Welcome back to Fridays with Jim Korkis! Jim, the dean of Disney historians and author of Jim’s Gems in The easy Guide, writes about Walt Disney World history every Friday on yourfirstvisit.net. SPACESHIP EARTH AT EPCOT By Jim Korkis When Epcot opened in 1982 (as EPCOT Center), Spaceship Earth, the icon for the new Disney […]

Welcome back to Fridays with Jim Korkis! Jim, the dean of Disney historians and author of Jim’s Gems in The easy Guide, writes about Walt Disney World history every Friday on yourfirstvisit.net. SID CAHUENGA AT DISNEY’S HOLLYWOOD STUDIOS By Jim Korkis Sid Cahuenga’s One-of-a-Kind Antiques and Curios shop, the home of Tinseltown Treasures at the […]

Welcome back to Fridays with Jim Korkis! Jim, the dean of Disney historians and author of Jim’s Gems in The easy Guide, writes about Walt Disney World history every Friday on yourfirstvisit.net. THE FIREPLACE AT DISNEY’S WILDERNESS LODGE By Jim Korkis Visitors in the lobby of the Disney’s Wilderness Lodge can glimpse over 1.6 billion […]