[fuzzfactor]

>the first time I visited Disney was during my high school

Me too, but back when I started high school Disneyworld didn't yet exist, and by the time I got there the first phase was only about halfway built.

It was already too expensive for Florida natives though, but almost every Orlando resident could get special passbooks from places like their employer or church. My sweetheart's older brother had moved up there and set us up with a few days worth.

It was just plain designed to not only be expensive, but overpriced to boot :\

I'll still remember the second time we went to it a few years later after it was "complete." Still surrounded by swamp, there were no competitive attractions yet and to celebrate the completion they were going to shoot off fireworks for the first time, like the original in Anaheim was famous for every day.

It was a massive show, way over the top, after all it was Fourth of July, 1976, the Bicentennial of the founding of the USA :)

[alephnerd]

Oh wow, I didn't realized Disneyworld was built so recently