Richard Irvine

You know, go maybe once or so often when relatives from out of town were in town.

Um, I guess my grandfather had some sort of business dealings with Richard Irvine.

Hmm.

if is that the name i'm thinking of not yeah robert irvine's the chef okay richard irvine was the disney guy

yeah

and you know and back then they had ticket like entrance and ticket books like they would give away to certain people and i guess he was like he had a pile of them and told my grandfather oh take you know like he said i'm i'm gonna go uh get something out in the other room uh you know you know in his office he's like just just take take some and of course my grandfather and so you know he's too modest to take like an entire pile

Bill Martin helped design and build Disneyland, and he would regularly walk through the park with Walt to see how they could improve the park.

He's also responsible for the design of the Utilidors under the Magic Kingdom and for designing the Admiral Joe Fowler and Richard F. Irvine riverboats.

Oh,

well, now I'm just completely embarrassed that I don't know.

'Cause some drunk ferry boat captain.

Richard F. Irvine.

[laughs] I don't think he actually drives the ferry boat.

He's probably dead.

And it was accepted, and they asked me if I would do it.

So Maggie Elliott, daughter of Dick Irvine, and the right-hand man, right-hand woman, right-hand person to Marty Sklar for years, threw almost quickly into Epcot and who was one of those people at Imagineering who I think everybody would have said irreplaceable, as Marty's right hand, right? So you're going into the job that someone has created and institutionalized, not as VP of something, but as Maggie Elliott, right?

Yeah.

But luckily, I already knew Marty.

And Joe Fowler was the individual who constructed or led the construction of Walt Disney World.

The Richard Irvine is actually a tribute to the individual who kind of master planned all of the...

Walt Disney World complex and designed it and laid it out.

Unfortunately, the Joe Fowler Riverboat, the double stack, actually went into dry dock in 1980 and there was a little wreck there and it was never seen again.