Fort Wilderness is now nothing but a memory and a few fake logs to surround some restrooms. Thanks to these photos of yesteryear, we can jump back in time to July 1967 and get a nice interior view of the ol’ fort. I have also enclosed two detailed shots. One of a little boy up top eating a snack, and the other featuring the sign on the flagpole.
If you squint, you can read what it says: “The flag which flies over Fort Wilderness has 15 stars and 15 stripes. The original of this flag that flew over Fort McHenry in 1814 inspired Francis Scott Key to write the Star Spangled Banner.”
See more vintage & current Disneyland Tom Sawyer Island photos at my main website.
I'm not sure exactly why, but it still makes me crazy that Fort Wilderness was closed for so long, and then removed. Could it be that expensive to rebuild the old fort? Didn't they realize how great it looked on the island? Etc, etc....
ReplyDeleteMy wife, for all intents and purposes Mrs. Mouse Monthly, has never been inside the fort. By the time we became regular guests of the park and I took her out to TSI, it was already off-access. Hopefully they'll open back up someday.
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