Lillian Disney

But once again, Jim Cummings should have still been in there by now.

Lillian Disney.

Okay, she actually was Walt Disney's wife and she was an inker.

So I thought she was just in there just because she was Walt Disney's family.

lore and mysteries.

There's a lovely tribute to Lillian Disney to Walt's wife.

One of the rooms has this sort of, it's like this little round booth enclosure and it's decorated with taxidermied butterflies, which are actually from Lillian Disney's personal collection because that was a hobby that she had.

It's such a great restaurant.

It's so richly themed and incredibly detailed.

And then listen to this.

To avoid right-of-way issues with Lillian Disney's flower garden for the miniature railroad's route, Jack proposed a 90-foot-long S-shaped tunnel under Walt's wife's garden.

Walt named the completed pathway Rorik's Tunnel.

Oh, sweet.

If you spelled that backwards, that's Walter.

Walt Disney owned us, okay? And Lillian Disney, his wife, anyway, I won't get into that whole story.

But long story short, that's what started my marketing career.

And that's when I really learned marketing done right alleviates the need to sell.

Next one, I think Bruce will appreciate this one, or any maybe husband and wife listening to this.

Number six, there is a rather large token of Walt and Lillian's anniversary right in plain sight in Disneyland but maybe overlooked.

Oh, okay.

I don't know anything about this.

Okay.

Well, here's the story.

Walt and Lillian were driving through the mountains of Colorado Springs in 1956, so a year after Disneyland opened, and stopped at Pike's Petrified Forest two days before their 31st anniversary.

While Lillian waited in the car, Walt took a tour and eventually purchased a five-ton stump he joked was an anniversary gift for Lillian.

with Walt Disney leaning over the balcony.

And then something that was really interesting about this is they talked about how Lillian Disney collected clocks.

And so they showed some of them that are in the home.

And you can see on that staircase there, there is a grandfather clock on the like landing area.