Welcome!

This is an independent website featuring photos, videos and other musings of Alan S. Dalinka focused on parks, resorts and other places and things associated with Walt Disney and Hollywood.

I used to visit Walt Disney World to celebrate the New Year every year, going back to welcoming in 2003 (and there was a year in there that I delayed my annual trip for a few days for family reasons. Even after I moved to Central Florida, I continued to ring in the new year in the parks, but January 1, 2020 was the last time I did that. The 2020 Happy New Year hat was the last one I got. The parks skipped celebrating the start of 2021 due to the global pandemic, but I had already decided to skip it before that. In fact, I decided that immediately after the fireworks ended on January 1, 2020. Anyway, the parks celebrated the start of 2022 and forward, but the Annual Pass structure changes had me selecting a tier where New Year’s Eve is blocked out, so I skipped those.

Why ASDHollywood?

The Webmaster is ASD:   Alan S. Dalinka.

Once upon a time, way back in 1996, this webpage began as a GeoCities website, where it was located in the neighborhood named Hollywood.

After a brief visit to Walt Disney World in March 1996, a one day trip to Disneyland in April 1996, and a longer vacation at Walt Disney World in November 1996 — with a camcorder in hand for each trip — ASDHollywood soon began focusing on ASD’s photos of the theme parks and resorts of The Walt Disney Company (which, in turn, is a “Hollywood” company).  Many business and leisure trips, camcorders, digital cameras, iPhones, hosts, domains, service providers, Macs and even a few PCs later, the name has remained.  You can read about the technology and development of the site, as well as relevant disclosures and disclaimers here.

As the site transitions to WordPress, I consider it to be in “beta” and will only remove that label once I am satisfied that everything is working. If you find something on the site that isn’t working right, like dead links or images that won’t load, please let me know by email.

As of this March 2025 page revision: The tech is updated, and the site work is finally underway to get more of it working again.

The site is built on WordPress 6.7.2 – Responsive Theme.