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As of January 1, 2019, we have closed our forums. This is a decision we did not come to lightly, but it is necessary. The software our forums run on is just too out-of-date and it poses a significant security risk. The server software itself must be updated, and it cannot be without removing the forums.
So it is with a heavy heart that we say goodbye to our long-running forums. They came online in 2000 and brought together so many wonderful Disney fans. We had friendships form, careers launch, couples marry, children born ... all because of this amazing community.
Thank you to each of you who were a part of this community. You made it possible.
And a very special thank you to our Guides (moderators), past and present, who kept our forums a happy place to be. You are the glue that held everything together, and we are forever grateful to you. Thank you aliceinwdw, Caldercup, MrsM, WillCAD, Fortissimo, GingerJ, HiddenMickey, CRCrazy, Eeyoresmom, disneyknut, disneydani, Cam22, chezp, WDWfan, Luvsun, KMB733, rescuesk, OhToodles!, Colexis Mom, lfredsbo, HiddenMickey, DrDolphin, DopeyGirl, duck addict, Disneybine, PixieMichele, Sandra Bostwick, Eeyore Tattoo, DyanKJ130, Suzy Q'Disney, LilMarcieMouse, AllisonG, Belle*, Chrissi, Brant, DawnDenise, Crystalloubear, Disneymom9092, FanOfMickey, Goofy4Goofy, GoofyMom, Home4us123, iamgrumpy, ilovedisney247, Jennifer2003, Jenny Pooh, KrisLuvsDisney, Ladyt, Laughaholic88, LauraBelle Hime, Lilianna, LizardCop, Loobyoxlip, lukeandbrooksmom, marisag, michnash, MickeyMAC, OffKilter_Lynn, PamelaK, Poor_Eeyore, ripkensnana, RobDVC, SHEANA1226, Shell of the South, snoozin, Statelady01, Tara O'Hara, tigger22, Tink and Co., Tinkerbelz, WDWJAMBA, wdwlovers, Wendyismyname, whoSEZ, WildforWD, and WvuGrrrl. You made the magic.
We want to personally thank Sara Varney, who coordinated our community for many years (among so many other things she did for us), and Cheryl Pendry, our Message Board Manager who helped train our Guides, and Ginger Jabour, who helped us with the PassPorter-specific forums and Live! Guides. Thank you for your time, energy, and enthusiasm. You made it all happen.
There are other changes as well.
Why? Well, the world has changed. And change with it, we must. The lyrics to "We Go On" for IllumiNations say it best:
We go on to the joy and through the tears
We go on to discover new frontiers
Moving on with the current of the years.
We go on
Moving forward now as one
Moving on with a spirit born to run
Ever on with each rising sun.
To a new day, we go on.
It's time to move on and move forward.
PassPorter is a small business, and for many years it supported our family. But the world changed, print books took a backseat to the Internet, and for a long time now it has been unable to make ends meet. We've had to find new ways to support our family, which means new careers and less and less time available to devote to our first baby, PassPorter.
But eventually, we must move on and move forward. It is the right thing to do.
So we are retiring this newsletter, as we simply cannot keep up with it. Many thanks to Mouse Fan Travel who supported it all these years, to All Ears and MousePlanet who helped us with news, to our many article contributors, and -- most importantly -- to Sara Varney who edited our newsletter so wonderfully for years and years.
And we are no longer charging for the Live Guides. If you have a subscription, it's yours to keep for the lifetime of the Live Guides at no additional cost. The Live Guides will stay online, barring server issues and technical problems, for all of 2019.
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Thank you, thank you, thank you for your amazing support over the years. Without you, there's no way us little guys could have made something like this happen and given the "big guys" a run for their money. PassPorter was consistently the #3 guidebook after the Unofficial and Official guides, which was really unheard of for such a small company to do. We ROCKED it thanks to you and your support and love!
If you miss us, you can still find some of us online. Sara started a new blog at DisneyParkPrincess.com -- I strongly urge you to visit and get on her mailing list. She IS the Disney park princess and knows Disney backward and forward. And I am blogging as well at JenniferMaker.com, which is a little craft blog I started a couple of years ago to make ends meet. You can see and hear me in my craft show at https://www.youtube.com/c/jennifermaker . Many PassPorter readers and fans are on Facebook, in groups they formed like the PassPorter Trip Reports and PassPorter Crafting Challenge (if you join, just let them know you read about it in the newsletter). And some of our most devoted community members started a forum of their own at Pixie Dust Lane and all are invited over.
