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Author Foxx Nolte gives readers a glimpse behind the curtain of the most magical place on earth.
Millions of people a year visit Walt Disney World, but few would consider it to be a place with any real history. But hidden just below the surface, past the blanket of pixie dust, is a story as vivid and bizarre as any. It is a history of corporate politics, urban planning, crazy ambitions, and failed schemes. The Hidden History of Walt Disney World takes you on a journey that stretches from "Old Florida" to the events that made Walt Disney World what it is today. There's birds made of citrus, horizontal elevators, a ghost town, and tennis ball factories. And that's just the start. Whether you've visited one or one hundred times, your vacation will never be the same again. Yep, the castle is fake. But the stories are not .
Table des matières
| Preface | 7 |
| Prelude: The Fatal Glass of Beer | 9 |
| Part I Miles of Worthless Land | |
| 1 In the Beginning, There Was Bay Lake | 15 |
| 2 The Oldest House at Walt Disney World | 21 |
| 3 Time Warp on Black Lake | 24 |
| 4 The Palace of King Citrus | 28 |
| Part II Action Center | |
| 5 Hurry Up and Build | 35 |
| 6 Orlando's U.S. Steel Story | 43 |
| 7 Johnny's Corner: Everything from Snuff to Eggs | 48 |
| 8 Oblivion Airlines and the Singing Runway | 52 |
| 9 The Rising Tide That Sank All Ships | 59 |
| 10 Vineland, Disney's Ghost Town | 65 |
| Part III The Vacation Kingdom of the World | |
| 11 The Front Gate | 73 |
| 12 Whose Main Street USA? | 80 |
| 13 Disney World Gets "Citrusized" | 85 |
| 14 Bear Tracks Looking Back at Me | 93 |
| 15 Take Aim at History | 98 |
| 16 Dreams of Glowing Flowers | 103 |
| 17 Movies from the Future! | 107 |
| 18 A Chapter about Nothing | 114 |
| Part IV Epcot, E.P.C.O.T. and All the Other Epcots | |
| 19 Walt and Urban Planning | 119 |
| 20 Lake Buena Vista: The City of the Future | 123 |
| 21 Hurry Up and Wait | 129 |
| 22 Building the Twenty-First Century | 134 |
| 23 The Heart of a City | 141 |
| Part V The Incredible Expanding Mouse | |
| 24 Succession | 149 |
| 25 Light Speed to Endor | 153 |
| 26 Hollywood East! | 157 |
| 27 Hurry Up and Build-Again | 162 |
| 28 The Fatal Perrier Bottle | 167 |
| 29 Tennis Balls and Chocolate Bars | 173 |
| 30 The McMerger | 176 |
| 31 The Mouse That Roared | 182 |
| Postscript: Back to the Past | 185 |
| Acknowledgements | 191 |
| Notes | 193 |
| Bibliography | 203 |
| Also by the Author | 207 |
