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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Famous quotes containing the words pleasure, island and/or world:
“Myou stared at him,
And found, less to your pleasure than surprise,
He seemed to know you and expect as much.”
—Robert Browning (1812–1889)
“I should like to have seen a gallery of coronation beauties, at Westminster Abbey, confronted for a moment by this band of Island girls; their stiffness, formality, and affectation contrasted with the artless vivacity and unconcealed natural graces of these savage maidens. It would be the Venus de’ Medici placed beside a milliner’s doll.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)
“Stevenson had noble ideas—as did the young Franklin for that matter. But Stevenson felt that the way to implement them was to present himself as a thoughtful idealist and wait for the world to flock to him. He considered it below him, or wrong, to scramble out among the people and ask them what they wanted. Roosevelt grappled voters to him. Stevenson shied off from them. Some thought him too pure to desire power, though he showed ambition when it mattered.”
—Garry Wills, U.S. historian. Certain Trumpets: The Call of Leaders, ch. 9, Simon & Schuster (1994)