Neat article on the construction of WDW in 1971

[brkgnews]

Stumbled upon this today from a 1971 Popular Mechanics magazine.

Read the full article on Google Books...
http://bit.ly/dgXJJi

Or glance at a couple of scans from the seven-page article...

 

[disneenut]

Thats pretty cool! Thanks for sharing!!

 

[memster]

That is so cool in interesting too :animwink:

 

[lilclerk]

Love the photo of the Contemporary room being slipped into place. Thanks for sharing!

 

[Red devil]

Interesting article!!!

 

[rsoxguy]

Really interesting article. Thanks for the link.
BTW, am I the only one who noticed the monkeys watching TV and thought, "okaaaay"?

 

[EPCOT Explorer]

"The Clean, GREEN World of Tomorrow"...How they only knew.


Thanks, Jackie.

I wish Disney would do something in today's world worthy of such esoteric praise again. It's been a while since they made news in that respect.


...Like that awesome interview with David Brinkley on the EPCOT Building Code that I can't find. :lol:

 

[wm49rs]

Great read, thank you. I couldn't help sense the irony in the line "man will be master- not victim- of the machine." I guess that was before the concept of the Yeti in E:E was in anyone's head.....

 

[brkgnews]

Glad y'all are enjoying it.

Evan: I don't have that Brinkley piece in video form, but there is a similar article in print form, written by a New York magazine columnist)...
http://books.google.com/books?id=Es...AGAZINES&rview=1&pg=PA41#v=onepage&q=&f=false
(New York Magazine; Feb 7, 1972)

 

[ChrisFL]

Great article, and sad at the same time that those ideas weren't really used in other places to their potential

 

[hazelrah]

Excellent find!

Hmmm... 35,000 employees on opening day. The number of hotels has doubled, doubled, and doubled again. Number of parks quadrupled. Two water parks, a shopping village 3 times the size of the original, massive transportation infrastructure, multiple new golf courses, an entire massive sports complex... and the number of employees is 58,000.

Any wonder why they have problems keeping everything in pristine working order?

 

[Wilt Dasney]

Nice find, Jackie. Even though we've come so far from a technological standpoint, there's something I envy about the optimism people attached to technology a few decades ago. We've accomplished more, but we seem less excited today.

 

[unkadug]

Stumbled upon this today from a 1971 Popular Mechanics magazine.

Read the full article on Google Books...
http://bit.ly/dgXJJi

Or glance at a couple of scans from the seven-page article...

OH MY GOD....I've looked for that article for years. THANK YOU. How did you ever find it? This article started my love of WDW.

I based a whole school research paper on this very article, along with supplemental research of course!

 

[EPCOT Explorer]

Glad y'all are enjoying it.

Evan: I don't have that Brinkley piece in video form, but there is a similar article in print form, written by a New York magazine columnist)...
http://books.google.com/books?id=Es...AGAZINES&rview=1&pg=PA41#v=onepage&q=&f=false
(New York Magazine; Feb 7, 1972)

Win. Thanks. :lol:

Excellent find!

Hmmm... 35,000 employees on opening day. The number of hotels has doubled, doubled, and doubled again. Number of parks quadrupled. Two water parks, a shopping village 3 times the size of the original, massive transportation infrastructure, multiple new golf courses, an entire massive sports complex... and the number of employees is 58,000.

Any wonder why they have problems keeping everything in pristine working order?

So true.


I wonder if that's inherently the problem, but a decade ago, we had about the same number of everything, and it wasn't this bad. :lol:

Nice find, Jackie. Even though we've come so far from a technological standpoint, there's something I envy about the optimism people attached to technology a few decades ago. We've accomplished more, but we seem less excited today.

Everything technologically is too common today, we are just used to it.


And made ADD by it.:lookaroun

OH MY GOD....I've looked for that article for years. THANK YOU. How did you ever find it? This article started my love of WDW.

I based a whole school research paper on this very article, along with supplemental research of course!

Too cool!

 

[bgraham34]

Awesome, loved it. thanks

 

[brkgnews]

OH MY GOD....I've looked for that article for years. THANK YOU. How did you ever find it? This article started my love of WDW.

I based a whole school research paper on this very article, along with supplemental research of course!

Glad I could help. Found it using a simple googlin' for "Disney World" keyword articles published around the time of park opening :lol:

Google Books is a beautiful thing