Uploaded June 2017 | Updated September 2026, 55 minutes ago
Enjoy this rare Associated Press footage of the old Walt Disney World Preview Center from 1970 brought to you by DisneyAvenue.com. This footage offers you an incredible time capsule back to the infancy of the Walt Disney World Resort. The video begins with the original Walt Disney World Preview Center sign that you'll love. It then cuts to a young boy wearing an original WDW Mickey Mouse ear hat (that I hope he kept all these years later) with his mother as they look at those old beloved Disney topiaries (listen carefully at the mother's voice...I love her southern belle accent). We are then taken inside the preview center and into the theater. The show begins and we see the large WDW Property Model that is illuminated based on the narration of what's to come. Be on the lookout for the original Polynesian Resort concept model as well as the never-built Asian, Venetian and Persian Resort models. This is then followed by a clip of a Walt Disney World Preview Center hostess explaining the Contemporary Resort concept art and the monorail. The video then ends with a wonderful shot of the Walt Disney World construction site which appears to have been cleared of trees but has yet to be built upon. This truly is a rarely seen and remarkable look back at the beginning of the Vacation Kingdom of the World. Enjoy friends...
For more Disney history, be sure to visit www.disneyavenue.com.
Enjoy this rare Associated Press footage of the old Walt Disney World Preview Center from 1970 brought to you by DisneyAvenue.com. This footage offers you an incredible time capsule back to the infancy of the Walt Disney World Resort. The video begins with the original Walt Disney World Preview Center sign that you'll love. It then cuts to a young boy wearing an original WDW Mickey Mouse ear hat (that I hope he kept all these years later) with his mother as they look at those old beloved Disney topiaries (listen carefully at the mother's voice...I love her southern belle accent). We are then taken inside the preview center and into the theater. The show begins and we see the large WDW Property Model that is illuminated based on the narration of what's to come. Be on the lookout for the original Polynesian Resort concept model as well as the never-built Asian, Venetian and Persian Resort models. This is then followed by a clip of a Walt Disney World Preview Center hostess explaining the Contemporary Resort concept art and the monorail. The video then ends with a wonderful shot of the Walt Disney World construction site which appears to have been cleared of trees but has yet to be built upon. This truly is a rarely seen and remarkable look back at the beginning of the Vacation Kingdom of the World. Enjoy friends...
For more Disney history, be sure to visit www.disneyavenue.com.
