So I’m going through my mom’s stuff and come across this big bag with Walt Disney World on it. Thinking it’s simply some left over papers from our trip in 1990, I take a quick glance. Much to my surprise (and at the same time, no surprise at all), there was certainly more in there than I had anticipated.
Now, my mom was a hoarder, and even though it would be a cause for a LOT of aggravation at times, sometimes…just sometimes…it would pay off that I’m glad she hung onto something.
This is one of those times.
So step into my time machine! As we take a look back at Disney History!!
Oh and for some added fun, it looks like mom tried to do a trip report. Though looking at it, she didn’t get past the first day. I’m in the process of transcribing it, and will post it up when done.
Yup. It was also weird to learn that, at some point, my parents became part of the “Magic Kingdom Club” (didn’t mean to post it yet as it was to be part of the 1990 trip). I’m guessing that was the version of DVC at the time. I have no idea what it fully meant(means?) yet because they never talked about it and certainly never took advantage of any of its percs after that trip in 1990, so we’ll see.
MKC was like a free loyalty program, first at DLR then nationwide with WDW. They later added a Gold Card version you paid for, if you weren’t already part of the groups who qualified for the free one. You could get special discounts and such. You can google it. I, too, have a bag similar to that with my Dec 1982 things.
Wow! Thanks for posting! I want to read every single document! What is the Lake Buena Vista Club and the Walt Disney Village at Lake Buena Vista? I am very late to this party. Can someone give me a history lesson?
Wow so cool! I love nostalgia.
My first trip was in 1988 (I was born in 1984) and all we have left is a sweatshirt that I wear all the time. And my mom is a major hoarder so I am shocked we don’t have more!
My first trip to WDW was a year earlier in 1976, so I remember the look of some of these brochures, etc. I remember poring over them all before and after our trip.
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