WEDway Radio #072 - 40 Years of Magic: The Sixties
WEDway Radio - Walt Disney World and Disneyland Examined with some Disney History
Nate and Matt Parrish
4.9 • 706 Ratings
🗓️ 30 May 2011
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
In this episode Matt and Nate begin a new series celebrating the 40th Anniversary of Walt Disney World we're calling 40 Years of Magic. The series looks at each of the five decades of Walt Disney World, beginning with the 1960's. The 1960's was an interesting decade in that most of the imprtant decisions regarding the resort were made including; location, land acquisition, governing bodies established, and construction.
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| 0:00.0 | From the Brava Centauri Studios, this is Wedway Radio. Today I want to share with you some of our ideas for Disney World. |
| 0:36.2 | Now, the prologue to this film told you some of the philosophy that made Disneyland |
| 0:41.3 | in California what it is today. |
| 0:43.3 | Of course, there will be another amusement theme park in Florida, similar to the one in California. |
| 0:49.3 | We're now developing a master... |
| 0:53.3 | Well, that is, you might call it my backyard laboratory, you know, my workshop away from work. |
| 1:00.0 | It served the purpose in that some of the things I was planning, like Disneyland, for example, |
| 1:05.0 | it was pretty hard for the banking mind to go with it. |
| 1:09.0 | I had to go ahead on my own and develop it to a point |
| 1:13.6 | where they could begin to comprehend what I had in mind. |
| 1:16.6 | So it's been true with a lot of things in our history here |
| 1:20.6 | that we've been doing something that's a little bit out of the run of things |
| 1:24.6 | and it's pretty hard to sell people and what you have in your mind. So you have to go ahead and develop it. |
| 1:29.3 | And that's what I've been doing with WED. |
| 1:31.3 | We're now developing a master plan that encompasses the theme park and all the facilities around it that will serve the tourists. |
| 1:40.3 | Hotels, motels, and a variety of recreation activity. |
| 1:46.1 | In fact, just this little area alone is five times the size of Disneyland in California. |
| 2:05.0 | All right, ladies and gents, |
| 2:08.0 | comical poems suitable for the occasion, |
| 2:11.1 | extemporized and thought up before your very eyes. |
| 2:13.7 | All right, here we go. |
| 2:15.4 | Are you going to do it? |
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