{"id":5547,"date":"2012-05-07T12:39:37","date_gmt":"2012-05-07T19:39:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=5547"},"modified":"2012-09-26T23:18:10","modified_gmt":"2012-09-27T06:18:10","slug":"disney-garage-garden-grove","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/disney-garage-garden-grove\/","title":{"rendered":"Disney Office was a Garage You Can See in Garden Grove, CA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"img\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/disgar2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"922\" height=\"456\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Photo: Disney Garage built in 1923 includes displays and memorabilia from fan clubs.<\/p>\n<p>Countless visitors to Disneyland drive by a Disney relic that most don&#8217;t even know exists. A mere 10 minutes from the theme park is the garage used as a studio by Walt Disney in 1923. It was then located at his\u00a0Uncle Robert Disney&#8217;s\u00a0North Hollywood property. Today The Walt Disney Company has an estimated value of $72 billion and ranks as the largest media conglomerate in the world in terms of revenue. But the Mickey Mouse operation was built on a shoestring budget.<\/p>\n<p>According to the late Walt Disney who moved to Los Angeles from Kansas City, hoping to make it in Hollywood, &#8220;When things began to look hopeless, I then got my cartoon thing out again. And I built myself a cartoon stand out of plywood boxes and any lumber I could pick up somewhere. And I built it right down there in the garage. He (Uncle Robert) let me use his garage.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Disney Garage can be seen on tours at the Garden Grove Historical Society&#8217;s<a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/museums\/garden-grove-stanley-ranch.html\"> Stanley Ranch Museum and Historical Village<\/a> at 12174 Euclid St., Garden Grove, CA. Public tours are available the first and third Sunday of each month at 1:30 p.m.\u00a0 Special tours for 8 or more during the week can be arranged through the office, (714) 530-8871.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo: Disney Garage built in 1923 includes displays and memorabilia from fan clubs. Countless visitors to Disneyland drive by a Disney relic that most don&#8217;t even know exists. A mere 10 minutes from the theme park is the garage used as a studio by Walt Disney in 1923. It was then located at his\u00a0Uncle Robert [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5547"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5547\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}