Director Sarah Colt joins Dean to talk about the life and times of Walt Disney.
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Walt Disney’s Desert Party House Now in Disrepair, Foreclosure
This place used to be the guesthouse on Walt Disney’s old estate near Palm Desert, and he’d come here to kick back with his famous friends (the Rat Packers, Bob Hope, Lucille Ball, Humphrey Bogart), party, and maybe do a little ziplining (there used to be a zipline in the canyon).
Inside Walt Disney’s Ambitious, Failed Plan to Build the City of Tomorrow
It all began with a vision of a wheel. Folks would call the circumference home, while a climate-controlled city center would house corporations from all over the world. Between the urban and suburban would lie the greenbelt, dotted with parks, golf courses, and anything else paradise had to offer.
Inside Walt Disney’s Ambitious, Failed Plan to Build the City of Tomorrow
It all began with a vision of a wheel. Folks would call the circumference home, while a climate-controlled city center would house corporations from all over the world. Between the urban and suburban would lie the greenbelt, dotted with parks, golf courses, and anything else paradise had to offer.
How Walt Disney’s obsession with futurism inspired ‘Tomorrowland’
Back in 1972, when New York City was a post-apocalyptic hell hole overrun by crime and on the verge of bankruptcy, architect Peter Blake opined that to save it, the government should be banished and Manhattan should instead be turned over to an unlikely savior.
Walt Disney’s Best Career Lessons
Early in his youth, Walt Disney worked at a studio that developed an early form of cartoons. He had the feeling he was on to something big. He passed up any other opportunities — no matter how much more lucrative or easygoing — in order to continue his work cartooning.
How Walt Disney’s Love of Trains Changed the World
Walt Disney loved trains, and because of that, the world is a better — and happier — place.
Walt was fond of saying that his empire “started with a mouse.” And indeed, his creation of Mickey Mouse did make him a fortune. But the idea for Mickey Mouse came to him while riding a train.
Own a piece of Disney magic
The name Disney has become an iconic symbol of 20th-century American entertainment — and now you can own a piece of that magical past.
Disney magic: Laugh-O-Gram repurposing moves ahead
The restoration and repurposing of the Laugh-O-Gram Studio building is rolling along, and construction of a new, dual-purpose facility could be underway by the end of 2015.
