a youthful group stands outside of the Disney Brothers Studio on 4647 Kingswell Avenue in Los Angeles in 1925

top, left to right – Lillian Bounds Disney (Walt’s wife), Walt Disney, Ruth Disney (Walt and Roy’s sister), Roy Disney, and Roy’s wife Edna 

The Kingswell studio was two blocks west of the boys’ Uncle Robert’s home where both were staying. They produced the Alice in Cartoonland series and some of the Oswald the Lucky Rabbit series here. This is where the Walt Disney Company officially began on October 16, 1923

third picture shows Walt and Roy with some of their employees

and the fourth, the same people, superimposed on the location today – which is now home to a printing company called Extra Copy.  they even salute Disney inside the shop!

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