Despite another gas crisis, and a 2% drop in attendance, 1979 was still a year of construction and expansion, not the retraction in plans that the 1974 crisis had caused. While no notable opening or closures took place in 1979, several key construction projects were started. Most notably, after years of planning and design, physical construction began on EPCOT Center on October 1. The Resort Changes to the existing resort were few and far between. In the Magic Kingdom, Polaroid […]

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