Dinner Plans?

Another product of a bygone era at Walt Disney World. Making reservations at WDW's three hot spots back in 1978 was as simple as mailing in a card.

Checking Out

When you're into rare vintage WDW ephemera, it pays off to have horders as parents. Here's the bill from a 1982 Christmas visit to Fort Wilderness.

Breakfast with the Chipmunks

Here's the original flyer for one of the earlier versions of a character meal at Walt Disney World. "Chip & Dale's Country Morning Jamboree" was a revamped version of "Breakfast with Melvin the Moose" another old school character offering. The shows kind of served as an early morning edition of the Hoop Dee Doo Musical Review. They served plenty of food, offered a family-friendly Hee-Haw style show and provided guests interaction with Disney characters - mainly the Country Bears and then later Chip n' Dale were added to the mix. It appears the Ft. Wilderness breakfast shows sprung up in the mid-80's but were all but a memory come the early 90's.



All I can really offer you here is a scan of the brochure. If you want more info on this attraction check out Walt Dated World for pictures, memories and a little more detail.

Mickey's Film Express

Here's one of the more unusual and random pieces from my collection: a film processing order form and envelope from Walt Disney World circa 1982. My family and I stayed at Ft. Wilderness that year, and the themeing of this envelope suggests that it may have been exclusive to the campground. Either way, it's an odd thing to have hung onto all these years. There's not much else to say about it except notice the fine artwork, the crazy low prices and the hoops you had to jump through to get pictures developed before the age of digital cameras.