Post #159955 by tiki1963 on Wed, May 18, 2005 3:36 PM

nerd alert!!

...actually, these were all owned/operated by RETLAW. WED was also a peronally held company by walt, thus the funky acronyms. the difference was the trains were actually leased by disneyland from walt where the tiki room leased space from disneyland. that's why you had to buy seperate tickets for the first couple of years. the dough went straight to WED/RETLAW.

it must have been a fiasco because United Airlines used "disneyland" in their advertising even though they sponsored the Tiki Room owned by WED.

basically, every time Walt was impatient for the Disney board to support his experiments, he just did it himself and charged 'em for it. man, i love Walt!

i'm sure Roy Disney just loved the end-runs his feisty young brother would pull!

TikiPhil- i wondered about that copyright issue myself since Tiki Room items from that period go back and forth between Walt Disney Productions copyrights and WED copyrights. the small tikis have WDP on them but the original attraction poster and even the Tiki Room clothing fabric are all copyright WED.

go figure...