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Remembering Renie Bardeau
Disneyland Photographer
Jim Korkis

Jim flips through the album on the man behind the camera of some of the most famous pictures of Uncle Walt.

This is definitely not a good start to a new year. Shortly after writing a tribute to the passing of Ron Dominquez, another important person in the history of Disneyland that I had the honor of meeting years ago has died.

Renie Bardeau died of kidney failure on January 4, 2021 after having recently contracted COVID-19. It was suspected that the added stress of being infected by that virus weakened his ability to fight. He was 86 years old and had spent nearly four decades being a publicity photographer at Disneyland.

[Jim] wrote about Renie Bardeau back in 2012 and was lobbying for him to be made a Disney Legend especially since many less deserving recipients with fewer contributions to the Walt Disney Company had been given the honor.

He was a very generous, funny, modest man who would have never promoted himself for such an award. He loved what he did and enjoyed sharing stories about his work. [Jim] got an opportunity to talk with him in 2005 and while many of the stories he told me he later told to others [Jim] thought some MousePlanet readers might enjoy hearing them and learning a little bit more than what has appeared elsewhere.

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Inserted 2021-01-13