Buena Vista Street

**Buena Vista Street** is a fictitious location and themed, "Land" in *Disney California Adventure* theme-park. It is themed to being a street in Los Angeles during the 1920s-early/mid 1930s which a young Walt Disney would have lived in when first coming to the city.

## Description

Buena Vista Street is a street in Los Angeles, California. By the 1920s it had a Pacific Electric Railway service Red Car Trolley system connecting the street to Carthay Circle, Hollywood Boulevard, and Sunset Boulevard, namely going directly to the Hollywood Tower Hotel.

### Features

* **1901 Lounge**:
* **Atwater's Ink & Paint**: This was an art-store which had an art-school on its second-floor. The shop was owned by an elusive individual named Ronald Pound.
* **Buena Vista Bugle headquarters**: This was the headquarters for local newspaper, *The Buena Vista Bugle*.
* **Carthay Circle**:
	+ **Carthay Circle Restaurant**: A fine-dining restaurant.
	+ **Carthay Circle Lounge**: A lounge in the restaurant.
* **Clarabelle's Hand-Scooped Ice Cream Parlor**: An ice cream store named after Minnie Mouse's best friend, Clarabelle Cow.
* **Fiddler, Fifer & Practical Cafe**: This was a café and bakery run by the, "Silver Lake Sisters", three popular singers from the vaudeville circuit and the Tip Top Club.
* **Elias & Co.**: This was a clothing-store run by a man named Elias Walther Parr.
* **Horace's** **Pawn Shop**:
* **Hyperion Bridge**:
* **Julius Katz & Sons**: This was a business run by Julius Katz, the owner of a repair shop for radios and watches.
* **Los Filez Five & Dime**: An establishment owned by one Mr. Dominguez. The second-floor held the, "EyeWorks" optometry office.
* **Main Entry Plaza**:
* **Mortimer's Market**: This was a business run by one, Mortimer McKenzie.
* **Trolley Treats**: Trolley Treats was a candy store run by Woody Hoffenburger.
* **Oswald's**: Oswald's was a gas-station and tire shop run by a man named Oswald.

## History

### Background

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## Appearances

### Disney's California Adventure

Buena Vista Street is one of the themed, "Lands" of Disney's California Adventure theme-park.

## Tower of Terror connections

### The Twilight Zone Tower of Terror

The Silver Lake Sisters are characters connected to the Twilight Zone Tower of Terror and have portraits in their café, commemorating performances at the Hollywood Tower Hotel. Resident Officer Calvin Blue is mentioned as having investigated a disappearance at the Hollywood Tower Hotel in The Buena Vista Bugle.

### Other connections

#### Disney's Hollywood Studios

Mailboxes on Buena Vista Street identify some denizens of the neighbourhood as Officer Percival P. Peabody and private-eye, Eddie Valiant. Officer Percival P. Peabody is a live-performed character originating from the, "Citizens of Hollywood" from Disney's Hollywood Studios where he is a police-officer of the Hollywood Police Department, active on Hollywood Boulevard and Sunset Boulevard. Eddie Valiant is a character from the film *Who Framed Roger Rabbit* (1989) whose offices are visible on Hollywood Boulevard. Both Sunset Boulevard and Buena Vista Street have recreations of the Carthay Circle Theatre.

#### The Rocketeer

On a bulletin-board outside of Atwater Ink & Paint is an advertisement for Bigelow's Air Circus, the circus which superhero Cliff Secord performed in. One of the posters in the Silver Lake Sisters' history advertises them performing in the South Seas Club, a Hollywood location from the Rocketeer.

## Behind the scenes

Buena Vista is the, "Main Street" of Disney's California Adventure which transitions guests into the Disney's California Adventure theme-park while being themed to 1920s Los Angeles. To be more specific, it is themed around a romanticized 1920s Los Angeles as it might have been experienced by a young Walt Disney. Up until 2011, the location of Buena Vista Street was known as the **Sunshine Plaza**. It was renamed for *Buena Vista*, a subsidiary of the Walt Disney Company which is Spanish for, "good view".

