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Her home city had recently adopted strong anti-discrimination legislation and she worked long, hard and successfully to overturn it. She lived in Miami at the time and took a very strong stance against gay rights. The picture below features our son Rob with the famous bird in about 1978.Īlas, the partnership between Miss Bryant and the FCC began to break down in 1977. The Orange Bird appeared regularly near the Sunshine Tree Terrace and posed for pictures with guests. Carol has managed to add a few of these vintage items to her collection! There were Orange Bird coin banks, comic books, drinking glasses, t-shirts, plates and mugs. The record included an illustrated 10 page storybook that told the back story of The Orange Bird.ĭo you remember the slogan “A breakfast without orange juice is like a day without sunshine”? That was Anita Bryant and the Orange Bird.
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There was even a full length 45 rpm LP written by the Sherman Brothers and narrated by Bryant.
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They were on billboards all over Florida, in print ads and in TV commercials. Soon Miss Bryant and the Orange Bird were appearing everywhere! She enjoyed a successful singing career, with 11 of her songs reaching the top 100 in the charts, before she signed on as FCC spokeswoman in 1968. The public face of the FCC was Anita Bryant who had been crowned Miss Oklahoma in 1958 and was second runner-up in the Miss America pageant of 1959. He communicated through small thought balloons! The Florida Orange Bird was quickly designed by Imagineers at WED Enterprises, and a massive marketing campaign began! The little bird was simple in design and he didn’t speak. They began negotiations in 1967 and in October 1969 a deal was finalized! The Florida Citrus Commission (FCC) would sponsor a 3 million dollar pavilion in Adventureland that included The Tropical Serenade (now The Enchanted Tiki Room), The Sunshine Tree Terrace snack bar and the rest of The Sunshine Pavilion. Do you remember Donald Duck Orange Juice? The Commission and the Disney Company had been partners since 1941. One of those partnerships was with the Florida Citrus Commission. lots and lots of money! To keep ahead of the constant demand for cash the Disney Company entered into partnerships with a number of companies and groups who “sponsored” different aspects of the project. Today we know it as Walt Disney World, the most popular tourist destination in the world!Ī project of that magnitude required money. The Disney Company had acquired 57 square miles of land in central Florida where Walt envisioned a huge family entertainment complex. That little tune up above probably sounds very familiar to you.įor the many generations of Orange Bird fans who are younger than I am, here’s a little background to help you understand where our favourite little bird came from!īack in the mid 1960’s Walt Disney was busy building his latest daring venture which he called the Florida Project. If you’re as old as dirt, like I am, you were probably glued to your television set back in the 1960’s and you watched a little orange bird urging you to drink Florida Orange juice. It was sung by an Oklahoma beauty queen named Anita Bryant! ♫♪ Orange juice with natural vitamin C ♪♫ ♫♪ For fresh tasting orange juice, naturally ♪♫
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