So the map artwork had to be from a time between the announcement of this new ride and the completion of the ride building. It looks more like John Hench concept art or the rendering below than the Space Mountain built in '74. It can't be later than June '75 because you still see Flight to the moon and there is no mention of it's successor Mission to Mars. You don't see any sign of Big Thunder- so it's definitely earlier than '80. Carousel of Progress and Space Mountain are there- so it had to be '74 or later. Some things you see: Pirates of the Caribbean- so it was made after '73. Without a year printed on the map it was up to the process of deduction to know when it was made. The best part: No one on the project wanted it and it was to be trashed if I didn't take it home. I imagine it could have been there for 30 years. The exposed surface of the paper was significantly more yellow than any other part.

So how long had it been there? Why was it there? Who put it there? Did some custodial guy buy it at a gift shop, leave it behind the wall until after his shift, then never remember to come back for it? By the looks of things it was stuck behind the framing for some time. I had always been on the lookout for these things since boyhood- long before ebay. Poster-sized, old, and in pretty good shape. It looked like it could have been a big ol' souvenir poster map and it was. An old folded-up yellowed piece of paper shoved between wooden framing and drywall. So one day I was behind a wall and THERE IT WAS. Anyway, the offices behind are your regular, windowless run-of-the-mill boring offices. You know, the shop owners would live in apartments above their shops back in olden times. These are designed to look like turn-of-the-century shop keepers' residences. On the upper level, however, there are long narrow walkways behind the facades which accommodate decorations (lamps, chairs, etc.) intended to be seen from the street below.

That is, the space between those great-looking Main Street facades and the actual buildings behind them. On the ground level there are few areas of dead space between walls, mostly due to large doorways and windows.

(Magic Kingdom) we had the thrill of walking between the walls. While doing occasional work on Main Street, U.S.A. Lincoln (3) Muppets (2) Music (3) Mystery (9) Nature's Wonderland (7) New Orleans Square (6) Orange Bird (2) Paul Frees (1) PeopleMover (10) Peter Pan (2) Photos (1) Pirates of the Caribbean (9) Pixar (5) Pleasure Island (1) Podcast (1) Progress City (1) Props (2) Railroad (2) Resorts (2) River Country (4) Rivers of America (2) Roy Disney (1) Scale Models (21) Skyway (3) Song of the South (2) Sound Effects (2) Souvenirs (3) Space (3) Space Mountain (7) Splash Mountain (1) Tangled (2) The Living Seas (1) Then and Now (17) Tiki Birds (2) Tilt Shift (2) Tomorrowland (39) Tomorrowland 67 (8) Treehouse (1) Vintage Disneyland (3) Walt Disney (15) Walt Disney Family (7) Walt Disney Family Museum (1) Walt Disney World (6) Ward Kimball (1) Wonders of Life (1) World of Motion (2) World's Fair (2) Yeti (1) Abandoned Disney (8) Adventure Thru Inner Space (2) Adventureland (12) America Sings (1) Animal Kingdom (2) Animation (19) Animatronics (20) Area Music (7) Backyard Imagineering (6) Behind-the-Scenes (39) Big Thunder Mountain (3) California Adventure (6) Captain E.O. (1) Carousel of Progress (12) Castle (7) Characters (6) Club 33 (1) Concept (13) Construction (15) Country Bear Jamboree (2) Death (2) Disney Channel (1) Disneyland (50) Disney-MGM Studios (1) Donald Duck (3) Entertainment (5) Epcot (28) Fantasyland (16) Fess Parker (1) Film (25) Frito Kid (4) Frontierland (14) Germany (1) Hall of Presidents (4) Haunted Mansion (10) Hidden Mickeys (2) Holidays (1) Hollywood Studios (1) Horizons (3) House of the Future (1) Illustration (3) John Lasseter (4) Journey Into Imagination (2) Jungle Cruise (15) Lake Buena Vista (1) Liberty Square (3) Lillian Disney (2) Ludwig Von Drake (1) Magic Kingdom (23) Main Street U.S.A (12) Maintenance (1) Management (4) Maps (13) Marc Davis (8) Marty Sklar (3) Matterhorn (6) Monorail (4) Mr.

Magic maps for magic walls