Disney World opened on a forty-four-square-mile site ;near Orlando, Florida, in 1971. Building on the enormous success of the Disneyland amusement park opened in Anaheim, California, in 1955, Walt Disney designed this Florida amusement park in 1964, but it was not completed until after his death. The thirty-thousand-acre site quickly became one of the world's most popular vacation resorts. In 1965 Walt Disney also broke ground for the adjacent Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow (EPCOT Center), which opened in 1982. Together, Walt Disney World and the EPCOT Center feature many unique technological wonders and have attracted 500 million visitors by 1994. The Walt Disney World Resort combines the glitter of Hollywood with the magic of Disney and has changed forever the image, nature, and scope of amusement the me parks in the United States.

Source: Marc Eliot, Walt Disney: Hollywood's Dark Prince (New-York: Birch Lane Press, 1993).

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