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Marvelous Mechanized Magic Kingdom

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About five or six months ago I received an e-mail from the 1313 Club & Ape Pen Publishing Informing me of an event to take place at the Disneyland Hotel. The event, “The Marvelous Mechanized Magic Kingdom” was to feature the talents and stories of current and former employees and imagineers as they worked for Walt over the years. The 1313 Club and Ape Pen are both are created and run by Carlene Thie, Carlene’s family has been involved with Disneyland from the beginning since Walt Disney first broke ground for the original Disneyland park. Her Grandfather Mell Kilpatrick, was a freelance photographer who took photos of the first nine years of the parks construction and operation. Carlene’s father, Blaine Sissel, was also part of the construction crew who helped in building the park, working on Sleeping Beauty’s Castle and many other buildings there. Even her Grandmother worked at the park for nearly two decades in the bait shack on Tom Sawyers Island, the Model Department, and other locations in the park. read More.......

By Carlene Thie

DISNEYLAND; Rising up from the Steam

By Carlene Thie

Keith Murdoch, the City Manager of Anaheim in 1955, tells the story of how in October of 1953 Anaheim was being considered as the location for a new theme park called “Disneyland.” The Stanford Research Institute (SRI), was hired by Disney to find a location for the proposed and set the criteria for the new Park. SRI determined the Park site would need to be approximately 160 acres and easily accessible from a freeway and Anaheim was the perfect match. With an abundance of land and a major highway running alongside (Interstate 5 which at that time was Interstate 101), Anaheim was the main focus of Walt Disney. After finding and abandoning a number of locations, a perfect site was found. Perfect until they ran into a ‘snag’, and Keith was the man to help untangle it. READ MORE...

Disneyland’s Original 1955 - Opening Day Press Kit.

This rare and hard to find press kit was never seen before till Carlene Thie showed a copy to the Disney Company in 2005. When the Disney executives came to Carlene Thie’s home to use some of Mell Kilpatrick’s photos for Disneyland’s 50th Anniversary they were surprise to see a 1955 Original Press kit giving out to the Media on July 17, 1955 to Media Only. Read more & see Disneyland’s Original 1955 Press kit ..

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The Golden Horseshoe Event

It's a lonely business, being the devoted fan of a theme park show that closed 22 years ago.

Or so I thought until last Saturday's Golden Horseshoe Revue Dinner Show and Celebration, presented by the grand folks of Ape Pen Publishing and The Magic Makers.

The evening grew out of the friendship of Ape Pen's founder, Caroline Thie, and the children of GHS star Wally Boag. They felt it was time for a tribute to the people and traditions of Frontierland's Golden Horseshoe ... and they created something as much fun and as touching as the show itself.... Read MORE

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