WALT’S BIRTHDAY 2009-Walt Disney by J.B. Kaufman
WALT DISNEYby J.B. KaufmanI asked J.B. Kaufman, who is right this very minute standing next to me (and says "Saludos"), to help celebrate Walt's Birthday by contributing something from South of the Border With Disney: Walt Disney and the Good Neighbor Program...
WALT’S BIRTHDAY 2009-Earliest Hometown Boy Makes Good
CLICK ON IMAGE TO READI believe this to be the earliest newspaper account in the Kansas City Star of "Home Boy Makes Good." You can read a bit about Walt's Midwestern in my essay on Walt's return to Kansas City for the DeMolay Conference at: Kansas Cityan Decorates...
WALT’S BIRTHDAY 2009-Walt Disney by Paula Sigman Lowery
WALT DISNEYby Paula Sigman LoweryWalt on travel and international relations (and the beauty of America!)“…It is my opinion that there is no surer way to bring about better understanding between nations than travel. Our own country, with its wealth of scenic beauty,...
WALT’S BIRTHDAY 2009-Walt A SUCCESS!
Walt certainly appeared on a lot of magazine covers (see my introductory essay on this at: Walt and the Magazine). How many, is something I have always wondered. I currently have around 4700 in my database, with somewhere around 400 having Walt on the cover (and...
WALT’S BIRTHDAY 2009-Walt Disney by Jeff Kurtti
WALT DISNEYby Jeff KurttiI was born in 1961. Like most kids, I had an exposure to the name Walt Disney before I connected it to a human being. My first clear memory of a Walt Disney production is seeing my first movie in 1965. It was Mary Poppins, and I was hooked. My...
WALT’S BIRTHDAY 2009-Disneyland Deity
Memory of Walt by Julie Andrews, Actress (Practically Perfect in Every Way!):"When we first arrived in California, he took me to Disneyland and it was quite amazing to have a personal tour with Walt. In a way, it was like walking with God because all the visitors...
WALT’S BIRTHDAY 2009-Walt Disney by Didier Ghez
MEMORY OF WALTRAY ARAGONby Didier GhezOn February 23 and March 5, 2009, just a few days before he passed away, I had the pleasure of interviewing Ray Aragon, who contributed his own Walt story. This interview has not yet been released in Walt's People and I thought...
WALT’S BIRTHDAY 2009-Smoke Tree Ranch
Walt loved his home in Palm Springs, California, at the Smoke Tree Ranch. It was a place where he could get away, and he was also very fond of the desert. (As you see in many photos of Walt, and on his Television Introductions, he also loved the Smoke Tree Ranch ties...
WALT’S BIRTHDAY 2009-The Beloved Moon Roadster
MOON ROADSTER FOR SOUND ... ANYONE?by Paul F. AndersonTo anyone who has read a Walt Disney biography, you know the story of Walt Disney's 1926 Moon roadster. Walt was quite proud of that car, and it was the very automobile he used to court Lilly. However, after losing...
WALT’S BIRTHDAY 2009-How Long Would It Take?
Cartoon that appeared in the Kansas City Star in 1937, answering the question of a reader. Good thing Walt had help, or we would still have another 158 years to wait to see Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.
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