Mar 4 2021 - Walt Disney Myth

One of those urban myths or modern day legends is about Walt Disney being kept in cryostasis.  If that was the case, is he still being preserved? The real story on biography.com is this: On December 15, 1966, animation legend Walt Disney died from complications of lung cancer, for which he had undergone surgery just over a month earlier. A private funeral was held the next day, and on December 17, his body was cremated and interred at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, California. But while Disney undoubtedly lives on through the legacy of the beloved feature films and theme parks that comprise much of his life’s work, shortly after his death, a rumor began to circulate that he might be living on in a more literal sense as well — with his body suspended in a frozen state and buried deep beneath the Pirates of the Caribbean ride at Disneyland in Anaheim, California, awaiting the day when medical technology would be advanced enough to reanimate the animator.  The exact origins of the rumor are uncertain, but it first appeared in print in a 1969 Ici Paris article in which a Disney executive attributed it to a group of disgruntled animators seeking to have a laugh at their late taskmaster employer’s expense.  Here are some pictures from our 2016 visit to friends Bill and Mary Miller's layout.   Purchase at: FAA - marilyncornwellart.com Redbubble - marilyncornwellart.ca

 

Where will we weather?

We have a freezing rain and rain weather alert today.  I wondered where would a person live to have great weather year round. This is an easy internet question, with many sites giving answers.  Is temperature the deciding factor?  Is it the number of sunny days a year? These two seem to be at the top of the list. At the tenth spot on the list of themysteriousworld.com is Medellin, Colombia, know as the City of eternal spring.  The temperature ranges from 64 to 82 degrees, and there are colourful flowers year-round. This seems to be an understatement as the pictures retrieved are of flower floats in the Medellin Flower Festival.  This is a flower growing area now and Colombia exports 500 million flowers for Valentine's Day, according to one article.  At the first spot on the list is San Diego, with temperatures of 71 to 57 degrees.  San Diego has over 300 sunny days a year.  If one wanted to live in one of the '10 best cities in the world',  neither of these cities pop up, but Sydney Australia shows up in both lists.  We could find top places to live for James Bond lovers or Sherlock Holmes building connections - there are all kinds of reasons to visit and live in places.  Alternately a railroad layout in the basement, like Bill and Mary Miller's in Maryland would keep you inside most of the time.

Middelton, MD Layout Scenes

We're looking at Bill and Mary Miller's  Middleton, MD layout.  They model Colorado with the mountain scenery with logging, mining and great mountain bridges.  It is an operating layout so the last picture shows the cards with the operating instructions.