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Fantasia, the Disney classic. Cinema Kenmore Square...
...Florida. So they went to their moneylenders and their architects and they created a warm-weather wonderland of spaceships and riverboats, of wilderness campgrounds, turreted castles and lagoons. People came from far and wide -Michigan, Pennsylvania, Ohio-to visit this playland. And the builders, who came from the Walt Disney World Co., made millions happily ever after...
That modern fable is being enacted in central Florida, where the new Disney World is exceeding the most optimistic expectations of its promoters. Its success is also a major force behind a business surge that is sweeping Florida, especially its central area and eastern coast. The state is in the midst of a tourist and real estate boom, as visitors and new residents pour in by plane, bus, car and camper. Many tourists who come to see the Disney show go on to visit Daytona Beach, Tampa, Miami, Cape Kennedy and other places-to the delight of hoteliers, restaurateurs, boat...
Newly Rich. Disney World alone attracts 1,000,000 visitors a month to its 27,000 acres of fun and games-and school is not even out yet. "It's great karma, man," noted one long-haired California youth as he emerged from the Mickey Mouse Review. During the Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays, traffic was backed up as much as 25 miles on the expressways leading into Orlando, site of Disney World...
Since it opened last October, Disney World has had to increase its staff from 5,500 to more than 10,000. In what used to be swamp country, the Disney Co. has put up two big, convention-oriented hotels with golf course and sailing facilities. The number of motel rooms in the Orlando area has doubled to 8,000 in the past seven months, and current and planned construction will raise the total to 24,000 in the next years. One would-be Orlando homeowner laments that construction of his house has been postponed indefinitely because bigger builders have cornered...