Today was all about boyhood homes – that of Walt and Roy Disney, and Mr. Clemens, better known as Mark Twain.
This is downtown Marceline, Missouri – the boyhood home of Walt and Roy Disney. Dad and I paid a visit to it today.
We paid a visit to the Walt Disney Hometown Museum, housed in the Santa Fe Depot, right next to the railroad tracks. Trains run by at high speed many times a day.
Part of the interior is meant to look like the classic old train depot that it once was.
I went on this attraction at Disneyland in 1962. Disney gave it to Marceline when it was removed, but it is no longer in any shape to run. They would like to restore it – I donate $5 to the cause.
Dad wanted to buy a train ticket – sadly, no one at the window in the Marceline Santa Fe Depot.
This Mickey Mouse flag hangs above you in one of the rooms at the Walt Disney Hometown Museum.
A couple of original Mickey Mouse Dolls from way back then.
The first light desk Walt used, along with Ub Iwerks, to animate on.
A nice model with a nice painting of a younger Walt Disney on the wall behind it.
This is Inez, the hostess at the Walt Disney Hometown Museum. She met Walt Disney several times.
This great old steam locomotive sits in the park adjacent to the Walt Disney Hometown Museum in Marceline, Missouri.
The Coca Cola Refreshment Corner at Disneyland is based loosely on Walt’s experiences in this corner location.
The Coca Cola Company paid for the restoration of this old billboard painted on the side of the building in Marceline, Missouri.
That house, which has people living in it, was the boyhood home of Walt and Roy Disney, the farm is behind it.
This is the son of Walt Disney’s Dreaming Tree.
Welcome to Hannibal, Missouri!
I put Dad to work painting the fence white.
This Mark Twain paddle wheeler sits at a dock on the waterfront of Hannibal, Missouri in the waters of the Mississippi River.
That’s it for this day. Tomorrow the National Transportation Museum in St. Louis.