bobjfs (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

Very true, cerritos. However, remember we're talking about the French Quarter at Disneyland, built in the middle 1950s along with the park. France was occupied by the Nazis from June 25, 1940 to December 1944. It is likely that flower pots made or hung at that time in France may have been embossed with swastikas. See, I think when Disney built the park, he bought the cheapest knick-knacs he could from Europe, including these pots. He probably figured nobody would look inspect them in detail.

cerritosblancos13 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

@bobjfs swastikas were the symbol of the nazis but they also mean other things. nazis borrowed that symbol and turned it into an evil thing. in actuality they go beyond nazism.

spanishjointdos (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

Their cd is on the itsaboutmusic website and it's madness! I'd check out Tony Allen or Connie Price & The Keystones for a more noir hip hop feel.

thedancingbuddha (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

I don't know if a CD is available in the "real world" but there may be a CD available at the Music and video shop on "Main Street USA". I will check next time I am there.

88mphchick (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

Hey, these guys are great! Do they have any CDs out? I loved their intro before Fantasmic when I was last there.

bobjfs (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

I'm not saying he was, although he did visit Germany in 1935. I know what I saw, and the flower pots in New Orlean's Square had swastikas on them. This was in the late 1970s when a friend of mine worked in Club 33 (which we had the honor of dining in at the time). This dialog has just gotten silly. If you don't believe it, fine. But that doesn't change the fact that I saw what I saw.

plucknpick (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

They weren't. Disney used many symbols from around the world to decorate. Even though he was himself involved with strange stuff, his advisors, designers, and Roy, were pretty much on top of things. I questioned one of the 1st gen designers, (He is in a non-profit educational corp with me) about that and other things I saw ad Disneyland, Anahiem. Walt was not a Nazi or any other wierdo per sey. He just lived fifty years ahead of the rest of us!

bobjfs (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

Oh yes they were. I have pictures somewhere in my archives. There are different versions of the symbol, from Buddhist to Nazi, but this was definitely the Nazi version. There was a lot of this in Europe following the war, and it was particularly inexpensive. I wonder if Disney went abroad and bought them in France?

donnie10855 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

They weren't swastikas. Trust me on this one.

bobjfs (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

I have a strange story from 30 years ago. I was walking around looking at the buildings and noticed that the flowerpots hanging from the buildings all had swastikas on them. I almost fell down when I saw them. Who knows where they got them, but the next time I went a few years later, they were all gone. Maybe those stories about Disney were true??