Disney’s Land Audiobook (Free)

A propulsive history chronicling the conception and creation of Disneyland, the masterpiece California theme park, as told like nothing you’ve seen prior by well-known historian Richard Snow.

One day in the first 1950s, Walt Disney stood overlooking 240 acres of farmland in Anaheim, California, and imagined building a recreation area where people “could live among Mickey Mouse and Snow White in a global still powered by steam and open fire for a day or weekly or (if visitors is certainly slightly mad) forever.” Despite his wealth about Disney’s Property and popularity, exactly no one wanted Disney to construct such a park. Not his brother Roy, who ran the organization’s finances; not really the bankers; and not his wife, Lillian. Amusement parks at that time, such as for example Coney Island, were a generally despised business, sagging and sordid remnants of bygone days. Disney was told that he would only be heading toward financial mess up.

But Walt persevered, initially financing the park against his very own life insurance coverage and later with sponsorship from ABC as well as the sale of thousands of Davy Crockett coonskin caps. Disney set up a talented team of technical engineers, architects, performers, animators, landscapers, and a good retired admiral to transform his suggestions right into a soaring yet soothing wonderland of a park. The catch was that they had only a calendar year and a day in which to create it.

On July 17, 1955, Disneyland opened up its gates…and the initial day was a tragedy. Disney was nearly suicidal with grief that he previously failed on the grand scale. But the wondering masses kept arriving, and the rest is entertainment background. Eight hundred million guests have flocked to the park since that time. In Disney’s Property, Richard Snow brilliantly presents the complete spectacular story, a wild trip from eyesight to realization, and an epic of innovation and mistake that displays the uniqueness of the person determined to construct “the happiest put on earth” using a watchmaker’s precision, an artist’s conviction, as well as the desperate, high-hearted recklessness of a riverboat gambler.