This morning, do not miss the huge update to ToonsAtWar by David Lesjak, as well as Mark Mayerson's post titled Walt Disney's Birthplace For Sale on Ebay.

Speaking of Walt's father, Elias, I got this email from James D. Marks a few weeks ago:

[I just finished reading the following book: The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson, about the 1893 World’s Columbian Exhibition held in Chicago, Illinois. In it I discovered an interesting fact about Elias and Roy O.

Page 373: Walt Disney’s father, Elias, helped build the White City: Walt’s Magic Kingdom may well be a descendant. Certainly the fair made a powerful impression on the Disney family. It proved such a financial boon that when the family’s third son was born that year, Elias, in gratitude, wanted to name him Columbus. His wife, Flora, intervened; the baby became Roy.

Disney’s World by Leonard Mosley (source mentioned by Erik Larson).

Page 25-26"There was a brief family struggle over the third son’s name. He was born in the year of the World Columbian Exhibition in Chicago. Elias had received serveral commissions to make furniture and provide designs for fair, and he made so much money from the exhibition that when his third son was born, he considered naming him Columbus, as a gesture of gratitude. But Flora would not hear of saddling her son with such an outlandish name, and finally they christened the new arrival Roy Oliver Disney.]