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.

Book Club Invoice - 1976

The Wonderful World of Reading book club is still alive and kicking today. Here's a look at a bill from 33 years ago...

The strange thing is, this invoice is still around but I haven't seen those books in years!

WDW Ticket Book Backs

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Magic Kingdom Club Cards - 1977

Really Old WDW Resort Cards

Here's one of the cooler pieces of my little ol' Walt Disney World memorabilia collection. These are resort ID cards dating back to the first summer of operation - 1972. My parents honeymooned there and were cool enough to save this little treasure. The ID card itself is the white part which is perforated and separates from the yellow card. That's the part you're supposed to carry around with you and show the folks at the monorail station before you hop on. (Yeah, right!) The yellow part you could just throw away, but my folks saved the yellow card on the off-chance that their first born son would one day cherish every little scrap of paper produced in Walt Disney World.

It's interesting to note that these cards could be used to charge purchases to your room but only in the hotels and campground. You could not use your room account in the Magic Kingdom park.

These cards are printed on a thick paper stock, like an old library card or time clock card. Later the resort updated to thin plastic cards before moving to the thick credit card style Key to the World card that they issue now.

You can click on the image to enlarge it. Note: I used MS Paint (poorly) to white out our last name.

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.