Author: Nancy Johnson
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Nothing says Holiday like a Disneyland Tamale!
What’s better than going to Disneyland early on a Friday morning, during the holiday season? Eating Christmas tamales!!!! The DIS Unplugged was invited to come learn how to make Chicken Pasilla Tamales with Jay Garcia, Chef de Cuisine at the Pacific Wharf Cafe in Disney California Adventure. Since tamales are a great Latino family holiday…
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Disneyland Gems: Holidays at Disneyland!
I can’t believe it’s that time of year again. The joy of the winter holidays are by far my absolute favorite time of the year and how they celebrate them at the Disneyland Resort is one of the things that keeps me wanting to go back each and every year. And now – Disneyland has…
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New Blog Series – The Gems of Disneyland!
Where can you find the change of the seasons so obviously displayed, with pumpkins on the ground and snow on the castle? In answering that, I’m going to introduce you to a new series of articles that I’ll be bringing to you, hopefully bringing you some joy and surprises – The Gems of Disneyland!
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#3 The New Disney Store: Stars Shine at Santa Monica Place
So in my last two blogs, we talked with Disney Stores Worldwide President – Jim Fielding, we discussed design with Jon Endicott – Director of Global Design and Construction, and now, we cover the star-studded Grand Opening of their Santa Monica Place store! I know. I did a blog on the Montebello, CA Disney Store –…
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Rapunzel Lets Her Hair Down in Her New Cottage at Disneyland
We’ve told you it was coming. We’ve shown you the concept art. With the advent of having a Rapunzel in our own house for Halloween, we had to take a run down to the park to get some photos of the heroine herself – with our miniature version, of course! Therefore, we took ourselves on…
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#2 The New Disney Store – Jon Endicott, Director Global Design
Welcome back to Part 2 of my continuing series, The New Disney Store. Like I said – I’m taking you guys on a journey with this one. Today, I want to give you the opportunity to listen to Jon Endicott, Director of Global Design and Construction for The Disney Stores. Jon sat down with me…
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Keeping Pace – 5th Anniversary of the Disneyland Half Marathon
See all of those runners in the photo below? There are 14,000 of them, if you want to be precise – and that is a 4-lane road they are on. They all gathered at 4AM on September 5, 2010 to run in the 5th Anniversary of the Disneyland Half Marathon at the Disneyland Resort in…