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By Michael - January 30th, 2024 Prentis Hale, Walt Disney, John Hench, and Tommy Walker
The Progress City Radio Hour returns to the slopes for more snowbound adventure! We have a wintry mix of tales including a trip to Switzerland with Walt to film on the slopes of the Matterhorn, a look at Disney’s involvement in the 1960 Winter Olympics, […]
By Michael - December 23rd, 2022 The model for Tony Baxter’s original concept for The Land.
Merry Christmas! The Progress City Radio Hour continues our 40th anniversary celebration of EPCOT Center with a look at the pavilion which today most holds true to its original intent – The Land! We’ll look back at how the pavilion came to be, and […]
By Michael - May 27th, 2022 Walt and Kirk Douglas frolic on the set of 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
We’re back with a new episode of the Progress City Radio Hour! This month we’re talking about voyages extraordinaires – Disney’s run-ins with Jules Verne and the scientific romances of old. Leading off, we talk about the making of the […]
By Michael - August 27th, 2020 Frank Stanek
The podcast train keeps on rolling, as we have some new episodes of The Progress City Radio Hour for you. For starters, we have an extensive two-part interview with former Disney executive Frank Stanek, who began by flipping pancakes at Disneyland in 1961. He went on to work at the 1964/65 […]
By Michael - July 12th, 2020 Here’s to the future and you!
In the lead-up to the creation of Epcot Center during the 1970s, a common refrain from Disney publicity was that, in many ways, Walt’s futuristic dream for the city of EPCOT had already come true in the Florida swamps. The underlying systems and technologies in use at […]
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The Progress City Primer
![](http://progresscityusa.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/bookimg_sidebar.png) From the Progress City archives comes this collection of 33 tall tales and true from Disney history. Available in paperback, hardback, and ebook formats.
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