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I’m a California school teacher and this is perfect for generating an interest in local history. On behalf of many school teachers like myself, I want say thank you for preserving this video and making the information freely available for all of us to enjoy.
I went to DCA when I graduated Marine Boot Camp on March 1, 2001 with my family and was able to watch the awesome show. I miss it so much it always brings back great memories for me. It gave me great pride being from California and serving my country. Its been so long since its closing and so sad. A lot has changed from when I was still a young man and now I have a family of my own. I wish could go back to that place in time when things made a little more sense.
Amen brother. I wish the world would still be as it was 22 years ago when you became a Marine. America was a great country and such a better place to live back then. Thank you for your service. The Marines are the best! You were at DCA less than one month after it opened. Golden Dreams was my favorite attraction in California Adventure. Despite seeing the show numerous times, I never got tired of it. The best part is the song at the end.
Love this. I only got to see it twice in the Park. Then and now after watching this video, I still get teary-eyed. I love California and proud to be born and raised there.
I loved going to this. This and "seasons of the vine" were such a great break from the craziness outside. Always loved the song at the end too. Thanks for posting!
I absolutely want the theme music you hear while waiting. It is so beautiful and just never gets old in my head! I love that show of the state I'm born in.
Dude, the audio quality is INSANE!! I watched this film with my cousin way back when and I loved it so much! It made me proud to have been a Californian. Even though I didn’t see this film every chance I got (my cousin wasn’t so moved LOL) it still stuck with me. And Whoopi was perfectly cast in this. I miss this attraction, thanks so much for uploading this!
@@NiusSpeaks I will be 100% honest with you and admit that when I red back my comment, I don’t know why I wrote that! 🤣🤣🤣 I probably typed too fast or something. Regardless, this video did bring back some good memories. When I visit the Little Mermaid attraction, I ALWAYS bring up Golden Dream to the annoyance of my friends and family LOL. It’s not a ride without me yelling “Where’s Whoopi?”
I'm so glad you posted this. I was there the first day DCA opened. I was a cast member at the time and when I left The Disneyland Resort it was a while before I was able to return as a guest. Golden Dreams was one of my favorite attractions. Every chance I could I would go and see it. I was bummed when I found out they turned it into The Little Mermaid attraction and never released Golden Dreams as a Video for purchase. So when I saw that you posted this I has to add it to my favorites. Again, thanks for posting it.
Dated though it may be, I would love to see it revived, with more current events added to it. Sadly, though---I fear that could never happen, considering all the negativity and evil that has filled the headlines, as of late. Under those circumstances, it's better if this presentation remains as a tribute to a kinder, gentler time. If only it could be made into a DVD, though.
Having helped open the Park as a Cast Member, and also having been on the Mission Tortilla Show Kitchen stage, this movie had surprisingly become one of my favorite things about the park in its early days. At the time, I and a fair number of Cast Members derided it for being pure glurge and just a bit too much California-cheerleading. Mainly, it's because while we liked the park for the things it offered, we scoffed at the whole "let's have an entire theme park about California...IN California!" you know, as if all of us were completely unaware of what California was/had/offered/did/represented/presented/etc. We knew it wasn't for _us_ but the fact remained that the vast bulk of Disney's patronage at the time were people from California, so it didn't exactly make a lot of sense. Why go have made-from-scratch clam chowder (which, yes, I *do* still have the recipe for) from the Pacific Warf Cafe, when you could just go to Monterey Bay or San Francisco's Marina district to have? (they were literally less than a day's drive from LA) Why go to a theme park to try Boudin Sourdough when, again, you could just go to San Fran to have it? (less than a day's drive, less than $100 and about an hour at best flight) However...it grew on us, as did a lot of the park at its inception. While some of us were sad to see the original concept go away (and ALL of us were sad to see the Monorail-turned-Golden-Gate-Bridge along with those beautiful mosaics to make a "living postcard" go away, what the ever livin' _hell_ Disney????), in the end it's for the best for the park as a whole that it's being turned into essentially "Hollywood Studio Themepark West Coast, with a splash of Disney History." I just wish Disney would release the *original* version of this film....What people don't realize is that the scene with the Father and Son working on the rail line setting explosives? The original version of this movie did not slow down and fade out to the scene of the steam locomotive's smokestack....It showed the explosive going off and rapidly covering the screen with smoke. You don't actually see them die, but you can _easily_ tell that's what happened. At the time I was shocked and pleasantly surprised that Disney would finally take off the whole shiny "everything is sunshine" veneer and show something real. But, sadly, it was changed. I do understand why, who the hell goes to an amusement park to get depressed? But still, it was a refreshing change (in my eyes) for Disney.
