'''Twain:''' Just look around us. Decaying cities, pollution, crime. I’d rather put my crystal ball in reverse. <br>
'''Franklin:''' Now, stop that nonsense. Those good old days that everybody speaks of, they were no utopia either. Mr. Twain, those Mississippi shores you walked as a boy were also walked by slaves. And Mr. Rogers, how about the lawlessness and violence of your glorious West?…And in my time, few children lived to be adults. If I may quote you from my own Poor Richard’s Almanac: ‘The golden age never was the present age.’ Mr. Twain, if you want to go back, go right ahead, but from what I’ve seen, the 20th Century has an incredible amount of positive things that are simply taken for granted.}}
Despite technical problems and changes to the shows plot, Imagineers completed the American Adventure on time. The show opened with the rest of the pavilion on October 1, 1982 (EPCOT CENTER's opening day). The show remained unchanged until 1993, when all new Audio Anamatronics were added. The Golden Dream's montage, which features famous Americans was also updated. In 2007, the montage was once again updated, now including footage of the firefighters who raised the American flag at Ground Zero (after the September 11 attacks).