Most celebrities reach a certain eminence, then stop.
Walt keeps on growing-not just up, but backward, forward and sideways.
In Orange County, near Los Angeles, there has sprung from the California earth a fantastic monument to the imagination and genius of one man. This monument is in the form of an amusement park, and is named Disneyland after the man it commemorates. The man is also its creator, Walter Elias Disney. In many ways the dizziest Disneyism of all, Disneyland is 60 acres of pure whimsey adjacent to 100 acres of parking area for 10,000 cars.
It is, in the words of its creator, “something of a fair, a city from the Arabian Nights, a metropolis of the future, a Showplace of magic and living facts, but above all a place to find happiness and knowledge.” This, then, is the dream-come-true of America’s number one merchant of dreams.
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