I was a passholder at the time the park opened. It easily became my favorite place to go to get a break from the business of Disneyland. I also watched this movie every time it showed and I do remember the original version with the explosives. I was wondering why this version seemed different. I was working back at route 66 the summer Mdiway Mania opened and the back office of the pier had the panorama of the new look for the park. I remembered being so sad about the changes to come, but I never imagined the park would look as it does today. Interesting to see the changes, so sad to see my favorite things go. I just hope they don't get ride of Grizzley and Redwood Trails. My little peace of heaven in an ever changing amusement park. Thanks for the share, man. Btw, miss those tortillas!!
I remember coming here maybe a year or two after it opened (I was 7-8), back when I lived in California and this attraction, along with the Mission Tortilla and the clam chowder were all the most memorable things about that place, I never got to go back to it until around 2011 and all of it was gone by then but I kept wondering if I had imagined all of it.
They've gotten rid of almost everything in California Adventure that has to do with California. The only things left standing that are California based are Grizzly River Run, The Redwood Trail and the Grand Californian Hotel. I predict in ten years those will be gone too and they'll have changed the name of the park.
RayRayofCali I actually predict in ten years the California theme will be back with a vengeance and enforced in DCA. I'm also predicting that Disney won't be as big as it is now and will have lost the rights to Marvel and Lucasfilm resulting in all Marvel attractions and Galaxy's Edge being closed and torn down.
I was a 6th grade student in California when California Adventure opened. My teachers took us as an educational experience and milked the crap out of this ride - it was perfect timing lol
I lived only 10 min away from Disneyland when DCA opened. I went to DCA about 3 months after it opened and thought it was the worst amusement park. I only stayed 2 hours cause the park was just bad. I nicknamed the old DCA "waste of space". I only saw this movie one time, the first time I went to DCA. I forgot how good it was till I saw this video. Thanks for the only good memory of the early DCA. I like DCA much better now since they have revamped it and visit that park more now.
Thank you for posting this Martin! This was a favorite for us and our girls. It's too bad that Walt's original vision of having a place for both parents and kids is being replaced by decisions solely based on the almighty dollar. (Although Walt was definitely into the almighty dollar himself.) I can understand why they're moving toward Comic Book Movies and Star Wars and all-those make the bucks and stock price is king. But I sure miss the days when attractions were more of a blend of rides and theatrical shows like this one. The new Avengers Campus "action shows" seem like a bad import from Universal Studios, (Although the flying Spider Man is cool.) But that's progress I guess. Sigh.
Recently been trying to unearth anything on the ICON gay fashion designer of MGM fame ADRIAN. There is virtually nothing of him. No biography, authorized or not. a Couple books showcasing his fashions from films, but lean on the man himself. Married for studio reasons to cover his lifestyle, and had a son named Robin. I have seen only 2 images of him in photos on ebay. I came across a brief blurb on IMDb about this film which he briefly appears! It appears to be THE ONLY moment of the man on film! Thank YOU!
pov you’re here after reading jennette mccurdy’s memoir
YUP
Her sad face made me crack up. Her frown was so good and so natural they had to put her in the main shot lmao!
Ditto
Time stamp is 11:49
"they used you"
If you're looking for Jennette McCurdy: Her scene starts at 11:28.
Is that her at 11:49?
Thanks haha
Hahaha thanks
@@BlueGuy98 two braids, a great sad face, and looking like she just pooped? It's gotta be.
