I just got confirmation that Joe Cosgrove will be stopping by our Club 33 celebration on the 17th to tell a few Walt stories and party with us. I am so excited. If you are interested in checking out his book you can at Amazon.com book title "Walt Dreamers Me".
Here is the Book Summary from Amazon:
“I cannot imagine living in a world without Walt Disney.” Joe Cosgrove Walt
Disney’s life long journey comes to life as breaking news headlines that
entertain and engage dreamers of all ages. This novel storytelling is based on
Joe’s firsthand experience as well as from friends and mentors who worked
closely with Walt during the 1930’s through the 1960’s. Readers will enter the
circle of nearness of Walt Disney’s life journey as he transform’s and
revolutionizes movie cartoons into a powerful new art form. Walt becomes the
Founding Father of modern movie animation with the release of his first full
length feature film, Snow White. This was the prelude of Walt’s bigger dream to
create something totally new under the sun. Driven by endless curiosity and
courage, Walt Disney’s dreams gave birth to the greatest real estate
developments and tourist attractions in history with Disneyland and Walt Disney
World. Today Walt’s impossible dream is still growing. For all those people who
helped make his dream come true with the opening of Disneyland in 1955, Walt
created a special place called Club 33. Joe Cosgrove was there the day the Club
opened in 1967. Club 33 was a secluded hideaway in the Happiest Place on earth
for many years until the LA Times wrote a feature titled: “The Most Exclusive
Club in the World.” Joe reveals some fascinating Club 33 stories during its
early secret years. This is also the story of other extraordinary dreamers,
visionaries, leaders, innovators and heroes whose lives one day serendipitously
intersected with Joe Cosgrove. These ordinary people who did extraordinary
things include Joshua Meador, Harrison “Buzz” Price, Bob Hope, Ronald Reagan,
Steve Allen, Charles E. Fuller and Billy Graham who are just some of the
personalities in this wide reaching story of notable people who help change our
world for the better. WALT DREAMERS ME celebrates the American heritage of
individual liberty with headline making news of exceptional individuals
motivated by the highest possible standards of excellence who created
innovations that greatly changed our imagination, our culture and our world for
the better. These true life adventure headline stories are filled with heroes,
mentors, tricksters, sidekicks, scoundrels and scallywags just like those we
read about in the newspaper every day. These very universal caricatures are seen
in the classic stories in the Bible. Walt Disney brought these caricatures to
life in such films as Snow White, Pinocchio and Cinderella. It is our intention
that our readers accompany each person headlined in order to relate to each of
them in a new powerful and personal way.