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Main Street, U.S.A.: Progress and Enterprise
Walt Disney described Main Street, U.S.A., as "the typical small town in the early 1900s.” He meant that most small towns across America were just like it.
Main Street, U.S.A., has busy shops with pretty historic details. It is safe and fun. But life wasn’t always like that in the early 1900s. People struggled over race, money, and politics.
Today, many people see Disney’s Main Street, U.S.A., and think that American towns after the Civil War looked like this. But this perfect town was never real.
On Main Street, U.S.A., horses pull carriages and early-style cars drive past a train station. These are all different kinds of transportation. Mixing them together shows how American technology was changing in the early 1900s. New technology brought money to small towns and made life easier for some of the people who lived there. |