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Hi. Hello.
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I heard that.
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I heard somebody from your group was
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going to be here. I didn't know that.
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Good to see you.
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What a pleasant treat.
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Welcome.
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Hi everyone.
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Hello.
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Welcome.
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All right. Well, uh, hi. Thanks for
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being here. We are so excited for the
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artisans club at Cotino to open and, uh,
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I have been working with the team on
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some really unique programs that we
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cannot wait to deliver. U, these are
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things that only Disney can provide. So,
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think about events and entertainment,
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some personal enrichment, health and
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wellness, and even some excursions
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offsite around the region. So, we're
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thrilled for our members to be able to
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choose uh what programs are going to be
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best for them and what they want to do
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to write their next chapter of their
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story. So things like a painting class
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with a Disney artist or Disney animator,
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a uh health and wellness program
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inspired by Disney characters, a
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photography class with a National
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Geographic expert, or uh learning about
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uh history live in person with our
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friends from the Walt Disney Archives
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like Becky here. Uh so we are going to
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have a group programs, a calendar that
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our members will be able to select from
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and experience. And as we get to know
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them a bit more, we're going to start
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tailoring those offerings to make sure
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that everything is relevant for them. Do
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they have any special interests,
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hobbies, um things that they are want to
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do that they want to learn about from a
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Disney perspective? And we will bring
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them in. I mentioned um excursions. Uh
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those we've got a few um examples
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planned. Palm Springs Air Museum has
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Walt Disney's plane. Uh we can't wait to
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uh take our members over there. We'll
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also do things like going to uh
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Disneyland, but after we bring in a
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creative show director to talk about a
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new parade or nighttime spectacular,
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talk about creative concepts, how they
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were inspired to do something specific.
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And then the members will get to go and
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check it out, you know, with that kind
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of inside information. And so, uh, we'll
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take them there and then to places like
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the Walt Disney Archives. So, we'll
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bring Becky and her team in to to speak
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and to bring these very cool assets uh
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like we have here today, but we'll also
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take the groups um over to the Walt
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Disney Studios lot and let them
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experience it there as well.
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And we're really excited. We've been
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working with with Kristen and her team
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for quite a while since this project was
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launched and we're really excited to see
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it opening. Um it's been like a long
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time, but we've been involved in it from
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the very beginning to help uh kind of
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ideate create these ideas for great pro
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programming that will be unique to this
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area. We're hoping to do some things
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that you can only see here for the
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residents that are here. And like
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Christa said, to to become interested in
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what they want to see and what they
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enjoy and what they're particularly
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drawn to, which is is going to be really
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wonderful. Uh, another opportunity of
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course is to bring down some programs
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that we do in other parts of the company
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that other people haven't had the
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opportunity to see. We do a lot of
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programs all over the world and it's an
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opportunity to bring them here to
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Southern California. Of course, I'd love
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to talk about Walt Disney himself and uh
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his connections to this area are very
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broad. Walt started here in the 1930s.
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He came down here and built a home here
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in 1948. It was really important to him.
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This was one of his happy places, his
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laughing places. He loved to come down
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here to get away from the stress of the
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studio to relax and to kind of rewind
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and re-energize. But he was also very
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inspiring by this area. And he brought
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other artists down from the studio and
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made with artists that lived here. And
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his interest in western themes and
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cowboy art and things like that were um
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something that came for his time here.
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So what we decided to do is to bring a
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few pieces down to celebrate Walt's
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connections to this area. There is uh
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this is just a temporary display for
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today to share with all of you, but
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there's going to be rotating series of
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exhibits here in the um in
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the member services lobby.
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Member services. So, there's a little
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exhibit there. So, make sure you see
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that before you leave. But um our team
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is going to come down and we're rotating
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for the residents here to enjoy and
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share with our guests. But this
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particular exhibit just celebrates a few
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things. It's film and television and
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parks, but also involves connections to
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other people here in the the valley.
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We'll start with this one. This is a
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painting by a man named Clyde Foresight.
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This was made in 1943 and it was given
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to him by Clyde. It's a smoke tree and
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that is a a plant that is indigenous to
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this area, very famous in this valley.
