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They were placed there originally to entertain guests coming over to the Magic Kingdom via the monorail, when there still wasn’t that much to look at. Of course, these topiaries in the front of the park are long gone. They’ve kept the front of Magic Kingdom pretty much the same, though. Unfortunately, it rained the day they planned to visit, so they ended up spending a day at that new amusement park over Orlando way… I thought it would be fun to share some of his photos from that trip, to reminisce over things that aren’t there any more, and laugh (or cry) over how things have changed. He was just 14 and his class went on a school trip ostensibly to visit Cape Canaveral. In any case, amongst all those scanned images were many Disney memories, dating back to my husband’s first trip to Walt Disney World in November 1973. Now if only the packrat in me would allow me to throw out the physical slides! A few weeks later, they returned the slides to us, along with five CDs chock full of our old and precious memories. Within several weeks, they had converted all our slides to digital, and we were able to see them online. He went online, found a company that he thought sounded like a good bet, then packed up and shipped off 3,000 (yes, I said 3,000!) slides to this company. In the midst of Operation: Purge, my husband decided it was time to finally convert all of our old 35mm slides into digital scans. Wow, it’s amazing what you accumulate after you’ve lived somewhere for 25 years! Recently, my husband and I did some home renovations, which led us to clearing out a lot of closets and throwing out a lot of old junk.
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