The American West – How the Fantasy Lives on at Disneyland
An exclusive for the Friends of the Walt Disney Family Museum Facebook page – story and photos by Roger Colton If you look back to the map of Disneyland as it opened in July of 1955, one can make the case that…
American Experience: Walt Disney
So… I watched all four hours of the American Experience: Walt Disney from PBS. From my perspective, it had a number of issues. Perhaps none more striking than this – You cannot begin to know the man who was Walt Disney in four hours…
RFID Testing at Disneyland
A happy kitten at Disneyland? While the big story about the next generation of guest experiences using RFID (or Radio Frequency IDentification) at Disney theme parks has been the introduction of the Magic Bands at Walt Disney World, what hasn’t been shared is the…
Meanwhile, in the backyard
It is no secret that Walt Disney changed the lives of many people. Entertainment would never be the same with many of the changes that he and the company with his name brought to life. This was one. A small one in the…
Who?
Or in which we learn who is Roger and why should we be reading these Ruminations? A very good question. I’ve been online since the Dark Ages. Back before the Internet even. Yes, when dinosaurs walked online. My first computer experiences were…