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12/01/08

Episode 47

12/01/08

Episode 46

12/01/08

Episode 45

11/25/08 An episode I've been wanting to put together for a long time is finally here! episode 44 The Voices of Liberty - Just For Fun!
11/04/08 added the song "Angry" to the list of songs in episode 21
11/03/08 posted episode 43 of Mousin it Up! Continuing the Oct 11, 2007 trip report, we take in one last set by the Toontown Tuners (this time in Fantasyland) before moseying over to Frontierland and seeing Woodays Cowboy Camp.
10/01/08 posted episode 42 of Mousin it Up! featuring The Extraordinary Leon Gregory.
09/28/08 posted episode 41 of Mousin it Up! featuring The Main Street Philharmonic.
08/21/08 posted episode 40 of Mousin it Up! featuring Si Xian (in honor of the Olympics being held in Bejing).
08/11/08 added MANY links to trip reports allowing easy access to the sounds recorded when the pictures on the pages were take I had gotten WAY behind on this, and hopefully this will make things a bit easier for new visitors.
08/07/08 posted episode 39 of Mousin it Up! featuring The Notorious Banjo Brothers and Bob.
07/16/08 posted episode 38 of Mousin it Up! a bit of MORE Mousin on Main Street with one more Main Street set by the Toontown Tuners, and a little music from Piano Man Jim. from the morning of October 11, 2007 the first day of the RADP 12 trip.
07/06/08 posted episode 37 of Mousin it Up! In this episode we travel to Pleasure Island and Visit the Adventurers Club in a recording from December 2007 featuring both the new member induction ceremony and Balderdash cup competition.
06/11/2008 posted episode 36 of Mousin it Up! featuring some more Main Street audio that had a bit more of the Dans,the Toontown Tuners, and the "political characters" of the Mayor, his assistant (and son-in-law), and the councilman, and the "Trolley show" as delivered from the Fire Engine, this audio picked up withing minutes of where the last episode ended.
05/29/08 posted episode 35 of Mousin it Up! featuring a bit of "entering the park" audio from the morning of October 11, 2007 the first day of the RADP 12 trip.
05/25/08 I put up the first day of the October 2007 RADP 12 meets, this report is being presented in 2 versions a version with only the 20 best photos of the day and a whole day on one page, and a fuller version with all the pictures the way I normally do it, up to about 30 pictures per page and as many pages for the day as it takes to show all the pictures.
05/16/08 in honor of tomorrow being Norway's Constitution Day

episode 34

05/09/08 I haven't been posting my whatnew page with updates from the blog at http://bigbrian-nc.livejournal.com/ so here's a batch of them, and I'm thinking a once a month or so update may be the way to go on these anyhow:
- April 9: Mousin it up: The Blog - Introduction and TOTVKOTW
- April 10: Before there WAS Mouse Surplus part 1 Captain Jim
- April 14: Before there WAS Mouse Surplus part 2 Barbaras Sign
- April 22: A fitting trbute: part one of three General Joe Potter
- April 23: A fitting trbute: part two of three Admiral Joe Fowler
- April 24: A fitting trbute: part three of three Richard F Irvine
- April 29: 1970's Mickey Mouse Club
- May 8: Yester World submission: Studios Topiary Mickey
05/09/08 posted episode 33 of Mousin it Up! featuring Audio from the Tim DeVine led Photo tips Tour on Disney's Animal Kingdom's Pangani Forest Exploration Trail.
04/28/08 posted episode 32 of Mousin it Up! with a different kind of Amimal Kingdom audio experiance.
04/10/08 Added a link to Mousin It Up! BLOG on each of the "mapbars" on the various index pages (Main index, Trip Report index, postcard index, podcast main page, meets index, and the one on this page) 04/09/08 posted episode 31 of Mousin it Up! with Main Street USA's Piano Man Mark. 03/09/08 posted a "new" trip report FAB2K an account of the February 2000 trip to WDW with my friend Peter "filminfo" Schouten from the Netherlands. 17 pages with many WDW pictures that show things that have since changed or gone away, like the Diamond horseshoe, the Future Corps, The partaree Mickey from the Disney-MGM Studios, and many other interesting photos.
