These are the videos in the YouTube series Lost and Found in Walt Disney World, arranged by topic/time period.

Walt Disney knew he wanted to have a new kind of community and started work planning for it.


Before there was Disney World in Orlando, there was a plan for....Palm Beach


A complete history of how we got to 1977


Land Acquisition Begins!


An airport on the property acquired


The architects


Joe Potter's memoirs


Joe Fowler in his own words

The jig is up.


Walt Disney visits Florida


Meeting with the state to get the politics out of the way


The first resident of WDW


The Reedy Creek Improvement District.

Late 1968, construction begins in earnest


A local hangout

Opening of the preview center


Hotel Plaza Blvd


Cinderella castle mosaic


The Electrical Water Pageant

November 1973: Nixon visits


October 1978: Jimmy Carter and the ICC


January 1985: Reagan visits


1990: Bush visits

Windows on Main Street


The House of Magic

The Skyway


The Carousel of Progress moves to Disney World


The Hall of Presidents


The Haunted Mansion

The History of Walt Disney's Monorail


Episode 68 was "All about the Monorail" until YouTube removed the video...I tell you what's up with that


But...this video was based on a podcast series I did back in 2012, which *IS* still available...you can hear the episodes here:
  • Show-30---All-about-the-monorail-part-1
  • Show-31---All-about-the-monorail-part-2
  • Show-32---All-about-the-monorail-part-3
  • The World Showcase players: Streetmosphere is born!


    Another airfield opens

    World Showcase Overview, and a look at Japan and China


    World Showcase: Mexico, Canada, the American Adventure


    World Showcase: United Kingdom, France, Morocco


    World Showcase: Italy, Germany, Norway


    World Showcase: Other plans

    Our Spaceship Earth


    The Land Pavilion Mural


    Communicore

    The history of the Studios

    The plans for Animal Kingdom


    Sue the T-Rex is prepared for display

    Pleasure Island


    The CrossRoads: A new place to shop


    Game Rooms


    The Fort Wilderness Railroad


    Discovery Island


    Lake Buena Vista Village


    River Country

    Walt Disney's Trains


    Road Signs (1990)


    More Dragons!

    December 1973: John Lennon visits


    1975 Southern Governor's meeting

    Conservancy

    The STOLPort


    Disney's Southern border


    US 192


    Disney's Western border

    Learning to Manage Hotels


    The Contemporary


    Mary Blair's Contemporary Mural


    The Contemporary in depth


    The Polynesian


    Hotel development


    The Golf Resort


    1996: The Disney Institute