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NKO No Ka Oi Member Day of the Locustland Joined: Apr 10, 2005 Posts: 22	NKO No Ka Oi Posted posted on Thu, May 19, 2005 1:40 AM O Todd Hackett to'u i'oa. As a former employee of Disneyland and r.o. at the Enchanted Tiki Room presented by our friends at Dole Pineapple, this is what I learned at the turnstyle - WED designed and operated the Tiki Room for the first three years of its operation. Sometime in late 1965 the studio - flushed with Poppins dough, acquired WED and created MAPO. The Tiki Room was part of the deal. BTW, The Tiki Room didn't become an "E" Coupon attraction until 1966. The copyright on the Tiki Room Poster was changed to WDP when they printed the '67 version. Retlaw was separate from WED and created when Disneyland was merged into WDP sometime in the early 60s. Disneyland, Inc. was not a subsidary of the studio when created. It was a separate enterprise (at Roy's insistence- in case in went $$ belly up) with ABC/Paramount, Walt Disney and Western Printing each owning about 33% of the Park. The studio bought ABC/Par & Western Printing out and most of Walt's share. Walt retained ownership of the Sante Fe Trains and the tracks (!) and created Retlaw to run them. In 1959 he added the Monorail trains to Retlaw. Retlaw never owned or ran the Tiki Room. When I worked there in the 70s Retlaw employees we're considered working personally for the Walt Disney Family and a cut above us low rent jungle boys. Retlaw kept all receipts from the trains, which was around 4 million a year. Retlaw sold the Trains, the Monorail and Walt's name to WDP right before Eisner took over in 1983 for around 44 million. Retlaw family members Lillian and Diane then in turn gave a big chunk of the money to the Walt Disney Concert Hall. BTW, Retlaw still exists today mainly to manage Walt's family investments. Nana.

O Todd Hackett to'u i'oa.
As a former employee of Disneyland and r.o. at the Enchanted Tiki Room presented by our friends at Dole Pineapple, this is what I learned at the turnstyle -

WED designed and operated the Tiki Room for the first three years of its operation. Sometime in late 1965 the studio - flushed with Poppins dough, acquired WED and created MAPO. The Tiki Room was part of the deal. BTW, The Tiki Room didn't become an "E" Coupon attraction until 1966. The copyright on the Tiki Room Poster was changed to WDP when they printed the '67 version.

Retlaw was separate from WED and created when Disneyland was merged into WDP sometime in the early 60s. Disneyland, Inc. was not a subsidary of the studio when created. It was a separate enterprise (at Roy's insistence- in case in went $$ belly up) with ABC/Paramount, Walt Disney and Western Printing each owning about 33% of the Park. The studio bought ABC/Par & Western Printing out and most of Walt's share. Walt retained ownership of the Sante Fe Trains and the tracks (!) and created Retlaw to run them. In 1959 he added the Monorail trains to Retlaw. Retlaw never owned or ran the Tiki Room.

When I worked there in the 70s Retlaw employees we're considered working personally for the Walt Disney Family and a cut above us low rent jungle boys. Retlaw kept all receipts from the trains, which was around 4 million a year. Retlaw sold the Trains, the Monorail and Walt's name to WDP right before Eisner took over in 1983 for around 44 million.

Retlaw family members Lillian and Diane then in turn gave a big chunk of the money to the Walt Disney Concert Hall. BTW, Retlaw still exists today mainly to manage Walt's family investments.
Nana.

Post #160073 by No Ka Oi on Thu, May 19, 2005 1:40 AM