The Complete History Of Walt Disney World, Part 1 (1960s-1996)

Welcome to Timekeeping. Over a year ago, WDWNT set out to document the year-by-year history of the Walt Disney World Resort. From the opening of a new land, to the minutiae of a store changing names. 50 episodes later, we have consolidated the highlights of these videos into two parts. This is part 1, which focuses on the complete history of Walt Disney World from the 1960s-1996 (the 25th anniversary).

0:00:00 - Intro
0:00:55 - The Planning Development and Construction
0:11:42 - 1971 The Opening Of Walt Disney World
0:27:57 - 1972
0:33:16 - 1973
0:40:00 - 1974
0:45:06 - 1975
0:50:01 - 1976
0:55:24 - 1977
1:01:07 - 1978
1:05:26 - 1979
1:10:10 - 1980
1:16:35 - 1981
1:22:19 - 1982
1:38:36 - 1983
1:49:22 - 1984
1:56:30 - 1985
2:03:41 - 1986
2:15:53 - 1987
2:21:41 - 1988
2:31:09 - 1989
2:58:15 - 1990
3:08:39 - 1991
3:18:48 - 1992
3:26:49 - 1993
3:32:55 - 1994
3:54:21 - 1995
4:05:52 - 1996
4:22:15 - End Credits

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[WDWNT]

What was your favorite moment from the first 25 years?

[daviddebergh]

As a trucker that spends 14 hours a day driving and listening to your videos thank you so much for these long format videos.

[marilyngable]

I'm only half way through! As a 76yrs young, complete Disneyphile, I've been transported back to a moment in time.
How wonderful that all of the begginings, and transformations, have been documented for today's generation. And yes, I was lucky enough to ride the 'original' Figment ride in '98.
This was my first visit to WDW, prior to that I was fortunate to visit DL on many occasions. Firstly in '71 and many other visits during the 70's. I'm from the UK and had a friend who emigrated to LA. At that time I also had relatives in SF, so many reasons to travel to the US. Looking back I realise just how lucky, and privileged I was. Thank you for this.

[fifthrider]

I'm such a hypocrite. I won't go to the theater for any movie over 2 hours long, but I'll sit here and watch 4.5 hours of WDW history knowing that this is only PART ONE with 4.5 more hours of content to go.

[matthewallen]

This is literally the greatest thing I've ever seen in my life!

[TIG]

It's almost sad this video only has 10 thousand views. My god how long did this take to make??? This is incredible work and research.

[CastawayRJ]

When I first saw this video, I was like “Wait didn’t Timekeeping for WDW end with 2021?” Then I looked at the title, and the thumbnail more closely, and I was like “Oh, from the 1960s to 1996.”

[timl]

A salute to all theme parks but mostly Walt Disney World, it's a glorious four-hour finale (part 1) ...seriously though, this is great, so many nice memories in here

[jgkidd]

This series was WHY I subscribed to WDWNT. I love exploring WDW's history.

[donm]

Great job as always Tom. I’m old enough to remember the opening year and have been hooked ever since. Brought back many great memories.

[mikebowser]

Love this video! Most channels only focus on a single ride or show's history. I love that this covers all the changes year by year as the park evolved. I even love watching the name changes and it helps to correlate when certain things opened in relation to other parts of the park closing. I know your channel is WDW but I would love to see the same thing done for Disneyland in California. ❤

[charliemacsart]

Finally got around to binging this whole video, fantastic job! I never got to experience the parks at any moment in this video (first time going was early 2000s), but man does it feel like this half of the park's history is the best period. The next 25 years has some good things, definitely, but I really think the Eisner era was the peak time for the parks, in terms of quality and new additions.

[angusrock]

Say what you want about Eisner, but he brought the company out of a nose dive and headed on a good track. He had Walt’s vision

[maryroberts]

I loved Wonderful World of Disney on Sunday night

[judycole]

I love this series, thanks for doing it❤️

[jeffguthrie]

So fun to binge on this and so much information! Thanks everyone!

[SMTraz]

Thanks for these wonderful videos! Love the breakdown by year.

[jenniehayes]

Thank you for this video! It brought back so many amazing memories. Some I had forgotten, some I will never forget. Comprehensive & masterfully done! Chef’s kiss!❤

[DS-pett]

Thank you for your hard work and thorough overview down memory lane.

[TouringBassist]

Longest Youtube video I've ever watched front to back, this is an incredible undertaking. What's the total time spent on this project (if you can even estimate)? It's probably the most comprehensive source of WDW info I've ever seen consolidated into a single video. Is there anything else that approaches this depth out there?