Reply With QuoteAwesome. We do the same thing - only, for us, it's when leaving. We salute his apartment above the fire station and say it.
Regardless of how or where, the sentiment is 100% agreed.
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by DaddyB Published on 04-02-2012 11:28 AM
57 years ago today, Walt Disney announced to the world his dream of creating "The Happiest Place On Earth".
I just wanted to take a moment, as I usually do when I enter Walt's original theme park, to stop at the statue and say "Thanks, Walt".
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Last edited by DaddyB; 04-02-2012 at 05:29 PM.
Awesome. We do the same thing - only, for us, it's when leaving. We salute his apartment above the fire station and say it.
Regardless of how or where, the sentiment is 100% agreed.
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At the Blue Sky Cellar, they have a huge photo of Walt right when you walk in. I took my 4 year old son in and told him that is Walt Disney. He is the man who created Disneyland. He wanted all of us to come here and have fun together. His imagination created the place we love so much. My son was quiet. He listened. I think it sank in. I plan to repeat that to him as much as possible. Because of one man's dream, we get to enjoy this wonderful place. We get to create lifelong memories. We get to smile and laugh together as a family. Thank you Walt!
Here you leave today and enter the world of Yesterday, Tomorrow, and Fantasy.
I was there July 17, 2005.
^Crystal I think that's beautiful!
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I love looking back at the Disneyland of 1955, and seeing how far it's come since then. Even in the 11 short years that Walt was alive to see it, the changes were huge. Walt's dream wasn't a finite, rigid thing, it was a growing, moving, fluid, living, breathing creature that he brought to life, nurtured, and empowered to have a life all its own. The barriers and challenges that he and Roy had to overcome to make it happen are truly epic, and the work they (and many others) put in to make sure it thrived is no less so.
I usually take a private moment to thank Walt when visiting his statue in the hub, and try very hard not to let other guests see me cry.
“There's other ways of learnin' about the behind feet of a mule than gettin' kicked by 'em… And just cause these here tales is about critters like Brer Rabbit and Brer Fox, that don’t mean they ain’t the same like can happen to folks. So them what can’t learn from a tale about critters, just ain’t got their ears tuned for listening…”
-Our beloved Uncle Remus
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