THANK YOU YOU LEGEND😂
Jennette McCurdy at 11:48. she's even running her tongue over the hardened teeth gunk they used, just like she described in her book. neat.
Jennette McCurdy is at 11:49. She talked about this in her book.
Thank you I was looking for this!
You’re the best 🎉
Thanks you for preserving its memory...
11:49 is the shot of Jennette McCurdy for anyone else who is reading her memoir!
Wow the audio is amazing!
You're the only video with the actual audio file and not a recording of it, it's so much more enjoyable that way. Thank you.
Our diversity and multi cultural community is what makes California the greatest State
I’m a California school teacher and this is perfect for generating an interest in local history. On behalf of many school teachers like myself, I want say thank you for preserving this video and making the information freely available for all of us to enjoy.
I went to DCA when I graduated Marine Boot Camp on March 1, 2001 with my family and was able to watch the awesome show. I miss it so much it always brings back great memories for me. It gave me great pride being from California and serving my country. Its been so long since its closing and so sad. A lot has changed from when I was still a young man and now I have a family of my own. I wish could go back to that place in time when things made a little more sense.
Amen brother. I wish the world would still be as it was 22 years ago when you became a Marine. America was a great country and such a better place to live back then. Thank you for your service. The Marines are the best! You were at DCA less than one month after it opened. Golden Dreams was my favorite attraction in California Adventure. Despite seeing the show numerous times, I never got tired of it. The best part is the song at the end.
Love this. I only got to see it twice in the Park. Then and now after watching this video, I still get teary-eyed. I love California and proud to be born and raised there.
💯
I've been to Disneyland 11 times & seen this film multiple times. I thought it was well done. Thx for posting it.
THANK YOU for the cleaner version of this. Saw the other one, and it was too flashy. Started to make me sick.
Used to cry everytime my parents took us in. Now I can finally watch it at 24
22:56 - I always remember her saying that. Been over a decade and I still remember!
Hahaha same!!
The stories just touch the surface of the truth. Thank you for posting....I loved this attraction.
I loved this film and always watched it when going to DCA.
love it the end of this video made me cry where they started singing "Just One Dream
I loved going to this. This and "seasons of the vine" were such a great break from the craziness outside. Always loved the song at the end too. Thanks for posting!
It’s been so long since I’ve seen this film! It was my favorite to go see when DCA opened . Thank you so much ! It made my day to come across this
I absolutely want the theme music you hear while waiting. It is so beautiful and just never gets old in my head!
I love that show of the state I'm born in.
Dude, the audio quality is INSANE!! I watched this film with my cousin way back when and I loved it so much! It made me proud to have been a Californian. Even though I didn’t see this film every chance I got (my cousin wasn’t so moved LOL) it still stuck with me. And Whoopi was perfectly cast in this. I miss this attraction, thanks so much for uploading this!
i didn't believe you lol. i am listening on studio monitors. just about rocked my damn 100 year old house. lol
@@NiusSpeaks I will be 100% honest with you and admit that when I red back my comment, I don’t know why I wrote that! 🤣🤣🤣 I probably typed too fast or something. Regardless, this video did bring back some good memories. When I visit the Little Mermaid attraction, I ALWAYS bring up Golden Dream to the annoyance of my friends and family LOL. It’s not a ride without me yelling “Where’s Whoopi?”
@@jessebhaugen the quality of the audio really shocked me it is on youtube lol.bliss up.
I'm so glad you posted this. I was there the first day DCA opened. I was a cast member at the time and when I left The Disneyland Resort it was a while before I was able to return as a guest. Golden Dreams was one of my favorite attractions. Every chance I could I would go and see it. I was bummed when I found out they turned it into The Little Mermaid attraction and never released Golden Dreams as a Video for purchase. So when I saw that you posted this I has to add it to my favorites. Again, thanks for posting it.
I missed this so much. Once Joe Montana appeared I started to tear and I yelled out “ Yeaaah Go Niners!!! “ That’s when I really enjoyed this movie.🤙🏽
This should be playing somewhere in the park still.
