“In 1951, my wife and I were in London. I was always a miniature train fan, so I went to Bassett-Lowke, Ltd… I was trying to find something I could bring back as an antique. I found one, and the man said, ‘There’s a gentleman coming in this evening who’s shown some interest in that. I can’t sell it to you, because I think he may think it’s being saved for him.’”
The man recalling that story was Harper Goff. The gentleman who “showed some interest in the train,” was Walt Disney.
Read the rest of the article on the Walt Disney Family Museum blog:
http://www.waltdisney.org/blog/harper-goff-second-imagineer
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