An interesting place

[Pinky]

I have many favorites but I want to list one that is very interesting:

Club 66

As far as I know, this place is still in the Brrghs. Why do I like it?

It is a tribute to a little known private club that serves alcohol in Disneyland. It is very hard to find and very exclusive. It is called Club 33.

Do an Internet search and find tidbits about it - where the nearly hidden entrance is, etc. You can find a handful of items on Ebay from the club.

A member of this club, I believe can invite like 8-9 friends to the park for "free" as long as they dine in the club for lunch or dinner. I think the personal cost for the club is ballpark $7500 per year. Cool, eh?

[Elmer]

It's a really nice place - wonderful to get away from the crowds

[Pinky]

A better name for that place, considering it's in the Brrghs would be:

Club 33 Below


lol

[Pinky]

Great info on Club 33 (and anything true or false in the realm of urban legends) can be found at www.snopes.com. Specifically at:

http://www.snopes.com/disney/parks/club33.htm

The membership for a single member is $7500. Annual dues are "only" $2250.

[Katsandra_Picklebee]

That is so COOL! I didn't know there was a place like that.

Also, isn't there a "Club 88" somewhere on another street?

[Pinky]

I've been all around the Brrghs in recent days and I havent seen such club. Perhaps it is on another street - one of Minnie's?

It's either Club 66 or Club 88 somewhere out there. But the real Club 33 is what I wanted to discuss anyways.

[Elmer]

Club 88 - I seem to recall it's on one of the TTC streets.

[Lily]

I seem to think its on one of Minnie's Streets

~Lily

[LIttle Bill]

I live bout 45 mins from Disneyland. Did you know that there's also a 1/2 basketball court in the Matterhorn?

[Elmer]

::chuckle:: it's more like 1/3 - not a whole lot of room in there <g>.

[ocTrevor]

It's a 5 year waiting list to become a member at club 33

Want to know why it was named club 33? For the original 33 sponsors that helped to start Disneyland.

Club 33, from everyone I have heard from, is simply fantastic dining. And seeing how it is right above the Blue Bayou (open to the public, arguably the finest dining available in Disneyland, the restaurant that overlooks Pirates of the Carribean), you get all the fine dining you could ever want in such a tiny area. Also, Club 33 is the ONLY place in Disneyland where alcoholic drinks are served Of course, California Adventure is a different story.

There are quite a few Disney/Disneyland/Disneyworld tributes in TTO, another one that comes to mind is "Walt's popsicle shop" which, popsicles were always a fave for Walt. and actually the whole map concept of a "hub" leading to other "lands" is Disneyland original.

The designers have also broken a couple of Disney taboos but I won't go there

[Pinky]

There were not 33 original sponsors.

From the website:
Club 33 was intended as a place where Walt would entertain friends and business associates (including the park's forty-seven participants), but Walt died before the club was finished. It was left to others, therefore, to decide what to do with the club; with Walt gone, the club's original reason for being no longer made sense. The forty-seven participants were polled, and thirty-three of them opted for turning Walt's club into a private club, one in which the general public could obtain membership for a fee. Thus this private club came to be called Club 33, and the address 33 Royal Street was assigned to it. (It had been the intention all along to assign addresses to the shops, restaurants, and other structures on Royal Street, but the address of 33 Royal Street was not given to Club 33 until after the club's name had already been decided upon.

[ocTrevor]

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.

[Pinky]

Half truths are the only reason urban myths are perpetuated.

It was not meant as an insult to get the full story.

[ocTrevor]

Oh I'm not insulted, I love learning new things. But if you think my half-truth is an urban myth, you should read some of the whopper myths out there!

If you want to research a really interesting place that never came to fruition (within Disneyland anyway), look up Discovery Bay by Tony Baxter. Man that woulda been one cool replacement for the Tom Sawyer Island/ Rivers of America area. Of course I assume you know of Mr. Baxter, because he's the creator of Figment/Dreamcatcher...

and here's the story of how Figment came to life in tonys own words from this great interview at http://pizarro.net/didier/_private/interviu/baxter.html :

Yes. I came up with the name and the idea. Steve Kirk, Andy Gaskill and X. Atencio gave him form. I was watching Magnum p.i. with Tom Selleck on TV. He was in the garden and the butler Higgins had all this plants and they were all uprooted. It was a mess. Magnum had been hiding a goat out there and the goat had eaten the plants. Higgins said, "Magnum ! Magnum ! Come out here ! Look at this ! Something has been eating all the plants in the garden." and Magnum says "Oh, it is just a figment of your imagination." And Higgins says: "Figments don't eat grass."

I thought, "There is this name, the word "figment" that in English means a sprightly little character. But no one has ever visualized it, no one had ever drawn what a figment is. So, here is great word that already has a great meaning to people, but no one has ever seen what one looks like." So we had a name that was just waiting for us to design the shape for it.

I came to work and said, "I have the answer for our show, it is going to be Figment." We had came out with "Dreamfinder" earlier. That was easy, he was a Santa Claus-type who is wise and older and knows all the great things, a great thinker. But we needed a child-like character that had like a one second attention span and was a little crazy.