tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25922463.post3632059391838265142..comments2024-03-29T02:30:53.003-07:00Comments on GORILLAS DON'T BLOG: Secret Entrance! November 1970Major Pepperidgehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09843598326995116014noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25922463.post-34573086226352715552011-12-29T11:30:44.022-08:002011-12-29T11:30:44.022-08:00If you stand today where the photographer was in t...If you stand today where the photographer was in the first picture, and turn to your right, facing south and the railway berm...<br /><br />...you will be right in front of one of the old, old white fluted drinking fountains, like the one in the treasured "C&H Sugar ad". It has still survived inside the Tour Guide Garden, although all the others outside in Main Street have been modernized into accessible fixtures.<br /><br />A little piece of the past remains.<br /><br />JGJGhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15456196709930408585noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25922463.post-34985344205713327152011-12-28T13:11:42.868-08:002011-12-28T13:11:42.868-08:00i want a preview booklet, too!!i want a preview booklet, too!!Nancyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09895614694411482044noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25922463.post-10182769226146149242011-12-27T10:07:05.039-08:002011-12-27T10:07:05.039-08:00As Chuck mentioned, check out that Asian Resort il...As Chuck mentioned, check out that Asian Resort illustration where the Grand Floridian stands today. It was going to be a hotel with cultural influences from Thailand. I'm impressed by the GF every time I pop off the monorail to take a visit there, but the Asian Resort would have be mighty cool!Snow White Archivehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04715594290214114608noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25922463.post-66359419387994183222011-12-27T05:15:03.680-08:002011-12-27T05:15:03.680-08:00Concur with TM! - this was shot from just in front...Concur with TM! - this was shot from just in front of the Police Station.<br /><br />My introduction to the existence of WDW was at age 6 via a two-page spread a the back of the 1975 Disneyland souvenier guide. I'd just spent a magnificent day at the Happiest Place on Earth after a liesurely, week-long sightseeing trip downfrom north of San Francisco and was absolutely floored to discover there was a place bigger than Disneyland where you could spend an entire week imersed in the experience! I spent hours studying the pictures on those pages, imagining what might lay in store in an entire Vacation Kingdom. A move to the Midwest and incesantly bugging my prents for four years finally got me a ticket to Florida in 1979.<br /><br />I love the photo of the original architectural model for WDW. Viible re several resorts that never materialized like the sian (where the Grand Floridian is today), the Persian (near the boat maintenance facility north of the Contemporary), and some unfamiliar cube of a place just south of the Contemporary. You can also see the original design for Space Mountain and what appears to be additional guest lodges and an extra Monorail station behind Luau Cove between the Asian and the Polynesian Resorts. An interesting vision of what might have been...Chucknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25922463.post-79735189239367944332011-12-27T01:14:11.005-08:002011-12-27T01:14:11.005-08:00That shot was taken looking out from inside the Gu...That shot was taken looking out from inside the Guided Tour Gardens area. The West entrance tunnel would be located just to the right. I want one of those WDW preview guidebooks! So does Jaime Sommers who's standing there in her groovy outfit (this was before her parachuting accident!)TokyoMagic!https://www.blogger.com/profile/16340756514811789233noreply@blogger.com