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| Genre/Form: | History |
|---|---|
| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Snow, Richard, 1947- Disney's land New York : Scribner, 2019. (DLC) 2019024841 |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Richard Snow |
| ISBN: | 9781501190803 1501190806 9781501190810 1501190814 |
| OCLC Number: | 1099684464 |
| Description: | xvi, 408 pages, 8 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations, map ; 24 cm |
| Contents: | Sunday, July 17, 1955, 4 a.m. -- How I got to Disneyland -- A horrible name for a mouse -- The Railroad Fair -- The Lilly Belle -- World's Fairs, Coney Island, and the decline of the amusement park -- Dwarf Land -- Getting started -- Buzz and Woody -- Orange County -- Buying on the sly -- Roy -- Like nothing else in the world -- The almost broadcasting company -- Selling the idea -- Imagineering -- The Admiral -- The instant jungle -- Arrow -- Harriet and the model shop -- Real trains -- King of the wild frontier -- The struggle for sponsors -- Van Arsdale France founds a school -- The Pony Farm -- Demands of the Jungle Cruise -- Milking the elephant -- Autopia -- The Moonliner -- Through the castle gate -- The perfectionist at work -- Ruth's role -- Union troubles -- "We're not going to make it" -- Tempus fugit -- Dateline: Disneyland -- Dateline behind the cameras: Black Sunday -- Damage control -- Something worthwhile -- Plussing -- The mountain and the monorail -- Disneyland '59 -- "Do you have rocket-launching pads there?" -- Suing God in heaven -- A perfect fascist regime -- The greatest piece of urban design -- The first goodbye -- Beautiful? |
| Responsibility: | Richard Snow. |
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"This joyful, lavishly detailed account will entertain Disneyphiles and readers of popular American history." -Publishers Weekly "An animated history of an iconic destination." -Kirkus Reviews "Snow's smooth narrative spotlights the hard work and heart that the 'happiest place on Earth'." -Booklist "Call it what you will: a fantasy, a folly, a country of its own, a city from the Arabian Nights, a giant cash register, a monument to Main Street, a saccharine absurdity, a triumph of urban design. Richard Snow calls Disneyland an invention on par with the Kitty Hawk Flyer and-in the most shapely of narratives-not only convinces us of its magic but somehow reproduces that magic on the page. A witty, wild, wondrous Tilt-A-Whirl of a book." -Stacy Schiff, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Witches and Cleopatra: A Life "This is a deeply felt and deeply researched story about the complicated man and his vision to create 'the happiest place on earth.' Snow brings a historian's eye and a child's delight, not to mention superb writing, to the telling of this fascinating narrative." -Ken Burns "Richard Snow gives Disney fans everything they could want in a history of the world's favorite theme park, from its nascent phase as a mere faraway look in Walt Disney's eye, to the hysteria of its opening day, with the freshly poured asphalt on Main Street barely set-and beyond. Snow is a great researcher and a terrific storyteller-and no detail is too small, whether it's the landscaping, the design of the rides, or the way Walt Disney did (or didn't) manage the money. As Snow tells it, Disney's Land is more than mere history; it's a page-turner of a suspense story, and, even knowing how it all turns out, you'll find yourself wondering if Walt is really going to get his pie-in-the-sky project ready in time for its opening day. I couldn't put it down." -Brian Jay Jones, New York Times bestselling author of Jim Henson: The Biography and Becoming Dr. Seuss: Theodor Geisel and the Making of an American Imagination Read more...
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- Disneyland (Calif.) -- History.
- Architecture, American.
- Architecture and society -- United States.
- Architecture and society.
- California -- Disneyland.
- United States.
- BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industries / Entertainment.
- HISTORY / United States / 20th Century.
- ARCHITECTURE / History / Contemporary (1945-).
