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Picking up where we left off with Part I of this series : Which was 1923. Walt Disney’s first animation company, Laugh-O-Grams, has gone bankrupt. With $40 in his pocket, Walt boards a Santa Fe train headed for … Photo by Brad Aldridge ... HOLLYWOOD! The Walt Disney Family Museum places you in Walt’s...

Walt Disney acknowledged that the name “Disney” had become a thing, a genre, an entity separate from himself. By Walt’s design, he had become was a character, a front man for a grander idea. Many of you remember seeing Mr. Disney on television pitching some amazing story about Disneyland , that latest...

The loss of Oswald the Lucky Rabbit and the birth of Mickey Mouse in 1928. The creation and release of “ Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs ” in 1937. The development of Disneyland and its opening in 1955. All of these were important and challenging periods for Walt Disney and his company. But there was...