Walt Disney
Before he hit it big, Walt Disney was just a Kansas City paper boy. Take a look back
It was a hot morning in mid-summer 1923 when Walt Disney walked briskly through Union Station in Kansas City, Missouri. With the last remaining money in his pocket, he purchased a one-way first-class ticket for Los Angeles, California. He was leaving Kansas City, the town where he had lived off and on since he was 9 years old, for good. Now, 101 years later, this same train station is hosting “Disney100: The Exhibition” honoring this visionary film maker and professional dreamer, and the company that bears his name. In light of this exhibition one reader recently asked What’s Your KCQ?, a partnership between the Kansas City Public Library and The Kansas City Star, what exactly was Walt Disney’s connection to Kansas City?