02/14/08 Episode 29 of the Mousin it Up! podcast A Grand Evening, featuring Grand pianist Christian and the Grand Floridian Jazz Orchestra.
01/27/08 Multiple updates:
1. Added a WHOLE new Chapter to the postcards section on the "free with stay" resort Cards, also made several SMALL updates also mostly related to resorts in some way.
2. Added a link to the big MAP scan of FL-029 on both the preopening postcards page, AND the "pre-opening postcards that never were" page.
3. added a bit more info about the deal that led to the construction of the Swan and Dolphin http://www.bigbrian-nc.com/wdw-sb09.htm
01/01/08 Episode 28 of Mousin It Up goes live the Citizens of Main Street USA:
sn28.htm
also a 2008 podcast show notes index page:
podcast2008.htm
12/30/07 I added the names of the Dapper Dans in the photos from my May 1998 trip to the trip report from that Day. Also finally got the show notes up for the Christmas episode I released last week.
12/23/07 posted

Episode 27 Merry Christmas

12/17/07 Went back and Added the name of one of the Voices of Liberty (Dirk Donahue) to my June Trip Report.
11/02/07 I finally got around to posting show notes for Mousin it Up episodes 25 - Main Street Barbershop and also the show notes for episode 26 - Marty Sklar, this segment is from a presentation Marty gave on Epcot's 25th anniversary October 1, 2007.
10/19/07 September 1998 trip report, the last gasp of an annual pass with nice large photos of many things now found in Yester Disney World.
09/12/07 In honor of Mexicos Independence Day, September 16, Episode 24 of the Mousin it up podcast is up featuring TWO sets by the Mariachi Cobre from Epcots Mexico pavilion.
09/11/07 Episode 23 of the Mousin it up podcast is up featuring The Dapper Dans of Walt Disney World and Disneyland.
09/04/07 Posted all of the Mousefest 2005 (yes an almost two year old trip report), includes two videos one short (at the Dolphin hotel) one longer one (Voices of Liberty Dickens Carolers).
08/25/07 Finished the June 2007 trip report! 18 more pages for a total of 42 pages of WDW pictures taken in just 2½ days in the parks.
08/07/07 Episode 22 of the Mousin it up podcast is up featuring Mo-Rockin, a little BGM and a big announcement!
08/05/07 I addeed the second day to the June 2007 trip report 16 pages and HUNDREDS of Photos
07/24/07 Finally finished the Mousefest 2006 trip report This thing is huge!
07/19/07 Added all eight pages of the first day of the June 2007 trip report to the Trip Report Index
07/17/07 Happy Birthday Disneyland, episode 21 of the Mousin it up podcast is now available, Featuring TWO of Disneylands piano men. Episode 21
07/13/2007 Added Google Video to the "Other bigBrian on the web" page
07/09/07 added the "other Big Brian Disney pages" page featuring links to my video pages, discussion groups, forums and even a My Space page.
07/03/2007 episode 20 of the Mousin it up podcast is now available, this episode Features some Independence Day related tunes by the Voices of Liberty and the Spirit of America Fife and Drum Corps. Episode 20
06/28/2007 Episode 19 of the Mousin it up podcast is now available, this episode Features a musical collage of songs dedicated to folks who I hope will enjoy them. Show notes are at this link: Episode 19
06/13/2007 Episode 18 of the Mousin it up podcast is now available, this episodes Feature is; The Disneyland Band on the Grand Steamer Mark Twain recorded July 15, 2005. Show notes are at this link: Episode 18
04/13/2007 Episode 17 of the Mousin it up podcast is now available, this episodes highlights include; Billy Hill and the Hillbillies recorded July 17, 2005. Show notes are at this link: Episode 17
03/28/2007 Episode 16 of the Mousin it up podcast is now available, this episodes highlights include; Space Mountain - Allen Thompson - Tomorrowland Speedway- and a Contest Winner! Show notes are at this link: Episode 16
03/25/2007 In honor of Tagrel's 4th anniversary I released the audio from thier Karaoke meet as a special edition of the Mousin'it Up Podcast.
