Wednesday, March 26, 2008

Disney Studios Helped Put Sleepy City On Map

This "sleepy city" happens to be Burbank, CA.

This article looks at the genesis of the Walt Disney Co. and Walt Disney Studios, and how it transformed a sleep town of Burbank into what it is today.

"Eventually the studio ran out of elbow room at the Silver Lake studio and Walt Disney started looking around. Warner Bros. Studios was already in Burbank and that may have given him the idea to relocate there," Cline said.

"Burbank was a sleepy place then. Cows grazed on Buena Vista Street. Burbank was not too far to drive for the workers. Walt Disney also commuted from his house in Silver Lake."


You can still have cows grazing on Buena Vista St., but it'll probably be in CGI. :)

Zz.

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