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Disney's Land

Name: Disney's Land
Author: Richard Snow

Walt Disney and the Invention of the Amusement Park That Changed the World

Richard Snow

432 pages
English
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Disney's Land

Walt Disney and the Invention of the Amusement Park That Changed the World

Richard Snow

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A propulsive and "entertaining" ( The Wall Street Journal ) history chronicling the conception and creation of the iconic Disneyland theme park, as told like never before by popular historian Richard Snow. One day in the early 1950s, Walt Disney stood looking over 240 acres of farmland in Anaheim, California, and imagined building a park where people "could live among Mickey Mouse and Snow White in a world still powered by steam and fire for a day or a week or (if the visitor is slightly mad) forever." Despite his wealth and fame, exactly no one wanted Disney to build such a park. Not his brother Roy, who ran the company's finances; not the bankers; and not his wife, Lillian. Amusement parks at that time, such as Coney Island, were a generally despised business, sagging and sordid remnants of bygone days. Disney was told that he would only be heading toward financial ruin.But Walt persevered, initially financing the park against his own life insurance policy and later with sponsorship from ABC and the sale of thousands and thousands of Davy Crockett coonskin caps. Disney assembled a talented team of engineers, architects, artists, animators, landscapers, and even a retired admiral to transform his ideas into a soaring yet soothing wonderland of a park. The catch was that they had only a year and a day in which to build it.On July 17, 1955, Disneyland opened its gates…and the first day was a disaster. Disney was nearly suicidal with grief that he had failed on a grand scale. But the curious masses kept coming, and the rest is entertainment history. Eight hundred million visitors have flocked to the park since then. In Disney's Land, "Snow brings a historian's eye and a child's delight, not to mention superb writing, to the telling of this fascinating narrative" (Ken Burns) that "will entertain Disneyphiles and readers of popular American history" ( Publishers Weekly ).

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Publisher

Scribner

Year

2019

ISBN

9781501190827

Topic

Business

Subtopic

Entertainment Industry

Index

Business

Cover
Title page
Dedication
Epigraph
Chapter 1: Sunday, July 17, 1955, 4 a.m.
Chapter 2: How I Got to Disneyland
Chapter 3: A Horrible Name for a Mouse
Chapter 4: The Railroad Fair
Chapter 5: The ‘Lilly Belle’
Chapter 6: World’s Fairs, Coney Island, and the Decline of the Amusement Park
Chapter 7: Dwarf Land
Chapter 8: Getting Started
Chapter 9: Buzz and Woody
Chapter 10: Orange County
Chapter 11: Buying on the Sly
Chapter 12: Roy
Chapter 13: Like Nothing Else in the World
Chapter 14: The Almost Broadcasting Company
Chapter 15: Selling the Idea
Chapter 16: Imagineering
Chapter 17: The Admiral
Chapter 18: The Instant Jungle
Chapter 19: Arrow
Chapter 20: Harriet and the Model Shop
Chapter 21: Real Trains
Chapter 22: King of the Wild Frontier
Chapter 23: The Struggle for Sponsors
Chapter 24: Van Arsdale France Founds a School
Chapter 25: The Pony Farm
Chapter 26: Demands of the Jungle Cruise
Chapter 27: Milking the Elephant
Chapter 28: Autopia
Chapter 29: The Moonliner
Chapter 30: Through the Castle Gate
Chapter 31: The Perfectionist at Work
Chapter 32: Ruth’s Role
Chapter 33: Union Troubles
Chapter 34: “We’re Not Going to Make It”
Chapter 35: Tempus Fugit
Chapter 36: ‘Dateline: Disneyland’
Chapter 37: ‘Dateline’ Behind the Cameras: Black Sunday
Chapter 38: Damage Control
Chapter 39: Something Worthwhile
Chapter 40: Plussing
Chapter 41: The Mountain and the Monorail
Chapter 42: ‘Disneyland ’59’
Chapter 43: “Do You Have Rocket-Launching Pads There?”
Chapter 44: Suing God in Heaven
Chapter 45: A Perfect Fascist Regime
Chapter 46: The Greatest Piece of Urban Design
Chapter 47: The First Goodbye
Chapter 48: Beautiful?
Photographs
Afterword, and a Note on the Sources
About the Author
Bibliography
Index
Illustration Credits
Copyright