03/25/2007 I've slowly been adding pages to my trip report from Mousefest today I finally updated the trip report table of contents to reflect that the report for the 9th is more or less completed (like anything else around here subject to corrections and additions).
03/07/2007 Episode 15 of Mousin' it Up! is out with audio of the Jungle Cruise, A bit of Woody's roundup, a conversation with some Disney fans, Most of a set of Cinderella's Royal Saxaphonists, an update on the contest I'm running, and an update to the Walt Disney World a History in Postcards page on the Kids of the Kingdom.
03/06/2007 added some nice information on the Kids of the Kingdom to the Web Site thanks to Steph Truitt http://www.bigbrian-nc.com/wdw-pc63.htm#kids
02/20/07 Episode 14 of Mousin' it Up! is out with audio of Main Street pianist Jim.
02/06/07 reworked many of the show notes adding show synopsis and libsyn/itunes images to some of the earlier episodes notes that lacked these, broke the podcast.htm into three pages, one an introduction to the podcast and two episode index pages one for 2006, and one for 2007.
02/06/07 Episode 13 of the newly renamed Mousin' it Up! podcast is out with American Vybe.
01/23/07 QUARTERLY HIT COUNTER CHECK from about 10/23/07 to 1/23/07
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- postcards-pctoc.htm 19283 up 2162
- trip reports-trtoc.htm 3266 up 459
- meets-mttoc.htm 699 up 211
- Mousin it up-podcast.htm 914 up 524
01/23/07 I added a photo colage of the attendees at Tim The Magic in Pixels DeVines night Time photo tips meet.
01/23/07 I finally released episode 12 of Big Brians' Disney Pages' podcast SHOW NOTES Episode 12 Magic Behind The Steam Trains tour part 2 of 2, and Mousefest postcard finds. I also finally put up the shownotes for the Christmas special episode 11 SHOW NOTES Episode 11 Christmas episode.
01/11/07 I put up twelve pages with somewhere around 300 pictures and several videos this is DAY ONE of my Mousefest 2006 Walt Disney World Trip, and a new record for me in the number of photos taken in one day!
12/23/06 put up episode 11 of BBDP's podcast a Christmas Special
12/04/06 episode 10 of BBDP's podcast went up SHOW NOTES Episode 10 Magic Behind The Steam Trains tour, and a "flood" of 2006 postcards.
11/28/06 added two new pages of appendices, one http://www.bigbrian-nc.com/pendix2006b.htm, featuring the accordion folder postcards released in 2006, another http://www.bigbrian-nc.com/pendix2006c.htm, with most of the other postcards released so far this year.
11/22/06 episode 09 of BBDP's podcast went up SHOW NOTES Episode 09 Dixie Kings, Push, Disneyland Band, Hotel Plaza Boulevard postcards, and Before There even WAS Podacsting... also added links in the Disneyland trip reports to the podcast episodes that house those trip reports pages sounds... for instance dl05/tr05p8b.htm.
11/19/06 added a few more cards to Chapter 11 The Early 1990's Page 3 Around The World and a long list of cards to Chapter 11 The Early 1990's Page 7 reprints listing
11/18/06 I added over 30 cards to the side bar articles for chapter 03 and chapter 06 both being pages devoted to the lessee resorts of Hotel Plaza boulevard.
11/13/06 More Audio from the 2002 trip in a podcast episode with sounds from the Land Pavilion as it was at that time sn2006-08.htm episode 08 Yester"LAND" show notes
11/06/06 I added several videos to the July 2005 trip report including:

dl05/tr05p7.htm#gas A short one of a gas lamp on Main Street
dl05/tr05p7.htm#orch A 30 second snippet of Zip A Dee Doo Dah being played by the Orchestron (on the same page as the gas lamp video)
dl05/tr05p8b.htm#push Push the talking trash can, taken on the 15th, he was entertaining the masses below while space Mountain was being dedicated above in the upper plaza.
dl05/tr05p10g.htm#alan I added a second video of Alan Thompson on the same page as the four-hand piano video
dl05/tr05p10g.htm#stan in addition, I added a bit of explanation on the song that Stan played solo before the four hand number (it's one composed by Stan, cute story)
dl05/tr05p11b.htm#iasw The quarter-hour Clock Ceremony at It's A Small World
dl05/tr05p11g.htm#dans The Dapper Dans Singing When I See an Elephant Fly

10/31/06 Happy Halloween I used audio from that same Honeymoon trip mentioned below to make a Not So scary Halloween part episode, episode 07 of Big Brians Disney podcast!
