WDW History

Podcast Episode 93.5: A Chat with Tad Stones

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Welcome to Episode 93.5 of the RetroWDW Podcast: A Chat with Tad Stones – We appreciate your support and hope you have been enjoying each and every episode. Be sure to check out some of our previous shows from over the years. We have visited multiple parks, resorts, and just about everything else in between. Main Topic In this episode, we are taking you back a number of years to a lost episode! We spent some...Read More...

Crossroads Shopping Center Brochure – 1986/87

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When our refurbished website is built with a document archive these are the kind of things we hope to bring to you. Crossroads shopping center was developed in the late 1980’s at the end of Hotel Plaza Boulevard on a sliver of land Disney owned just across the intersection of I-4 and 535.  Among the many restaurants and tourism-centric shops that occupied the center over the years was the anchor supermarket Gooding’s.  Once numerous in central...Read More...

Antique Music and Arcade Games at Walt Disney World

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The following is a list of equipment bought from Paul Eakin’s Gay ’90s Village in Sikeston, MO, and sold to Disney in August 1977: Belgian Band Organ34 Whistle Steam Calliope – experimental model made by the Tos. J. NicholsSeeburg Style “H” – The largest Orchestrion made by SeeburgEncore Automatic Banjo – made in the 1890sBeale Street SpecialMr Sam – Large Wurlitzer Orchestrion from MemphisBig Bertha – Limonaire Fair Organ with 3 hand carved figuresBig Nelly –...Read More...