Oscar Martinez, Longest-Tenured Cast Member at Disneyland Resort, Celebrates 60th Service Anniversary

Oscar Martinez, Longest-Tenured Cast Member at Disneyland Resort, Celebrates 60th Service Anniversary

The ice cream isn’t the only original at Carnation Café.

Oscar Martinez, the longest-tenured cast member at the Disneyland Resort, recently celebrated his 60th year working at the resort – the last 50 of them working at the café on Main Street, U.S.A. Originally, Oscar worked in Fantasyland quick-service locations, and over the years, trained many new cast members, including grill cooks from Tokyo Disneyland.

After years spent whipping up breakfasts and lunches for guests, Oscar now spends a lot of his time greeting guests at Carnation Café, where his breakfast potatoes are featured in a menu item named in his honor.

On Jan. 17, a couple of weeks after his Dec. 29 service anniversary, Oscar was presented with an award created just for him at Walt Disney Imagineering. The inspiration was “Cinderella,” a movie that has never been used to help design a service anniversary award.

Learn more about Oscar and his award in this video!

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This Day In History

1929 El Terrible Toreador (a Silly Symphony) released
1984 The Morocco Pavilion opened at EPCOT
1984 Ron Miller resigned as Disney CEO
1996 Sequoia Lodge Hotel at Disneyland Paris damaged by a major fire
1997 Circle-Vision closed at Disneyland. This was the last film that Walt personally worked on.
1997 Pleasure Island's Fireworks Factory closed
1998 Despite an intense public campaign to save it, Mr Toads Wild Ride closed at Walt Disney World
1998 Submarine Voyage closed at Disneyland
1998 Hercules Victory Parade finished its run at Disneyland
2001 New Port South released