10/30/06 Added the trip report from our honeymoon in October 2002 including the Halloween party.
10/23/06 QUARTERLY HIT COUNTER CHECK from about 10/23/07 to 1/23/07
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- postcards-pctoc.htm 17121 up 2371
- trip reports-trtoc.htm 2807 up 725
- meets-mttoc.htm 488 UP 263
- Mousin it up-podcast.htm 390 up 390
10/23/06 added seven new pages to WDW in postcards Chapter 11 the early 1990s
10/03/06 episode 06 of Big Brians Disney podcast - the Tomorrowland Music loop and meandering on out of Disneyland.
09/23/06 A First Draft of my August 2001 trip with my sister was posted to the trip reports section.
08/21/06 In response to an email inquiry I added the ten guidelines for Mineral Kings development to the page on Mineral King also added quotes from Floridas Disney World: Promises and Problems and a scan of the back of the postcard to the Mousefest 04 trip report,page 3.
08/19/06 Added a few images of the Carolando Hotel postcard to the Mousefest 04 trip report,page 3
08/15/06 Added Video to my Disneyland 2005 trip report http://www.bigbrian-nc.com/dl05/tr05p10g.htm#stan I'm able to do this thanks to youtube http://www.youtube.com
08/15/06 Added pictures to MOUSEFESTIVE! The 2004 Mega Mouse meet, this stretched this formerly 1 page trip to 3 pages.
08/12/06 Yesterday: Added episode 5 to BBDP. Today: added a nice letter from a steam enthusiast who rode on the Ports O' Call back in 79 to the page on the excursion steamers.
07/27/06 posted episode 04 of the podcast and it's show notes.
07/27/06 QUARTERLY HIT COUNTER CHECK from about 04/19/06 to 7/27/06
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- postcards-pctoc.htm 14750 up 1495
- trip reports-trtoc.htm 2082 up 438
- meets-mttoc.htm 225 up 225
- Mousin it up-podcast.htm 0 NEW
07/25/06 posted episode 03 of Big Brians Disney Podcast, also, I did add some navigation bars to each of the main index pages.
07/20/06 I've put up the Disfans 2006 Allentown meet trip report pages, and took this opportunity to separate out the index page for the meets and mouscelanoius stuff
07/12/06 I've Started my own Yahoo Group, If you listen to Big Brians Disney Podcasts, follow Walt Disney World: A History in Postcards, or just want to know when my trip reports get updated then heres a moderated group for you.
06/12/06 finally re-wrote the podcast page filling in those blank areas I had initially (I was out of town for a while this month), and gave show notes their own individual pages.
06/09/06 Started Big Brians Disney Podcast with podcast.htm
06/01/06 Added the larger version of the images and, the Goodyear Blimp photos (from the preceding day) to the CARS Premiere report
05/30/06Added the I was at the cars Premiere pages (links to larger images will be added later)
05/20/06 Added information on the World Showcase Lagoon Onmibusses to the early Epcot photo cards (and just a bit on Sponsors) Chapter 7 page 3
05/15/06 The re-work of the FT wilderness page I worked on a bit a few days continued, http://www.bigbrian-nc.com/wdw-pc20.htm, and has spread to the other FT Wilderness Booklet http://www.bigbrian-nc.com/wdw-pc46.htm, and of course correcting the links in appendix B that link to the cards on that first page since I now have the cards in the correct order. I also went back and color adjusted a lot of the images that didn't seem to match the cards very well (on both pages some of the scans originally looked a bit washed out.
05/14/06 Re worked the page for the first Fort Wilderness post card booklet, http://www.bigbrian-nc.com/wdw-pc20.htm including listing the card in this booklet in their correct order (Thanks to Becky Gray for that information!)
