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Disney At The 1964-1965 New York World’s Fair: Ford’s Magic Skyway

April 29, 2024 by Chuck Schmidt

Right from opening day at the New York World's Fair, Ford Motor Company's Magic Skyway attraction was among the most popular shows on the Flushing Meadow, Queens, fairgrounds. To accomplish this, Disney had to come up with dozens of realistic-looking and moving dinosaurs and cavemen, as well as a new, innovative way to move automobiles along a constantly moving track.

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Disney At The 1964-1965 New York World’s Fair: General Electric’s Progressland

April 15, 2024 by Chuck Schmidt

More than any of the other Disney-created New York World's Fair pavilions, General Electric's Progressland – which showed guests how the world of electricity had grown in leaps and bounds over the years – was all about change. And those changes occurred both inside and outside the massive domed building, designed by the firm owned by Walt Disney’s good friend, Welton Becket.

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REMINDER: A Classic Disneyland Attraction Is Temporarily Closing Soon

April 13, 2024 by Brian Delpozo

Better enjoy Great Moments with Mr. Lincoln and The Disney Gallery soon.

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Disney At The 1964-1965 New York World’s Fair: “it’s a small world”

April 1, 2024 by Chuck Schmidt

The Pepsi-Cola-sponsored “it's a small world,” dubbed The Happiest Cruise That Ever Sailed, was the last attraction created by Disney for the 1964-1965 New York World's Fair. And 60 years later, it remains one of the most endearing Disney attractions ever created.

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8 WEIRD Disney Controversies and Moments That Deserve More Attention

March 22, 2024 by David Goodkind

How many of these weird controversies and moments do you know about?

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Disney At The 1964-1965 New York World’s Fair: Great Moments With Mr. Lincoln

March 18, 2024 by Chuck Schmidt

The Walt Disney Company’s participation in the 1964-1965 New York World's Fair can be traced as far back as 1957. “It started, I guess, with Abraham Lincoln,” remembered Marty Sklar, former head of Walt Disney Imagineering, during an interview in 2010. “That show had been written – not the single Lincoln, but the entire Hall of Presidents show – in 1957.”

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MY FAVORITE THINGS ABOUT DISNEY: The Santa Fe and Disneyland Railroad

January 24, 2024 by Chuck Schmidt

Before there was Disneyland, there was a railroad, albeit a small-scale, handcrafted line in Walt Disney’s backyard in the Holmby Hills section of Los Angeles. It can be argued that the very genesis of Disneyland sprang up from that backyard layout – known as the Carolwood Pacific Railroad.

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MY FAVORITE THINGS ABOUT DISNEY: My Main Street Friends

December 18, 2023 by Chuck Schmidt

During my 45-plus years of covering the wonderful world of Disney, I’ve had the distinct honor of striking up relationships with a good number of Disney’s more prominent cast members, whose careers are memorialized on windows along Main Street USA in California, Florida or France. Whenever I return to a Disney park, I make sure to renew acquaintances with my Main Street buddies.

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MY FAVORITE THINGS ABOUT DISNEY: The Holiday Season

December 4, 2023 by Chuck Schmidt

As the song goes: It’s the most wonderful time of the year. “It” is the holiday season. And where does that “most wonderful time” take place? Why, Walt Disney World and Disneyland, of course.

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MY FAVORITE THINGS ABOUT DISNEY: “it’s a small world”

October 23, 2023 by Chuck Schmidt

"it’s a small world" and I go back a long way … all the way to 1964, when I first rode the quintessential Disney attraction at the 1964-1965 New York World’s Fair.

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