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But um Clyde was a very famous artist in
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this area, especially for his western
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art. And Walt really admired him as an
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artist and they became really good
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friends. Uh, another piece of art that I
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love here kind of illustrates Walt's
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cowboy culture uh, interests uh, when in
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1941 Walt Disney and his artists went
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down to South America on the at the
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behest of the government to do a kind of
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a goodwill thing and so they decided to
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make a film about South America culture
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and it ended up being a film called
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Solos Amigos. While he was down there,
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Walt Disney met a very famous
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Argentinian painter named after Molina
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Compos and they got to be friends.
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Compost was very excited about meeting
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Malt and a few years later in 1943 he
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came to visit all of the studio and he
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gave him this painting to commemorate
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their meeting. And so it's a lovely kind
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of caricature of their meeting and it's
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it's he called it Pats which I thought
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was very cute but it's signed there to
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the great vault encouragement from him.
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So that's a these are special pieces
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special directly to Walton himself. This
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is a Bobby card from the film True Life
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Adventure. It's called The Living
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Desert. Living Desert was shot in
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several desert locations in Arizona and
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here in the Coachella Valley. So it was
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actually shot here in World and that
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film won an Academy Award. We don't
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forget film came out in 1953 and the
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Academy Award was given in 1954. And so
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um that has a very very direct tie to
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this area. Mickey Mouse Club of course
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is a television show started in 1955 and
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they had a talent roundup day. Walt
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Disney loved the western theming uh and
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and he did a lot of western themed films
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and television shows. But of course,
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Spit and Marty, which you see there on
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the cover of Mickey Mouse and Club
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magazine. And the Mickey Mouse
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musketeers um performed in western gear
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and the little boots there are are
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during Tracy. He's one of the main
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musketeers. And this is a hat from one
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of the kids on the show. this piece
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that's pretty banged up and it's what's
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left really of the Frontier Land stage
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coach. That was a piece that was the
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very first attraction that was built for
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Disneyland and they built it up at the
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studio and we have photos of Walt
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driving it around the studio a lot and
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uh this was taken down of course to
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Disneyland prior to opening and it was
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something you could ride on in nature's
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wonderland as well as packs and mine
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train and conover wagon all kinds of
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things there. Uh sadly it was made out
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of wood. It been survived the last 70
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years as well as some of our other
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pieces but um pieces of it were given to
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the Walt Disney archives when it had to
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be distributed. Um and so we have this
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signage from we also have a wagon wheel
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and from the original stage edge but
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this shows love. There are some photos
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in the in the other room in the other
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display. You can see a photo of Mo
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driving the stage edge and I believe
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that was the Palm Desert Service which
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was a very big celebration here locally.
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the 1930s I think started in the mid80s
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mid 80s. Yeah.
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So Walt and Roy both came and visited
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the service and you know rode horses and
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became grand marshal and things like
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that. So they love this desert and they
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love doing charitable work here.
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supporting charitable work here in the
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valley and of course all that his long
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bowling tournaments and all of the
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things that he did and his vacation home
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here and rode in the mountains and and
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enjoyed life here flew that plane back
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and forth all the time. He actually also
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my understanding about after doing some
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research is that he actually was one of
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the people that helped get the airport
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closed
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by endorsing it and getting to build an
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airport here, which of course I know he
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was very happy when it happened because
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instead of having to drive down here
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from LA traffic wasn't so good, but he
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he was able to fly down.
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So, we plan to do lots of presentations,
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things about Walt, all of Walt's TV and
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film and everything else and supporting
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these productions in any way we can.
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We're excited to build upon the legacy
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that Walt created and had out here in
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the desert and and work with our members
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on programs and experiences that uh
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hopefully they will they will remember
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questions.
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What are each of you most excited about
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with this?
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I'll let you answer. I you know I am
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just I'm so excited for our members to
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come through that brains way and just
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experience the club overall. So have you
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know have kids in Cino Bay and uh family
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over at the fire pit and then also
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thinking about this space. Uh so here in
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studio 2 it's more of our art studio.
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really excited for our members to get
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the art class, the painting tips from
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one of our Disney artists and then
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literally step outside this room and
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have the beautiful view of the Sanent
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Mountains and create paintings that they
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can take home or display here in the
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club. I just think that the the full
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experience is is just going to be
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phenomenal.
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I'm just excited about another uh great
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opportunity to to kind of reach out to
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the people I think that are going to
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gravitate towards buying homes here are
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going to be people who are Disney fans
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and just the opportunity to find another
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way to reach out share what's in the
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archives and our love of Disney history
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and Disney specifically
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help them to learn more and be
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entertaining and educational on our
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