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Title: WaltDisney World


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WaltDisney World
  • Why WaltDisney Created the World

Emily and Kayley
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Biography of Walt Disney
  • Born on December 5, 1901, to Elias and Flora
    Disney on Chicago.
  • He was often beaten as punishment
  • The Disney family had very little money
  • He would have to work several jobs to maintain
    the family

Emily and Kayley
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Before the World
  • When Walt Disney created Disney Land he did not
    buy the surrounding land
  • Small tacky businesses bought up the land and
    Walt was upset
  • Walt really disliked all the tourist traps

Emily and Kayley
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The Hunt
  • Walt looked at many different locations for his
    new park
  • He considered St. Louis and Niagara Falls.
  • He finally decided on Florida, because of the
    weather, lots of available land, and very
    accessible.

Emily and Kayley
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Creating the World
  • Disney sent scouts to Florida to buy land in 1963
  • He bought land under different company names
  • He ended up buying 27,000 acres

Emily and Kayley
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Prices, Strategies, Names
  • Walt figured that he could not go and buy the
    land
  • himself.
  • He sent scouts down to scope out the land
  • The land was bought under assumed names, Tomahawk
  • Properties, Latin American Development, and
  • Retlaw(Walter spelled backwards).

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Who was it?
  • People were speculating about who was buying all
    the
  • Land.
  • Some guesses were Ford Motor Company, Howard
  • Huges, and Walt Disney.

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The News Got Out
  • Walt eventually told that he was building a new
    park in Florida
  • The price for land skyrocketed
  • Before Walt had been paying 180 an acre. The new
    price was 80,000.

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The Results
  • The results of Walts long search was Disney
    World.
  • Due to extreme care, the park had plenty of land
    around it for the growth of the park. So that his
    world would never end!

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