Credits

Because a site this lovely takes and takes and takes from the kindness of others

My documentation of Walt Disney Word history has benefited enormously from the assistance, sometimes the unwitting assistance, of many people.  It started with my parents taking me on my first trip to the Magic Kingdom in October 1971...pleasantly oblivious to the flowering of a lifelong affliction just below their culpable noses.  Since then, dozens of other family members, friends, casual acquaintances and even creepy strangers have been kind enough to provide information, offer corrections or send photos and recordings which have made the process far more enjoyable and enlightening than it would have been in solitude.  The majority of those outstanding persons can be found listed below.

Some have requested anonymity for various reasons.  There are probably some others that I just forgot to mention.  If you're one of them, please let me know about it.  The great WYW e-mail crash of July 2003 made it hard to properly acknowledge all the gentle souls whose contributions and compliments I have enjoyed since giving the project a name in 1994.  That any of these people shared their thoughts, knowledge or artifacts does not mean they condone what I've done with them, only that they were nice. 

No one's encouragement, however, eclipses that of my amazing wife / research goddess, Amy.  She'll never read this, but her support is evident on every page.
 

Paul F. Anderson

Sonny Anderson

Harry Applegate

Dave Barker, Jr.

Ed Barlow

Buddy Baker

Todd Becker

Reed Bickley

Johnny Blanco

Howard Bowers

Robert Boyd

Russell Brower

Steve Burns

Kira Chamberlain

David Collier

Pat Connor

German Contreras

Bill Cotter

Tom Cook

Michael Cozart

Steve Dahlem

Alastair Dallas

Alice & Marc Davis
 

Rhodes Davis

Gian DiMauro

Linda & Phil Dowdy

Marty Dunne

Martha J. Earle

Ed Ellers

Dave Ensign

Donna & Ernest Ensign

Ed Film

Stephen M. Fjellman

Michael Flint

Donna Freitag

Jan Freitag

Mike Herman

Kyoko Hikami

Jim Hill

"Miami" Mike Hiscano

Dave & Sandy Hooper

Scott Hoover

Suzanne Jones

Bob & Kathleen Kammerer

Stewart Kennington

Michael Kingsley
 

Jerry Klatt

David Koenig

John Kunzer

Jimmy Layle

Janelle & Brian Lee

Hugh & Vernice Lee

James & Dover Lee

Robert & Shari Lee

Mike & Beth Lucas

Marc Macuse

Randolph B. Mahoney

Greg Maletic

Dave McCormick

Christopher Merritt

Cathy Moloney

Jim Moore

Chuck Munson

Kiyomi Nakamura

Dale Nora

Frank Nora

Jim Ohrberg

Kathryn Overman

Ross Plesset

The Presslers

Holly J. Pluard

Mike Prendergast

Tracy Rhodes

Greg Scott

Dave Smith

Martin Smith

Scott Smith

V. Anton Spraul

David Strebler

Gerald Walker

Larry Warmoth

Debbie Wills

Phil Zeller

Rose Zettler