Hi Everyone, I’m Kelly Rogers and this blog is hobby turned reality. I taught business courses at Chapman University in Orange, California for years, and absolutely fell in love with the campus and the surrounding area. Old Town Orange is home to the famous Orange Circle and freckled with craftsman homes and antique shops. This is where my love for antiques began to develop. Trading Post 1908 started out with a small physical location at Vintiques Home Decor in Orange, California where our found treasures were displayed for sale in a small booth. Before we knew it we expanded from one booth to five. However, we wanted to be much more than items for sale and that’s why the online store and blog was created. After brainstorming more ways to expand with my long-time mentor, Jennifer Kerstner, we decided to partner. Jennifer is already a successful business owner, running a market research firm, and we share a deep love for antiques and the stories they tell. We wanted to create an online space to allow buyers and sellers of anything vintage, antique and handmade to come together in a much more comprehensive way than just an online store. Mainly, we wanted to help small vintage, antique and handmade sellers have a place to successfully market and advertise their businesses. The name Trading Post 1908 comes from two ideas: First, while I was watching Frozen with my girls, I asked my 5-year old daughter what she would call the store. Just then, the movie played the scene of Princess Anna stumbling across a trading post in the forest. My daughter asked what a trading post was and it clicked. Since ‘trading post’ is pretty generic I needed to personalize it.My friend Brittany Deneauthought of 1908 because it is the year my Great Grandma (Grandma GG) was born. I proudly display many of Grandma GG’s family heirlooms in my house and Brittany took note of my love for family history. This was the beginning of Trading Post 1908.
Monsters, Inc. Mike & Sulley to the Rescue! is a dark ride attraction at Disney California Adventure at the Disneyland Resort in Anaheim, California. It is based on the 2001 Disney·Pixar film Monsters, Inc. It opened January 22, 2006 with a grand Sulley-Blue-Fur Carpet Premiere.The attraction replaced the short-lived Superstar Limo dark ride, and utilizes the same track layout. The CDA agents in the ride are re-dressed and repositioned celebrity figures from Superstar Limo. In addition, Superstar Limo's ride vehicles were reused for the attraction, repainted and re-dressed as Monstropolis taxi cabs.RideThe queue area, where guests wait to board the attraction, is themed to a bus station named the Monstropolis Transit Authority, featuring posters and videos of commercials of tourist spots in the fictional city of Monstropolis where the film is set.Guests board taxis on a journey through the streets of Monstropolis. A small television monitor in each of the three rows of the ride vehicle plays a clip of a tourism video that is interrupted with urgent news that a female human child named Boo has been seen in the city. The news is the subject of consternation as contact with humans is considered deadly to the monsters of the city.The taxis exit a tunnel through a detour from the welcoming gate and go down the dark streets of the city, passing characters Mike and Celia in Mike's new car as Mike wishes her a happy birthday. Riders proceed to see Randall, who looks around angrily.