by Todd James Pierce | Apr 29, 2013 |
Political Comic – Mickey Mouse Eying St. Louis – 1963Walt Disney and Riverfront SquarePart 9 – Dollars and SenseBy Todd James Pierce By spring of 1964, Walt Disney’s team felt that they had worked out a general agreement with the people...
by Todd James Pierce | Apr 22, 2013 |
Site Plan for Riverfront Square (Detail) – March 1964Walt Disney and Riverfront SquarePart 8 – The PresentationBy Todd James Pierce–> On March 16, at the Bel Air East Motel in St. Louis, Walt Disney and his designers held a series of...
by Todd James Pierce | Apr 15, 2013 |
Lincoln at New York World’s Fair – 1964Walt Disney and Riverfront SquarePart 7 – Countdown to Riverfront SquareBy Todd James Pierce–> At the start of 1964, Walt lavished the lion’s share of his attention on the World’s Fair,...
by Todd James Pierce | Apr 8, 2013
August “Gussie” Busch – mid-1960s–> Walt Disney and Riverfront SquarePart 6 – Booze, Money and RespectBy Todd James Pierce One of the best-known stories about Riverfront Square is that it was stopped by booze—a...
by Todd James Pierce | Apr 1, 2013 |
WED Design of an Early Human Animatronic – mid-1960s Walt Disney and Riverfront SquarePart 5 – Slow ProgressBy Todd James PierceFor much of 1963, Walt’s designers focused their attention on the New York World’s Fair, where they would create...
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