Walt Disney World's First 50 Years—Through the Lens of Orlando's Newspaper

Back in the 1960s, before Walt Disney World was one of the most popular theme parks in the world, founder Walt Disney was secretly buying pieces of land for his upcoming “Florida Project,” and neither Walt nor his employees would confirm that a theme park was in the works. It fell to Orlando Sentinel, a local newspaper of a modest citrus-industry farming town, to collect evidence on what was about to happen to the community. The Sentinel collected photographs, exclusive interviews with Walt Disney himself, and investigative articles that are all now collected in a book titled “Disney World at 50: The Stories of How Walt's Kingdom Became Magic in Orlando,” for the theme park’s 50th anniversary.

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