The Richard F. Irvine Ferry - Walt Disney World - Lake Buena Vista, Florida

Once you've arrived at Walt Disney World and parked your car, there are a couple of options to get from the main parking area to one of the parks...one is the monorail system (a must ride just for the fun of it in my opinion) and the other is a ferry ride across Seven Seas Lagoon. One of those ferry's is the Richard F. Irvine (seen in the photograph above).

When Walt Disney World opened in 1971, the Admiral Joe Fowler Riverboat plied the Rivers of America in Frontierland. It was joined in May 20, 1973 by the Richard F. Irvine Riverboat. The original Fowler Riverboat was damaged during a refurbishment at a backstage dry dock in 1980. It was broken up for scrap and the Irvine Riverboat in 1981 became the sole operating riverboat. In 1996, the Irvine was completely refurbished and returned to service as the renamed Liberty Belle Riverboat. The name change was to make its theme more closely to Liberty Square and make the name easier to remember. Subsequently in 1999, one of the ferries that transported guests across the Seven Seas Lagoon to the Magic Kingdom was re-christened Richard F. Irvine (see above) so as to continue to honor the late Imagineer’s contributions while the other was rechristened the Admiral Joe Fowler.

The Irvine Riverboat (and later Ferry) had been named after Richard Irvine who was born in Salt Lake City, Utah, on April 5, 1910. He was the son of a prominent Los Angeles ophthalmologist, Alexander Irvine, who was Walt Disney’s personal eye doctor for years and was given a window on Disneyland’s Main Street. “Dick”, as he was known, became an art director at 20th Century Fox and was hired by Walt in 1952 to act as liaison between Walt Disney Productions and an architectural firm that was being considered for designing Disneyland. He had previously worked at the Disney Studios as an art director on Victory Through Airpower (1943) and The Three Caballeros (1944) so he knew how Walt worked and the Disney culture. Imagineer John Hench recalled, “Because Dick had worked with movie set designs, creating structures and settings, he understood our needs more than standard architects.” Dick headed design and planning for all Disneyland attractions, including significant contributions to the Haunted Mansion and Pirates of the Caribbean. He also guided the creation of attractions featured at the 1964-65 New York World’s Fair, including the It’s a Small World attraction. He went on to help shape the master plan and attractions for Walt Disney World and, in 1967, was appointed executive vice president and chief operations officer of WED Enterprises (now Walt Disney Imagineering).

Concerning Walt Disney World, Irvine told author Bob Thomas, “I often wonder how things would have been done differently if Walt had been alive. You know darn well, it would have been entirely different from what we did do.”

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‧ Camera - Nikon D7200 (handheld)
‧ Lens – Nikkor 18-300mm Zoom
‧ ISO – 320
‧ Aperture – f/5.6
‧ Exposure – 1/640 second
‧ Focal Length – 300mm

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Taken on: May 27, 2016

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