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Growing up the department store we used to go to was Two Guys.
We also had an ice cream house called Buxton's, kind of like Friendly's but better, they had great fried shrimp in the basket.
There was also a fast food hamburger place called Mr. Bee's. The tables all looked like honeycomb with glass tops and little pipe cleaner bee's were in them. They used to give them away as well. I remember having a birthday party there one year.
We had a little 5 and 10 called Bantam's, used to love to go there, it was next to the Shop Rite and my brother and I would go there and drool over the toys, as well as the fish and gerbils.
Thanks a lot Debbie. Roller Skates with keys? Now I got a Melenie song going through my head!!! (I got a brand new pair of roller skates--you got a brand new key). I also miss A and W drive ins!!! Unfortunately we travel east when we travel. So Bobs Big Boy will have to wait for a while. Amazing that they are still there though across the water. Well gang thanks for keeping this going. Come on lets go to Woolworths for lunch!!!
Does anyone remember Burger Chef? It was a fast food place. I think they may have been bought by Hardee's - which I can't stand.
We had Burger Chef, too. And I think you're right. Ours is now a Hardee's as well.
Woolworth's - man, great memories. Parents used to drop us off at the mall that had a Woolworth's in it and we would go order BLT's and grape soda. When I went to Mexico City in 1990, there was a Woolworth there. They had a guy dressed up as an Icee bear standing outside. He really, uh, liked American girls
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Picking up our Brasilian exchange student at the a/p
Some bygones are a good thing....like the "Bump",& big stretchy elastic bands that hooked on the ends to hold your books together (as opposed to backpacks) which either broke, spilling your books everywhere or were used by certain boys to get your attention in class. Also thinking of Ovaltine which was supposedly popular with astronauts, but not with me!
Mr Rogers!
Captain Kangaroo
Lucy
The Untouchables
Combat( RIP Viv Morrow)
Gun Smoke
Carol Burnett(Loved that Tarzan yell)
ALF
Steve McQueen
James Dean
Robert Mitcheum(Stick with me kid. I'll have you farting through silk)
China Beach
Thirtysomething
Sesame Street(I know its still there-but I lost relating to it)
rock and roll(Groups use to have more then one hit sometimes)
Growing up in Cleveland I miss:
May Company Dept. store They became Kauffman's and the Macy's
Higbee's Dept. store They're Dillard's, n ow and it's n ot the same. The downtown store had the best malts in the basement under the escalators. They're also the store windows you see in the beginning of The Christmas Story.
Halle's Dept. store. home of Mr. Jingling and the biggest Christmas tree.
Grant's -It was something like Woolworth's
Lastly, Euclid Beach Amusement Park It had the best frozen custard, popcorn balls and candy kisses.
Liz
Growing up in Cleveland I miss:
May Company Dept. store They became Kauffman's and the Macy's
Higbee's Dept. store They're Dillard's, n ow and it's n ot the same. The downtown store had the best malts in the basement under the escalators. They're also the store windows you see in the beginning of The Christmas Story.
Halle's Dept. store. home of Mr. Jingling and the biggest Christmas tree.
Grant's -It was something like Woolworth's
Lastly, Euclid Beach Amusement Park It had the best frozen custard, popcorn balls and candy kisses.
Liz
I still order popcorn balls and candy kisses (amazing taste) from Euclid Beach's online store!
I miss and old greasy spoon in Greenville, SC called Tuckers. My dad practically grew up there and he made sure to take us every chance he got. I think it might still be there, but time and owners have changed, it is no longer the same great restaurant it used to be.
I LOVE Waffle Houses too. Luckily I can find those when I travel to Houston or San Antonio, or if I am traveling east.
And Shoney's I remember them. THose are harder for me to find. I still remember my 5th birthday cake catching on fire at the Shoney's. (Dad didn't think about the paper canopy for the circus theme being over the candles when he lit them, I didn't blow them out fast enough.)
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