WDW Port Orleans resort: Does anyone have any OLD resort maps or information handouts?

"Andre Willey" <andre@cixREMOVECAPS.co.uk> wrote in message
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> I wonder if anyone who hoards stuff (like me ;-) ) might have lurking in a
> cupboard or attic somewhere any OLD Port Orleans information handouts?
> (i.e. the section now known as French Quarter)
>
> I'm looking for anytime in the 1992-1998 sort of era, when the resorts had
> wonderfully elaborate multipage "newspaper" style handouts which were
given
> out at the Front Desk. They contained not only direct guest info such as
> maps, amenities & restaurant opening hours, but also tons of fun
historical
> "backstory" details and faux background articles too. I've got the Dixie
> Landings "Sassagoula Times" one which is fascinating, but I didn't venture
> over to the then sister resort of Port Orleans in the early days, so I
> never picked up a copy of the Port Orleans version.
>
> Can anyone help with my hunt, have you got a stash of goodies from your
old
> trips stored in a box somewhere? I'll happily scan anything that you've
got
> and return it to you if you wish - it's all research for a website I'm
> working on about the Port Orleans resorts.
>
> Many thanks for any help you can give me,
>
> Andre

I'm sure I have this stuff in my archives, since I save everything from my
trips. The Port Orleans publication was called the "Sassagoula Sentinel", I
think, and was similar to, but distinct from, the "Times". Chances are that
I might have copies from '92, '94, and/or '98.

Feel free to contact me at the email attached to this message - but I don't
regularly check that, so it may be a few days before I remember.

N via D

> I'm sure I have this stuff in my archives, since I save everything from my
> trips. The Port Orleans publication was called the "Sassagoula Sentinel", I
> think, and was similar to, but distinct from, the "Times". Chances are that
> I might have copies from '92, '94, and/or '98.
>
> Feel free to contact me at the email attached to this message - but I don't
> regularly check that, so it may be a few days before I remember.
>
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Hmm, isn't that interesting? I wonder why a "Sentinel" wasn't part of
the PO welcome package we got in '93? I saved everything in a
scrapbook that the kids (young women now) still pull out and look at
to this day and all there is is a Times. Oh that WDW, always an
adventure, never predictable. lol

<johnson917@cheshire.net> wrote in message
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> Hmm, isn't that interesting? I wonder why a "Sentinel" wasn't part of
> the PO welcome package we got in '93?

It's possible that I have "Times" and "Sentinel" mixed up - but I'm all but
certain that there were two different publications. If I were at home right
now, I could dig the box out of the closet and look at them. That will have
to wait a few more hours.

N via D

"Andre Willey" <andre@cixREMOVECAPS.co.uk> wrote in message
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> Many thanks for the offer, I'll drop you an email. I wonder if the
> content is similar to the Dixie Landings "Sassagoula Times" version, but
> with some Port Orelans differences - such as the resort map on the back
> for example? Maybe they juggled the articles around to favour the Port
> Orleans theme?

From what I recall, the backstory of the resort centers around two
brothers - one who stayed "in town" (Port Orleans), and one who went
"upriver" (Dixie Landings). Each of the two publications' historical
articles centers on one of the brothers, with a short mention of the other.

As I said in another posting, I will try to remember to pull these out this
evening.

N via D

"Andre Willey" <andre@cixREMOVECAPS.co.uk> wrote in message
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> I'd be fascinated to find out anyway. I have the Dixie Landings ones from
> 1996 and 1998, and then the cut-down version from later (1999?) which
> trimmed out most of the faux-history stuff and just left a single-sheet
> version with only the guest-related bits remaining.

Here's what I found last night. The bad news is that I don't have anything
older than late 1997 - apparently I didn't become a compulsive archivist
until after my first two visits.

The two publications are indeed the Times and the Sentinel, as I remembered.
However, the Port Orleans version is just four pages, rather than six (or
eight?). It has a lot less of the backstory material. The lower half of the
front page contains the resort map.

More details to follow - I can send you that via direct email.

N via D

"Andre Willey" <andre@cixREMOVECAPS.co.uk> wrote in message
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> Many thanks. I wonder if that 1997 Dixie Landings one is the later style
> that I have? (mine has no date on it) It has four large-format pages; page
> 1 is Welcome [from the Dixie Landings cast] and lots of columns of
> "Services" info; page 2 upper half is Dining & Shopping at Dixie, bottom
> half is same for Port Orleans (with period style artwork); page 3 is
multi-
> column layout with Recreation, Transportation, Phone Directory, Messages,
> etc; final page is maps - the upper part being a full Dixie Landings plan,
> the lower part is detailed plans of just the four Mansion Buildings.
>
> I don't have a large-format scanner at home, so I might just snap some
> digital stills of what I've got and upload them to a website to see if
they
> match what you've got.

Mine are definitely distinct for the two resorts. The resort map for PO is
on the lower half of p.1 of the Sentinel, while the map of Dixie is on the
back page of the Times.

I'll send you a page-by-page when I get home. Should be easy enough to
attach jpgs as well.

Nicholas