EPCOT Center at Walt Disney World has its grand opening with more than 100 television crews from all over the world covering the event. Bands and orchestras play to the huge crowds and Walt Disney's wife Lillian helps in the dedication of Spaceship Earth. (The park itself will be dedicated on October 24.) The park's name derived from the acronym EPCOT (Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow), a utopian city of the future planned by Walt Disney. (He sometimes used the word "City" instead of "Community" when expanding the acronym.) Walt's original vision of EPCOT was for a model community, home to twenty thousand residents, which would be a test bed for city planning and organization.It is Disney's third theme park and by 1995 the name EPCOT Center was shortened to simply Epcot.
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