EPCOT Center Photo Search!
Do you have old EPCOT Center photos?
If you have “vintage” EPCOT Center photos, we want your help! In celebration of EPCOT Center’s 30th Anniversary on October 1, 2012, we’re looking for old EPCOT Center (or Epcot) photos and park maps or various other ephemera scans from your personal archives to compile into an article celebrating 30 years of this legendary Walt Disney World theme park.
As of 2013, we’ve collected a lot of photos, and we’re primarily interested in the following at this point:
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- Wonders of Life
- CommuniCore
- Restaurants
- Universe of Energy
- Horizons
- Spaceship Earth Reflecting Pools
- Topiaries
- Journey into Imagination (entire pavilion)
- Murals
- Entrance Plaza
But we’re open to any photos, send whatever you have, and we’ll use what we can! It doesn’t matter whether people are in the photos or not–people add interest to a lot of these photos since their clothing helps establish the period. So dig out your old scrapbooks and pull those shoe-boxes of family vacation photos out from under your beds, and help us out!
We’re looking for photos of anything and everything EPCOT Center related. Whether it’s a family photo with people in it, a landscape shot, or a seemingly mundane photo of a restaurant menu or some signage. It doesn’t matter whether you have 1 photo or 100 photos. We want it all! We are, after all, EPCOT Center nerds!!! If you’re not sure of whether the photos you have will work for this project, please send them anyway!
Depending upon how many photos you have, it may take multiple emails. We also use Dropbox, so you can get photos to us that way. Alternatively, if you don’t want to email them, but want to host them (or have them hosted already) on Flickr or another photo sharing site, please send me a link to your photo-page(s). If you’re using Flickr, make sure your photo sharing settings allow others to grab HTML links to the photos. Not all photos submitted will be used, but if you submit photos, you will be credited.
If you know of anyone who might have old EPCOT Center photos that they might be interested in sharing, please pass this article along to them!
Please note that any photos you provide will potentially be used on DisneyTouristBlog.com (and on DisneyTouristBlog.com’s social media accounts) for Epcot 30th anniversary blog posts. By submitting photos, you’re agreeing that you have the authority to allow us to use them (i.e. you took the photo yourself, your dad took it on vacation, a neighbor gave you some photos and doesn’t care what you do with them, etc.). I’ll spare you any further unnecessary legal jargon…
Know anyone who might have some old EPCOT Center photos to share? PLEASE help us spread the message by tweeting out the link to this page and sharing it on Facebook, Pinterest, or other social media sites!
Apparently I may be in the same boat too, considering the WoL photos for research purposes on a WoL-centric site of interest (starting point is the photos section, feel free to navigate around the site!), and if this is permissible, you can feel free to spread the word on the site. Thanks!
Tom, found some photos from 1983 – my first visit to EPCOT! I sent them in yesterday. Thanks!
Found it ! 1989
I’ll try to email that tomorrow from work.
Excellent, thanks!
There’s a thread in the general discussion on the WDWMagic forum with a lot of cool vintage Epcot photos. Maybe some posters would give you permission to use their photos?
I have 2 great Epcot Center souvenir VHS tapes that I love to watch as part of my “get pumped for my Disney trip” routine even if literally NONE of the attractions in those videos exist in their formerly recorded states. One video is from 1989 and the other is from 1994. They are fabulous. Will be sending some EPCOT Center photos your way!
When is the deadline? I’m going to WDW tomorrow and won’t be able to get pictures from my parents until next week!
I’ve got a photo of me at 5 (1987) years old sporting an awesome figment sweatshirt in Captain Eos pre-show area! I’ll get it tonight and scan it to you tomorrow!
***NOTE**** I’ve replied to everyone who has sent me photos thus far (thank you all so, so much!). If you haven’t received a response from me and sent your photos before the timestamp on this comment, I did NOT receive them.
Thanks!
Tom
I know have a project for the rest of the week. I want to say i have a ton of old pictures laying around somewhere.
Awesome! Send any and everything you find!!! Thanks!
havent found anything as of yet, however it is a long weekend coming up
Will send you a couple pics from my Honeymoon. We enjoyed EPCOT BEFORE it was even a year old!
Our 30th anniversary (for which we are returning to WDW) is only 6 months behind EPCOT’s!
Will email. . .
Can’t wait to see your post with this information! FUN!!
That makes it easy to remember your anniversary at least, right? 😉
Thanks for the photos!
just sent you mine, hope you like it!
Got them–that’s a lot of Spaceship Earth photos, thanks!!! 🙂
Excellent! I went to WDW for the first time in 1987– I often look back at the photo album from that trip (I was 4!)– plus I still have old maps– I’ll see what I can scan for you.
Thanks!!!
I’ve got scrapbook (well those photo albums that are terrible for your pictures because they’re sticky, but it was the ’90s and we just didn’t know any better) pages that are scanned. Can I just send those (rather than going into photoshop and isolating individual photos)? They often have pieces of park maps (we cut them up like nobody’s business back in the day) on them.
Absolutely! Send them on in!
I have quite a few, and about 10 pics (maybe) of Horizons’ demolition. I’ll have a look and see if I can find them!
Can’t believe I’m the same age as Epcot!
That would be great!!! …and sad.
Hi Tom. Sounds fun. What is your Dropbox address?
[email protected] – Thanks!
I have an Original park map from the 1st year the park was open. With Horizons Coming soon and all. Can that be some sort of help for what you are doing?
Absolutely–send a scan of it and any other papers you have my way! Thanks!
I have some photos from a visit to WDW in 98 and 2000. I will have to scan them and send them, will that be acceptable? I do not have any copies saved to send them to you via jpg.
Let me know.
Thank you,
Ronnalee
Hi Ronnalee,
That would be great! I don’t know what format your scanner outputs to, but I’m pretty good with photo-stuff, so I can convert them to jpg if necessary!
Thanks so much!!!
-Tom