of nice Florida oranges for U.S. citizens, they ship oranges in from China of all places! It makes our country weak and dependent. I wish Disney would never have come down here.

Yeah but Ole Walt was a capitalist through and through. He was a very smart businessman and saw a niche not yet tapped into. Buying that land in Orlando is one of the shrewdest business moves ever made. But yeah, now it's up to the visitors to keep his original dream alive and make of what it was meant to be.

@@MoMoMyPup10 From what I understand, he was driven to create a place to take his two little girls. A place that was Family friendly and clean etc. He quietly bought large plots of land in Florida because he was smart enough to know that if people found out he was buying land to create what he did in California, they would over-inflate the cost of the mostly swamp land he was to buy. That was indeed smart. Walt learned with Disneyland in California that it was wise to buy more land than was needed so that we wouldn't be surrounded by "gift stores and copy cats" etc. Preserving the magic and removing folks from their reality and immersing them into his "World" meant that it would take a lot of land. They built corridors under the lands in WDW to preserve the fantasy of each by keeping the cast members out of the lands to which they did not work. Pretty smart. Walt Disney had an amazing, sometimes tragic life. He learned a lot and created a lot more. Ultimately, he was driven to give to his children and his Family that which did not exist. That is why I respect him the most.

@@stevealaska73 Can you please explain? Walt Disney and his wife had 2 children

@@Disneyfan1955 Explain what exactly? I thought I laid it out pretty clearly along with mentioning his two daughters. What did you miss?

Facts, especially with thier new ceo he is destroying it

Honestly, with the way Disney's gone in recent years (becoming a near monopoly), you wish they would somehow miraculously go bankrupt so that Florida could scrap or at least downsize that monstrosity in Orlando. Walt Disney Studios: Ruining almost everything they touch, mistreating employees and stealing ideas since 1927.

@@thunderbird1921a lot of us are not mistreated for the most part… secondly… they have not been mistreating employees since 1927… Walt Disney was a kind caring man… do you even know much about this company cuz I’ve researched this whole company up and down… and I hope to God that they never scrap Disney world and downsize it. I work in this amazing place and it is honestly the best job I have and will ever work in my entire life!!!

@@thunderbird1921 Don't forget the corruption of children with their zeal for LGBTQRSTUVWXYZ+-÷ that is out of control.

@@CrownedGamer101 Bravo to what you say BEFORE the passing of Walt, but you are gravely mistaken on the status of Disney today. Like a cancer it has bloomed into a horrible pox upon our society and a predator upon our children. Cancers must be removed when found out. REMOVE DISNEY.

@@Dallas_K very insensitive. This is my job.

They were actually educated, had morals, and had brain cells. Today’s society is half brain dead. Sad!

They also could answer and take longer than 10 seconds - this was the pre-sound-bite world!

What you can see from that is the decline of the entire country. We are not educating our children any more. All they have to know is "proper pronoun usage." We, the United States, are failing for this and many, many other reasons. Face it, my fellow Americans. It's over.

You are so right. To me those places you mentioned and others like them were the character of Florida. There was certain unexplainable feeling you got, like going back into time that made visiting Florida so much fun.

yeah, more fun in pre corporate control days.

@Zazoo Kluk talked with a brew guy at a brewery in Winter Park; mentioned to him about Splendid China...he was surprised hear someone mention it. Enjoyed going there...but just remember barely anybody visited.

More fun back then. Weeki Wachee!

Mystery Funhouse Six Gun Territory

It's something like 10-12% developed, right?

Those groves no longer exist. Disney killed them.

@@user-zh2cu2jk9j Seems like another life ago. We got faked out by some kind a evil. take care.

Fake news was even around in the 70's

@@joedzny how about 3:00 - wanna guess what day that "one day" was?

@@joedzny”Fake news” is merely anything that doesn’t conform to right wing dogma or raises any troubling questions when a Republican is in charge.

@@inkyguy or "conspiracy theory" and "right wing extremism" are anything that don't support and questions the narrative pushed by democrats, leftists, and mainstream media. It goes both ways, that both sides disregard anything that opposes it. Why should we make "fake news"/"conspiracy theory" so political? Why be so narrow-minded and partisan? Everyone should strive for being correct and to learn the truth about reality.

1) FLA has tax caps on increases and exemptions for full time residents 2) Water from the Orlando Metro flows north to the Atlantic via the ST John's, it doesn't flow south.

@@bvcltd.3250 Wrong! The beginnings of The Everglades start in Kissimmee, right where Disney world is. Most of the area was swamp and orange groves. Most of that water used to flow south to Lake Okeechobee and the everglades.

Langford moved to North Carolina when he retired, but then came right back.

I think they dropped that "Action Center of Florida" sh*t around 1977 or so.

Valid point! "Build it and they will come" took on another meaning besides baseball 50 years ago.

Need unions. If you don't have a union, you get screwed

@@PolarcupcheckDisney now has unions

I work at the Magic Kingdom at Disney World and I personally love it. I work many long hours per week and it does get exhausting but I wouldn’t trade it for anything in the world

@@CrownedGamer101 Should get those hours down. You can't keep that up forever.

@@Polarcupcheck I don’t want the hours down… I love working here… I have nothing to do at home… working here is my hobby😅😂😂

Tony Chavez you said it

Florida was a paradise.

Now look at today. It's sad

@First Last Miami is just like Hong Kong. Small one bedroom apartments going for almost $2000 a month.

That's every state. There is always a need for more housing and jobs. Populations grow. Nobody wants to live in tiny 50's tract houses. Always been mystified when people that do not own a piece of land grouse about how the owners use it. Politicians always have to look for ways to up the tax base because this country seems hell-bent on providing cradle to grave welfare.