05/02/06 Thanks To Ted Michaud for letting me know about postcard booklet variants I didn't have listed.
04/28/06 added a few more scans to "the tickets project" page, and a few great vintage photos courtesy of Martin Smith, on two different pages:
images of the original Admiral Joe Fowler Sternwheeler the first chapters Frontierland page.
and, of the Magic Kingdom II on the page about the excursion steamers.. Added some information from Steve Burns from http://www.burnsland.com to http://www.bigbrian-nc.com/wdw-pc04.htm.I also added an email from Dylan Gladstone for his nice email to chapter 6 about his fathers work on the to The Cartoon Cards.
04/24/06 added a bit more about "cropping" variants (including a few more examples) to chapter three page 1
04/23/06 added yet one more version of card 0111-0349 to chapter three page 1
04/23/06 doubled the size of "the tickets project" page with bunches of new scans I've gathered over the past year.
04/22/06 added an article for Chapter 4 Side bar article: Booklet Variants Spreadsheet special thanks to Tom Deluca and Becky Gray for their valuable information here.
04/19/06 added two cards to the Special Feature: scans contributed for chapters not yet written , one from Kevin "NJ postcard guy" Hughes, and another from Tom De Luca.

I added a few long over due thank you's to the "Thank Yous" page.
04/19/06FIRST QUARTERLY HIT COUNTER CHECK
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- postcards-pctoc.htm 13255
- trip reports-trtoc.htm 1644
04/12/06 Added a "Scenic Anandapur" card to Appendix 2006.
04/09/06 added links to the majority of the cards in appendix C that did not have links yet (before now all of the cards that had links were from Epcot.
04/08/06 reworked the pages on hotel Leasees and spread them out over more chapters, added some text about Epcot variants to Chapter 7, Page 4: in the section on Mexico.
04/02/06 Added several new cards to Chapter 9 Disney-MGM studios adding another page to the Chapter in the process and re-working and adding to the text as well.
03/21/06 added an alternate version of 0111-0349 to chapter three page 1 and fixed a card number typo lower down (on one of the Pooh cards 0111-1604), and added the other marathon card for 2005 to Appendix 2005
03/21/06 added many cards to Appendix 2005 Some new scans of the Yeti die cut courtesy of Kevin Hughes to Appendix 2006 also, a photo an Expedition Everest press kit (w/postcard).
03/14/06 added Appendix 2005: WDW postcards issued in 2005
03/08/06 added Appendix 2006: WDW postcards issued in 2006
02/07/06 updated information on Shades of Green
09/12/05 added links to many of the musically talented individuals I enjoyed listening to on this trip, including Alan ( Ragtime pianist, Stan, (a ragtime fan who maintains a site on the Disneyland pianists. The Bayou Brass, and The River Rascals . As well as a story about a picture I didn't take.
08/31/05 added text to the last day last 8 pages or so) of that trip report listed below
08/24/05 added over 20 pages and 400 pictures in the form of a trip report, Return To Disneyland, on my visit to Disneyland on the occasion of its 50th anniversary.
08/24/05 made a separate index page for the trip reports, meets and miscellaneous items, and removed items on that page and the postcard Table of contents page from the index p age since both of those pages have links from there anyhow.
06/24/05 added a new page showing the most common logos from WDW card backs
06/14/05 added a new card to chapter 3 page 6, another to Chapter4 page 7, and added many new cards and variants to the appendices.
05/04/05 uploaded appendices which have had multiple minor updates (new cards, or new to me) at the end of April.
04/19/05 added "the tickets project"
03/24/05 added information on the Mark IV monorails to Chapter 2 page 4
03/08/05 added information on the use of the preview center building, from Walt Disney Worlds opening through the 1990s courtesy of Gary A. Kecskes to Chapter 1 page 1 .
03/08/05 added three new pages Chapter 10 The Animation Gallery
01/31/05 added cards to many of the appendices.
01/11/05 Doubled the length of the article preface too... how I started collecting postcards .
01/10/05 edited 0111-0353 FANTASYLAND . . . A HUNNY OF A PLACE to chapter three page 1 one more time! both for flow of the section on this card, and to add a couple of links to images of a stamp and postmark involved in this attempt to date this card more accurately.
