part of the club . And it worked — almost too well . By the end of its nearly 20-year run , its fictional beginnings had amassed a bonafide community of real-life Adventurers — so dedicated that the hundreds of letters they wrote to the club characters inspired a quarterly newsletter to quell the crowd .
Locals patronized the club so often that the actors still knew these regulars by name at the Pleasure Beach reunion over a decade later .
At the Stage 89 Paradise Beach event , I spoke with perhaps one of the most frequent reciters of the Club Creed , Virginia Carmichael , who remembered , “ We went almost every Friday , sometimes more .” It was only natural that she and her late husband , Bob , even celebrated their 50th anniversary at the Adventurers Club . On her arm , her friend , Melissa Galleon , quickly piped up , “ I met my husband there !”
Just two tales among thousands : These guests are eager to swap stories of past adventures now that they don ’ t have a club in which to commemorate them . And it soon became clear that the fandom had taken on a life of
Adventurers Club nightly schedule demonstrates many shows that were performed each night . PHOTO COURTESY OF IAN JANOSKO
Pamelia crowd-surfs in front of Babylonia . PHOTO COURTESY OF IAN JANOSKO
its own , living on well after the club ’ s closure in 2008 .
S . E . A . CARRIES THE TORCH Disney has made efforts to subtly immortalize the Adventurers Club in what someone could call an “ extended universe ” in
the form of the Society of Explorers and Adventurers ( S . E . A .). This fictional organization first appeared at Tokyo DisneySea in 2001 , at the Fortress Explorations attraction , where guests solved puzzles in an effort to join S . E . A .