Wade Sampson grew up in the Los Angeles area and since the age of five was a frequent visitor to Disneyland. He was an original member of both the Mouse Club and the National Fantasy Fan Club. He attended all the local conventions where he had the opportunity to interview many of the people who actually worked with Walt Disney. Wade describes his house as looking like "a toy shop and a bookstore exploded and I decided to live in the remains". For over two decades, he has been a freelance writer and a teacher and for a while was a dealer in animation artwork and related resources. His columns concentrate on sharing stories of Disney history that haven't been recorded elsewhere.

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• Forgotten Disney Character: Scoopy Bee (Wade's Wayback Machine)- February 3, 2010
• Paul Murry: The Wayne DeWald Letter (Wade's Wayback Machine)- January 27, 2010
• More Untold Tales of Captain EO (Wade's Wayback Machine)- January 20, 2010
• Mickey Mouse Revue (Wade's Wayback Machine)- January 13, 2010
• Forgotten Disneyland Heroes (Wade's Wayback Machine)- January 12, 2010
• The Untold Story of Captain EO (Wade's Wayback Machine)- December 30, 2009
• The Secret Origin of the Aristocats (Wade's Wayback Machine)- December 23, 2009
• Remembering Roy E. Disney (Wade's Wayback Machine)- December 17, 2009
• Walt Disney: Horrible Theater (Wade's Wayback Machine)- December 16, 2009
• Zorro at Disneyland (Wade's Wayback Machine)- December 9, 2009
• As Walt Said (Wade's Wayback Machine)- December 2, 2009
• Injun Trouble: The Neverland Tribe (Wade's Wayback Machine)- November 25, 2009
• The Complete Pleasure Island Plaques (Wade's Wayback Machine)- November 18, 2009
• Walt Disney Was NOT Born in Spain (Wade's Wayback Machine)- November 11, 2009
• Letters From the Adventurers Club (Wade's Wayback Machine)- November 4, 2009
• More Secrets of the Adventurers Club (Wade's Wayback Machine)- October 28, 2009
• The Dumbo That Never Was (Wade's Wayback Machine)- October 21, 2009
• More Walt's Words (Wade's Wayback Machine)- October 14, 2009
• The Mickey Mouse Club: FBI's Most Wanted (Wade's Wayback Machine)- October 7, 2009
• Walt's Wonderful World of Awards (Wade's Wayback Machine)- September 30, 2009
• Saludos Walt (Wade's Wayback Machine)- September 23, 2009
• The Original Disney 3-D (Wade's Wayback Machine)- September 16, 2009
• Forgotten Tales of Disney History (Wade's Wayback Machine)- September 9, 2009
• Chuck Jones: Four Months At Disney (Wade's Wayback Machine)- September 2, 2009
• Fred MacMurray: The First Disney Legend (Wade's Wayback Machine)- August 26, 2009
• Frank and the Fairies (Wade's Wayback Machine)- August 19, 2009
• Card Walker Speaks (Wade's Wayback Machine)- August 12, 2009
• The Other Epcot (Wade's Wayback Machine)- August 5, 2009
• A Tour of the West: Circarama 1955 and American Motors (Wade's Wayback Machine)- July 29, 2009
• Remembering Rescue Rangers (Wade's Wayback Machine)- July 22, 2009
• The Art of the Haunted Mansion: The Book (Wade's Wayback Machine)- July 15, 2009
• Lynn Hart: Adventurers Club and Forbidden Disney Song Writer (Wade's Wayback Machine)- July 8, 2009
• Ghostly Gracey: The Merlin of WED (Wade's Wayback Machine)- July 1, 2009
• Celebrating the Classic Submarine Voyage (Wade's Wayback Machine)- June 24, 2009
• Harry Cohn, Columbia and Walt Disney (Wade's Wayback Machine)- June 17, 2009
• Disney Attacks VD: The Rest of the Story (Wade's Wayback Machine)- June 10, 2009
• The Empress Lilly Story (Wade's Wayback Machine)- June 3, 2009
• Taking Another Look at Robin Hood (Wade's Wayback Machine)- May 27, 2009
• Mickey Mouse Theater of the Air (Wade's Wayback Machine)- May 20, 2009
• The Secret Origin of the Firehouse Five Plus Two (Wade's Wayback Machine)- May 13, 2009
