“I cannot imagine living in a world without Walt Disney.” Joe Cosgrove Walt Disney’s life long journey comes to life as breaking news headlines that entertain and engage dreamers of all ages. This novel storytelling is based on Joe’s firsthand experience as well as from friends and mentors who worked closely with Walt during the 1930’s through the 1960’s. Readers will enter the circle of nearness of Walt Disney’s life journey as he transform’s and revolutionizes movie cartoons into a powerful new art form. Walt becomes the Founding Father of modern movie animation with the release of his first full length feature film, Snow White. This was the prelude of Walt’s bigger dream to create something totally new under the sun. Driven by endless curiosity and courage, Walt Disney’s dreams gave birth to the greatest real estate developments and tourist attractions in history with Disneyland and Walt Disney World. Today Walt’s impossible dream is still growing. For all those people who helped make his dream come true with the opening of Disneyland in 1955, Walt created a special place called Club 33. Joe Cosgrove was there the day the Club opened in 1967. Club 33 was a secluded hideaway in the Happiest Place on earth for many years until the LA Times wrote a feature titled: “The Most Exclusive Club in the World.” Joe reveals some fascinating Club 33 stories during its early secret years. This is also the story of other extraordinary dreamers, visionaries, leaders, innovators and heroes whose lives one day serendipitously intersected with Joe Cosgrove. These ordinary people who did extraordinary things include Joshua Meador, Harrison “Buzz” Price, Bob Hope, Ronald Reagan, Steve Allen, Charles E. Fuller and Billy Graham who are just some of the personalities in this wide reaching story of notable people who help change our world for the better. WALT DREAMERS ME celebrates the American heritage of individual liberty with headline making news of exceptional individuals motivated by the highest possible standards of excellence who created innovations that greatly changed our imagination, our culture and our world for the better. These true life adventure headline stories are filled with heroes, mentors, tricksters, sidekicks, scoundrels and scallywags just like those we read about in the newspaper every day. These very universal caricatures are seen in the classic stories in the Bible. Walt Disney brought these caricatures to life in such films as Snow White, Pinocchio and Cinderella. It is our intention that our readers accompany each person headlined in order to relate to each of them in a new powerful and personal way. JOSEPH PATRICK COSGROVE was born in 1930 in Boston, Massachusetts and was educated at Wheaton College, Wheaton, Illinois and Fuller Theological Seminary, Pasadena, California. Joe was a broadcaster on WCOP (ABC), Boston, MA, staff announcer on KPOL AM/FM, Los Angeles, GM and Founder of KTHO radio, South Lake Tahoe, CA, and a GM at KMIR (NBC-TV) Palm Springs. While at KPOL, he was featured numerous times in the LA Times Calendar section as one of the most innovative and highly rated personalities of the day. Being on KPOL opened the door to the Disney Movie studio and an invitation from Disney to join Club 33 as it opened behind the green door in Disneyland in 1967 Over a period of three decades, Joe was involved in creating TV commercials with the LA Rams, LA Lakers, LA Dodgers, Anaheim Angels, S.F. Forty-niners and the Dallas Cowboys. Joe produced videos on thoroughbred racing and college baseball training. He has produced TV commercials for major Southern California auto dealers and national TV commercials featuring Bill Cosby, Ricardo Mantalban, Karl Mauldin, Robert Conrad, Juliet Prowse and James Whitmore, to mention but a few. In 1964, Joe worked closely with Ronald Reagan for Senator Barry Goldwater's campaign during the California Primary for the Republican Presidential Nomination. He served as Regional Manager, for the California Manufacturers Association which represented business in Sacramento, California. Joe wrote, produced and directed a half hour video featuring Governor Ronald W. Reagan and Speaker Jesse Unruh which dramatically increased membership and revenue for CMA. As an executive with three NYSE Fortune 500 Companies: Harvey Aluminum, Martin Marietta and General Automation he was responsible for all corporate communications. Joe was director of corporate communications and marketing for the Owl Companies, Irvine where he created a Day With Sugar Ray and raised hundreds of thousands of dollars for the Sugar Ray Youth Foundation with the help of Bob Hope, John Wayne, Glenn Campbell, Dry Martini and many other notable headliners. Joe produced and directed Jack LaLanne's first fitness video "The Jack LaLanne Way" and created Jack's first media kit. He produced Jack's Big Swim For Fitness which made headlines around the world when Jack celebrated his 70th birthday by towing 70 boats with