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Fresh off the excitement of D23, Mr. Daps and Clocky take a look at what happens right after major park announcements: construction! In this episode of Photoniks, the duo dives into rare vintage photos capturing daytime construction and refurbishments across Disneyland, from the 1960s through the major 1980s Fantasyland transformation.
Step back in time to explore the kinetic energy of Tomorrowland under construction, classic Fantasyland overhauls, and the wild world of daytime park work in decades past!
IN THIS EPISODE:
* 00:00 – Intro: What Happens After D23?
* 02:25 – Building the PeopleMover & Monorail (1966)
* 07:38 – Chicken of the Sea Pirate Ship Makeover
* 10:18 – Early Matterhorn Track & Landscaping
* 14:07 – The 1982 New Fantasyland Overhaul
* 21:03 – Choosing Our Favorite Construction Photos & Outro
KEY HIGHLIGHTS:
* 1966 PeopleMover & Monorail Scaffolding: Examining Kodak picture spot photos showing PeopleMover track construction alongside Monorail Red—complete with 1960s daylight safety measures and 2x4 scaffolding right next to active park guests!
* Pirate Ship Refurbishment: Checking out a vintage shot of the iconic Chicken of the Sea restaurant surrounded by painter scaffolding and old wooden ladders.
* Pre-Opening Matterhorn Bobsleds: Analyzing early track construction on the Matterhorn and how smaller surrounding trees created a towering sense of scale.
* 1982 New Fantasyland Overhaul: Taking a close look at rare construction walls during the massive 1980s redesign, featuring shifted attractions, guest pathway vehicles, and vintage park details.
JOIN THE CONVERSATION!
Which vintage construction photo was your favorite? Let us know in the comments below!
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>> Welcome to Photonics. I'm Mr. Daps.
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>> And I'm Clarkie and let's look at
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photos. Let's look at them.
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>> What happens after D23? You start
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construction. So we're going to look at
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some construction photos today, but
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photo from this episode. It's fun. And
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it helps get the show out there.
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What kind of an episode you'd like to
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see in the future?
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Right? Cuz we're just constructing.
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Right? Yeah, right.
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>> Well, I love this cuz uh 2 years ago at
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D23, Josh D'Amaro got up in front and he
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said all of these projects are are
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shovel in the ground ready to go or
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shovel ready I guess is what he said.
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And and
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so many of these projects really are
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under construction, whether it's
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Tropical Americas or the Coco attraction
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or Avengers expansion, you know, all of
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this stuff. And and so now we basically
1:35
are mirroring in our two episodes kind
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of the
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process of D23 announcements, I guess.
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Kind of backwards, but you know, that's
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fine.
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>> Yeah.
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But this What's so cool about this
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is is thinking about some of these
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photos you're about to see
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we see people working
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at Disneyland
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on on attractions.
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>> And I'm going to presume, cuz I haven't
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seen this yet, they're during the day.
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>> Right.
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More than I would say this, we saw a lot
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of construction or deconstruction
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happening in the esplanade, which is not
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in the parks. It's in the resort. It's
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not in the parks.
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It's weird to see and and you can see
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some people working on like right now
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the Avengers Campus stuff. I you can see
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some people working
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>> We've been having fun following the
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cranes.
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>> Yeah.
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>> [laughter]
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>> What you're about What you're about to
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witness
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are people working in broad daylight.
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Not quite the OSHA violations we you see
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in
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Disneyland handcrafted.
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>> Mhm.
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>> But they get wild.
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>> All right, let's I can't wait.
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>> This is Let's photo Nick. Cancel that.
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Let's photo Let's do this. I mean, make
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sure to put an actual photo up. There
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you go. Perfect.
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And
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share.
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So here we have our first one. This is
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also a classic photo Nick photo cuz we
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have our little photo Nick guy here in
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the picture spot for Kodak. So take a
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photo of that monorail.
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And while you're at it, take a picture
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of that PeopleMover being constructed in
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the background.
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>> Oh, that's cool.
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Wow.
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>> Yeah.
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There's not much going on. We obviously
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get the motion of the of the monorail
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red here, but you can barely see there's
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sca- scaffolding leading to here and
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that is the PeopleMover track being
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built.
