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...But of these sophisms and elenchs of merchandise I skill not...
Milton, Areopagitica

Except he had found the
standing sea-rock that even this last
Temptation breaks on; quieter than death but lovelier; peace
that quiets the desire even of praising it.

Jeffers, Meditation On Saviors


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12.3.04

Club 33
  • The phone booth in the upstairs hallway is a reproduction of the one used in the film The Happiest Millionaire, and it contains a working telephone. Club guests are permitted to make free calls from this booth.

  • Despite lingering rumors, the Trophy Room no longers houses (functional) hidden microphones and speakers, although they were indeed installed when the club was built. Their planned function was not to allow Walt Disney (or the Club 33 staff) to eavesdrop on guests' conversations -- to do so would have meant that Walt and/or the staff would have had to spend their evenings sitting in the tiny audio control booth adjacent to the Trophy Room. The primary intent of the speaker/microphone system was to allow Wally Boag (star of Disneyland's "Golden Horseshoe Revue" for many years) to entertain Walt's club guests on special occasions by conversing with them through the mechanism of an audio-animatronic bird. The Trophy Room was also wired to support a variety of other audio-animatronic animals (such as raccoons), but these plans were never implemented.

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