Tag: Ward Kimball
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Mickey Mouse & Minnie Mouse | DISNEY THIS DAY | November 18, 1978
On this day in 1978, a plaque was installed at the Broadway Theater in New York City to commemorate the birthplace of Mickey and Minnie Mouse 50 years earlier. Located at 53rd and Broadway, the site was home to the former Colony Theater where ‘Steamboat Willie’ premiered in 1928. Mickey himself attended the ceremony, along…
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Firehouse Five Plus Two | DISNEY THIS DAY | September 20, 1954
On this day in 1954, Ward Kimball’s Dixieland jazz band The Firehouse Five Plus Two appeared on the hit television show, The Milton Berle Show. The band was made up of Disney Studios artists who kept their day jobs and played in the band in the evenings and on weekends for 22 years. [70 years…
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Disney’s ‘So Dear To My Heart’ (1948) Depot – Disney On Location
Take a look at where this train station from ‘So Dear to My Heart’ came from and went in this Disney on Location!
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Ward Kimball | DISNEY THIS DAY | February 15, 2006
On this day in 2006, the Ward Kimball steam engine was dedicated at Disneyland at an exclusive ceremony attended by hundreds of Cast Members. Engine No. 5 was the first locomotive to be added to the park in almost 50 years. It was built in 1902 and once operated at Cedar Point in Ohio. Named…