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>> And I can remember as a kid, you know,
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we all had those little like point and
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shoot and then you twist it to get to
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the next piece on your
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film and I can remember trying to take
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pictures of things like the monorail and
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getting that blur effect whether you
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wanted to or not.
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Um
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How cool.
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And you got a guy walking by.
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And you got a guy guy's head in the way.
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So you know Disneyland was open that
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day.
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>> Mhm.
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>> [clears throat]
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>> But and we see and then we you can
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barely see a construction worker right
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over here
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>> Oh, yeah.
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>> work working on it.
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>> Huh.
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Yeah, pretty wild to
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>> how open it all looks, too.
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>> Yeah. I mean
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so you said having stuff the taller
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trees and then also just being able to
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see a
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>> a building over there. We'll move to the
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next one, which is is very similar to
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this one, which is also the monorail
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station and then just workers working on
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them.
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>> Yep.
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So, there's a safety rail. So, OSHA
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compliant for 1965, 1966.
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>> looks like that guy might be holding on
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to the safety rail as he's walking down
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that that
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>> the ramp?
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>> path, ramp, whatever, bridge.
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Um
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That's funny.
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>> closed-toe shoes.
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>> Well, yes, I'm sure it's boots or
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something, but yeah.
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Wow.
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>> Yeah, this one was wild. I I was going
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through photos looking for stuff for the
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last episode and I saw this and I go,
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oh, there's two guys up there. Yeah, oh
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yeah. We should we should definitely
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talk about this cuz these are incredible
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to see.
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>> Just all the scaffolding, all the
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the the wood planks that were were used.
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>> We just use some 2 by 4s and plywood and
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>> Huh.
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That does provide a lot of context to
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its history.
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>> Yeah. And then
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uh yeah, like we talked [clears throat]
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about in the last episode, all the
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posters for all the different things
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around
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>> Yeah.
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>> the
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submarine queue.
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To remind you, hey, when you're done
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with this, Golden Horseshoe Revue is
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going on.
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>> I love it.
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Wow.
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>> Yeah, this one's pretty wild. You can
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see Autopia cars in the back over there.
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So, you kind of wonder
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what was closed and what
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>> on during the
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construction?
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>> Probably.
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>> [laughter]
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>> It was a The '60s were a different time.
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>> That is for sure. Wow, this is great.
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I also Is there another guy on the left
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or is that a pole?
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Like far left on me.
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>> That's That's That's a pole.
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>> Okay.
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>> That's That's like Yeah, that's a light
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pole over there. But Oh, but you know
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what? You can see that right behind that
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pole is the Howard Johnson.
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>> That's amazing, too. I think that's our
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first Howard Johnson sighting that we've
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noted prominently.
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The other thought looking at this
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picture
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>> Mhm.
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>> is like where do they go to get down?
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Yeah, how do they have to walk like
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>> I wonder one of the scaffolding must be
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a ladder down.
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But But But where that would be
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safe enough from Utopia and
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>> Somewhere maybe where the
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the tunnel is or something for the for
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somewhere like that little
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>> But that's really I mean that's also
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really close to the Also, it's got to be
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far enough away from the monorail that
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you're not going to be safe by the
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monorail.
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>> I mean, maybe you just time it right.
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>> [laughter]
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>> I mean, cuz at this point, if you're
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walking on something that um open,
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I don't know that you're super concerned
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about not being too close to a monorail.
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Yeah. [snorts]
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So, if we go back to here
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So, that's that there.
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>> Did they close the monorail when they
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were building that that path or that
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track right next to it?
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>> Yeah, I I imagine when they got to this
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point, they would have had to have
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rushed that part of the track.
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>> of of those people being on the monorail
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and taking a picture and like, "Hey, you
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know, like
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Oh, that'd be cool." Huh.
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What year is this?
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>> This is Do I have the year information?
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Uh this is 1266. So, this is likely
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November '66.
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>> [snorts]
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>> Which also shows you how fast they threw
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this stuff together.
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Right. Cuz this was
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the last episode. Yeah.
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>> Yeah.
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>> So, this is this is it in December of
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'66 and then by June, July of '67.
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>> No problem.
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>> I mean, maybe this was the last part.
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>> And then 30 years later we'll uh throw
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something else there.
