| meanwhile back at the Mouse House... |
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| ...and you thought your boss was a rat. I became a lead in '86. In Merchandise, that was the equivelant of store manager. At this time I was responsible for anywhere from 1 to 17 stores at one time, supervising anywhere from 1 to 52 merchandise hosts and hostesses at one time. Like my cool Harry Potter glasses? (it was a long day...) This party for the park leads was a Las Vegas night. |
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| On Main Street near the hub with Terri Poithress. This was in 1993, and we were in the midst of being the first chicks ever to be allowed to work Frontierland Parade pest...I mean guest control. For some reason, when we wore these "masculine costumes" (Pirates and Big Thunder), the guests did what was requested of them (as opposed to wearing dresses from the Tiki Room or Haunted Mansion.) Aside from asking people to sit down (so everyone could see most of the parade), the job involved a lot of heavy physical labor (you know...pushing 200 lb. stanchion carts, benches...all that jazz). We were very proud of ourselves when we graduated from being addressed as "ladies" to being called "maggots" with the rest of the guys! |
| *note...we think the costume designers were woman haters! There wasn't a flattering costume with pants in the entire park for any gal! |
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| ...somewhere under Pirates...here's Ron Voss leading one of the annual ride evacuation classes. They were very boring...and mandatory. You know, when you work a ride for the entire summer and it gets squirley breaking down a lot, you already know all the evac routes. |
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| Kind of dark, but we're surrounding "Pee Wee," the auctioneer figure on the Pirates set. He got that name because he used to have hydraulic spaz attacks and drop his pants. Pee Wee is the very latest in technology, costing $17 million in 1990, the cost to build the entire park in 1955. |