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Announcer news the build a better bay area. This is abc7 mornings. Its sunday, june 16th. Good morning, and thanks so money for joining us. Im chris nguyen. Lets start with a first look at the accuweather forecast. Lisa . On live doppler 7 a lot of cloud cover for this fathers day. The marine layer is extensive. Heres a look from san rafael, a lot of cloud cover, numbers in the 50s, 58 in oakland. Mountain view is at 59. 60 in san jose. From the airport, 44 minute delays at sfo. The peninsula, in the upper 60s later on. San mateo, low 70s redwood city. Right now in the east bay, upper 50s to l...

Disney World at 50: Meet the general you’ve never heard of who mapped out the Magic Kingdom Orlando Sentinel 2/15/2021 Gabrielle Russon, Orlando Sentinel © Orlando Sentinel File/Orlando Sentinel/TNS In November 1965, Walt Disney, left, William "Joe" Potter, Florida Gov. Haydon Burns and Roy Disney attend a news conference in the Egyptian Room at the Cherry Plaza in Orlando, Florida. Disney announced plans for Disney World and promised the theme park would be grander than Disneyland. ORLANDO, Fla. — The tourists at Disney World are too preoccupied with the majestic Cin...

“If you ask anybody that goes to Walt Disney World, who is Joe Potter? ... They won’t know much about him,” said Disney author and historian Christopher Lucas. ”Without him, there’d be no Disney World.”

Disney’s rumored presence in Florida became reality when Walt came to Orlando’s Cherry Plaza to share plans for Magic Kingdom.

More than 50 years ago, Disney became front-page news in Orlando. On Oct. 24, 1965, the Sentinel’s headline read “We Say: ‘Mystery’ Industry Is Disney.” The official announcement would not be made for 3 weeks.