We’ve had fun watching the Winter Olympics from Vancouver for the past two weeks. During the opening ceremonies I regaled Liz with stories about how Walt Disney and his artists worked on 1960 Winter Olympics held in Squaw Valley, California.
In fact, much of the pageantry of the ceremonies today is due to Disney’s influence fifty years ago.
I just came across an article by Leo N. Holzer all about the matter: “The 1960 Winter Olympics and Disney“.
Photo by Robert Reid, of the Sacramento Bee
We were just at Lake Tahoe this last summer, I didn’t know that the Tower of Nations was still up, I would have liked to have stopped.
Bummer. I guess next time …