Pilawt Wrote:
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> But for Walt's passion for trains there would have
> been no Disneyland. In its preliminary concept,
> it would have been a much smaller amusement park
> in the Burbank area, little more than an area for
> a track circuit for a life-size model railroad.
> The railroad came first; everything else was an
> afterthought.


Yes, but the original inspiration for the park was the often told story (by Disney,) of his frustration from waiting on a bench for his daughters to get off a merry-go-round in an amusement park with no appeal for adults.