01/09/05 added card 01110506 of the LBV shopping Village to also edited the comment I made yesterday on card 0111-0353 FANTASYLAND . . . A HUNNY OF A PLACE to chapter three page 1 to reflect my change of heart regarding the postmark. Also added a small recollection to Mousefestive! regarding the Grand I
01/08/05 added a card celebrating Mickey's 50th birthday (1978) to Chapter 3 page 4
01/08/05 added an alternate version of card 0111-0353 FANTASYLAND . . . A HUNNY OF A PLACE to chapter three page 1
01/08/05 after a long delay for which I apologize I finally added four new pages Chapter 9 Disney-MGM Studios.
01/03/05 added cards to appendices E,F,L, and H.
12/20/04 added my account of our Dec 2004 trip to Mousefest Mousefestive!
8/28/04 Added more information about when Disney\'s classic characters came to EPCOT Center to Chapter 7 We've Just Begun... to Dream, Page 7: A Center with Character .
07/21/04 Added Special Feature: Scans contributed by others for chapters yet to be written!
07/19/04 Added the 1988 Christmas Post Card to Chapter 6 Page 3 Scan by William Sylvester.
07/19/04 Added some great art work to Chapter 3, attraction postersby Greg Maletic in Chapter 3 . This necessitated splitting largest page in the chapter into two pages.
7/09/04 Added Chapter 8 Everything Old is New Again seven new pages of Continental Size WDW postcards from the mid 1980s!
7/02/04 added Chapter 7 We've Just Begun... to Dream, Page 7: A Center with Character Also added one of the Christmas Cards to The Cartoon Cards of to chapter 6 .
6/27/04 added a page in the postcard community section on Disney postcard dealers.
6/24/04 updated several of the appendices, the most new cards added were in Appendix D Oversize cards---- pre bar code in the Animation gallery series.
6/19/04 added a third page The Cartoon Cards of chapter 6 .
6/19/04 Added information about the World of Motion/ Pirates of the Caribbean connection.
5/31/04 Thanks to Martin Smith of the United Kingdom for finding the information on the Swan And Dolphins size cost and opening dates. Also, the information on the opening of the Golf resort.
4/16/04 added side bar article to chapter 3 on Leased on-property Hotels .
4/06/04 made many corrections and additions to the appendices including links to the card from the second and third pre-upc era postcard booklets new cards added here and there in most of the appendices and split a section off of appendix b ( six card perforated strips) , and divided the list of Bar code era folios and booklets into two separate appendices.
3/29/04 Added six new booklets to chapter 4 the second and third series postcard booklets I have.
3/11/04 added a side bar article for chapter 7A World In Motion.
3/03/04 added a section on postcard community mentioning both the IDPCC and the disneypostcards club over at Yahoo! groups and a form for folks to join the IDPCC.
2/26/04 added many cards to the appendices over the past week especially some 2003 issues in cards I bought from Jay Patel, and some cards Scott Terek informed me of. I also tried to make many of the lists more printer friendly (tried to make them use as few sheets of paper as possible).
2/12/04 added two new appendices Appendix I: Disney's Free postcards and Appendix J: Non Disney produced cards sold in the parks.
02/08/04 updated all of the appendices the most new cards were added to Appendix F: Bar code Era Oversize. Links were added to all the various printings of the Epcot cards listed in Appendix C - pre-bar code Continental size , and Appendix E: Continental size from UPC era with the classic symmetrical divided Backs:.
01/11/04 updated the "you can help build this web page" page .
01/06/04 Added 6 new pages, chapter 7, Epcot is here!
01/01/04 updated my about me page for the new year.
01/01/04 Added appendixLast modified by Brian K Martsolf at 1:08 AM on 1/1/2004 H featuring the Post Card Folios and newer post card booklets.
12/14/03 Added about a half dozen new cards mostly into chapter three and tons of new links in appendix A some for cards added recently but also fixing links for card which had moved since the appendix was first written. All but a handful of the official cards of the standard size era now have links!
