Marty Mickey and Me - Celebrating My Friendship with Disney Legend Marty Sklar

<p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Celebrating a cherished friendship</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Retired journalist Chuck Schmidt has been covering the ins and outs of the Walt Disney Company for more than four decades first on the pages of the </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Staten Island Advance</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> newspaper then on the paper's website SILive.com. Since 2014 he's shared his Disney expertise with followers of the popular AllEars.Net site through his </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Still Goofy About Disney</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> blog.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>As part of his Disney coverage Chuck had the pleasure of meeting and striking up relationships with a host of Disney luminaries many of whom attained coveted Disney Legend status. The unquestioned leader of the club is Marty Sklar whose long and storied career took flight after creating </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>The Disneyland News</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> for guests entering Disneyland on July 17 1955 - opening day.</span></p><p></p><p><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Marty Mickey and Me </em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>opens a window into Chuck's cherished friendship with Marty which began after he conducted the first of many interviews with the Disney Legend in 2010 one year after he retired. Over the next few years Chuck discovered that Marty Sklar was a shining star in the Disney firmament adored by millions of Disney fans worldwide as well as the men and women who worked with him at Walt Disney Imagineering ... in large part because Marty was a conduit to Walt Disney himself.</span></p><p></p><p><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Marty Mickey and Me</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> offers intimate first-hand accounts of Marty's involvement in Disneyland's struggles during its first few years Disney's participation in the 1964-1965 New York World's Fair Walt Disney's desire to build a city of the future in Florida and Marty's retirement years when he toured the world touting his books.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>As Kevin Rafferty one of Marty's Imagineering proteges wrote in the foreword to </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Marty Mickey and Me</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>: I love this book because it's about one of my all-time favorite Imagineers written by one of my all-time favorite authors!</span></p>