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C.V. Wood
Developer
Male
Born
Dec 17, 1920
Died
Mar 14, 1992
Cornelius Vanderbilt Wood, usually written as "C.V. Wood" and called "Woody", was an American developer of amusement parks and planned communities. He is most noted as the chief developer of Disneyland.
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CHILDHOOD
1920
Birth
Born in 1920.
THIRTIES
1957
37 Years Old
Wood went on to design more amusement parks; he billed himself as "The Master Planner of Disneyland" before a Disney lawsuit stopped him from using that title. Wood, leading his firm known as Marco Engineering, Inc., helped create Magic Mountain (now Heritage Square at Golden, Colorado) in 1957, Pleasure Island (in Wakefield, Massachusetts) in 1959, Freedomland U.S.A. (on the current site of Co-op City in the Bronx), in 1960, and initial work on Six Flags Over Texas before work was taken over by Marco member Randall Duell.
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FORTIES
1969
49 Years Old
In addition to these achievements, Wood was the winner of the International Chili Society's 1969 Annual World's Championship Chili Cookoff and had a small part in the B movie Miami Supercops.
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LATE ADULTHOOD
1991
71 Years Old
In 1991, Wood, who had become President of the Recreation Enterprises Division of Warner Bros., played an instrumental role in the design and development of Warner Bros.
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1992
72 Years Old
Died in 1992.
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