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LBVHistory Announces 2024 Holiday Ornament: Fort Wilderness Pine

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The team at The Lake Buena Vista Historical Society has been hard at work creating a special holiday ornament or decor adornment, whatever you fancy, for 2024! We present The Fort Wilderness Pine! Donate to Reserve your Fort Wilderness Pine! Did you know the original Fort Wilderness sign replicated a cut pine tree? Now Lake Buena Vista Historical Society has replicated this in an ornament so you can hang a pine on your pine! This ornament...Read More...

Podcast Episode 75.5 – A Chat With Ray

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Welcome to Episode 75.5 of the RetroWDW Podcast: A Chat With Ray – 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 On this episode, we are joined by Disney entertainer Ray DeForest. Ray spent many years in Walt Disney World entertainment...Read More...

Podcast Episode 73: Happy New Year!

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Welcome to Episode 73 of the RetroWDW Podcast: Happy New Year!– 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. We are back with a full episode and our first release of 2022.  Listener Mail The mailbag is back for 2022 and we are...Read More...

Restored Resort Videos

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We are back with a few videos from our library to share, this time, from around the Seven Seas Lagoon and Bay Lake. From 1992, here is a tour of the Polynesian Resort, including the grounds, pool, and boat dock in the lagoon. From the same year, here is some additional footage of the Polynesian grounds as well as a tour of the Grand Floridian during Christmas time. And finally, skipping ahead to 1994, this video...Read More...

Podcast Episode 41: Fort Wilderness Railroad

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So this month, we take you back to Fort Wilderness. The main topic is the now removed Fort Wilderness Railroad that provided transportation inside the resort in a unique way. Todd has done his research, focusing on text and personal interviews to give us an amazingly detailed picture into the railroad. If you are familiar with Fort Wilderness, you know that they use the standard bus transportation for the internal resort loop. In the past, they…Read More...

Art and Linda go to Fort Wilderness; Including FW Railroad! – Restored Super8 Film

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We have a good one for you today. Art & Linda are at The Fort Wilderness Resort & Campground in December of 1976. The great thing about this footage is the sound! You can actually hear some things that have been lost in time. I couldn't believe the ferry boats still have a nearly identical sound as they do today! Bay Lake has a different look as well. The trees, vegetation and foliage all look shorter;…Read More...

Podcast Episode 4 – One Little Spark

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Our main topic this month is the conception, history and early years of EPCOT Center. We look into the original vision of how it wasn't really thought to be a theme park and that Walt wanted this to be the community of tomorrow. Brian and the gang also discuss the 1966 film Walt made to promote the concept and also get people excited about what was going to happen in Florida. How talks about the original…Read More...

Roy’s Cabin from 1947 to 1973 – Watch it change over the years…

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If you don't know what Roy's Cabin is, then you haven't been listening to Todd, JT, How and Brian on the Retro Disney World Podcast! What started out as a comment by Brian has become a reoccurring point of laughter, mystery, history and research...and it gets a purposeful mention each episode. In "Camping Cabins and Coonskins" we dive deeper into the legend surrounding Roy's Cabin...Read More...

Podcast Episode 3 – Camping, Cabins and Coonskins

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Our main topic this month, Fort Wilderness. This is one of the originals at WDW and actually, none of us stayed there in the early years. JT is a regular to the Fort and we hear all about the opening years and what makes Fort Wilderness a unique place to be on property. The Fort Wilderness Railroad & River Country are slightly discussed, but we would like to devote two full future episodes to those topics.…Read More...