Dollywood is an icon of the South. Located in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee, the theme park is a southern staple, ordained with the people and places of the old south and crowned by the charm of country queen Dolly Parton herself. After opening in the early twentieth century as a simple coal fired railroad attraction, the Read More…
Month: April 2019
Disney’s America
Our previous post explored the disastrous downfall of what is now Disneyland Paris, and how that park’s failure destroyed thousands of plans and dashed the ideas of hundreds of Walt Disney Imagineers. Today we’ll take a look at one of the most ambitious of those ideas – Disney’s America. Disney’s America was intended to be Read More…
€uro Disneyland: Economic Disaster
On April 12, 1992, the Walt Disney Company officially opened the first Disney-owned theme park outside of the United States. The ill-titled Euro Disney Resort opened with the Euro Disneyland Park, the Disney Village shopping center, and six resort hotels with nearly 6000 rooms ready for guests. The Walt Disney Imagineers had, for the first Read More…