Here's a fun tidbit of Celebrity lore.....Did you know that there was a flagpole at the entrance to CSC that was used at the pageantry ceremony of the VIII Olympic Winter Games of 1960? Walt Disney was the "Chairman of Pageantry." I often wondered what happened to that flagpole. One day I was having lunch at the Disney Studio commissary in Burbank, when I happened to notice a flagpole exactly like the one that once stood at the entrance of CSC! Did Disney retrieve it and display it at the studio in Burbank? Or was it one of many? Who knows.......I snapped this picture of the one in Burbank.
Here's a link to the story at the Walt Disney Family Museum site, of Walt's creative contribution to the 1960 winter olympic games in Squaw Valley. Check it out, interesting read.
https://www.waltdisney.org/blog/new-heights-walt-and-winter-olympics
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