June, 2011

I am not nearly old enough to have attended Disneyland in the 1950s. The first time I went to the park, I was five years old. This was the 1970s. But I have long been interested in the park as it existed in those early years: how art directors and set designers used their cinematic skills to recreate the environments of movies and TV in a real-world setting, how camera-repair men and auto-body stylists built a narrow gage railroad, a fleet of miniature cars, and even an omnibus. This is what attracted...