Today, it includes 23 hotels, four theme parks (Magic Kingdom, Epcot, Hollywood Studios and Animal Kingdom), almost 100 restaurants, two water parks (Typhoon Lagoon and Blizzard Beach), a sports complex (Disney's Wide World of Sports), and two shopping and nightlife districts (Downtown Disney and Disney's Boardwalk), as well as six golf courses, three miniature golf courses and lagoons with water sports, all connected by a complicated system of free buses, boats and monorails.

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My father was a supervisor at Kodak headquarters in downtown Rochester, and later became a liaison between Kodak and Disney in Orlando, for 25 years.

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And it's been four years since Gehry built the Walt Disney Concert Hall, the oft-cited tipping point for downtown L.A.'s renaissance.

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