Jim credited me during the Shmursday 5/4/26 DD for submitting the idea for the show about coffee. It’s based on this piece of emphemera I found in my parents house from my Grandmother’s trip to DL in 1963.
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Very cool!
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Loved the shoutout to Maifest in my hometown of Covington, KY!
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Awesome! Always fun to learn about these obscure corners of Disney history.
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I chuckled at the reasoning of pulling people to the front of the park during busy afternoons. My grandmother would have been 63 in January of 1963–just a few years older than I am now. I doubt she had any interest in the e-ticket rides in the back of the park. (Unlike my sister and I, who were on most rides during our trip in December.) My grandmother and her sisters were likely perfectly happy to drink free coffee, buy pastries and chat amongst themselves, while her niece, husband and their kids (who moved from the Midwest to CA in the mid 1950s) hit the rides. I’ve reached out to those kids — now retirees— to ask if they have any photos or 8mm from the trip.
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