By the time you read this another wonder of the world will be open to the public – Walt Disney's latest – The Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow. EPCOT Center, for short, opens Oct. 1, 1982.
As workmen on round-the-clock shifts make the last scramble to meet the dead lines, EPCOT promises to add a whole new dimension to the world of entertainment. For here, on 260 acres, is a whole new world of tomorrow,m carved over the past three years out of the Florida lowlands just four miles from Disney World. A nearly $1 billion investment makes the project the largest ever financed by private capital in this country.
Words fail when you try to describe what the Disney "imagineers" have done this time. The Imagineers are the WED Enterprises team iun Glendale, Cal. responsible for implementing a dream. Disney's dream was a "never-completed place where industry, science and the arts could meet and exchange ideas ... a community of tomorrow that will always be a showcase for the ingenuity and imagination of American free enterprise."
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