Saw a documentary some years ago about the at the time mayor and city commissioners decision to convince DW to come to Florida.
They gave away the farm to get them here in many different ways.
The documentary went on to interview every commissioner still alive that had a vote......every one of ‘em unanimously stated that if they had it to do all over again there’s no way they would have voted to bring disney here.
I’m old enough to remember the Orlando area before DW.......it was a beautiful sleepy little town full of orange groves.
These days I can’t remember the last time I’ve been on I-4 much less visited O-town.
Old Orlando and FL was lovely place to live .
Its a living nightmare full of illegals and Visas invaders and half of India .
We moved to Florida in 1965 literally months after I-4 was completed through orlando. Florida was a beautiful place in those days. It was a great place to be of high school age.
I did a road trip to Florida in 2012 to visit some friends. Someone transported from 1965 to the present in Central Florida would have a difficult time even realizing they were in the same geographic location.
During the years in which I lived in Florida it was Non-Stop local governments selling out to developers in a dozen different ways, most of them either unethical or illegal. And pretty much wrecking the quality of life all the way along with their little deals.
A few years ago I said to my wife how much money would someone have to pay me to make it worth us moving to Florida? She replied enough for you to fly home every weekend because I’m not living there.
Some years ago, the Disney Corporation wanted to build an American History themed place near Haymarket VA. The shouts of “not only ‘NO’ but ‘HELL NO’” shook the heavens.
It didn’t happen.
Can you imagine their take on Colonial and 19th Century America? It would be hideous.
“I’m old enough to remember the Orlando area before DW.......it was a beautiful sleepy little town full of orange groves.”
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I remember that too. Orlando Air Force Base was there back then.