Hey, it's Matt Parrish. Thanks for joining me on the Hub, a wedway radio presentation.

This week on the Hub, I'm excited to highlight one of my absolute favorite never-built lands of Disneyland.

It was a project that would have been situated parallel to Main Street

USA all the way back around 1956 or 1959. The project was actually shelved as Disney pressed on with

projects like the Matterhorn, Montereil, and submarines. But parts of this project eventually came to

inform Walt Disney World's Magic Kingdom and later Disney's Epcot Center.

We're also going to check in with Jocelyn Martins from The Magic for Less Travel.

She's the travel expert, so she's going to help us travel back and discuss some of our favorite attractions from childhood.

But before we get there, no other theme park has captured Americana quite like Disneyland.

Walt Disney was perpetually inspired by American history and American heritage.

His films represented some of the best in American storytelling, and he professed his love

for America time and time again, even publicly, as his team at WED put the finishing touches

on the first ever lifelike audio animatronic Abraham Lincoln just before the 1964 World's Fair

for the Illinois Pavilion. But a few years prior to that, Walt Disney was looking for an avenue

that was more quintessentially American than even Main Street USA. And he found it in an idea

for a colonial American street that would have looked back at the foundations of the United

States and allowed

guests to walk through as if they were strolling through the Revolutionary War era.

Walt Disney was so intrigued by this idea, he commissioned Disney artist Herb Ryman to sketch

concept art for his potential Liberty Street, a street with brick or cobblestone pavers,

full of shops, attraction, shows, and even

dioramas that would run parallel to Main Street and give guests a sense of time and place. I'm gonna' I'm gonna'n't

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