Where it All Began

Over the weekend Patrick and I went to the Griffith Park Merry-Go-Round . Now, normally I’m not one to go to a place just to ride a carousel, but the place has a very special meaning. Built in 1926, the Griffith Park Merry-Go-Round is often described as the place where Walt Disney first thought up the idea for Disneyland. In an interview (later shown as part of the The First Fifty Magical Years , viewable here ), Walt described spending Saturdays with his two daughters where he would “sit on a bench, you know, eating peanuts” watching his two girls ride the merry-go-round and it is here that Walt thought to himself...