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Disney Parks without Joe Rohde: A world-maker retires. What s next?
Todd Martens
© (Jay L. Clendenin / Los Angeles Times)
Imagineer Joe Rohde is retiring after four decades with Walt Disney Imagineering. Where the parks will go without him is a worry for many. (Jay L. Clendenin / Los Angeles Times)
Millions of guests to Disney’s theme parks live vicariously through Joe Rohde.
The famed theme park designer and patriarch of Walt Disney World’s Animal Kingdom is alternately a student and a teacher, an academic and an artist, a tourist and a documentarian.
He’s also the most vocal champion of the belief that theme parks you know, places filled with popcorn, candy-coated churros, lowbrow stuff are cultural institutions. ....

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