Walt Disney's Riverfront Square Theme Park (projet abandonné)

Cinq blueprints de ce projet de parc à thème couvert à Saint Louis, Missouri abandonné en 1965 au profit d'un autre projet en Floride...

Ces documents historiques font partie d'un lot vendu pour 27.000 dollars en décembre dernier lors d'une vente aux enchères "Disneyana" qui s'est déroulée en Californie.












Original set of blueprints for “Walt Disney’s Riverfront Square”, an unrealized Disney theme park intended for St. Louis. (Disney, 1963)

The Disneyland that never was! In March 1963, Walt Disney met with the mayor of St. Louis to discuss plans for construction of a new theme park in the riverfront area of St. Louis. Disney had Imagineering draw up plans and design new attractions for the park. For several reasons, plans for the park fell through. Disney may have been insulted after August Busch, Jr. publicly called him crazy for thinking his park would succeed without selling liquor. By July 1965, Disney announced that plans for the park would not move forward. Riverfront Square was to be entirely indoors, contained within a five-story building, allowing for year-round operation. Several classic Disneyland and Disney World attractions were originally conceived for the St. Louis park, including what would later become Pirates of the Caribbean, the Haunted Mansion, and Big Thunder Mountain Railroad. This is the only complete set of plans known to exist. It shows in great detail the different attractions and lands, conceived by Disney and his Imagineers including the stretching elevators of the Haunted Mansion, and the Pirates of the Caribbean attraction - complete with the Blue Bayou restaurant

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