LadyGracey
"If we can dream it, we can do it..."
- Joined
- Oct 24, 2006
I saw Marty Sklar at the gift shop in Coronado Springs Resort. I looked at the man and thought to myself "That looks like Marty Sklar!", then I noticed he had a Disney nametag on that said Marty. We just smiled at eachother and then he left. I still kick myself that I didn't say anything to him and thank him for everything he has contributed to the place I love so much! For anyone that doesn't know who he is, he worked with Walt Disney from the beginning and wrote many of his speeches, including the speech Walt gave at the opening of Disneyland that is now on the plaque of Main Street, USA.
Wow!
I would have smothered him with a zillion questions! Probably a good thing I didn't see him
Not an "at Disney" story, but still--
My dad sat next to X Atencio on a plane once when I was a little girl--only we didn't know just *who* he was at the time. My dad worked for Delta Airlines and was traveling to Atlanta on company business, and was seated in first class next to "a nice older gentleman who used to work for Walt Disney." They hit it off and talked the whole flight from Tampa, and my dad eventually told him how I was a huge fan of Mickey Mouse and all things Disney, and Mr. Atencio pulled out his personal Imagineering notepad, drew a Mickey, personalized it to me and signed it. It wasn't until many years later that I put two and two together and realized that he was a big-time, original Imagineer whose creations I idolized, and who really REALLY knew Walt and had worked with him. I don't even want to THINK about what that drawing is worth, but I would never sell it for anything!
So now every time I see him in an interview or one of the Imagineering manuals I think about that conversation my dad had with him and wish I had been there too. So many stories he could tell.