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Tom K Morris

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Tom K Morris @tomkmorris.bsky.social · 4h
Research trip!
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Tom K Morris @tomkmorris.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
A little hard to see bc it’s a t-shirt, but one of these WDW opening day attractions is not quite like all the others.
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Tom K Morris @tomkmorris.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Meet the new Club 55.
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Tom K Morris @tomkmorris.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
It’s a weird, unplanned ritual that I wind up here almost every October 1st.
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Tom K Morris @tomkmorris.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
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Tom K Morris @tomkmorris.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Pattern Language.
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Tom K Morris @tomkmorris.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
44 years ago, on Sept 30, 1982, I visited France, Japan, Italy, Germany, China, and the Future … all in the same day!
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Tom K Morris @tomkmorris.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I think that had something to do with land they suddenly absorbed on account of buying the Arvida corp.
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Tom K Morris @tomkmorris.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Curious real estate transactions in Central Florida, 1965.
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Tom K Morris @tomkmorris.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
“Well isn’t that nice …”
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Tom K Morris @tomkmorris.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Be thankful he didn’t say “Fapping”
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Tom K Morris @tomkmorris.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Nope!
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Tom K Morris @tomkmorris.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Two and a half hoodoos.
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Tom K Morris @tomkmorris.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Gurr-eat picture.
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Tom K Morris @tomkmorris.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Guess who’s driving it?
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Tom K Morris @tomkmorris.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Wait til you get my personal photos of HKDL, c2002-2006
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Tom K Morris @tomkmorris.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
It was a huge building, different area, I’m guessing a little later.
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Tom K Morris @tomkmorris.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Happy Birthday, King! 👑 🎈
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Tom K Morris @tomkmorris.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Yes, that’s at the Tujunga facility.
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Tom K Morris @tomkmorris.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Knowing my friend, this is a likely scenario.
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Tom K Morris @tomkmorris.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I wonder if they made an espionage version?
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Tom K Morris @tomkmorris.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
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Tom K Morris @tomkmorris.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
In this shot, I am literally living under Pereira’s shadow! Red star marks my hood.
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Tom K Morris @tomkmorris.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Another Pereira masterpiece I grew up under the shadow of was his 1972 Pacific Mutual headquarters in Newport Center. What I find interesting about his work during this, his most modernistic phase, was that it was all being designed out of a repurposed barn, left over from an old Buffalo Ranch!
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Tom K Morris @tomkmorris.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
And now we have the official answer: “It was a wolensak reel to reel tape recorder for taping in the haunted mansion.”
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Tom K Morris @tomkmorris.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
I think it was a reel to reel tape deck?!🤔
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Tom K Morris @tomkmorris.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
If you haven’t seen Leslie Iwerks’ remarkable documentary, Disneyland Handcrafted—or even if you have—don’t miss this special screening of the critically acclaimed, eye-opening film at Bowers Museum on Sunday, Sept. 27, presented by Ryman Arts. LINK TO TICKETS: app.betterunite.com/rymanarts/pa...
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Tom K Morris @tomkmorris.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I’ll leave that to someone else, but I’m always happy to help!
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Tom K Morris @tomkmorris.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I think you mean the prototype for the never-built Polynesian Tower designed by Welton Becket. The Princess Mundo Imperial in Acapulco was one analog, and perhaps it influenced the Contemporary as well. All brutalist designs which was almost de rigueur by hotel architects at the time.
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Tom K Morris @tomkmorris.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
What a difference the name change made! Boosted attendance by 14 in the first year!
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Tom K Morris @tomkmorris.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Reminds me of the lesser known Nixon declaration at the Contemporary’s Top of the World restaurant to announce “I’m not a Cook.”
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Tom K Morris @tomkmorris.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
I’m sure they’ll keep us separated in case of an attack by Disney HR.
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Tom K Morris @tomkmorris.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Not as impressive of a catch as THE Barry Braverman!
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Tom K Morris @tomkmorris.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Disney and Ford bought into it, but another sneaky inventor named Bill Lear, friend (not for long) of Muntz’s, thought “why settle for 4 when you can have 8 tracks?” In 1965, Ford demo’d the 8-track player on Disney’s Magic Skyway and the following Sept, they became available to the general public.
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Tom K Morris @tomkmorris.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Madman Muntz. Must’ve been an L.A. thing while I grew up in OC. Flamboyant car dealer/electronic engineer/inventor demo’d his 4-track tape cartridge to WED engineers as a method of playing on-board narration in different languages at the push of a button for the 1964-65 NYWF Ford Pavilion…
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Tom K Morris @tomkmorris.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
In some cases you might need to buy a vowel.
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Tom K Morris @tomkmorris.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Isn’t Sept 9 also the last day of Carousel of Progress in 1973? Solemn day for Marc Davis fans.
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Tom K Morris @tomkmorris.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Prepare for a festival of funny names like Bunky, Knud, Grenade, Scollard, Merlin, Nimciv, Szeptycki and a few donkeys with given names. Oh yeah, and Gurr.
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Tom K Morris @tomkmorris.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Apple math.
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Tom K Morris @tomkmorris.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
I coerced him!
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Tom K Morris @tomkmorris.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Almost silhouetted in the background is an important figure in the history of stop-motion animation, the man who brought King Kong to life in 1933, Marcel Delgado. In the foreground is Bob Mattey, who brought Bruce the shark to life in 1975. Oh yeah, and Ol’ Smiley.
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Tom K Morris @tomkmorris.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
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Tom K Morris @tomkmorris.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Just one of the Seven(teen) Faces of Dr. Gurr.
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Tom K Morris @tomkmorris.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
WDW historians have seen this before somewhere. Yes, you have.
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Tom K Morris @tomkmorris.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Yes, me too. This is Pereira’s brutalist phase, a term that frightens Disney fans who don’t realize that Becket’s Contemporary Hotel is also brutalist.
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Tom K Morris @tomkmorris.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Need one for the dog.
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Tom K Morris @tomkmorris.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
😮
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Tom K Morris @tomkmorris.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
By now you’ve probably, without knowing it, come across a photo of Animation Dept. writer Mary Schuster riding inside the Viewliner, in a rare interior shot of the short-lived attraction. Mary was Roger Broggie’s 2nd wife, thus stepmother to Michael Broggie and Roger Jr.
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Tom K Morris @tomkmorris.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Here, here!
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Tom K Morris @tomkmorris.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Never too many! Toss up btw 3 and 7.
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