ANAHEIM, Calif. (KABC) — The Walt Disney Company celebrated a milestone anniversary on Monday, 100 years to the day after Walt Disney and his brother Roy founded the company.
Many guests at Disneyland and Disney California Adventure in Anaheim planned special visits this week to honor the Walt Disney Company’s platinum anniversary.
“There’s no better place to celebrate the 100 years,” said Debbie May, who extended her trip from Florida an extra day to celebrate the anniversary. “I mean, how many companies are 100 years old?”
It didn’t start out easy for Walt Disney. When his Laugh-O-Gram Studio based in Kansas City, Missouri went bankrupt in 1923, Disney moved to Hollywood later that summer.
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Three months later, he and his brother Roy founded the Disney Brothers Studio, what would later become The Walt Disney Company.
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