• Van France's Thoughts On Walt Disney World Leadership (Wade's Wayback Machine)- May 6, 2009
• Who Was Madame Zenobia? (Wade's Wayback Machine)- April 29, 2009
• Why Frank Lloyd Wright Disliked Fantasia (Wade's Wayback Machine)- April 22, 2009
• Grumpy and the Seven Snow Whites (Wade's Wayback Machine)- April 15, 2009
• Disney and McDonald's (Wade's Wayback Machine)- April 8, 2009
• In Walt's Words: Sincerely, Walt (Wade's Wayback Machine)- April 1, 2009
• Crockett Memories from Fess Parker (Wade's Wayback Machine)- March 25, 2009
• Walt's Return to Marceline 1956 (Wade's Wayback Machine)- March 18, 2009
• The Golden Oak Ranch (Wade's Wayback Machine)- March 11, 2009
• The Disney Crew: A Remembrance (Wade's Wayback Machine)- March 4, 2009
• The History of Two Disney Christmas Traditions (Wade's Wayback Machine)- February 25, 2009
• A Forgotten Walt Interview From 1933 (Wade's Wayback Machine)- February 18, 2009
• The Great Disney Puppet Mysteries: The Tale of Two Bobs (Wade's Wayback Machine)- February 11, 2009
• Walt the Bibliophile (Wade's Wayback Machine)- February 4, 2009
• Some Day My Lawsuit Will Come (Wade's Wayback Machine)- January 28, 2009
• Tom Nabbe Is Tom Sawyer (Wade's Wayback Machine)- January 21, 2009
• A Belated Christmas Gift: The Disney Newspaper Strip (Wade's Wayback Machine)- January 14, 2009
• The Pleasure Island New Year Story (Wade's Wayback Machine)- January 7, 2009
• Happy New Year, Virginia Davis (Wade's Wayback Machine)- December 31, 2008
• The First Disney Television Christmas (Wade's Wayback Machine)- December 24, 2008
• The Roger Rabbit That Never Was (Wade's Wayback Machine)- December 17, 2008
• Song of the South That Never Was (Wade's Wayback Machine)- December 10, 2008
• Lt. Robin Crusoe, U.S.N. Premieres (Wade's Wayback Machine)- December 3, 2008
• Lt. Robin Crusoe, U.S.N. Remembered (Wade's Wayback Machine)- November 26, 2008
• Tribute to Imagineer Marvin Davis (Wade's Wayback Machine)- November 19, 2008
• Adventurers Club Final Farewell: Part Two (Wade's Wayback Machine)- November 12, 2008
• The Monorail Myth: The Rest of the Story (Wade's Wayback Machine)- November 5, 2008
• Craig McNair Wilson Remembers the Adventurers Club (Wade's Wayback Machine)- October 29, 2008
• Roger Cox (1945-2007): The Forgotten Adventurer (Wade's Wayback Machine)- October 22, 2008
• The Day Walt Disney Lost His Luck (Wade's Wayback Machine)- October 15, 2008
• Special Effect Secrets of the Adventurer’s Club (Wade's Wayback Machine)- October 8, 2008
• The Secret Origin of Pleasure Island (Wade's Wayback Machine)- October 1, 2008
• Sully Sullivan Speaks (Wade's Wayback Machine)- September 24, 2008
• Linda Woolverton and Belle (Wade's Wayback Machine)- September 17, 2008
• Walt Goes Hawaiian (Wade's Wayback Machine)- September 10, 2008
• Sounds Like Walt (Wade's Wayback Machine)- September 3, 2008
• Walt Disney aka the Gray Seal (Wade's Wayback Machine)- August 27, 2008
• Tinker Bell Talks To Me (Wade's Wayback Machine)- August 20, 2008
• A Farewell to the Adventurer's Club (Wade's Wayback Machine)- August 13, 2008
• Forgotten Disney Heroines: The Disney Secretaries (Wade's Wayback Machine)- August 6, 2008
• The Mickey Mouse Weekly Story (Wade's Wayback Machine)- July 30, 2008
• A Walk Inside Sleeping Beauty Castle (Wade's Wayback Machine)- July 23, 2008
• Walt Celebrates Disneyland 1965 (Wade's Wayback Machine)- July 17, 2008
• The Whole Tooth: Disney and Dentistry (Wade's Wayback Machine)- July 16, 2008
• Farewell to Pleasure Island (Wade's Wayback Machine)- July 9, 2008
• Whatever Happened to Walt’s Robot Friend, Garco? (Wade's Wayback Machine)- July 2, 2008
• The Best Walt Disney Biographies (Wade's Wayback Machine)- June 25, 2008
• World War One Walt (Wade's Wayback Machine)- June 19, 2008
• Walt Disney Recognition Day (Wade's Wayback Machine)- June 11, 2008
