Disney History Lesson - 85th Anniversary
You know, I had been waiting for last Thursday for the longest time to do this very post… but then it rolled around and I forgot. The TAG blog, though, reminded me.
That picture up top is the location of the first Disney Brothers Studio. Walt and Roy rented two different spaces on this site in Los Feliz beginning on October 8, 1923. They were first at 4651 Kingswell Avenue, then moved next door at 4949 a few months later. The Disneys moved into their new studio at 2719 Hyperion in January 1926, changing the name to Walt Disney Studio.
Below is a shot of the former home of Walt Disney’s uncle, Robert Disney, with whom Walt stayed when he first moved from Kansas City to Los Angeles in July 1923. It’s at 4406 Kingswell, a couple blocks down the street from the first studio. Walt moved out later that November. It’s also [Read more…]
