All Ears® Guest Blog from October 2016

Ted Kellogg’s fascinating life stories will come to life in new book

October 31, 2016 by Chuck Schmidt

Former Walt Disney World cast members reminisce about the good old days over lunch. From the left are Bill Sullivan, Bill Hoelscher, Ted Kellogg, Tom Nabbe and Dwight Dorr. [Courtesy of Tom Nabbe] In the late 1960s, word filtered through the ranks of cast members at Disneyland and the Walt Disney Studios in California that … Continue reading "Ted Kellogg’s fascinating life stories will come to life in new book"

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Make a Mickey Lamp Post

October 30, 2016 by Gary Cruise

Have you ever visited Disney’s Fort Wilderness Resort and Campground and admired those wonderful lamp posts with the Mickey Mouse ears? Me too! Many of the campers at Fort Wilderness proudly display them at their campsites. When I first saw one I was so taken with it that I asked the camper, “Where do you … Continue reading "Make a Mickey Lamp Post"

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Teen Talk: Mickey’s Not-So-Scary Halloween Party

October 29, 2016 by Debra Martin Koma

Our teen writer Kacie shares her point of view on her visit to Mickey's Not-So-Scary Halloween Party this year.

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Until Shanghai, railroads have been chugging through Disney parks since 1955

October 17, 2016 by Chuck Schmidt

Walt Disney, left, proudly surveys Disneyland as the E.P. Ripley pulls into the station on opening day, July 17, 1955. With him are then-California Gov. Goodwin Knight, center, and Fred Gurley, president of the Santa Fe Railroad. When Shanghai Disneyland opened to the public on June 17, there was one classic Disney attraction conspicuous in … Continue reading "Until Shanghai, railroads have been chugging through Disney parks since 1955"

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The Utilidors at Magic Kingdom

October 16, 2016 by Gary Cruise

Did you know that as you walk along Main Street USA at Walt Disney World’s Magic Kingdom you are walking on the second floor of the park? Yes, it’s true! As you walk through the Magic Kingdom there is a whole unseen world just below your feet. It’s a series of service tunnels which cast … Continue reading "The Utilidors at Magic Kingdom"

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The Mousy Mindboggler

October 7, 2016 by Debra Martin Koma

THE MOUSY MINDBOGGLER If you subscribe to the AllEars® Weekly Newsletter, you’ll know that we run a little game called the Mousy Mindboggler. Sometimes it’s a word game, sometimes it’s a riddle, sometimes it’s some other brain-teasing challenge — but it’s always fun! Once each month, in the AllEars® newsletter, our friend James Dezern (known … Continue reading "The Mousy Mindboggler"

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A long-time Disney fan passes away: This is Alice’s story

October 3, 2016 by Chuck Schmidt

Alice, right, and her sister Estelle – Mickey plush in hand – posed for a photo in the lobby of Disney’s Wilderness Lodge in 2010. Her name was Alice. She was born in 1924, the third of four children whose immigrant parents came to this country from eastern Europe [specifically, Ukraine and a long-forgotten nation … Continue reading "A long-time Disney fan passes away: This is Alice’s story"

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