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C.V. Wood was taught Transcendental Meditation by Nancy Cooke de Herrera in the late 1960s. Wood spent nearly 25 years presiding over the annual World Championship Chili Cookoff that he co-founded with race car designer Carroll Shelby and was twice crowned chili cook-off world champion.
Dec 14, 2015 · It was C.V. Wood who, as Vice President and General Manager of Disneyland, gave President Nixon the Key To Disneyland in August of 1955, one month after the grand opening of the park. If you’re anything like me and you’ve never heard of this guy before, this doesn’t make any sense, right?
Apr 16, 2018 · Wood, C.V., Jr. (1921-1992) Walt Disney hired Wood from the Stanford Research Institute in 1954 to be vice president and general manager of Disneyland, Inc., a post he held for 22 months. During this period, Wood supervised the site selection and land purchase, and the first year of operation of the park.
Mar 16, 1992 · C. V. Wood Jr., a pioneer developer of theme parks who planned and supervised the creation of Disneyland and the moving of the London Bridge to Arizona, died Saturday at St. Joseph Hospital...
May 28, 2015 · In 2011, an official Disney travel magazine innocently offered a bit of trivia about the relocated London Bridge in Arizona and one of the men responsible for it: C.V. Wood.
Apr 11, 2016 · It was the brainchild of a man named Cornelius Vanderbilt Wood [C.V. for short] and was open for just five seasons, from 1960 to 1964. Despite its relatively short lifespan, Freedomland is fondly remembered by its legions of passionate fans.
May 19, 2022 · The success of Disneyland is largely credited to Walt and Roy Disney, but there was a third man instrumental in the development of the park: a fast-talking Texan, C.V. Wood. In the early 1950s, the Disney brothers hired Wood and his team of economists to develop a land-use and feasibility study for an amusement park in Southern ...
