Restored Home Movie: A Trip to WDW 1976

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@Jenura01 Жыл бұрын

We moved to Orlando in 1976 when I was 11 yrs old. My dad took all five of us kids and mom to disneyworld many, many, weekends while we lived there. It must not have been expensive for him to continue to take all of us so many times. I remember it just like this. No one wanted to hang out on Main Street where you first walked in because all of us kids wanted to go right to the rides. That is why you see it is pretty empty in that area (except for parade time. That was the only time there was a lot of people there). I remember that last parage with the huge "bobble head" heads on the tops of actual human beings. They freaked me out as a kid because they looked so wrong. Like aliens. Jungle Cruise was actually super fun. We think it is "campy" now, but back then, those types of rides that tell a story were very new and it was cool. I remember being totally freaked out at the Haunted Mansion when those picture bottoms came down. Never ever got to go to Country Bear Jamboree because it was one of the most popular attractions and the line was way too long all the time (they only had so many shows a day). The last scen of Carousel of Progress really looked futuristic. Especially the clothes, the way the kitchen looked (super modern looking appliances), the fact that Dad was doing the cooking (weird to us), and mostly the open floor plan where the kitchen and living room were all one long big room. Very futuristic. No house looked like that on the inside back then. They were laid out like the 50s houses. And no one wore those clothes in the 70s. I remember riding the monorail and being very jealous of anyone rich enough to stay in the Contemporary or the Polynesian (I don't remember the Grand Floridian being there yet). Tomorrowland was always packed, and that is where EVERYONE wanted to go. It had so many things everyone had never seen. The Bicentennial was a HUGE thing that year, and America themed goings on were everywhere. School, stores, TV shows, etc. That is why you see it here in the parades, flowers, etc. I vividly remember the parade with the boy in the stocks, and the woman getting dunked with a wooden apparatus into a big tub of water. It was so strange I went right to the library when I went home to see what was going on, then my love of history began.

@RR18rc Жыл бұрын

I went for the very first time in 76 I was 5 years old and in total awe of this park we rode space mountain not knowing that it was fast but oh so much fun miss those days

@ttintagel 4 жыл бұрын

Man, the old Tomorrowland was beautiful.

@croftersjam3928 4 жыл бұрын

Wonderful footage of RCA’s Home of the Future at the end of the Space Mountain ride!! Boy, does that take me back! ☺️

@f86sabjf 4 жыл бұрын

Beautiful restoration

@blwilson8 4 жыл бұрын

Fun to look back, especially at the parades and the final room in the C of Progress!

@joegug4751 2 жыл бұрын

Was there in 1976 only vacation we went on as kids. It was a special place back then probably almost museum like nowadays

@privatename5788 4 жыл бұрын

A bookie could make good money giving odds on what minute/second the Jungle Cruise is going to pop up on an old Disney film.

@ttintagel 4 жыл бұрын

This is how I remember things from my first trip in 1983.

@gdawg1585 4 жыл бұрын

ttintagel My Mom went that year with her church group she went on Space Mountain ive been there six times the last time was in 2017

@skyflux 4 жыл бұрын

If you have it, play the Musical Souvenir vinyl (or a recording of it) while watching. The Fife and Drum track ends up playing when they're on screen, which is cool. www.discogs.com/Various-A-Musical-Souvenir-Of-Walt-Disney-Worlds-Magic-Kingdom/release/6190862

@yumyumfish 4 жыл бұрын

I do miss the music you'd put on the silent films. Magical nevertheless.

@LH74 3 жыл бұрын

Wonderful times

@epaddon 4 жыл бұрын

This can't be later than 1975 since Tomorrowland signage still shows "Flight To The Moon" rather than "Mission To Mars" which debuted in 1975. So that would place this just after the opening of both Carousel of Progress and Space Mountain.

@snarkus63 4 жыл бұрын

I noticed that too....my family's first visit here was in the summer of '75 and I distinctly remember it being "Mission To Mars".

@privatename5788 4 жыл бұрын

13:40 gives a pretty definitive date. Maybe this is two different film spliced together?

@epaddon 4 жыл бұрын

@@privatename5788 Possibly. There's no disputing that Tomorrowland footage is from early 1975 since "Flight To The Moon" closed sometime in April to May of 1975 with "Mission To Mars" opening on June 7, 1975.

@jeffoff7795 2 жыл бұрын

At least one of the parades seemed to be a Bicentennial parade which would have been '76.