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Van Doren is mentioned in a book, Freedomland U.S.A.: The Definitive History (Theme Park Press, 2019), that references his connection to the now-defunct Freedomland U.S.A. theme park that was located in The Bronx in New York City. He was the master of ceremonies for the groundbreaking event for the park on August 26, 1959.
Dream Park is a 1981 sci-fi/murder mystery novel by American writers Larry Niven and Steven Barnes, set in a futuristic amusement park of the same name. It was nominated for the 1982 Locus Award [1] and later expanded into a series of cyberpunk murder mysteries: The Barsoom Project (1989), The California Voodoo Game (1992), and The Moon Maze Game (2011).
Walt's People Vol 18 Talking Disney with the Artists Who Knew Him. Foreword. Edited by Didier Ghez, Theme Park Press, 2016; Walt's People Vol 9 Talking Disney with the Artists who Knew Him. Edited by Didier Ghez, Theme Park Press 2010; The London Review of Books; The Art of Harvey Kurtzman: The Mad Genius of Comics by Denis Kitchen and Paul Buhle.
His announcement boasted that the new theme park would be, "The greatest attraction in the history of Florida." [13] The official announcement was made on the previously planned November 15 date, with Disney joining Burns in Orlando for the press conference. [13]
The Definitive History (Theme Park Press, 2019). By the end of the 1960s, he had appeared in the 1968 film The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter and performed regularly on CBS 's The Garry Moore Show . He began an animation acting career, doing everything from Bob Kane 's Cool McCool to Sonny the Cuckoo Bird in commercials for General Mills .
The last time the park — located within the hills of Universal City, Calif. — closed for an emergency was in 2020, as the coronavirus pandemic swept the world.
The Wonderama show was featured at the Hollywood Arena at the Freedomland U.S.A. theme park in The Bronx. Several shows at Freedomland were filmed and broadcast on the following Sunday mornings. Fox' memories about his appearances at the theme park are captured in Freedomland U.S.A.: The Definitive History (Theme Park Press, 2019).
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