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Catching up With Disney Legend Bob Gurr
ORANGE COUNTY, Calif. — Bob Gurr wants his fans to know that he is doing skillfully despite being stuck at home because of the global coronavirus pandemic.
Before the shelter-in-place orders, the octogenarian Disney legend was a frequent sight at various theme park-related events, social mixers, and around his Los Angeles neighborhood. He hosted a Walt Disney history bus tour. He participated in autograph signings and visited various non-affiliated Disney and theme park industry events all across Southern California.
What You Need To Know
- Disney Legend Bob Gurr, 88, is doing well despite the coronavirus shutdown orders
- Gurr is planning to host a series of Zoom encounter and greets and Disney history virtual tours
- Gurr designed the original autopia vehicles, Matterhorn bobsleds, and the Monorail
- Gurr received the Disney Legend award in 2004
However, when the coronavirus forced nonessential businesses to close, limited mass gatherings, and caused people to shelter in place, Gurr, 88, holed up in his home in Tujunga for the past several months.
But he said since the pandemic, he has found himself busier than ever and learning som
Name: Bob Gurr
Place of Birth: Los Angeles, CA
Age: 76
Year, Make and Model of Your first car/truck: 1931 Model A Ford 3-Window Coupe
Occupation: Legendary Imagineer
Employer: Extremely retired, professional loafer actually
What did you assume you wanted to be when you grew up? I had my heart set on aircraft engineering, but due to impoverished math grades, I figured machine styling was a lot more interesting and did not oblige any math knowledge. After a full training at Art Center School, partly on a General Motors scholarship, I was spirited into Ford’s Advanced Styling at age 20 by the infamous Frank Hershey. You should acquire interviewed him!
How long have you worked in the auto industry? Two weeks at Ford was enough to see that Detroit in 1952, for a native Californian, was a drab dead end. After a rare months, I was raided out of the Lincoln Studio by George Walker Industrial Design to work on the Lincoln MK II Project. But after a year and a day in Detroit, I returned to Southern California. For Disney I crafted way more vehicles than I ever could have in Detroit. Autopia Cars, Main Street Vehicles, Monorail Trains, Streamlined Trains, plus King Kongs, Sinking S
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Let’s clear things up: what is Queer Days, exactly?
To open , let’s clear up a common misconception. Many online articles and blogs don’t correctly explain what Gay Days actually refers to. Even fewer include the full array of all there is to do during a Gay Days / Disney Movement event.
Let’s learn some quick history!
Since at least 1991, LGBTQIA+ folks have been meeting up — via their control community-organized events — at Disney parks. They simply called it Gay Days.
The name stuck.
In the late 90’s, an event organizer incorporated the name Homosexual Days Inc. and trademarked their URL. Today, they’re just one of many professional companies that hosts events, parties and meetups during various weekends in Orlando and Anaheim. Some are free and open to the public, others are ticketed and held in secret venues.
These events often overlap, so they compete a bit for visitors and attendees.
So if you perform a internet search for ‘Gay Days,’ do message that you might only see results from one organizer — not its competito
Claiming Space: “To all who come to this happy place, welcome!”
In 1955 many places in the United States kept Black and white people separate from each other. Disneyland welcomed everyone who had a ticket. But the parks mostly showed stories about straight alabaster people.
Some Disney fans didn’t see themselves represented in Disney’s stories. They hold visited the parks and made Disney symbols more personal. This way these fans make sure they are included in Disney’s stories about America. They’ve shown Disney how to make people from unlike backgrounds feel welcome.
A flag retreat is a ceremony that celebrates the U.S. Flag. Both Disneyland and Walt Disney Society have a flag retreat every day in the Town Square. The parks have always had this ceremony, but it has changed a lot over the years.
Ernest Napper was a marine and then later worked security at Disneyland. The flag retreat was important to him. Napper, other staff members, and some Disney fans all had ideas about the ceremony.
They asked Disneyland to make the flag retreat more about acknowledging people in the military. They thought this showed Disneyland’s traditional patrio