Dated though it may be, I would love to see it revived, with more current events added to it. Sadly, though---I fear that could
never happen, considering all the negativity and evil that has filled the headlines, as of late. Under those circumstances, it's
better if this presentation remains as a tribute to a kinder, gentler time. If only it could be made into a DVD, though.
@@lugenehaynes7584 maybe one day it would be released on Disney plus
Having helped open the Park as a Cast Member, and also having been on the Mission Tortilla Show Kitchen stage, this movie had surprisingly become one of my favorite things about the park in its early days. At the time, I and a fair number of Cast Members derided it for being pure glurge and just a bit too much California-cheerleading. Mainly, it's because while we liked the park for the things it offered, we scoffed at the whole "let's have an entire theme park about California...IN California!" you know, as if all of us were completely unaware of what California was/had/offered/did/represented/presented/etc.
We knew it wasn't for _us_ but the fact remained that the vast bulk of Disney's patronage at the time were people from California, so it didn't exactly make a lot of sense. Why go have made-from-scratch clam chowder (which, yes, I *do* still have the recipe for) from the Pacific Warf Cafe, when you could just go to Monterey Bay or San Francisco's Marina district to have? (they were literally less than a day's drive from LA) Why go to a theme park to try Boudin Sourdough when, again, you could just go to San Fran to have it? (less than a day's drive, less than $100 and about an hour at best flight)
However...it grew on us, as did a lot of the park at its inception. While some of us were sad to see the original concept go away (and ALL of us were sad to see the Monorail-turned-Golden-Gate-Bridge along with those beautiful mosaics to make a "living postcard" go away, what the ever livin' _hell_ Disney????), in the end it's for the best for the park as a whole that it's being turned into essentially "Hollywood Studio Themepark West Coast, with a splash of Disney History."
I just wish Disney would release the *original* version of this film....What people don't realize is that the scene with the Father and Son working on the rail line setting explosives? The original version of this movie did not slow down and fade out to the scene of the steam locomotive's smokestack....It showed the explosive going off and rapidly covering the screen with smoke. You don't actually see them die, but you can _easily_ tell that's what happened. At the time I was shocked and pleasantly surprised that Disney would finally take off the whole shiny "everything is sunshine" veneer and show something real. But, sadly, it was changed. I do understand why, who the hell goes to an amusement park to get depressed? But still, it was a refreshing change (in my eyes) for Disney.
I was a passholder at the time the park opened. It easily became my favorite place to go to get a break from the business of Disneyland. I also watched this movie every time it showed and I do remember the original version with the explosives. I was wondering why this version seemed different.
I was working back at route 66 the summer Mdiway Mania opened and the back office of the pier had the panorama of the new look for the park. I remembered being so sad about the changes to come, but I never imagined the park would look as it does today. Interesting to see the changes, so sad to see my favorite things go. I just hope they don't get ride of Grizzley and Redwood Trails. My little peace of heaven in an ever changing amusement park.
Thanks for the share, man. Btw, miss those tortillas!!
Wow. Thanks for this really insightful comment. Interesting read.
Omg I feel exactly the same way about California adventures ...
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I remember coming here maybe a year or two after it opened (I was 7-8), back when I lived in California and this attraction, along with the Mission Tortilla and the clam chowder were all the most memorable things about that place, I never got to go back to it until around 2011 and all of it was gone by then but I kept wondering if I had imagined all of it.
Who is here looking for Jeanette McCurdy?
I have been looking for this for such a long time. Thank you.
11:48 for anyone looking for Jeanette McCurdy.
If you’re here because of Jennette McCurdy‘s new book, you can find her at 11:49
This movie scarred me for life. All of the original California Adventure did.
They've gotten rid of almost everything in California Adventure that has to do with California. The only things left standing that are California based are Grizzly River Run, The Redwood Trail and the Grand Californian Hotel. I predict in ten years those will be gone too and they'll have changed the name of the park.
RayRayofCali I actually predict in ten years the California theme will be back with a vengeance and enforced in DCA. I'm also predicting that Disney won't be as big as it is now and will have lost the rights to Marvel and Lucasfilm resulting in all Marvel attractions and Galaxy's Edge being closed and torn down.
land of libtards - trump
Get help.
