Theme Park Rangers Radar: Living With the Land marathon, Orange Bird Nest, Disney pony nameĪfter the layoffs, Korkis wrote books under his given name and expanded his reach. “Then he was laid off … and continued that love for the company, even when maybe he had personal disappointments there.” “He had spent all this time devoting his life to recording all these things, making sure things were remembered,” Caldwell said. He was laid off during the company’s recessionary cutbacks of 2009. Korkis wrote under the pen name of Wade Sampson while still working for Disney.
“He started writing Disney history in the ’80s, when Disneyland wasn’t even that old and Disney World was certainly still very new.” “He had this vision from the time that he was very young, that the history of Disney needed to be preserved,” she said.
“He was kind of pioneering about writing about Disney history at a time when there wasn’t all that much of it,” said Leigh Caldwell, an editor for AllEars. He taught drama and English to middle schoolers for 20 years before moving to Orlando in the mid-1990s. Korkis was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and grew up in Glendale, California. First impression: Epcot’s pickle milkshake, Muppets at Brew-Wing, more
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