Buy Defunctland T-Shirts: https://teespring.com/stores/defunctland Donate on Patreon: https://patreon.com/defunctland In this episode, Kevin travels back to the tail end of the Roaring Twenties to look at the development of the Century of Progress fair in Chicago and how the World’s Exposition changed the United States and its view of progress Facebook […]
Walt Disney made ambitious plans for a City of Tomorrow named E.P.C.O.T. just before his death in 1966, but the plans were soon abandoned. What were Walt’s ideas for his city of the future, what happened to the project, and would it have worked? Major Sources: Walt Disney and the […]
Special Thanks to Steve Wesson (TheMightyMicroscope.com) and David Oneal for letting me use their photos/videos. In this episode, Kevin discusses the history of Disneyland’s Adventure Thru Inner Space, a ride that shrank guests to the size of an atom and was sponsored by an infamous company. Buy Defunctland T-Shirts: https://defunctland.com/store […]