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>> [clears throat]
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>> Some rocket rods in there.
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>> Uh-huh.
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>> All right. We'll go to the next.
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So, here we have not necessarily a
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building, but definitely scaffolding
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around the Chicken of the Sea Pirate
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Ship, the restaurant, getting some type
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of a makeover at some point.
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Seeing that it's black and white, this
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is before they did the the change in
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the branding. So, it was this was still
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the Chicken of the Sea Pirate Ship for a
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little while longer before it became
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Captain Hook's Galley.
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>> Mhm.
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>> But,
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here we have the
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ship being worked on. New paint job.
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I [laughter] imagine the first paint job
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was was rushed.
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See, do I have any information?
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>> [snorts]
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>> Hm.
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But,
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I mean, if this is all all of this is
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happening in 1967.
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>> Like it looks like just a ladder there
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on the right.
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Right. Maybe not even a complete ladder,
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just like the outside of a scaffolding.
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Like, "Oh, yeah, we can just walk up
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that or climb up that. No problem.
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It's a painter's scaffold. It'll be
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It'll be okay.
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>> Also, unless this is a a manager, I
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think the ship was still open for going
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inside, getting food because I think
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that isn't
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There's no hard hat there.
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>> So,
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>> Why not?
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>> just painting, [clears throat]
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Yeah, I mean, and
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you still need to make money.
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Like [laughter] if you think back in the
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day, there's a lot of debt to pay off.
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>> [laughter]
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>> Um
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Interesting. I like that you can see
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back behind, too.
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Oh, yeah. You can see the
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Storybook Land Canal Boats that you will
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Yeah.
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That's what I wish was in color cuz that
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would be fun to see
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all of these colors through the layers.
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Okay, so you talked about this ladder
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over here on the right. What about this
10:03
ladder over here?
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It's just leaning up against the sign.
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Doesn't that look like something you
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find at Grandpa's house or in a barn or
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something? It's just like the '50s were
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a different time.
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>> [clears throat]
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>> Wow. I mean, it was me as a
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kid or the last time I was in Illinois.
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But uh
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>> [laughter]
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[snorts]
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>> It's funny to think that there's a
10:27
couple of those ladders. If they did
10:29
this
10:31
now, there would be a full siding that
10:34
would look like the ship
10:35
that they would print. You would not be
10:37
able to see the ship at all to go
10:38
around. Well, no, you'd see the ship.
10:40
You'd just see an image of the ship
10:42
outside of the ship. But they they would
10:44
build that scaffolding thing around it
10:46
and you wouldn't notice it. Oh, this is
10:48
fun.
10:49
So here we are still in we're back in
10:51
Fantasyland for some more fun and this
10:53
is pre-Matterhorn cuz this isn't people
10:57
being evacuated. These are workers
10:59
working on the track.
11:01
I be See, now I'm curious.
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If I asked this to Bob Gurr, he'd be
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like, "Bob, is this you?
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This you?" Right.
11:09
Is that Is that you?
11:11
I mean, but but also if you're Bob Gurr,
11:13
don't you just say yes? Yeah, but isn't
11:16
that the right answer?
11:18
Do you need me to sign this?
11:20
Do you want to take a photo with this
11:21
photo?
11:22
And can I be a photo, Nick?
11:25
But I mean, that that could be. You
11:27
know, I did I hadn't really thought
11:28
about that until now, but like, yeah.
11:31
And then here we have the Is that part
11:33
of the track? It must be part of the
11:34
track. So this is if if I'm correct, are
11:36
we in the Tomorrowland side of
11:41
Like basically if if we were to turn
11:43
around here, is that Autopia?
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Got to think about that. Hang on. Got to
11:49
wrap my brain around what I'm seeing.
11:51
And then up to the right
11:54
is where the entrance is today.
11:56
Like that's where the chalet
11:58
that you that you board is.
12:02
Probably. And they would turn left. This
12:05
is just before the like it's even
12:07
starting to turn left maybe right there
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to head into uh to head into the yeah
12:12
to the station.
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Am I reading that right? You're I think
12:20
you're reading that right. I'm going to
12:20
look in one place while you look at that
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photo. I'm going to pull up another
12:25
website that may help me.
