Northern California Mosaic - Disney's California Adventure
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DopeyDuck
N 33° 48.515 W 117° 55.154
11S E 414919 N 3741311
This very large mosaic on RIGHT side of the DCA entrance depicts a scene from Northern California. It contains more than 12,000 pieces of hand-crafted tiles.
Waymark Code: WM4J5N
Location: California, United States
Date Posted: 08/29/2008
Views: 65
Theme park admission is helpful, but not required to visit this waymark.
History from "Piecing California Together" (from The Great California Adventure, Imagineering Disney's California Adventure & The Disneyland Resort; 2001)
"Containing more than 12,000 pieces of hand-crafted tiles, the entry wall - a "Postcard from California" - captures the images of numerous California icons including LAX, Catalina Island, the redwoods, and San Francisco's Lombard Street and Chinatown. Each tile was cut from clay, baked, hand-painted and glazed (this includes using 14-carat gold paint). According to vice president, executive designer Tim Delaney, the Bulgarian couple who made the 12,000 tiles numbered and lettered each one so they could be put together by Imagineers on site.
"When the english letters ran out there was some type of bulgarian coding," says Tim. "We started to panic because if anything happened to those two people we would be lost in a sea of tile big enough to fill a football field."
Thankfully, the jig saw puzzle of tile was completed and has carved its place as of of the largest hand-crafted tile murals in the world."
Specific visit requirements:
** Please provide a CLOSE-UP picture of the mosaic depicting one of the elements (i.e whale, Cannery Row, redwoods, LAX) **
Address:
1313 S Harbor Blvd
Anaheim, CA USA
92803
Related web site: Not listed
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