For a few years in the 1950s, Walt Disney had an unusual feature in his Holmby Hills backyard: a working miniature railway stretching for more than half a mile. The Carolwood Pacific Railroad ran for ...

"The park means a lot to me in that it's something that will never be finished," Walt Disney said in a 1956 interview.

From Florida to Paris, Disney's larger-than-life theme parks attract millions of visitors each year. With the oldest park dating back to the 1950s, these whimsical worlds have changed considerably ...

When Disney released Cinderella in 1950, the studio was taking a major gamble. After years of financial struggles during and after World War II, Walt Disney Productions needed a hit. What it got was ...

Walt Disney made up plans for Disneyland as he went along during the yearlong construction blitz in the mid-1950s that his critics mocked as impossible and predicted would become a spectacular failure ...

In the 1950s, images of the future offered a source of wonderment and fascination, as well as a means of promoting the most ...