“But we have this treasure in jars of clay to show that this all-surpassing power is from God and not from us…”

2 Corinthians 4:7

Sunday, May 1, 2011

5/1/11 IM INSIDE THE GARAGE WHERE WALT DISNEY's DREAM BEGAN ...


....this is where Walt started (or re-started) his animation aspirations..a tiny little garage owned by his uncle on Kingswell in the Los Feliz area of los angeles...the garage was saved by a group of people & eventually given to garden grove historical society, not far from Anaheim's disneyland & this is where it remains today ...I found the following online
“Walt Disney came to Hollywood in July1923, to try and find a job in the movie industry. When he had no luck, he decided to try cartoons again. He was rooming with his uncle, Robert Disney, at 4406 Kingswell Ave. at the time. “From an interview:“ Walt:…When things began to look hopeless, I then got my cartoon thing out again. And I built myself a cartoon stand out of plywood boxes and any lumber I could pick up somewhere…. He [Uncle Robert] let me use his garage“ He did some preliminary work on a reel, probably in the garage, but word came on the purchase of a series of ‘Alice Comedies,’ so the Pantages reel was never finished. Walt moved down the street on October 8, 1923, to 4651 Kingswell, and there in the back of a real estate office set up the first Disney Studio. A contract was signed for the ‘Alice Comedies’ on October 16, 1923, the official date of the beginning of the Disney Studio. Walt only lived with his uncle for a few months.http://www.mouseplanet.com/8366/The_Little_Disney_Garage_Nobody_Wanted