• The Little Disney Garage Nobody Wanted (Wade's Wayback Machine)- June 4, 2008
• Imagineering and Tom Fitzgerald (Wade's Wayback Machine)- May 21, 2008
• What Walt Knows About Girls (Wade's Wayback Machine)- May 14, 2008
• The History of it's a small world (Wade's Wayback Machine)- May 7, 2008
• The Rest of the Story (Wade's Wayback Machine)- April 30, 2008
• The Return of the Gremlins (Wade's Wayback Machine)- April 23, 2008
• Disney Dinosaurs (Wade's Wayback Machine)- April 16, 2008
• Jack Hannah Remembers Pirate Gold (Wade's Wayback Machine)- April 9, 2008
• Modern Mechanix Reveals the Secrets of Disney (Wade's Wayback Machine)- April 2, 2008
• The Cute Walt Story That Never Was (Wade's Wayback Machine)- March 26, 2008
• In His Own Words: Walt Remembers Marceline (Wade's Wayback Machine)- March 19, 2008
• The Magic of Darby O'Gill (Wade's Wayback Machine)- March 12, 2008
• Plane Crazy About Mickey Mouse (Wade's Wayback Machine)- March 5, 2008
• Ray Bradbury Shares Walt Disney's Vision and Legacy (Wade's Wayback Machine)- February 27, 2008
• WED Exit Interviews (Wade's Wayback Machine)- February 20, 2008
• The Song of the South Premiere (Wade's Wayback Machine)- February 13, 2008
• The Biggest Disney Comic Book in the World (Wade's Wayback Machine)- February 6, 2008
• In Walt's Worlds: Natural Walt (Wade's Wayback Machine)- January 30, 2008
• Khrushchev and Disneyland (Wade's Wayback Machine)- January 23, 2008
• Disney's B'rer Rabbit Hops Into the Funny Pages (Wade's Wayback Machine)- January 17, 2008
• Walt's Canadian Connection (Wade's Wayback Machine)- January 16, 2008
• Farewell to Joyce Carlson (Wade's Wayback Machine)- January 9, 2008
• Happy New Year to Disney's Hollywood Studios (Wade's Wayback Machine)- January 3, 2008
• Santa Walt (Wade's Wayback Machine)- December 27, 2007
• A Snow White Christmas Premiere (Wade's Wayback Machine)- December 19, 2007
• Farewell to the Disney Gallery (Wade's Wayback Machine)- December 12, 2007
• Uncle Scrooge's Triple Anniversary (Wade's Wayback Machine)- December 5, 2007
• Disney Cartoons That Aren't Disney (Wade's Wayback Machine)- November 28, 2007
• Walt Disney's Last Live Action Film (Wade's Wayback Machine)- November 21, 2007
• Happy Birthday, Mickey Mouse (Wade's Wayback Machine)- November 14, 2007
• Walt Tells Why He Always Loved Trains (Wade's Wayback Machine)- November 7, 2007
• Trick or Treat With Donald Duck (Wade's Wayback Machine)- October 31, 2007
• Walt Disney and the Grand Canyon (Wade's Wayback Machine)- October 24, 2007
• More Disney Films You'll Probably Never See (Wade's Wayback Machine)- October 17, 2007
• The Three Caballeros Return (Wade's Wayback Machine)- October 10, 2007
• Happy Birthday, Epcot! (Wade's Wayback Machine)- October 3, 2007
• Donald Duck Finds Pirate Gold (Wade's Wayback Machine)- September 26, 2007
• Runaway Brain (Wade's Wayback Machine)- September 19, 2007
• The Greatest Disney Documentary You May Never See (Wade's Wayback Machine)- September 12, 2007
• Robert Jaffray Did Not Create Epcot (Wade's Wayback Machine)- September 6, 2007
• Walt's Favorite Teacher: Daisy Beck (Wade's Wayback Machine)- August 29, 2007
• Another Word From Walt (Wade's Wayback Machine)- August 22, 2007
• Walt Disney's Stamp of Approval (Wade's Wayback Machine)- August 15, 2007
• The Secret Origin of Space Mountain (Wade's Wayback Machine)- August 8, 2007
• Jack Valenti Celebrates Disneyland's Birthday (Wade's Wayback Machine)- August 1, 2007
• Orange Thoughts of an Orange Bird (Wade's Wayback Machine)- July 25, 2007
• A Salute to Club 55 (Wade's Wayback Machine)- July 17, 2007
• Horsing Around With Walt and Polo (Wade's Wayback Machine)- July 11, 2007
• The Story of the Red Wagon Inn (Wade's Wayback Machine)- July 4, 2007
• Walt's School Daze (Wade's Wayback Machine)- June 27, 2007