12/10/03 added the last card to the Country Bear Jamboree pre-opening art cards Liver lips McGrowl.
12/08/03 added a section on card errors to Chapter 6 page 2 Chapter 6 page 2 added alternate version of WELCOME TO THE FUTURE to Chapter 3 page 3 added more Mineral King info, and images! to Chapter 2 The First Chromes page 6.
11/24/03 Added two new cards to The Lake Buena Vista Shopping village section (01110502 and 01110507) thanks to Dave Ensign.
11/16/03 Added Three new Lake Buena Vista shopping Village cards to Chapter three Page five plus moved the one of the Lake Buena Vista Club card which was in Chapter two to that page. This necessitated moving river country and Discovery Island to the next page, and bumped the pirates art cards up a page as well Also added the last art card to the Pirates of the Caribbean art cards page.
11/16/03 Added preface too... how I started collecting postcards.
11/11/03 Added Chapter 6 The early 1980's p.1 and 2 .
09/24/03 Added four pages Chapter 5 Epcot Pre opening p.1-p.4 .
09/19/03 Added Appendix F: Bard code era Oversize cards also updated most of the other appendices with new cards, and made Appendix H into Appendix G.
09/03/03 Added the "I asked Dave Smith" piece to Chapter 1 page 2. Also, Rhett Whickam added more things to the list of preview center items.
08/25/03 Updated appendices E and H with about 18 more cards.
08/23/03 updated the appendices with a few dozen additional cards.
08/19/03 Thanks to Bruce Metcalf, added information on the fare signs and ticket registers on WDW trolleys.
08/15/03Thanks to Dave Ensign, Added great scans of the pre-opening centers promotional postcard. Thanks again Dave!
06/15/03 added reorganized appendices including the Animal Kingdom releases in both the series with the symmetrical divided backs and the series of newer cards with the asymmetrical divided backs.
04/16/03 added the cover scan and the seventh card of 0111-0073 to chapter 4 Polynesian resort Thanks to Clark "monorail49" Benton for the scans.
04/16/03 added The Pirates of the Caribbean Art Cards.
04/14/03 added a few cards to chapter 3 page 5 (thanks to Clark - Monorail49 from Ebay) added the rest of the links I have for now to the appendix pages of the postcard booklets. Added text to the Liberty Square Postcard Booklet page about "The Sons and Daughters of Liberty".
04/07/03 Added the Country Bear Jamboree cards page chapter 2 page 6.
04/05/03 added info on the construction of the Tom Sawyers Island Rafts (thanks to All Ears newsletter issue 184 http://allearsnet.com/ for the information!
04/04/03 Added text to many of the pages in chapter 4, also updated the "you can help build this web site" page.
03/25/03 Added ten pages about 80 new scans! in short I added chapter four!
03/22/03 Over the past few days. added "a names" to all the postcard images. To put is in non technical terms this means now that if you click on the link to a particular card on the card list in the appendices pages you now get taken directly to that cards location in it's chapter and page instead of just the top of the page that it is on. also added links to cards that had been included on the postcard pages since I first wrote the appendices.
03/17/03 added the names of the Dapper Dans on card 01110219 ( Thanks Roger Ross), and the name of the launch on the Ferries, Launches, Cruisers and Friendships page. 03/17/03 added info on the construction of the Frontierland Stern Wheeler Richard F Irvine (thanks to All Ears newsletter issue 180 http://allearsnet.com/ for the information!
03/13/03 Split the Seven Seas Lagoon/ Bay lake Shipping page into two parts Part I solely on excursion steamers. Part II on Ferries, Launches, Cruisers and Friendships.
03/13/03 Added comments from Jeff Pleshek to the Admiral Joe Fowler page.
03/12/03 Added more info and links to: 01110213 FUN ON BAY LAKE, River Country , and Discovery Island.
03/11/03 Added Jan Crews information on the Kids of the Kingdom.
03/10/03 over the past several days re scanned the rest of the cards, added several new cards, reorganized chapter 3 including moving one of it's pages to chapter two and added a couple of more pages to chapter 3.
