By May, 1955, it was clear that construction efforts at Disneyland were behind schedule. The castle was nowhere near finished. Same for Main Street and Frontierland and pretty much every area of the park. The pressures no doubt amplified the growing conflicts between the Evans brothers (those men originally charged with creating landscape designs for Disneyland) and Ruth Shellhorn (the woman who, in ways, replaced them). The Evans brothers still were designing the jungle in Adventureland while Shellhorn slowly took on most every other area of the park. She created landscape designs for the entrance, Main Street, the hub, the castle, areas of Tomorrowland, Fantasyland and Frontierland. She even designed the entrance to Adventureland, leaving only the dense foliage around the boat cruise to Bill and Jack Evans. The trouble? In addition to the time constraints and financial pressures, both the Evans brothers and Ruth Shellhorn believed that they were, officially, the landscape architects of the park.
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