12:27
I'm also curious it looks like maybe
12:30
it's uh
12:31
I can't tell if behind a tree if that's
12:33
just something on the picture or if
12:35
there's something standing there in the
12:37
background and uh that's intriguing to
12:39
me too. But uh the big thing that's
12:42
really crazy with this is how small all
12:44
the trees are compared to what they are
12:47
today. And and the thing I like about
12:49
that so much is the smaller trees would
12:53
make the mountains seem taller.
12:55
And uh
12:57
I I do think that's something that
12:59
Disney is probably always trying to find
13:01
that balance is between letting things
13:04
grow and be natural and
13:06
um conserving these beautiful trees
13:09
while also recognizing like oh, well we
13:12
have a scale we're trying to work with
13:14
on Main Street or whatever or New
13:16
Orleans Square is it popping into my
13:18
head. Um even we've seen a lot of
13:20
replacements recently on Tom Sawyer
13:22
Island and then and um
13:25
around Fellers Harbor. And and I think
13:27
that's a really delicate balance that
13:29
they have to
13:30
to find with all of their their
13:32
horticulture stuff, but um I do love
13:36
like I'd hate to see the trees that we
13:37
have now go, but there is something to
13:39
be said for uh little trees.
13:43
Did I give you enough time to look for
13:44
your uh
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>> You you you did.
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>> Okay, good.
13:47
>> And and and I'm I'm thinking I'm
13:49
thinking you're you're you are right.
13:52
That is
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Let me go back to the image.
13:59
So, that would be the splashdown. This
14:00
is the curve around to go back to the
14:02
chalet.
14:04
So, this is how close you would be.
14:05
Yeah.
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>> And just think of how like they've
14:09
they've layered that now, too, instead
14:11
of the grass and whatever. I I think
14:12
that's very interesting. It's cool.
14:14
>> Well, and and you even have a queue
14:15
here, too, now. I mean, that's that's
14:16
something that
14:18
is a little bit different. All right.
14:20
That one the wrong.
14:22
>> And a new seating area across the way
14:25
and you know, all that fun stuff.
14:27
>> I've not seen that yet. I'm really
14:28
excited about it.
14:29
>> I think you're going to like it. I I
14:31
think it's a good addition. It it
14:33
completes the area quite nicely.
14:36
>> All right. Then we go to our last photo.
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And this one's fun cuz I didn't realize
14:41
I had it or I had it and I didn't put
14:44
two and two together of what this was
14:46
cuz this is from my
14:49
uh packet of 1982 photos of Disneyland.
14:52
And so, this is the
14:54
Fantasyland [clears throat]
14:55
uh station for uh
14:57
>> for Skyway buckets. Skyway? Yeah.
15:00
>> Okay.
15:03
>> And here we have the infamous walls.
15:05
This is '82.
15:06
>> Okay, I was like, is this the redo of of
15:08
of Fantasyland?
15:09
>> Fantasyland, yeah. So, they have at this
15:12
point
15:15
>> This is so weird.
15:17
>> Right? I [laughter] I of photos that I
15:20
want from the 80s. It's all of the 82
15:25
>> Yeah.
15:26
>> New Fantasyland 83. Actually today I
15:28
checked my mailbox with my New
15:30
Fantasyland keychain.
15:32
>> Mhm.
15:33
>> And all the New Fantasyland stuff
15:34
because like this is wild to think about
15:37
is
15:38
they had already moved
15:42
>> Yeah.
15:43
>> the carousel back. So the carousel was
15:45
moved
15:47
Teacups were moved first, then carousel,
15:49
and then Dumbo.
15:50
>> Cuz you kind of have to do this big
15:52
shuffle game, I guess.
15:54
Wow.
15:55
I just love that you see the pickup
15:56
truck parked there, too.
15:58
>> Yeah. The pickup truck and whatever else
16:00
car this is over here.
16:01
>> Uh
16:02
>> Granted, there's not really a way to
16:03
hide it. And at least they've put up
16:05
walls. Like that's kind of a
16:07
>> Right.
16:08
>> That seems to be one of the first times
16:10
we've seen that.
