Disney�s New Buena Vista Street: Looking Forward by Looking Back,

Disney�s New Buena Vista Street: Looking Forward by Looking Back
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Next on the right hand side of the street is Atwater Ink & Paint Art Supply, at 2719. Atwater Village was a well established area just east of Los Feliz. Walt Disney�s favorite restaurant, the Tam O�Shanter Inn, opened in 1922 in the Atwater Village area. To this day one can reserve Walt�s favorite table, just to the left of the fireplace in the main dining room. The name Atwater Ink and Paint also refers to the important Ink and Paint department at the Disney Studio, where young women with steady hands and keen eyes traced the ink outlines and hand colored every detail of Disney�s classic animated shorts and features.


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Los Feliz Street in 1927, with circle showing location of the Tam O'Shanter Inn, opened in 1922
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The final business on this side of the street is Trolley Treats at 2741 Buena Vista. While there was a 1927 Oswald the Lucky Rabbit short entitled Trolley Troubles, the name of this business is more likely a tribute to the Pacific Electric cars that plied Los Angeles and Hollywood through the 1920s and 30s. The �mountains of candy,� �rivers of fudge,� hills of dew drops,� and �valleys of taffy� may refer to the mountains, rivers, hills, and valleys that the Red Cars crossed daily until their final run was made in 1953.

Across the street is Elias & Company Department Store, at 2750 Buena Vista. �A Name You Know and Trust,� Elias was not only Walt Disney�s middle name; it was also his father�s name. Walt Disney directed that a window honoring Elias Disney be placed on Main Street USA in Disneyland. It notes Elias� occupation, contractor. In the late nineteenth century, Elias Disney helped build the great Chicago World�s Fair, as well as the house in Chicago where Walt Disney was born.


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Elias & Company Department Store
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Walt Disney pauses below window on Main Street dedicated to his father Elias
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