History of Florida to use I-75, and settled along the west coast of Florida. Florida's first theme parks were developed in the 1930s and included Cypress Gardens (1936) near Winter Haven, and Marineland (1938) near St. Augustine. Disney selected Orlando over several other sites for an updated and expanded version of their Disneyland Park in California. In 1971, the Magic Kingdom, the first component of the resort, opened and became Florida's best-known attraction, attracting tens of millions of visitors a year. It stimulated the development of other attractions, as well as large tracts of housing and related businesses. The Orlando area became an
The Magic Kingdom: Walt Disney and the American Way of Life The Magic Kingdom: Walt Disney and the American Way of Life The Magic Kingdom: Walt Disney and the American Way of Life is a non-fiction book by Steven Watts. Steven Watts is a professor at University of Missouri-Columbia. He has published many articles and essays; however one of the most reviewed and major non- fiction books he wrote was "The Magic Kingdom ". Walt Disney was born in Chicago on December 5, 1901 and lived in Marceline, Missouri from 1905 to 1910. When he was young, he had a talent for drawing and he earned money doing illustrations for newspapers