Just 50 years ago, Orlando was stil...

Just 50 years ago, Orlando was still a narcotic town of farmers and ranchers. A hundred after its establishment as a defensive outpost in the Seminole wars, Orlando's year-round warmth and citrus copses had attracted railroads, real estate speculators and a handful of transplanted snowbirds, unless the big boom was over and above to come.

In the mid-1960s, cartoon emperor of japan Walt Disney began quietly buying enormous plots of swamp land southwest of town, with the dream of creating a bigger, better and more self-contained park like his first, Disneyland. spreaded in 1971, five years after his death, Walt