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Eastern seaboard architecture of turn of the century America is being recreated in Main Street U.S.A., at Walt Disney World's Magic Kingdom theme park in Orlando, Fla., Nov. 1970. The idea was presented to Florida lawmakers in a movie house outside Orlando, Florida 55 years ago: Let Disney form its own government and in exchange it would create a futuristic city of tomorrow. (AP Photo)

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Years of fruitful relations between Disney, Florida at risk
By MIKE SCHNEIDER AND CURT ANDERSON - Associated Press
Wed,04/20/22-2:56PM , 172 Reads
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — The idea was presented to Florida lawmakers in a movie house outside Orlando 55 years ago, with Walt Disney, who had died less than two months earlier, helping make the pitch from the screen: Let Disney form its own government and in exchange it would create a futuristic city of tomorrow.
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