I was a 6th grade student in California when California Adventure opened. My teachers took us as an educational experience and milked the crap out of this ride - it was perfect timing lol
I remember seeing it when my family went to Disneyland in 2004
*root* - Yeah, me too! 😀
Our loss.
I lived only 10 min away from Disneyland when DCA opened. I went to DCA about 3 months after it opened and thought it was the worst amusement park. I only stayed 2 hours cause the park was just bad. I nicknamed the old DCA "waste of space". I only saw this movie one time, the first time I went to DCA. I forgot how good it was till I saw this video. Thanks for the only good memory of the early DCA. I like DCA much better now since they have revamped it and visit that park more now.
Jennette McCurdy @ 11:49
Well you found your narrator. That was me in the into talking
11:45 if you're looking for Jennette. ❤
I wish they bring this back
11:48 It's little Jennette McCurdy!
I love it
I wish i could have see this show
i've seen this show in person JUST ONE TIME before Ariel took over
who's here for Jennette mccurdy? 11:49
can u do that for splash mountain
Crank, Gamer, & Ghost Rider director Mark Nevildene plays Steve Jobs at 17:40.
Thank you for posting this Martin! This was a favorite for us and our girls. It's too bad that Walt's original vision of having a place for both parents and kids is being replaced by decisions solely based on the almighty dollar. (Although Walt was definitely into the almighty dollar himself.) I can understand why they're moving toward Comic Book Movies and Star Wars and all-those make the bucks and stock price is king. But I sure miss the days when attractions were more of a blend of rides and theatrical shows like this one. The new Avengers Campus "action shows" seem like a bad import from Universal Studios, (Although the flying Spider Man is cool.) But that's progress I guess. Sigh.
I would give anything to go back to 23:02, disney is cool but it will never be the same as this
I'm in the early stages of writing a video. There's a specific clip from this show I want to use. Would you mind if I used your footage?
Is this all that exist of the movie?
Wow, she was NOT happy to be there
I’m gonna be in California!
Reading the comments here… I feel I’m at a book club meeting 😄
I really love Whoopi Goldberg. She's a guest star in Sesame Street many times.
I wanna make my own video called Peach Dreams 🍑 it’s about the state of Georgia especially Atlanta. Staring Me.
Recently been trying to unearth anything on the ICON gay fashion designer of MGM fame ADRIAN. There is virtually nothing of him. No biography, authorized or not. a Couple books showcasing his fashions from films, but lean on the man himself. Married for studio reasons to cover his lifestyle, and had a son named Robin. I have seen only 2 images of him in photos on ebay. I came across a brief blurb on IMDb about this film which he briefly appears! It appears to be THE ONLY moment of the man on film! Thank YOU!
is that Wopi Golberg at the start of the show? the voice sounds so much like hers
Yes, it's Whoopi
came here from jennette mccurdy’s book lol
Same!
I was looking for the X files episode but not luck
@@sopita4306 Also couldn’t find it :(
same lol, can’t find the x files episode though
That family died...
21:41 San Francisco 49ers! 🏈
21:38 Los Angeles Dodgers! ⚾️
Golden Dreams Is Coming To Walt Disney World In Florida Such As Epcot Such As In Future World Such As In The Land Pavilion
Not only is that sentence so grammatically wrong but why the hell would Disney put a show about California in Disney World in Florida?
18:37, is that Celine Dion or Cher singing that song?
Heather Headley
@@douglasreynolds8842 Never heard of her. She sounds a lot like them.
And now people can’t wait to get out of Taxafornia aka California.
Who was the mailman? 🥱
This was terrible, did nothing for Califia or her people or the culture
Damn this anti-Trump film about how immigrants made America great!
This is one of the dumbest comments I've ever seen on a Disney park related video.
Yet yours is dumber.
Amen
16:29 "Freedom of expression" - What a quaint, old-fashioned idea. Good thing people have gave up that nonsense.