Walt Disney World-1970s

We found some more of our 1976 Disney World souvenirs amongst our Dad's stuff. There is another booklet that I have yet to photograph and upload. 

The Look magazine is from 1971 when the park was opened. 

 

Walt Disney World 1983- Part 1

 

Walt Disney World 1976-Part 2

The item on the left is from our 1983 trip

Our doggie Rusty chewed up the back of this!

We also went to Sea World, Circus World and the Hollywood Wax Museum

 

Walt Disney World 1976

 

Owl Stuff

 My grandmother collected owl items. The first is a bank, but it doesn't have a way to get the money out on the bottom like most do. The second is a cute set of salt and pepper shakers. The knick-knack from Tennessee is one that we bought her in 1983- we traveled through that state on the way home from Florida. We went to The Forbidden Caverns there. The owl spoon rest is from Grandma's trip to California in the late 1970s. About 20 years ago, I started getting into owls a bit and have some T-shirts and jewelry of them- I will be posting those next time.

Souvenirs and Photos

I still have my souvenir patches from my trips. They are in my travel scrapbook. I originally was going to ask mom to sew them onto cloth to make a wall hanging out of them.

   We used to collect pennants during our vacations and put them on the paneled cabinet doors and elsewhere in the basement; at one point they were hanging in the small sky blue room.

   I remember that my cousin Missy used to collect spoons from her trips. Her father made her a nice holder for them in his woodshop. I can’t remember the souvenir that my brother would usually get though- maybe key chains.

   My brother foolishly threw out most of his family photos. Mom would always let Mike and I pick out the best shots for our albums. Dad stole many of our negatives, mostly those of pre 1976 but also others like my Switzerland trip and 8^th grade dance.

   I did ask for them back in the mid-90s a couple of times but he made excuses like I’ll get around to looking for them soon. He also has the home movies of our 1976 Disney trip and my 110 Kodak camera.

   I was able to get copies of some of the pictures when I was doing that big picture project back then. I really should have gotten the pre 1984 ones done in matte finish though so that they would look more like the originals. I was always worrying that some of my negatives would get lost during this which thank goodness never happened. I put these in the fireproof safe in the basement.

   I wonder if my brother ever regrets trashing those photos; he might’ve mentioned that he does once. Mom was pretty upset about this too.

   I also wonder if Dad still has that Polaroid camera that he got in the late 70s. I always liked those commercials for it with James Garner and Mariette Hartley. We watched him in “The Rockford Files” sometimes. I liked his car, a Firebird, in that. I had a little crush on him too.

      James Garner           

                                                    
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