Name
Of the many stories regarding the origin of the name of Club 33, two stories are the most prominent. The first and official explanation states Club 33 gets its name solely from its address of 33 Royal street in New Orleans Square at Disneyland.
A second and less well known story speculates the name honors there being 33 corporate sponsors at Disneyland in 1966-1967 when the club was being built and opened. Those sponsors are as follows:
- Kodak
- Atlantic-Richfield
- Bank of America
- Bell Telephone
- C&H Sugar
- Frito Lay
- General Electric
- Global Van Lines
- Carnation
- Hallmark Cards
- Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co.
- Douglas Aircraft
- Coca-Cola
- Hills Brothers Coffee
- INA
- Lincoln Savings and Loan
- Monsanto
- Pendleton
- Pepsi-Cola
- Ken-L Ration
- Aunt Jemima
- Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe
- Spice Islands
- Chicken of the Sea
- Sunkist
- Sunsweet Growers
- Swift & Co.
- Timex
- United Air Lines
- Upjohn
- Welch's
- Wurlitzer
- Western Printing and Litho CO
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“Name any name and then remember everybody you ever knew who bore than name. Are they all alike. I think so.”
—Gertrude Stein (18741946)
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Could give it a clumsy name.
Let him name it who can,
The beauty would be the same.”
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