16:11
>> [laughter]
16:12
>> Um
16:13
>> Well, I think this was even one of those
16:14
like this one I do believe is
16:19
talking about New Fantasyland. So kind
16:20
of what walls we have now, they were
16:22
doing back then of like, "Hey, coming
16:24
soon, New Fantasyland."
16:26
>> That's cool.
16:28
>> But they saw the old facades over here.
16:29
So you were still able to even though
16:31
Dumbo was down, they were working on
16:33
Pinocchio and probably Snow White. You
16:36
could still ride Peter Pan and Mr. Toad.
16:39
They'd moved the carousel back.
16:42
>> Mhm. The The timeline on it is fast I
16:44
mean, it's funny to think about now.
16:46
Websites like yours, like DapsMagic.com
16:49
>> would have all the news. What's What's
16:51
happening next?
16:52
>> we would we would be covering this
16:54
weekly, just like we're doing with
16:56
>> Yeah, the the weekly update of taking
16:58
the monorail in to seeing what's
17:00
changing about like when didn't I find
17:02
was being added and everything that was
17:04
happening on that side of Downtown
17:05
Disney. It's like, "Oh man."
17:08
I I wish people were covering that back
17:10
in the 80s cuz man, a weekly update of
17:12
"Oh hey, uh
17:14
the carousel's down. I know it's been a
17:16
month, but the carousel's back up and
17:18
the teacups are gone. The teacups are
17:20
over here now.
17:22
>> If only Doug had been here that early
17:24
cuz he would have done that. Um it's
17:26
interesting too looking at the queue of
17:28
I think you're noticing this too for
17:30
Casey Jr.
17:32
>> Oh yeah, because where where they're
17:34
walking now is is more
17:36
like they've opened it up or they've
17:38
pushed everything over I guess cuz they
17:40
have the booths here first and then uh
17:44
and then you have that second level
17:45
which looks like it might still be
17:47
there, but it feels a lot more um
17:50
I'm going to say this with I guess
17:51
exposed. I don't know.
17:53
>> With people walking this way
17:55
the
17:56
the pathway between
17:58
Fantasyland and Frontierland was open.
18:01
>> Mhm.
18:02
We do get Mickey ears so we I mean that
18:04
makes sense cuz uh
18:06
because Big Thunder would be open by
18:07
now.
18:08
>> Yeah.
18:11
>> Huh.
18:12
It's also weird all of those trees next
18:14
to the carousel.
18:15
Cuz that's a walkway. Like that's
18:19
Like there might be a planter somewhat
18:21
kind of there now, but it's
18:24
and it's hard to say
18:29
Okay, so that's there.
18:30
The little Mickey balloon in the corner.
18:32
>> I was like a little Mickey balloon.
18:34
Well, no, it was funny to see the little
18:35
the Mickey I saw this in one of the
18:36
other other photos on last last episode
18:39
is the Mickey balloon and then this lady
18:42
over here with the Mickey ears on.
18:45
>> Oh, good call.
18:46
>> Yeah. And then I think there's a guy
18:47
over here where did I see him?
18:50
It's like playing Where's Waldo?
18:51
>> Mhm.
18:52
>> Oh, this guy is wearing Mickey ears.
18:54
>> Oh yeah, I see them now. Isn't it weird
18:56
how few and far between they are?
18:59
Cuz just a few years later I feel like
19:01
they became much bigger.
19:02
>> Right.
19:04
>> Or or hats in general.
19:07
It's like hats went out of style, but
19:08
then like wearing a hat to Disneyland is
19:10
like oh no, I'm going to wear that goofy
19:11
hat that I have."
19:13
Or I'm going to wear Mickey ears cuz why
19:15
not? I'm a musketeer.
19:18
>> Don't you wish, as I'm looking at this,
19:20
that they'd made or maybe they will at
19:22
some point, and
19:24
assuming they've recorded it, um a
19:26
Disneyland handcrafted that
19:28
basically went through this era of like
19:31
I think particularly the new
19:32
Fantasyland. It would be very fun to
19:34
watch.
19:35
Because it was still kind of an old era
19:37
of Imagineering
19:39
where a lot of it you just do it, and
19:42
and it's a lot of
19:44
you know, hand handcrafted work as
19:46
opposed to
19:47
more automation and computers and all of
19:50
this stuff that we have today, which is
19:51
very cool as well, but I do think, you
19:54
know,
19:55
the old school way of of hammers and
19:57
saws and drills and all that stuff is
19:59
kind of cool to watch, too.
