Pleasure Island (Walt Disney World Resort)
Pleasure Island was an area of the Downtown Disney shopping, dining and entertainment district at Walt Disney World Resort. It officially opened on May 1, 1989. In September 2008, all of its clubs were closed, however, its retail stores and restaurants remain open. On November 18, 2010, Disney announced that it would be renamed and rethemed to Hyperion Wharf. This revitalization project was expected to be completed by spring 2013. However, the Hyperion Wharf concept is on indefinite hold and is being rethemed.
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“Every pleasure or pain has a sort of rivet with which it fastens the soul to the body and pins it down and makes it corporeal, accepting as true whatever the body certifies.”
—Socrates (469–399 B.C.)
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—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
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—Frank Pittman (20th century)