Walt Disney points to the location of his new theme park in Florida

Construction began on the Walt Disney World park in Florida, on land that had been
purchased incrementally by Disney for the better part of a decade.

Dickie Jones

As a child and young adult, Jones achieved success especially in
B-Westerns and television. He was an accomplished horseman
from infancy, billed at the age of four as the World’s Youngest
Trick Rider and Trick Roper. At the age of six, he was hired to
perform riding and lariat tricks in the rodeo owned by western
film star Hoot Gibson. Dickie Jones is best remembered as the
voice of the lead character in the 1940 Walt Disney animated
film ”Pinocchio”.

Jones starred as Dick West, sidekick to the Western hero known as 
The Range Rider (1951), in a TV series that ran for 76 episodes
(and for decades in syndication). He was given his own series in
1955, Buffalo Bill, Jr. which ran for 40 episodes. Jones continued
working in films throughout the 1950s, then retired and entered the
business world.

Sandy Kozel

Alton Glenn Miller

(March 1, 1904 – missing in action – December 15, 1944)

From the New York Herald Tribune, November 27, 1924

The first balloon in 1927 was modeled after the character Felix the Cat

1929

Mickey Mouse made his grand debut in the Macy’s Santa Claus Parade
(now Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade) in 1934.

1945

1950

Ross Simpson