Episode 17: Lost Lands of Disneyland Paris: A 1920’s Main Street

Since Disneyland's opening in 1955, every designer who has been tasked with creating a new Main Street for a new Disney park has had to live up to that first nostalgic thoroughfare, the only one Walt actually had a hand in designing, while also setting the scene for the rest of the park. For Disneyland Paris, this task fell to a young brand-new Imagineer and self-proclaimed Disneytologist, Eddie Sotto, who envisioned a very different Main Street USA.

Eddie spent over a year working on a Main Street inspired by the stories of the Roaring '20s, and the jazz, cinema, art deco, and gangsters that populated the decade. His design included a hidden restaurant in a locomotive, a speakeasy jazz club, and police raids. Unfortunately, due to creative and financial reasons, his plans never saw the light of day in Paris. In this new part of the 'Lost Lands of Disneyland' series, we go back to the drawing board, deep in the Walt Disney Company archive, to see what this Roaring 20's entrance sequence would have looked like.

Links:

• Pre-Order Our New Book! Fastpass to the Past: The Jr. Historian's Guide to Disneyland
• The How of Wow! | Eddie Sotto | TEDxBermuda - YouTube
• Disney and More - Main Street 1920's Early Draft
• Disney and More - The Disneyland Paris That Never Was
• Disney and More - Disneyland Paris That Never Was, Part 2
• Disney and More - Why Disneyland Paris Book Is Great
• Yesterland.com: Disneyland Paris, From Sketch To Reality
• Eddie Sotto (@boss_angeles) / Twitter
• Disney and More - Disneyland Paris That Never Was, Part 3
• The Disneyland Paris That Could Have Been: Speakeasies, Gangsters, and a 1920s Jazz Club — No time to listen? Read my article on the topic, which is filled with concept art.

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