It was a small park in rural San Jose with off-the-shelf rides and entertainment liberally lifted from Disneyland; so why is it so beloved? Is there another regional theme park in the country that has yearly reunions four DECADES after it closed? What was the magic behind Frontier Village?
Playland at the Beach, The San Francisco Opera, Fantasia, Puppetoons and two very interesting apes - one animated and one day-glo - all factor into the story of one of California's most beloved attractions, Frontier Village. 

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Another mid-opus Minnie-sode!  Full episode next week! In the meantime, catch Pete as Mr. Hives in Hayward introducing "The Tingler" tonight and "Night of the Living Dead" next Monday.
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Another mid-opus Minnie-sode!  Goff, Renaday, Buzzy! More singing!
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Our first Minnie-sode! To bridge the gaps between full episodes we're laying down a more casual - and far shorter - episode devoted to thoughts about things that happened this week in theme park history.
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It exists in a nexus between three time periods: the future, the retro-future and the nostalgic past. The Main Street Electrical Parade is the most famous Disney parks parade for a good reason, it somehow synthesizes everything that is contained in Walt's original park - fantasy, history, progress - in a joyous and timeless spectacle.

And Walt Disney was long gone before it was conceived making this perhaps the best answer ever to the question "What would Walt have done."
He'd have done this.


Also, see Pete live!  Pete will be appearing live in Hayward, California showing monster movies in his guise as the macabre Mr. Hives during the month of October. You can find tickets here: https://douglasmorrissontheatre.thundertix.com/ 
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If you take a left turn around 1929, you end up here: where the jazz band triumphed over the orchestra, where sexy usurped formal, where a very different theme park empire began, and died.
Welcome to Fleischer Land.  Keep an eye out for hidden Bettys!

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When we pick up a fake gun and shoot it at a fantastical electric target, what are we trying to become? What do we think Frontierland is? Who is Paul MacGlashan and how did the guy that designed Disney's shooting galleries help win WWII? 
And, most importantly, How did Kelly and Pete find themselves so mired in the kind of Disney current affair news that they usually avoid like the plague?

It's the history of SHOOTIN' STUFF at Disney Theme parks!

(Also, a link to that Frontierland article we keep talking about, https://boardwalktimes.net/we-need-to-talk-about-frontierland-ad54b31a1fe1 .)

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Fire up your Flux Capacitors, people, because we're heading back, back, back in time!
We're traveling to the early-20th Century to visit some houses that ought not spin the way they do, the '60s to visit that same Not-Really-A-World's-Fair that we keep yammering on about and, of course, the '80s - where Huey Lewis lives.

It's the ride that saved Universal Theme Parks, Back to the Future!

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We go out on a limb this episode by philosophizing about the uses and abuses of guest interactivity within theme parks and other forms of live entertainment. We get real philosophical and voices get kind of contemplatively husky (or Kelly is still getting over a cold).
Along the way we visit Knotts Berry Farm, the Galactic Starcruiser, Evermore, live murder mysteries and Renaissance Faires.
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A puzzling anomaly today - we dive for hours on packed highways to a place where we pay money to simulate driving on packed highways - the Richfield Autopia attraction was once a vision of an America poised on the brink of progress and possibility.
Kelly and Pete go on a pilgrimage to Disneyland to consider its history in person and meet legendary Imagineer Bob Gurr along the way!
It's a show packed with ride-vehicles, ghost towns and the evolution of labor relations in America. The highway we're traveling on will definitely be the scenic route.

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