20:00
>> I I wonder what all this tree all this
20:03
stuff is.
20:05
If they were removing it and moving it
20:07
somewhere else, like if this was like
20:09
over by
20:10
the pirate ship and being moved like,
20:12
"Hey, we've got we've got three palm
20:14
trees that we can move. Get Jungle
20:16
Cruise ready. In the meantime,
20:18
put it in between the carousel and Casey
20:20
Jr."
20:22
>> Or were they already there, and you
20:24
didn't notice them because there was
20:25
space there before the carousel moved?
20:29
>> Well, cuz it would have gone carousel
20:32
teacups
20:34
Dumbo over here.
20:36
>> Mhm.
20:38
So, in between that could have been kind
20:39
of that space.
20:41
I don't know.
20:42
>> Yeah. [snorts]
20:44
Cuz we have that really
20:45
>> I feel like one episode we did look kind
20:47
of down that way, but I don't remember.
20:50
>> Right.
20:51
Well, it's challenging cuz of this it's
20:53
odd to have an '82 photo of Fantasyland
20:56
because you wouldn't go there. It was
20:58
closed getting ready for new
20:59
Fantasyland.
21:00
>> Yeah.
21:01
Yeah.
21:02
That is very cool.
21:04
>> Yeah, this one yeah.
21:06
Huh.
21:07
And that's why we do this. There's
21:08
actually two cars There looks like
21:10
there's a little car behind the truck
21:12
now that I'm looking a little closer,
21:13
too.
21:15
Little car behind the truck.
21:18
The And then just the construction walls
21:20
are go. And And actually it jets around.
21:23
So they they were definitely working on
21:25
everything in front of, yeah.
21:28
Mhm.
21:30
That is cool.
21:34
All right, this one This one is going to
21:35
be another challenge of what's your
21:37
favorite construction photo?
21:39
Yeah, I think I know. We'll see.
21:46
Oh, wait. That's a fun photo, Nick.
21:48
I was like it Well, in me it's between
21:50
two and five. Like I was like, oh, it
21:52
has to be five, but then I saw this one
21:54
again and the guy is walking on that
21:56
platform is so ridiculous that And it's
21:59
actual people working during the day.
22:02
Yeah. Which on a platform like that, I
22:04
would hope it's during the day cuz I
22:05
don't see any lighting apparatus.
22:07
Working during the morning or is this
22:09
late afternoon? Um I think it's
22:12
afternoon cuz look at where the shadow
22:14
is on the monorail. Shadows are going
22:15
that way, yeah. Mhm.
22:18
It's probably the end of their work day.
22:21
Or the beginning.
22:23
But I didn't see lights. Like I feel
22:24
like you'd have the the lights on the
22:26
Yeah, you'd have the
22:28
the giant lights. that actually um
22:31
adds to your your point about that you
22:33
said at the beginning of them working
22:35
during park hours, it appears. Um I
22:37
think I'm going to go with this one. I
22:38
was I was really thinking the uh '82
22:41
one, but um
22:43
cuz there's so much fun things to see in
22:45
that one, but this one is so
22:48
um ludicrous {slash} dangerous
22:51
>> [laughter]
22:52
>> that that I'm going to go with that one.
22:53
I like this one cuz it's cuz they're
22:55
they're just working on the monorail.
22:56
They're not on the monorail. They're
22:57
working on the Matterhorn.
22:59
But I'm going to go with the '82 one
23:00
just because I think that's a very good
23:03
>> It It It is a moment in time that it's
23:06
going to be hard to get more photos to
23:08
make this make sense.
23:10
>> Mhm.
23:12
>> But we're determined.
23:13
>> We're determined Yeah.
23:15
And again, people are
23:16
>> Somebody knows somebody.
23:18
I I just got to collect more photos.
23:20
>> Yeah.
23:21
>> Because
23:22
that skyway is where people took photos
23:24
all the time. So, people were taking
23:25
photos into that construction.
23:28
>> And you know somebody was like us. Just
23:30
like, "Oh, this is cool." And
23:32
>> Let me get a photo of this real quick.