The names of the different establishments throughout Buena Vista Street are named for classic Disney cartoon characters, namely from the Mickey Mouse franchise. Others reference real-world history in relation to Walt Disney and the Walt Disney Company. These references include:

* 1901 Lounge- Walt Disney's year of birth.
* Carthay Circle Lounge- The Carthay Circle Theatre where Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs premiered in 1937.
* Clarabelle’s Hand-Scooped Ice Cream- Clarabelle Cow.
* Elias & Co.- Elias Disney, father of Walt.
* Oswald's- Oswald the Lucky Rabbit.
* Fiddler, Fifer & Practical Cafe- The Three Little Pigs.
* Horace's Pawn Shop- Horace Horsecollar.
* Julius Katz & Sons- Julius the Cat.
* Mortimer's Market- Mortimer Mouse and the original name of Mickey Mouse
* Willie's Churros- The Steamboat Willie

## Trivia

* The area has a fictional newspaper called the, Buena Vista Bugle. This newspaper has inconsistent continuity, generally being themed to being in-universe while often breaking the 4th wall.
* The street is similar to Hollywood Boulevard in being a, "Main Street" type land themed to being an early 20th century Los Angeles city street in a park which has the Twilight Zone Tower of Terror.
* Some Disney characters are also referenced as being active in the neighbourhood. This includes Roger & Anita Ratcliffe from *One Hundred and One Dalmatians* (1961) who has a dog-walking flyer up, Otis Bigelow's business, "Bigelow's Circus" from *The Rocketeer* (1991), Eddie Valiant from *Who Framed Roger Rabbit* (1989) the WDP Circus from *Dumbo* (1941), and Theodore Ogelvie from *The Apple Dumpling Gang* (1975). A woman named, "S. White" is also mentioned as running a cleaning business in reference to *Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs* (1937) which is referenced throughout Buena Vista Street. During Halloween time, a statue of the *Headless Horseman of Sleepy Hollow* from *The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad* (1949) is mounted on the street. During the Halloween, "Ooogie Boogie Bash" event, Oogie Boogie from *Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas* (1993) makes his base in the Carthay Circle Theatre to summon multiple villains, including Ernesto de la Cruz from *Coco* (2017) who puts on a posthumous musical-performance on Buena Vista Street.
	+ Town resident Theodore Ogelvie is also referenced in the queue for Big Thunder Mountain Railroad as an outlaw around 1880 who mining-magnate Barnabas T. Bullion is warned of. Incidentally, Bullion was a member of the *Society of Explorers and Adventurers*, the same colonial secret-society as evil Hotel Hightower owner, Harrison Hightower III. Bigelow's Air Circus also previously included the likes of Jock Lindsey, another member of the society as well as affiliate to Indiana Jones who excavated the *Temple of the Crystal Skull* decades after Hightower's rediscovery of the structure.
* Various members of The Walt Disney Company are referenced as denizens of the street in the 1920s. The implication of this being that they worked at the street prior to the company's founding.
* At the corner of Hollywood Boulevard and Sunset Boulevard in Disney's Hollywood Studios, there is a logo in the cement from, "Mortimer & Co. Contractors Est. 1928", referencing Mickey Mouse's first-appearance and original name; along with possibly being connected to his Buena Vista Street counterpart Mortimer McKenzie.

## References

1. ↑ https://duchessofdisneyland.com/california-adventure/julius-katz-sons/
2. ↑ https://dlrmaps.com/buena-vista-bugles/
3. ↑ https://disneylandmaps.files.wordpress.com/2016/03/vol-1-iss-1.pdf
4. ↑ https://duchessofdisneyland.com/california-adventure/buena-vista-street-mailboxes/
5. ↑ https://orlandoparkstop.com/news/feature/hidden-things-roger-rabbit-at-disneys-hollywood-studios/
6. ↑ https://duchessofdisneyland.com/california-adventure/atwater-ink-and-paint-art-supply-bulletin-board/
7. ↑ https://allears.net/disneyland/dlr-planning/buena-vista-street-disney-california-adventure/