In the process destroying what made Florida unique, its natural habitats.

I remember that too. Little family small farms here and there. It was one pretty ride. Now a fast lane with distant memories.

Wonder why florida is getting so hot cause everyone gotta have a air-conditioned mansion and 2 people only live in it. And then build the houses as close as possible to each other.

low tax utopia until visitors stop coming to pay taxes

It is quite disturbing that as every town grows into a city that it then turns into a hood. To me the main problem was the roadways were never designed to handle that kind of volume and traffic, and it will always be a nightmare getting in and out and through there. "Build it and they will come" has relevancy other than baseball!

LOL ... commufornia is your Utopia.

Where's the mess?

@@OrlandoStreets where isn't the mess.

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I wouldn't say no one goes there anymore if it's too crowded. Lol But I will say it's a complete dump. It's too stuffy for me.

Too many people still go here😅 trust me I know😅

Yogi made a Boo Boo.

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Beer is a gateway drink...

He was talking about how California back then was reporting that drug use was decreasing and kids were returning back to beer from other drugs.

then CA legalized and collected more taxes than FLA and Disney?

RobRamdisk IKR I thought I heard that🤦🏽‍♀️😂

@James Harold F A T dwarfs with butt, tit and lip implants! : l

the women wore girdles then

I can't imagine wearing a dress and heels, and you know there was pantyhose involved! I barely allow it when Dapper Day comes around!

thin and well dressed!

@@RTCMAHL I remember dressing up to go to the movies or out to sit down restaurant.

It has ruined Florida

And then there's Manhattan which has gone bad shit crazy, I swear they have no idea what they are doing anymore, just building glass sticks every minute, I think there's..say? 23 buildings that are glass and tall going up right now... Maddening.

Born and raised in Orlando, watched Disney World being built, there on opening day with family. Then when we were fourteen, we moved up north to the "rust belt". The difference was like being on two different planets.

20 years before!

Bunsen Honeydew maybe?

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That is crazy prices. I remember when it was like $50

I remember when it was $25 in the 1980s.

I pay $360/year for an annual pass allowing weekday use, with free parking

If they sold they would have made a killing on their investment. Why feel sorry for them?

@@OrlandoStreets good point, but i was referring to people who lived there that enjoyed it as a small community that now see it as the growing center of activity it is now, and seeing all the nature bulldozed for progress.

@@Rossturnerphoto Yeah, that makes sense.

Not to mention the negative i.pact of the current woke agenda pushed there and their predatory lust for children.

I literally checked to see if I got a message or email...😅

lol

Likely a blip in the old film soundtrack.

Yes, unfortunately the population grew so fast that the area infrastructure construction could not keep up with the vast influex of people.

Guess what. It's more than that already!!!! I guess parents took me enough that about once a year or so trip when Space Mountain built I'd already been there. Means parents did take me at beginning then.

take the back entrance on 429, don't take I4

And if you buy a tiny key chain it's like 20 dollars! : l

It's called progress. It's been 50 years. The infrastructure and industry that's grown up there would never have happened otherwise. I think the pain of its absence is probably being felt rather acutely these past few months. And, as far as traffic, man...there's nothing to complain about in Orlando compared to other parts of the country.

Made Florida rich. But happier?

Now Disney is a multi billion dollar brand. I’ve been to disneyworld it was fun but I don’t think it’s worth spending a small fortune every weekend.

You GOT to go man. It's commonly said that Disney is just for kids but I've seen adults, grown men even crying after the finale of Happily Ever After.

Please come! I’m a Disney world employee!! We would love to have you at the Magic Kingdom!! You gotta go at least once… it’s an amazing place!

Processing kids is the game now with Disney. LGBTQRSTUVWXYZ+-÷ agenda rules there.

They are already turning in their graves.

Four seasons mean Snow!

Processing children is their game.

I think because the film was produced in 1972...

October 1971. 72 was the first summer that people would be taking their family vacations there. I was there in 72 and it was very different from today.

Somethings never change!

Screw the polar bears.

They're building Brightline train station, so that should help. I would gladly drive to Palm Beach to board then ride the train into Orlando.

After 1970, a culture decline! Today really sucks. I recall the good 'ol days.

And your point, John?

@@nancyellen8006 he’s a big fan. So am I. Love DW.been there probably 20+ times. Love it.

Are you a child predator?

How cool. Even though it is not a real castle, it is a world icon. That is something to be proud of.

Cool he helped ruin florida

@@frankdavis_62 oh shut up

@@aviduser1961 It is a ruined and gaudy gay icon now.

@@Dallas_K Another fake, hate filled christian with diarrhea of the mouth. You might want to rethink your goals in life.

You just have to know where to look. But I agree. Concrete is replacing Oak Trees.

Most people do not even realize that Orlando is another 12 miles north of Disney.

Me too. Went to Disney World once and did not like it. Never been back.

About to get a house in golden oaks glad someone else loves the magic as much as my family does

@@jacksonplaysgames2422 I’m jealous. I have had the opportunity to tour a model home. Needless to say, you won’t be disappointed. The security is, quite obviously, world class. I have a goal, for my company, for over the next 5 years, to obtain a home there and to turn about 3/4 of it into a studio, for Pazzaria Productions. We’ll see what happens. As a sidenote, I have also dined at the Four Seasons on that property. The views and food were, of course, amazing. Take care!

@@pazzariatv thanks great to know hope you Can get a home there eventually

@@jacksonplaysgames2422 Thank you, sir. Have a great one!

@@pazzariatv you to

And yours isn’t?

Yeah! Disney created robots to run Disneyworld and Orlando.

Walt did no such thing. Mismanagement of his assets after his death made all the difference.