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actually,
From snopes.com,
"Various origins are claimed for the name Club 33 -- everything from the official explanation that the club was named after its 33 Royal Street address to the notion that Walt picked the name simply because he liked the way the number '33' looked. An off-repeated tale -- that the club was named by Walt in honor of Disneyland's original thirty-three participants (park sponsors and lessees) -- has a kernel of truth to, but it is also doubly wrong: the name was not chosen by Walt, nor did Disneyland have thirty-three participants."
Its odd because for the years I worked there and the fan sites I used to visit were all under the impression that the "33 original" sponsors were the ones that helped create the name. The truth was there were 47 original sponsors/friends and of that only 33 went with the idea. So in essence, my version was only a half-truth. Good thing I was put right now, god knows how many people I would have lied to in the future.
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