Edition |
First Scribner hardcover edition. |
Physical Description |
xvi, 408 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 24 cm. |
Note |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 379-385) and index. |
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? |
Subject |
Disneyland (Calif.) -- History.
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Architecture, American.
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Architecture and society -- United States.
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