So today on the podcast, we have one of our book-focused episodes. This time we're exploring

the book A Spoonful of Sugar, the story of the Upjohn Pharmacy in Disneyland by Stephen

Hall. That is, this is a book about not only how Disneyland back in 1955 opened something

that looked like a pharmacy museum and old pharmacy on Main Street,

but also how these general types of shops arranged through lessees were integrated into the park.

As with other book-focused episodes, we'll have a number of sections to this week's podcast,

the book by Stephen Hall, and I do think that this here is one of the more interesting aspects of it, largely

focuses on Up John's journey into Disneyland and then beyond. So in the first section of our

podcast today, I'll set up the other half of this story, and that is Disneyland's development of the Upjohn installment on Main Street.

In the second section today, I'll take you through that store via a 1955 Disneyland news article so you can see, or at least imagine, what was once there.

Then I'll read you a short piece from the book itself, so you can see how this author

lays out the story with language. And then lastly, we'll have a conversation with Stephen Hall, the author, in terms of how he

put this unique topic together.

So if you got all of that, let's jump now into this week's show.

Let's start with this, the story of how Lessee spaces were designed at Disneyland in 1955.

When the park opened, Disneyland contained attractions typically owned by Disneyland or

in some cases by Walt Disney personally.

It held restaurants, some of which were developed by outside companies such as Swifts and Quaker Oates.

It held shops, some of which were owned by Disneyland, some of which were owned by large outside companies such as Pendleton Mills,

and some of which were owned by small

local businesses such as the bakery and it held display space designed to

promote companies these companies leased space in the park and then worked with

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