Card Walker
John Culhane: The thing is, last time we talked, it was for the New York Times Magazine. This time, it’s for the Readers Digest.
What are you doing with them, John?
JC: EPCOT. There are only five things I want to ask you, but they’re things that you’re the man to ask, because you were with it from the moment it started. And the first thing is, I’ve read the Bob Thomas book and he said in there, quoting somebody, that in [the] October before Walt died, when [Walt] Disney World was being planned, you’d have meetings and Walt would get very impatient and he’d say, “You guys know that by now, I don’t want to discuss what we learned in the past. I want to talk about the future.” And he wanted to talk about EPCOT at these meetings. Do you remember that?
Sure. See, what he was really saying there is that we know how to build themed parks (we’ve built one), so we’re gonna build a Magic Kingdom down there, which he’d always had on the charts that he made and which he’d changed many, many times. Even though he didn’t really make too many charts on EPCOT. He was saying, we (his guys at WED) knew how to do that, but “I gotta get a hold on what I’m gonna try to do with EPCOT, whatever it is.” […]
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- Parent entry
- 1 - Robert Cook (Dave Smith)
- 2 - Grim Natwick (John Culhane)
- 3 - Clair Weeks (Milton Gray)
- 4 - Willis Pyle (Bob Casino)
- 5 - Charlene Sundblad about Helen and Hugh Hennesy (Didier Ghez)
- 6 - Preston Blair (Göran Broling)
- 7 - Working on “The Sorcerer’s Apprentice” - As remembered by Preston Blair in Cartoonist PROfiles No.49, 1981 (Jud Hurd)
- 8 - The Life and Times of Cy Young (Steven Hartley)
- 9 - Lynn Karp (Michael Barrier and Milton Gray)
- 10 - Of Skit and Skat and This and That - The Autobiography of Basil Reynolds (Basil Reynolds)
- 11 - The Life and Times of Riley Thomson (Alberto Becattini)
- 12 - Ward Kimball (John Culhane)
- 13 - Wilfred Jackson (John Culhane)
- 14 - Hamilton Luske - remembered by his children, Carol Jean Luske, Peggy Finefrock, and Jim Luske (Jim Korkis)
- 15 - Norman “Stormy” Palmer (Michael Broggie)
- 16 - Guy Williams Jr. (EMC West)
- 17 - Buddy Van Horn (EMC West)
- 18 - Suzanne Lloyd (EMC West)
- 19 - Roger Broggie - Draft of Biographical Notes (George Sherman)
- 20 - Karl Bacon and Ed Morgan (Jim Korkis)
- 21 - Bill Martin (Dave Smith)
- 22 - Bill Evans (Jay Horan)
- 23 - Card Walker
- 24 - Mike Peraza (Didier Ghez)