Over on my Disney centered blog, I am sharing my photo report of my visit to Walt Disney’s office and the Walt Disney Archives in March 2024 with my historian pals Jim Fanning and Mike Buckhoff:
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Thursday, December 15, 2011
Walt Disney
On this day 45 years ago, Walt Disney passed away.
(From D23)
"On this day in 1966, the news that Walt Disney had passed away utterly shocked the world. Over the years, D23′s Scott Wolf has spoken to many Cast Members who were with the Company at that time. They all remember that day vividly. Disney Legend X Atencio remembered: “December 15 was traditionally when I bought my Christmas tree. When I got home here and got to thinking about it and sat, I just bawled my eyes out.” Disney Legend Harriet Burns remembered that as soon as she heard the news, “tears squirted out of my eyes… we knew he had gone back to St. Joseph’s Hospital but he had been there back and forth from time to time and had little things done. This was only 10 days after he’d been in for a meeting.” Connie Swanson Lane, who was the Disneyland Ambassador at the time, recalled: “It was like losing a family member. Very difficult. Most of us stayed at work because that’s what Walt would have wanted us to do. The flag was lowered at half mast. It was very, very hard, and I stood at Town Square for the retreat that night until the flag was totally lowered. It was my way of saying goodbye.” Almost spiritually, a phenomenon occurred at Walt’s park that evening, according to a story told to me by two people at different times. One of them was funnyman Don Payne, who for several years was a substitute for Wally Boag in the Golden Horseshoe Revue. He remembers, “I got the part to be in the barnyard unit in Fantasy on Parade for Christmas. The night the parade stepped off for the first time is the day Walt Disney died. That night, just before the performance started, we were standing back behind where Walt’s apartment was and it started snowing! In the work lights, you could see flakes of snow drifting down. They never hit the ground, but we were all looking, thinking, ‘How freaky is this? It doesn’t snow in Anaheim!’ It was cold and it was snowing.”"
(Walt Disney as Santa Claus)
Thank You Walt.
Monday, December 5, 2011
December 5th in DISNEY HISTORY
December 5th marks the (would be) 110th birthday of good ol' Uncle Walt.
I planned for the longest time to do a tribute video for this birthday celebration, but it ended up not happening. Maybe it'll work out for the 111th. I also planned to do a big, elaborate post today, but it just isn't going to happen. It's late, school is nuts, and I am T-I-R-E-D!!!
Today also saw the release of the Disney cartoon "Prep and Landing: Naughty vs. Nice"
I have the worst luck with Prep and Landing. Everytime it's on TV, I somehow miss it or have something going on that night or something. Then tonight, we planned on watching it the sequel, but I was working on other stuff and wasn't paying attention to the time, so I saw probably the last two minutes or so by the time I finally remembered. Oh well...
Moving right along, it is also the 70th anniversary of the HILARIOUS Donald Duck Cartoon "Chef Donald."
"Did you enjoy your waffle? I'll bet you did. Won't you let me hear from ya?"
Happy Birthday Walt!
"And so until next week, Old Mother Mallard wishes you all the best-" *CRASH!!!* "Ahhhhhhhhh!!!!" "Quaaaaaaaaack! Quaaaack Quaaaak Quaaaack Quack"
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