In Disneyland Walt re-created the world of his boyhood. Here a child’s happiest fantasies exist in real life…
During World War II, Dad’s artists designed thousands of insignia for planes, tanks and shoulder patches; over 4000 designs in all. I collected them in scrapbooks, so I ought to know. Uncle Roy figured that each of those insignia cost the studio about twenty-five dollars, and the studio did the work for nothing. That is a pretty big giveaway - $100,000. “How could you turn them down?” Dad asks. “It meant a lot to the fighting men, and they didn’t know where else to go.”
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