Comments on: Disneyland + Suburbia http://blogs.walkerart.org/offcenter/2008/02/21/disneyland-suburbia/ Outside Ideas from Inside the Walker Art Center Fri, 04 Jul 2008 09:56:28 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: Kristi Skordahl http://blogs.walkerart.org/offcenter/2008/02/21/disneyland-suburbia/#comment-70324 Kristi Skordahl Fri, 22 Feb 2008 00:13:52 +0000 http://blogs.walkerart.org/offcenter/2008/02/21/disneyland-suburbia/#comment-70324 BRAVO KRISTINA FONG! The idea that intelligent human life must distain popular culture to be worthy of the term intelligent, feeds the conservative myth that opening our eyes to the world only serves to weaken and demean us. There are miracles all around us, many of them appearing on television and at Disneyland. I am happy to find magic in places prouder human beings have dismissed. BRAVO KRISTINA FONG! The idea that intelligent human life must distain popular culture to be worthy of the term intelligent, feeds the conservative myth that opening our eyes to the world only serves to weaken and demean us. There are miracles all around us, many of them appearing on television and at Disneyland. I am happy to find magic in places prouder human beings have dismissed.

]]> By: Joe Hoover http://blogs.walkerart.org/offcenter/2008/02/21/disneyland-suburbia/#comment-70318 Joe Hoover Thu, 21 Feb 2008 19:34:58 +0000 http://blogs.walkerart.org/offcenter/2008/02/21/disneyland-suburbia/#comment-70318 Even further back, the Walker did an exhibit of the "remarkable shopping developments... ...including Southdale..." back in 1954. Here is a <a href="http://www.richfieldhistory.org/walker-1954-03-18.gif" rel="nofollow">Walker Ad from March 3, 1954 in the <i>Richfield Sun</i></a> titled "Shopping Centers of Tomorrow." Even further back, the Walker did an exhibit of the “remarkable shopping developments… …including Southdale…” back in 1954.

Here is a Walker Ad from March 3, 1954 in the Richfield Sun titled “Shopping Centers of Tomorrow.”

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