If you were a parent bringing your kids to Hollywood Studios in the late 80s and early 90s, odds were good you spent a good chunk of your own childhood in the 1950s. But it was also targeted in its psychology. It did this through meticulous design, to be sure: The restaurant is decked out in Bakelite, Fiestaware, and boomerang Formica, its tables art-directed to look like a kitchen straight out of I Love Lucy or Father Knows Best, complete with Osterizers and a linoleum floor. When it opened in 1989, thirty years after its era of reference, the restaurant was playing straight to parental nostalgia. That's where you'll find 50's Prime Time Café, its neon marquee tucked just beyond the splashier, more perpetually packed character buffet of Hollywood and Vine. In Hollywood Studios, a guest's progression through the moviemaking-themed park is chronological: You start in the 1930s, and gradually the architecture gives way to the postwar modernism of midcentury design.

Most restaurateurs these days, when they're opening a new place, talk about 'telling a story.' That's a more literal mandate at Disney World, where the employees are called 'cast members' and a guide on the safari ride, when you ask where in Africa the giraffes live, will look at you deadpan and say, 'Well, we're in Africa right now.' It extends to the restaurants, too - especially the restaurants in the parks themselves, where maintaining the immersive experience of each themed land is paramount. The Eater guide to surviving Disney World

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