Today was all about boyhood homes – that of Walt and Roy Disney, and Mr. Clemens, better known as Mark Twain.
Downtown Marceline.
This is downtown Marceline, Missouri – the boyhood home of Walt and Roy Disney. Dad and I paid a visit to it today.
The museum in Marceline.
We paid a visit to the Walt Disney Hometown Museum, housed in the Santa Fe Depot, right next to the railroad tracks. Trains run by at high speed many times a day.
Marceline depot.
Part of the interior is meant to look like the classic old train depot that it once was.
Walt’s visit
Midget Autopia
I went on this attraction at Disneyland in 1962. Disney gave it to Marceline when it was removed, but it is no longer in any shape to run. They would like to restore it – I donate $5 to the cause.
How much to go to Kalamazoo?
Dad wanted to buy a train ticket – sadly, no one at the window in the Marceline Santa Fe Depot.
Who’s the leader of the club…
This Mickey Mouse flag hangs above you in one of the rooms at the Walt Disney Hometown Museum.
Mouse dolls.
A couple of original Mickey Mouse Dolls from way back then.
Which way to the Disneyland?
Tour guide
A nice front porch in the Walt Disney Hometown Museum.
Light it up
The first light desk Walt used, along with Ub Iwerks, to animate on.
No one’s sleeping in that castle.
A nice model with a nice painting of a younger Walt Disney on the wall behind it.
The hostess at the Walt Disney Hometown Museum
This is Inez, the hostess at the Walt Disney Hometown Museum. She met Walt Disney several times.
Steamed!
This great old steam locomotive sits in the park adjacent to the Walt Disney Hometown Museum in Marceline, Missouri.
Coke corner
The Coca Cola Refreshment Corner at Disneyland is based loosely on Walt’s experiences in this corner location.
I’ll have the real thing.
The Coca Cola Company paid for the restoration of this old billboard painted on the side of the building in Marceline, Missouri.
A boyhood home
That house, which has people living in it, was the boyhood home of Walt and Roy Disney, the farm is behind it.
Dreaming
This is the son of Walt Disney’s Dreaming Tree.
Walt’s family barn
Dad stands inside Walt’s family barn.
By the Mark Twain
Welcome to Hannibal, Missouri!
More downtown Hannibal
Whitewash
I put Dad to work painting the fence white.
The house where Mark Twain grew up, in Hannibal.
The home where the boy who was the model for Huck Finn lived, in Hannibal.
The dining area in Mark Twain’s boyhood home.
More of Mark Twain’s boyhood home.
This is where the girl who was the model for Becky Thatcher lived.
Mark Twain’s dad really was a justice of the peace.
Old Man River – yes, that’s the Mississippi River.
Mark Twain statue by the Mississippi River on the waterfront of Hannibal.
By the Mark Twain.
This Mark Twain paddle wheeler sits at a dock on the waterfront of Hannibal, Missouri in the waters of the Mississippi River.
That’s it for this day. Tomorrow the National Transportation Museum in St. Louis.
Click here for Day 9 of the adventure with my Dad.
