The Happiest Place On Earth' by Don Hahn and Christopher Merritt traces the development of Disneyland, starting in the early ’50s.

Art dealer Mike Van Eaton stands next to a hand-drawn map from 1953 that shows Walt Disney's original ideas for Disneyland displayed at the Van Eaton Galleries in Sherman Oaks, Los Angeles.

Simon is a Los Angeles-based journalist who covers film and TV. Walt Disney’s Disneyland presentation map has sold for $708,000 at an auction in Los Angeles. Although it fell short of the $ ...

What kind of Disney land map is this? It's called the presentation map drawn. When the happiest place on earth was just *** gleam in Walt Disney's eye. Then he went to the board of directors and ...

Over the course of a single, frenetic weekend, the pair holed up in Disney studios, where Ryman sketched a detailed map of Disney’s vision onto a folding poster board. That map, as Brooks Barnes ...

The map was used to gain investment for Walt Disney's first theme park in Anaheim, California An original map of the first Disneyland park has fetched £555,838 ($708,000) at an auction in California.

There's an oft-repeated Disneyland creation myth: Artist and animation art director Herb Ryman was given 48 hours to draw an early, heavily detailed and romanticized map of the theme park ...