Enter the Weather Channel’s Magical Memories Sweepstakes for a chance to win a trip for four to Walt Disney World Resort or Disneyland Resort. After entering you’ll also qualify to be one of our daily winners where you can win a Weather Channel hat and a Disney Parks merchandise pin
Sweeps Rating: Okay
Eligibility: open only to legal residents of the fifty (50) United States and the District of Columbia who are at least eighteen (18) years of age at time of entry.
Entry Dates: begins on March 29, 2013 and ends on April 28 2013 at 11:59:59 p.m. ET
Enter by Mail: you may mail an entry (postcard or piece of paper inserted in envelope) with your full name, mailing address (P.O. Boxes are not permitted), phone number, email address and date of birth to:
The Magical Memories Sweepstakes
P. O. Box 133
Trenton IL 62293
Online Entries must be received by April 28, 2013 at 11:59:59 p.m. ET; Mailed Entries must be postmarked by April 28, 2013 and received by May 3, 2013.
Bonus Entries: create a “Once Upon a Disney Time” storybook to earn one additional online entry per day. Entrants who participate by mail may submit a second Mailed Entry that includes the words “Once Upon a Disney Time” with their name, address, phone, email and date of birth.
Entry Limit: two entries per person per day, whether via Online Entry or Mailed Entry
Thirty-one (31) Daily Prizes (one per day): a The Weather Channel hat (ARV: $9) and one Disney Parks merchandise pin (ARV: $12). Total ARV of each Daily Prize is $21
One Grand Prize: a four-night and five-day vacation package for four persons to Vacation Winner’s choice of either the Walt Disney World® Resort in Florida or Disneyland® Resort in California. The Walt Disney World® Vacation shall consist of the following: four round trip coach airfares to Orlando, Florida; provided, however, if Vacation Winner resides within 250 miles of the Walt Disney World® Resort, air transportation will not be provided; four round trip ground transfers between Orlando International Airport and the Walt Disney World® Resort; room accommodations for four nights at a hotel at the Walt Disney World® Resort; four 5-Day Magic Your Way Tickets with Park Hopper® Option; a $500 Disney Gift Card; one Welcome Basket in Walt Disney World® Resort hotel room for the Vacation Winner; VIP Viewing for four people for one (1) Disney parade or show; and Disney’s PhotoPass® product with a value $300. ARV: $6,309.52
Drawings: on each day following each of the thirty-one (31) days of the Sweepstakes Period, all eligible Online and Mailed Entries received on the previous day will be combined to create one pool for each of the thirty-one (31) Daily Prize drawings. Grand Prize drawing on or around May 6, 2013. Potential Daily Winners will be notified by mail within four (4) weeks of Daily Prize drawing. Potential Vacation Winner will be notified by email, mail or phone on or about May 7, 2013.
Thomas Joseph Robert Cushing, mailing address: 1406 N Griffith Boulevard, Griffith IN 46319-1544, phone number: (219) 972-0316, email address: [email protected] and date of birth: March 19, 1939 to:
The Magical Memories Sweepstakes
“Once Upon a Disney Time” my bride and I want to visit the Disneyland Resort and Magic Kingdom for the first time. Since I just celebrated my seventy-fourth birthday and my bride her sixty-first we would like to revisit our youth a bit. We will be married May 4th, 2013 here in Highland, Indiana.
Some years ago I was privileged to work with Joseph D’Agelo in Chicago at Wilding Motion Picture Studios from 1964 until 1969 as a full-time staff artist doing backgrounds, illustrations, slide-films, special effects, stop-motion, set-design, storyboarding, layout, lettering, type-setting, hot-stamping, inking, Opaquing, airbrushing, animation, and making props for stage sets. I was about 25-years old back then and Joseph retired around 1968.
Joseph worked with Walt Disney in Kansas City when they were both just starting out and he relayed stories of those days while we worked together. I was the youngest on staff and had the booth next to Joe’s. Those were some of the best days of my artistic career, until Bell & Howell bought out the studio and turned eleven of us out of thirteen on the street with two weeks severance pay and a bonus for the number years of service. The Art Director and an Assistant Art Director stayed on to deal with free-lance artists. We had prepared art for video and film presentations: industrial, educational, entertainment; both commercial and military. I would like Sheila, my bride, to see how early animation was accomplished, as I understand you have a building or exhibit dedicated to showing how it all worked frame by frame under an Oxberry Camera (or similar camera) with pegs for registration and numbered animation sheets.
I bugle for Bugles Across America, being a member of the Bugler’s Hall of Fame, in my retirement and sing with the “Just for Fun Ukulele Strummers”; entertaining at nursing homes, hospitals, luncheons, dinners, whatever. As American Legion Post 66 Official Bugler I provide the Final Salute for veterans of all USA service personnel. Singing and playing my horn keeps me young and active.
Sheila, my bride, refuses to fly, so we will drive to Florida arriving sometime after May 6th, 2013. This “Honeymoon” will be memorable for both of us; it’s just that it would be extra special if we had help with our expenses. We would always remember “Once Upon a Disney Time” and relay that wonderful time to anyone who would be willing to listen to our magical tale of adventure.
I hope this email will serve as an official entry in the magical memories sweepstakes. If not please let me know what I’ve done wrong.
Tom, click the link in the post and go to the Weather Channel’s website to enter.