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| Doobie
Fri 7/9/2004 4:55p | We've just received word from someone inside Disney that Disney Legend Sam McKim has passed away. For more on Sam's career you can read an interview Scarlett Stahl did with him for LaughingPlace.com here:
http://laughingplace.com/News-
ID506920.asp
I had the opportunity to meet Mr. McKim several times and he was one of the nicest people you could meet. He always remembered me and always had stories to tell. This is an all-too-familiar phrase with the ageing of Disney's legends, but he will be missed.
Doobie.
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| imadisneygal
Fri 7/9/2004 4:56p | I second that, Doobie. I had the good fortune to have lunch at Club 33 with Sam in 1997 after the rededication of the Disneyland Railroad. He will definitely be missed. Another sad day... |
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| Kevin Duck
Fri 7/9/2004 5:07p | Sam McKim was one of the nicest and most genuine people I've ever met. I was lucky to speak to him on several occasions, and he even remembered my name, which always surprised me with the number of people that he spoke with at Disneyana shows and other appearances.
He was truly a great man in all regards. I'll really miss seeing him. |
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| hopemax
Fri 7/9/2004 5:07p | How sad :-(
I met Sam through the NFFC. I have a special autograph book that I carry in the park with drawings of all the characters I had traced and colored from coloring books and their signatures next to them. When I handed my book to Sam, he flipped through it and I said, "Unfortunately, I didn't have a Pirate coloring book for me to trace to put an appropriate character next to his autograph." So he drew me a skeleton and signed it. My Dad brought the souvenier Pirates of the Carribbean books for him to sign and Sam laughed when he saw them and was surprised that my Dad had kept them all these years. I wondered what thoughts were going through his head as he flipped through each of the pages.
You know if there is a heaven, it must have one helluva theme park. |
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| Jim in Pasadena CA
Fri 7/9/2004 5:22p | I used to spend hours looking at that map of 'Pirates of the Caribbean' that Sam McKim drew -- it was the inside cover of the Souvenir Booklet.
I now have it as a jpeg file and use it as a desktop background from time to time.
Bye Sam! |
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| Dave
Fri 7/9/2004 5:26p | Yes how sad. He will truly be missed. My heart goes out to Dorothy. |
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| Schmitty Good Vibes
Fri 7/9/2004 5:27p | This is really sad. I never had the chance to meet him, as I've always lived in Northern California, and I could never afford trips South to the NFFC conventions.
I know his work from the Disneyland maps I pored over as a small kid - "This is what I want to go on first, then we'll go there . . . . ."
I thank the Janzen Brothers, the curators of The "E" Ticket Magazine, for aquatinting me with him. His craft on Main Street and Frontierland cannot be equaled. Walt was right to see the talent in this kid and make him a great Imagineer.
I've lost something with his passing.
I'm so sorry I never got to meet him (Yet).
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| Schmitty Good Vibes
Fri 7/9/2004 5:32p | Let me just go on about one thing. His work for Frontierland and "The Shootin' Arcade" was just about perfect. It captured the theme of the land so well, and when I paid 50 cents to shoot those buffalo and ducks, I was a real frontiersman, just like Davey Crocket!! |
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| Schmitty Good Vibes
Fri 7/9/2004 5:35p | By the way, for you youngsters, the Shootin' Galleries used to have tin targets and real projectiles. Nuthin like your sad electronic beams of today
(And boy did I clean that last sentence up so as not to be admine'd!! |
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| Ursula
Fri 7/9/2004 5:42p | Oh dear. |
