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Last time, we talked about some of the early years of Disneyland. This time, we're going to talk about Disneyland's sister parks, created by C.V. Wood.

Disneyland's success gave bright ideas to other men of means.

C.V. Wood left Disney in 1956 under less than favorable circumstances.

After the end of manufacturing a magic, at this point,

it looks like the last episode will be about California Adventure 2.0. After that, I'm going to write an

episode for C.V. Wood to have all to himself. In her book, The Amusement Park Industry,

Judith Adams, the nice lady who told us that Walt built

Disneyland because he was sexually repressed, doesn't go quite as far into the psychology of what made

these sister parks, should I say copycat, appear. The first part to be planned was Denver's

Magic Mountain, due to open in 1958, but couldn't get the funding.

In 1952, Denver businessman Walter Francis Cobb and sculptor John Calvin Sutton came up with the

idea of an amusement park called Magic Mountain. Steve E. Wood joined in 1956. This is from

goldenlandmarks.com. The Wall Street Journal said,

His idea,

take the Disney concept of a family-type amusement park,

devoid of thrill rides and small hucksters

of the hot dog and soda-pop variety,

and plant such parks at the doorsteps of other communities.

C.V. Wood hired away about a dozen of Walt Disney's staff

and created his own company, Marco Engineering. Among other things, golden landmarks.com says

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