Flashback Friday - Disney-MGM Studios 1991

Time to go back in time thanks to fun old family photos of days gone by.  Growing up in Southern California, Disneyland was the only Magic Kingdom that I knew as a kid.  It was, of course, the ONLY Magic Kingdom when my parents were kids.  My dad was almost a teenager when the park opened, becoming one just a couple of months later, and my mother was still in single-digits at the time.  Walt Disney World and all of the other Disney Destinations were still decades in the future when they were young.  


As a youth, I didn't get to go to Walt Disney World until I was 21, but have certainly enjoyed many, many visits there ever since.  Here we take a look back at that first trip to Walt Disney World, with a view of Disney-MGM Studios, as it was then known, (now Disney's Hollywood Studios) at the beautiful recreation of the famous Grauman's Chinese Theater - the home of The Great Movie Ride -  which once was the view all visitors to the park encountered at the end of Hollywood Boulevard.  Sadly this view was blocked in 2004 or 2005 when the Sorcerer's Hat was constructed directly in front of it.  The theater itself is a faithful, full-scale recreation of the famous Hollywood landmark.  As a kid I enjoyed going to it for numerous films with friends.  Here I am standing in front, basically where the front of the hat stands today.