03/03/03 over the past few weeks re-scanned over half of the postcards to remove moire patterns from the images (those swirls or discolored blotches that often appear in scans of printed materials are Morie patterns), also, updated the link to the "Walt Dated World" web site on the first chapters Frontierland page.
02/13/03 added appendices D and E with edits to the earlier appendices as well.
02/10/03 added the appendix C to the postcards pages.
02/08/03 added the first appendices(A and B) to the postcards pages.
12/14/02 Added the last card to the WDW 25th anniversary cards page (I could've sworn I had already done this so when I looked and saw I was missing one I fixed it).
11/21/02 Made many small corrections, several related to Tomorrowland, added the receipt to the opening page, The a few final card scans to the pre opening cards pages. The info about there being a keelboat on a postcard booklet to the Frontierland page.
11/18/02 Added the story of my visit to the WDW Preview Center site.
11/17/02 Added information on the damage to the Admiral Joe Fowler and what happened to its parts, Also, additional passenger service water craft And gave my links page it's own separate page (it used to be at the bottom of this page).
11/12/02 added the "Ahoy There!" information on the Water craft of Bay lake/ Seven Seas lagoon.
10/23/02 Added the Wedding Pages!!!!
08/13/02 Added Side bar Article: Pre-Opening Cards that never were.
08/12/02made several corrections the most important one being noting that the Mike Fink Keel Boats are still operational (but only on a seasonal schedule).
08/07/02 added commentary on Horse drawn-streetcars to the The First Chromes Page 1 : Main Street U.S.A. and Adventureland page.
08/07/02 added FL-031 no flag version to pre opening cards page.
08/07/02 added chapter 3 the Vacation Kingdom of the World.
08/07/02 added likely pre-opening photo from The Story of WDW (1971) book to the The First Chromes Page 1 : Main Street U.S.A. and Adventureland page.
08/07/02 added list of postcards I don't have scans of to the you can help build this page htm.
08/03/02 added David Hoopers list of some items sold at the preview center to the pre opening cards page. Added the clincher (trash cans) to the Main Street pictures section of chapter two.
07/28/02 Added Card Names to the numbers in the postcard sections text and ALT=" numbers and names " to the images.
07/25/02 updated info on the Liberty Square Riverboats .
07/18/02 added the you can help build this web page.
07/17/02 added the Shipping on the Seven seas Lagoon / Bay lake page.
07/16/02 added pre opening center information to the to the WDW pre opening cards page.
06/25/02 Added the What is "RADP?" page, and the Card FL-028 to the WDW pre opening cards page.
06/17/02 Added the WDW in postcards section preface and chapters 1 and 2.
01/01/02 Updated/reorganized "about me" section .
06/12/01 Updated about me page to reflect my divorce, also added a page on my work.
11/28/99 I added trip reports from my very first trip to WDW in 1996.
7/25/99 moved my site to it's own URL from its former geocities location.
7/17/98 noted that my counter recently passed the 10,000 hits mark!
7/9/98 Added large trip report from my May 1998 trip
5/2/98 Added postcards page (first entries monorails, the Florida card that's actually a Disneyland card, and 2 cards not in the nickel Tour.
4/30/98 Added puzzle to souvenirs and split souvenirs into two pages. Added final pictures to December 1997 trip report (All on the last day, the 11th) And, added pictures to 2nd NC RADP meet.
4/19/98 Added Walt Disney World 25th anniversary cards page.
4/14/98 through 4-18-98 added most of the pictures to December 1998 trip report.
4/12/98 got rid of "field of Pluto's" wallpaper and installed new ticket column wallpaper.
3/31/98 added 2nd NC RADP Trip Report
1/23/98 put in all the text for Decembers trip reports.
10/20/97 put in text for NC RADP meet page.
10/12/97 added souvenirs page.
10/4/97 finished second trip report.
10/3/97 put in thumbnail version of 1st section of second trip report.
9/27/97 added NC meet page/w e-mail link to Craig Wingerson.
9/26/97 added what's new page, and counter.
9/25/97 added counter and e-mail.
9/22/97 added about me page.
9/21/97 put up first part of second trip report.
9/20/97 got 2 friends to look at page (thanks Peter, Jeff).
9/19/97registered page put opening page up.

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