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Bob Gurr's Designer Times: The Walt Disney Family Museum
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Well, it took a big smooth martini at the cocktail pavilion to help me recover. So many guests chattered excitedly after that trip thru Walt’s Time, comparing notes of what affected them most. I delighted in sharing thoughts with not only Tony Baxter, fellow Imagineering Legends Alice Davis and Don Iwerks, but with musically famous Michael Tilson Thomas, Bob Iger, John Lasseter, Pete Doctor, Leonard Maltin and so many others. All were left aglow from what they had seen on the museum tour.

But wait...there’s more. The enchanted forest garden dinner gave everyone more time to share in Diane’s Creations. She had Wolfgang Puck assemble an absolutely unsurpassable experience lit with warm lighting instruments complete with gobo filters which gave dappled light as moonlight thru forest leaves. Table flowers and real living trees were placed artfully. The best in silverware and golden rimmed fine china was a total class act.


Speech making was graciously minimal with both Diane and Museum Director Richard Benefield giving thanks to so many brilliant folks who created this permanent tribute to her father in such a thorough and moving presentation, and launched in a Show Biz Style so much like Walt Disney premiering Snow White and Seven Dwarfs so long ago.


Disney CEO Bob Iger and Bob Gurr
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-- Bob Gurr

Bob Gurr began working with Disney in 1954. He retired in 1981 but occasionally consults for the Company. Since Disney he's worked on the sinking ship at Las Vegas' Treasure Island, Universal Studios' King Kong, Godzilla for the film by the same name and much more. Among his proudest accomplishments he lists "making Walt tickled pink that some of the things he wanted to build actually worked. You could tell how proud he was when he would show off things to his friends and the press. Lincoln and the Monorail were two big ones for him."

The opinions expressed by Bob Gurr, and all of our columnists, do not necessarily represent the feelings of LaughingPlace.com or any of its employees or advertisers. All speculation and rumors about the future of Disneyland and the Walt Disney Company are just that - speculation and rumors - and should be treated as such.

-- Posted October 2, 2009

 

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