By now, WED was running out of money.īiographer Neal Gabler describes a life-changing phone call in Walt Disney: The Triumph of American Imagination (Alfred A. Walt had assembled a small group, which included hiring a 20th Century Fox art director, Richard “Dick” Irvine, who had worked for Walt in the past.
Less than a year earlier, Walt Disney set up a new company, WED Enterprises, intending to make his dream of a new kind of amusement park a reality. We can still enjoy the results of that weekend-the wonderful drawing reproduced in this article and, more importantly, the fact that Walt and Roy Disney were able to scrape together financing for Disneyland.Īdapted from a Yesterland article published February 19, 2014ĭrawing by Herb Ryman, 1953, copyright Disney (Nobody was there with a tape recorder.) But there’s no doubt that it happened. The details change a bit, especially the dialog. I’ve read it and heard it told many times. I never get tired of the “lost weekend” story.
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