Disneyland's original prospectus (1953) (boingboing.net)

it is interesting to read that he expected to use the facilities to broadcast a number of his shows while also being part of the park experience. that would likely make it easier for him to spend more time at the park versus at the main studio in burbank.

Does anyone know the license/copyright state of those images? I'd love to have the map [0] printed as a gift for someone (maybe on a canvas wrap).

[0] http://media.boingboing.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/bigma...

I love that they planned a realistic moon-mission simulation 16 years before we actually landed on the moon.

The text was rather small to read and the OCR'd text at the Internet Archive had errors so I've put up a cleaned up text version.

http://liamk.org/disneyland/

I think it is fascinating because of what it could have been had Walt Disney's vision continued. It's right there in the opening line: a place for people to find happiness and knowledge. Judging from my visit last weekend, today that line would say "a place for people to spend money and trudge through queues to experience self-contained stories with no room for imagination or learning." It's an object lesson — Walt Disney was clearly as proud of his accomplishments in business as well as his creative endeavors. He was an old school Republican, who thought that American business could make the world better. Sadly, that part of the equation was lost over the decades. And so, Disneyland is still a little model of world in microcosm: from a place where you could imagine and learn to a place where you can spend and ride a "convenience vehicle" and spend a little more to get VIP treatment.