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Snow, Richard F.
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Amusement parks -- California.
Amusement parks.
Disneyland (Calif.) -- History.
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Snow, Richard F.
Amusement parks -- California.
Amusement parks.
Disneyland (Calif.) -- History.
MARC Display
Disney
's
land
:
Walt
Disney
and the
invention
of the
amusement
park
that
changed
the
world
/ Richard Snow.
by
Snow, Richard F.
Scribner, 2019.
Call #:
791.068 S674d
Subjects
Amusement
parks -- California.
Amusement
parks.
Disneyland (Calif.) -- History.
ISBN:
9781501190803 (hc.)
Alternate title:
[Disneyland] :
Walt
Disney
and the
invention
of the
amusement
park
that
changed
the
world
Walt
Disney
and the
invention
of the
amusement
park
that
changed
the
world
Description:
xvi, 408 p., 8 unnumbered leaves of plates : ill., map ; 24 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 379-385) and index.
Summary:
"A propulsive history chronicling the conception and creation of Disneyland, the masterpiece California 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
, Richard Snow brilliantly presents the entire spectacular story, a wild ride from vision to realization, and an epic of innovation and error that reflects the uniqueness of the man determined to build “the happiest place on earth” with a watchmaker’s precision, an artist’s conviction, and the desperate, high-hearted recklessness of a riverboat gambler."--From publisher.
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