• Disneyland Bacon Bits (Wade's Wayback Machine)- June 20, 2007
• Up, Up and Away with Walt Disney (Wade's Wayback Machine)- June 13, 2007
• Disney's Ham Actors: The Three Little Pigs (Wade's Wayback Machine)- June 6, 2007
• The Story of Storybook Land (Wade's Wayback Machine)- May 30, 2007
• Farewell to Tom Sawyer's Island (Wade's Wayback Machine)- May 23, 2007
• Just Ducky: Al Taliaferro and Donald Duck (Wade's Wayback Machine)- May 16, 2007
• The Studio that Walt Built (Wade's Wayback Machine)- May 9, 2007
• Walt's Women: Two Forgotten Influences (Wade's Wayback Machine)- May 2, 2007
• A Word from Walt (Wade's Wayback Machine)- April 25, 2007
• Are You Too Old for Disneyland? (Wade's Wayback Machine)- April 18, 2007
• Farewell Carol Svendsen (Wade's Wayback Machine)- April 12, 2007
• Tinker Bell Tales (Wade's Wayback Machine)- April 11, 2007
• Easter at the White House (Wade's Wayback Machine)- April 4, 2007
• Extra! Extra! Read All About It (Wade's Wayback Machine)- March 28, 2007
• Walt's Last Gift to Our Children (Wade's Wayback Machine)- March 21, 2007
• Just the Disney Facts, Ma'am (Wade's Wayback Machine)- March 14, 2007
• Walt and DeMolay (Wade's Wayback Machine)- March 7, 2007
• Flying to Neverland with Walt (Wade's Wayback Machine)- February 28, 2007
• Remembering Peter Ellenshaw (Wade's Wayback Machine)- February 21, 2007
• The Gospel According to Walt (Wade's Wayback Machine)- February 14, 2007
• Horticultural Heritage (Wade's Wayback Machine)- February 7, 2007
• What's for Breakfast? (Wade's Wayback Machine)- January 31, 2007
• Goodbye Disney Wave (Wade's Wayback Machine)- January 24, 2007
• Adrienne Tytla (Wade's Wayback Machine)- January 17, 2007
• The Kodak Konnection (Wade's Wayback Machine)- January 10, 2007
• The Man Who Was Walt (Wade's Wayback Machine)- January 3, 2007
• Ruth Patricia Shellhorn (Wade's Wayback Machine)- December 27, 2006
• A Disney Family Christmas (Wade's Wayback Machine)- December 20, 2006
• Book 'Em Wade (Wade's Wayback Machine)- December 13, 2006
• The True Story of True Life Adventures (Wade's Wayback Machine)- December 6, 2006
• Ron Miller and Touchstone (Wade's Wayback Machine)- November 29, 2006
• Walt's So Funny (Wade's Wayback Machine)- November 22, 2006
• Walt Disney Celebrates Mickey's Birthday (Wade's Wayback Machine)- November 15, 2006
• The Liberty Street Story 1959 (Wade's Wayback Machine)- November 8, 2006
• The Mystery of the Female Disney Animator (Wade's Wayback Machine)- November 1, 2006
• Walt Disney World's First Press Event, 1969 (Wade's Wayback Machine)- October 25, 2006
• Ridgway on MK Opening Day (Wade's Wayback Machine)- October 18, 2006
• The Art of Disney (Wade's Wayback Machine)- October 11, 2006
• Emily Bavar Spills the Beans (Wade's Wayback Machine)- October 4, 2006
• In Walt's Words (Wade's Wayback Machine)- September 27, 2006
• Bob Gurr Remembers Autopia (Wade's Wayback Machine)- September 20, 2006
• The Story Behind the Walt Disney World Casting Center (Wade's Wayback Machine)- September 13, 2006
• Mickey Tries to Commit Suicide (Wade's Wayback Machine)- September 6, 2006
• Bright as a Disney Penny (Wade's Wayback Machine)- August 30, 2006
• The Problem with Pooh (Wade's Wayback Machine)- August 23, 2006
• The Friz and the Diz (Wade's Wayback Machine)- August 16, 2006
• The Lost Caballero (Wade's Wayback Machine)- August 9, 2006
• 'The Gremlins' is coming! (Wade's Wayback Machine)- August 2, 2006
• Understanding the Swan and Dolphin (Wade's Wayback Machine)- July 26, 2006
• The Wisdom of John Hench (Wade's Wayback Machine)- July 12, 2006
• In Memory of the Original Pleasure Island Story (Wade's Wayback Machine)- June 28, 2006
• What Got Into Walt's Matterhorn? (Wade's Wayback Machine)- June 14, 2006
• Charles Ridgway (Wade's Wayback Machine)- May 31, 2006