Wade B. Rubottom(1903-1997)
- Art Department
- Art Director
Wade Rubottom worked for Walt Disney's private design firm, WED
Enterprises, in 1954-55 as an Art Director responsible for Disneyland's
Main Street, U.S.A. He later worked for Marco Engineering (with C. V.
Wood, Jr., Disneyland's first General Manager) and designed
Freedomland, one of the first theme parks to follow Disneyland. Through
his MGM experience, Rubottom knew art director Randall Duell who formed
an architectural practice that perfected the theme park formula.
Randall Duell & Associates designed most of the theme parks in the U.
S. in the 1960s and 1970s. Wade Rubottom built a house on the beach in
Santa Barbara and retired there.
