Disneyland the Beginning

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Disneyland the Beginning

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This beautifully designed hardcover collector’s edition features a foreword by Diane Disney Miller, Walt Disney’s eldest daughter. Early Disneyland designer and Imagineer Sam McKim provided the introduction while several key figures in Disney history have offered their unique perspectives, including Art Linkletter, acclaimed showman, host, interviewer, producer, entrepreneur, and businessman; and other artists that have been designated as “Disney Legends” for their remarkable contributions to the Walt Disney Company.
Alice Davis, costume designer for Disney’s theme park attractions; Harriet Burns, one of the earliest “Imagineers” who worked in the model shop; Margaret Kerry, fondly remembered as the original live-action rotoscope model for Tinker Bell in Walt Disney’s animated classic “Peter Pan”; and more.

Disneyland…The Beginning: Collector’s Edition”. Fourth in a series, this elaborate edition contains rare, never-before-published photographs.

Featured throughout the book are black and white, color, and aerial photographs of Disneyland’s earliest years, 1954 - 1960. Throughout the twelve-month period in 1954 -1955, Kilpatrick documented the construction of Main Street, Adventureland, Fantasyland, Frontierland, and Tomorrowland. Also highlighted are several forgotten exhibits, including the bandstand at Plaza Gardens, Davy Crockett Arcade and Museum, Casa de Frito (with the Frito Kid), the Disneyland Stagecoach, the original Golden Horseshoe Revue, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, the installation of the TWA Rocket to the Moon, and many other memorable attractions.

Also included in this collector’s edition are photographs of Vice President Richard Nixon and his family, Fess Parker (as Davy Crockett), Art Linkletter, Karen Pendleton (one of the original Mouseketeers from the Mickey Mouse Club), actress Irene Dunn, and many more celebrities, politicians, and corporate leaders.


Carlene Thie’s remarkable family legacy (her grandmother Katherine Kilpatrick was a Disneyland cast member working on Tom Sawyer’s Island in Frontierland and her father, Curtis Sissel served as a mortar mixer on the original construction of Sleeping Beauty’s Castle, the entrance into Fantasyland) leaves her with a great appreciation for, and ability to share with us, the building and creation of the world’s happiest place on earth, Disneyland.


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Homecoming Destination Disneyland

Homecoming Destination Disneyland, a collection of vintage photographs narrative tributes from a host of celebrities, and exclusive artwork by legendary Disney artist Sam McKim.

Homecoming Destination Disneyland includes select reproductions of the original Disneyland press releases from the 1955 press kit, Walts 1955 BIO, & More than a dozen movie stars, television personalities, Disney cast members and other entertainment industry personnel lend tribute to the Disney dream in the new book.

A foreword by Keith Murdoch, City Manager of Anaheim during the 1950s, shares a fascinating look at the search for the perfect location for the Magic Kingdom. Keith guided Walt through the miles of Anaheim orange groves, in search of parcels which could accommodate Walt’s dream park. Ron Dominguez, second-generation Anaheim native shares the story of how his family came to sell their ancestral home and orange groves to a buyer with mysterious plans for the property. Dominguez recalls his teen years working at the park and eventually rising to the position of Executive Vice President of Disneyland.
Also featured in Homecoming Destination Disneyland are narratives by veteran TV personality Art Linkletter, actors Fess Parker, Dean Jones, Tim Conway, Don Knotts, and Wally Boag, artist Brian McKim, director Richard Fleischer, illusionist Teller (of Penn & Teller), Matt McKim, and Sam McKim, Walt Disney's secretary Lucille Martin, former Disneyland president Jack Lindquist, Disney creative director David Pacheco, animators Ollie Johnston (the last of Walt's nine old men) and Ron Dias, Floyd Norman, Willie Ito, voice talents Lisa Davis, Ilene Woods, imagineer Yale Gracey, and Mouseketeer Tommy Cole.


List of author’s previous books:
"A Photographers life with Disneyland under Construction"
"Disney's Early Years thought the eye of a photographer"
"Disney Years Seen thought the lens of a photographer"