23:35
>> Mhm.
23:36
Like if my grandpa had been there during
23:38
that time, I guarantee you he would have
23:39
taken a ton of pictures of that. But
23:43
Wow.
23:44
Yeah, that that is a
23:47
I think we chose the two best pictures.
23:49
That's what I That's what I'm going to
23:50
say.
23:50
>> And that's why there's two of us.
23:53
>> I mean,
23:53
>> [laughter]
23:54
>> then we can balance each other out.
23:56
Okay, I'm I'm looking at
23:59
Where Okay, so where
24:01
That's that.
24:04
I do know someone who has photos of the
24:06
construction. So, I'm trying to see
24:07
where those
24:11
Oh, the trees. Where the trees came in.
24:13
Oh, now that went back too far.
24:14
>> Where the trees came in. So, let me go
24:16
back to construction photos.
24:19
Cuz it would make sense. They would have
24:20
tried to have moved the trees.
24:22
>> Yeah, they always try to preserve them
24:24
if they can.
24:25
>> Yeah.
24:27
>> Hm.
24:28
Well, if you know
24:30
what happened with those trees, please
24:32
let us know in the comments cuz uh we
24:34
are definitely curious and nerdy about
24:36
that. And uh we will try to look through
24:38
more photos and find them or find new
24:40
photos that we can find the answer. All
24:43
the above. But um
24:45
What else should they do? Clocky,
24:46
usually you're talking at this point.
24:48
>> Usually Yeah. I
24:50
You should again hit hit like, hit
24:52
subscribe, check out everything that we
24:55
have. We'll try to put these photos up
24:57
as soon as we can. The hard part is if
24:58
I've already saved them on my phone,
24:59
it's harder for me to find them on my
25:01
phone and put them back on to Photonix.
25:03
So, just keep an eye out. We'll just put
25:04
some photos randomly up and watch for
25:07
more construction.
25:09
Tell a friend about it. Make it, you
25:11
know, share the photos, share the
25:13
podcast, and uh
25:15
yeah, uh comment comment below or above
25:17
or wherever it might be on your podcast
25:19
app or on YouTube, and uh
25:22
yeah, let's see what we'll look at next.
25:24
Maybe next one will be a live from the
25:25
park.
25:26
>> It's very possible. Unless we get too
25:28
ambitious, which has been known to
25:30
happen every We go We go like really
25:32
fast and and then really slow, I feel
25:34
like. But, um if we get too ambitious,
25:36
who knows what will happen then. But,
25:38
hopefully you've enjoyed this podcast.
25:40
Hopefully, you will come back next time
25:42
with friends. And uh I I have a wild
25:45
idea, Clocky, because you were saying
25:47
live from the parks,
25:49
what if someday what if someday we do a
25:52
live episode?
25:54
I don't even know how to do that yet
25:56
with this platform, but I I was like
25:59
I feel like it would be very fun.
26:03
>> We I don't see why we couldn't. I
26:06
We would need to do that that that we're
26:08
just W- welcome to the writers' room,
26:10
everyone. We would need to do something
26:12
contained like we did with the Tom
26:14
Sawyer Island, where we're not walking
26:15
too far.
26:17
>> Well, I'm thinking live in studio. So,
26:19
just like what we just did, but live, so
26:22
people could be engaging in the chat as
26:25
we as we
26:26
as we share photos. Um
26:29
but no, I think we could also do That
26:31
would be a very long episode if we did
26:32
it that way. Or unless we were in one
26:34
spot. Maybe both ideas. Maybe both
26:37
ideas. We will see.
26:38
>> Let us know in the comments. That's all
26:39
you need to do.
26:40
>> you like to see?
26:41
We We are crazy enough to try anything
26:43
once, I feel like. But, anyway,
26:45
[laughter]
26:46
this has been a blast looking at
26:47
construction photos with you as we
26:49
recover and recuperate from D23 and all
26:53
of the fun things that came out of that.
26:55
But, uh we are going to say goodbye and
26:58
it's been photonning with you.
27:00
>> Fun photonning with you.
27:02
>> There we go.
27:03
It's been pleasant. It's Please turn off
27:04
your flash.
27:06
No flash photography indoors. All right.
27:09
Have a great one, everybody.
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