I wish I had been writing this column in 1994, when Disney cut the ribbon at Celebration, a fully-planned, Florida “town” that looks and feels like the mythical place Walt himself had pined for most of his life.
Belief was so strong that Disney’s “Imagineers” could conjure up a real lifestyle by cherry-picking the best of architecture and urban planning from 1840 to 1940 (the same could be said of Seaside, Fla., which came first), there was a waiting list to buy in.
I wonder if, at the age I was then, 26, I would have celebrated Celebration. Probably, since I’ve always had a weak spot for nostalgia.