The Life of Disney

Yesterday morning we were up early, checked out of our motel, and on the road to San Francisco by 8:30 a.m. We had an hour and a half drive to the Presidio where we planned to spend a few hours at the Walt Disney Family Museum. The museum is not owned by the Disney corporation. It is owned and run by the family of Walt Disney and it is very impressive.

We thought we'd spend a few hours in the museum, but in reality we were there for over five hours. This museum is filled with anything you would ever want to know about Walt Disney, his life and his accomplishments. There were 10 galleries filled with information, photographs, posters, artifacts, videos, and even voice recordings of past interviews with Walt Disney. The galleries were in chronological order starting with Walt's childhood and ending with the final gallery about his death and ongoing legacy. It was really amazing all that he accomplished in his 65 years of life. It was fun to learn about animation and film-making, and do some of the hands on exhibits. While watching one of the Silly Symphonies, I was certain I saw a hidden Mickey. The boys didn't really see it, but I know it was one. There were many things to see, but my favorite part was a cool model of Disneyland. It was not a model from any particular year, but instead contained many of the parts that Walt had imagined over the years.

All the individual drawings required for 10 seconds of animation

Model of Disneyland

After I purchased a tin replica of an E Ticket for the ballroom wall, we left the museum a little after 3:00 p.m. and drove to Marc and Jackie's house for the night. We arrived around 10:00 p.m., chatted until after midnight, and then it was off to bed for a good night's sleep.

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