Found a bunch of WDW pics in my ILs photos.
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One of my favorite shots of the Castle was early morning from a bucket.
Cracked me up to ride the buckets at Busch Garden in the early 00s. Got really close to a smelly giraffe 
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Was the fantasyland bucket station where the current Rapunzel washrooms are located? I think so, but it’s been a long time!
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I didn’t look where the Rapunzel restrooms were.
From a map of this decade the arrow indicates approx where I think one buckets terminal was
Found this when I searched for MK map 1971
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Both stations are now restrooms. The above blog post includes a great photo of the Tomorrowland station. The second floor has been removed. The first floor is my favorite restroom.
The link below has better photos of the Fantasyland station.
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Love this!!
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Very cool but also legitimately terrifying
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I’m actually struggling to understand the scale of what I’m seeing. 
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Here’s a funny aside about this picture: as we were looking at it, marveling over the same thing and trying to figure out what the heck we were looking at, Shane says, “what parade had a gigantic Betty Crocker rolling through the park sewing a flag?”
(Pause, confused face…)
“I mean Betsy Ross”
I’m also fascinated by the idea that his brain maybe saw “Betsy in a rocker” and turned it into Betty Crocker
If anyone knows the answer to this question please share!
But most importantly, that they took this very patriotic photo tells you a lot about who my in-laws were
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I’m curious the decision to use such odd scale. Not just the enormity of it as a whole, but the weirdness of the rocker as compared to Betty - er, Betsy - as compared to the flag.
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America on Parade was at both Disneyland and WDW. A Bicentennial celebration.
The Disney organization designed the parade units to look like huge toys, and the characters to be outsized dolls. The size of the show made the presentation easily visible. Visibility, however, was only one reason for the gigantic scale…
For, like every aspect of the production, the bigness of the parade units and characters contributed to the celebratory atmosphere - an atmosphere calculated to make everyone, old as well as young, see the parade through the eyes of a child.
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I was there for those big head Bicentennial characters! 
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It reminds me of Edith Ann (is that an obscure reference for a Millennial to make? 
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YES!!!
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You have an old soul.
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As an adult in 1976 I clearly recall the nation’s bicentennial. It was a big deal in the little town near where I live. Very conservative little town where everyone male had short hair and was clean shaven. Until the beard contest as part of the bicentennial celebration. That beard contest liberated quite a few men from the daily razor. Best was that DH could grow his beard back.
Disney had a lot of weird scale stuff in the 70s. Maybe I can find the photo of younger DD at 6 yo with a couple of dwarfs. I haven’t recently seen the photo of a very large and completely different color cat from one of the Disney movies. Took us years to figure out who that was.
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