The hidden clues in Disney parks that lead to a secret enclave only for the super-rich
A destination that was key to the creation of the company’s first theme park.
Disney parks have been a tourist destination that has moved millions of people around the world year after year for decades. Emblematic places for fans of the company created by Walt Disney hide secrets that are not available to everyone, and one of them is in the mythical bronze statue of its creator with Mickey Mouse located in Disney World’s Magic Kingdom. What is it? A detail on Walt’s tie on which the letters S, T and R appear.
What do these initials stand for? It is a nod to the well-known Smoke Tree Ranch, a house located in Palm Springs, California, where Walt Disney and his wife Lilian had a residence where they spent their winters. A place of enormous importance for the creation of the theme park, with Disney selling his first house and requesting an investment from his neighbors to create the first Disneyland.
A place eternally connected to Disney
A Palm Springs community that identifies itself around figures of enormous economic power and, in some cases, also fame. That is where the Smoke Tree Ranch stands out, seeming closer to the American West than to the image of the place where it is located.
A ranch forever connected to the popular Disney park and that despite its discreet appearance, has attracted great fortunes of the United States that seek to disappear for a few moments and connect with a place that is closer to how it looked a century ago than to the present of the rest of the community.
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