Mojacarmagazine.com Issue 14 Page 25
If you live in Mojacar or the area surrounding it, sooner or later you’re going to hear the rumor about America’s father of fantasy, Walt Disney, sired, if not, born here in Mojacar. Depending on who tells you the tale always sets your preconceived pattern of thought on whether it’s true or not.
Hollywood too suffers a similar problem in that the rags to riches story cannot be proven in favor of the Disney corporation who claim the “pure American success story” now graduated to legend and myth.
Countless newspaper articles have been penned and documentaries done lately… For true researchers, sooner or later they drift to Mojacar and scout about for any known authority or person of repute who might be able to back up or lend the slightest bit of credence to one side or the other.
Such a find, the truth of Disney’s birth, would be the major debunking of legendary proportions. More exciting than discovering the tomb of Ghengis Khan or Alexander the Great, well, almost.
Some, like myself, listened to the almost forgotten former mayor D. Jacinto recount his tale of how dark suited FBI agents arrived in a car (long before the road existed to the village). They supposedly came here in the early 50’s seeking records from the town hall about the lad who was rumored to have been fathered by a village dandy. Where ever historians search their paths sooner or later lead them to one Tito del Amo who has troubled himself over the years to solving the riddle. “My search is a collection of coincidences that led me, well, forced me, to look into the matter more than most. You see, I grew up across the street from Disney in Beverly Hills and even have photograph’s of playing on the train he was gifted that ran the circumference of his property”.
“Many years later when my father was honored at a ceremonial opening of Disneyland I was present and was greeted by Disney himself. So I knew Walt Disney, a bit of his demeanor, what he looked like and was. It is sad that so many books have been written about him calling him the “Dark Prince of Hollywood” or trying to paint a deranged or derogatory image of him as a bad or evil character. Then when I came to Mojacar and heard the stories and I just had to look into it myself so I started doing research”.
Tito and friends are coming out in January with a CD documentary about their quest in solving the puzzle. They spent more than 114 hours filming and cut it down to a 90 minute slick and informative program. It has already been nominated for many special awards.
Tito came to Mojacar back in 1964. His brother had preceded him and a few of his
special friends. They raved about it upon their return to Madrid and Tito just had to come. Tito is the soft spoken impresario of the beach bar complex near the Hotel Indalo; pied piper to the rich and famous throughout Spain, all round good guy and guru to the silicon bronzed beauties from L.A. to Madrid that brighten and spectacularize our beaches.
“You see Ric, this quest is difficult both ways. Disney corporation can only come up with a baptismal certificate, no birth certificate and we can’t either; nor can we find actual proof of Isabelle, the local town beauty even entering the states via Ellis Island or Chicago”.
Ric Polansky ©
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