The Harrison "Buzz" Price collection, 1952-2006 is comprised of reports, proposals, research, photographs, and company files related to Price's work career as an economics consultant for theme parks and tourist attractions. The collection primarily documents the business activities of the Harrison Price Company (HPC), but some materials from earlier projects with Economic Research Associates (ERA) are also included. This collection offers insight into the theme park and tourism industry in the U.S. and internationally. It features background research involved in planning attractions, feasibility analysis reports for attraction locations, and notes from collaborative sessions on project ideas. Price was involved in projects for Disneyland, Walt Disney World, Six Flags, Universal Studios, MGM, Cedars Fair, Knott's Berry Farm, and several other entertainment organizations and resorts. The papers are divided into eight series: Reports, Proposals, Speeches, World's Fairs, Images, Subject Research Materials, Project Research Materials, and Price Company Files. Harrison "Buzz" Price was born in Oregon City, Oregon on May 17, 1921. In 1930, his family moved to San Diego, California. In 1942, Price earned a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering from the California Institute of Technology. After serving in the Army during World War II, he also earned an M.B.A. from Stanford in 1951. That same year, Price joined the Stanford Research Institute, where he assisted in locating the site for Disneyland in Anaheim, California. He managed the Stanford Research Institute's LA office for several years before founding Economic Research Associates (ERA), a consulting company in economics, in 1958. While at ERA, Price helped to locate the site for Walt Disney World in Central Florida in 1963, wrote a Universal Studios tour feasibility analysis in 1964, and carried out 6,000 consulting studies. In 1969, Price sold ERA to Planning Research Corporation, the world's largest conglomerate of professional service consulting. He became Planning Research Corporation's Chairman of the Board after serving seven years in corporate management. Price went on to start an independent consulting company in 1978, founding the Harrison Price Company. In 1994, Price was the first recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Themed Entertainment Association (TEA) and was elected to the International Association of Amusement Parks Hall of Fame in 1995. For 37 years and up until his death, Price served, alongside Edie Wasserman, as a trustee of the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts). Price also published a book in 2004 about his work in the themed entertainment and attractions business titled Walt's Revolution! By the Numbers. Harrison "Buzz" Price passed away in Pomona, California on August 15, 2010, at the age of 89.
This collection contains numerous road maps of Florida from a variety of oil companies, including Texaco, Sunoco, Standard Oil, the Atlantic Richfield Company, and others.
Materials about circuses, circus performers, and circus industry from all over the world, mainly North and South America and Europe. Includes photographs, books, posters, flyers, pamphlets, circus programs, and related materials dating primarily from the 1940s-1990s..
The papers of science fiction writer Harry Harrison, who was probably best known for his Stainless Steel Rat character. The collection primarily consists of typescripts, setting copies, and copyedited proofs of many of Harrison's published and unpublished works as well as a small amount of correspondence.
This folder contains between Guilia Koritschoner and Barbara Hass, Boni, Susi Weiss. There is a letter diagnosing Gerald Hine's exact medical condition and a newspaper clipping announcing the death of Paul Elbogen and his wife Zdenka "Mimi" Elbogen after an auto accident. There are letters between family members discussing Gerald's death and a journal article commemorating his accomplishments in the field of nuclear medicine. There is a childhood letter from Elizabeth Raetz to Giulia and a flier advertising Heimito von Doderer's books. There is also correspondence regarding genealogical research into the Hasterlik family. This includes correspondence with the American Red Cross, Israelitische Kultusgemeinde Wien and correspondence between Giulia and Wolfgang Fleischer attempting to find information about Paul Hasterlik and correspondence between Auguste "Gusti" Hasterlik and Heimito von Doderer. There are also requests made by Barbara Hass for the marriage certificate between Mia Hasterlik and Julius Koritschoner.There are newspaper clippings from March 1994 about the opening of Schindler's List in Germany and a review of a book titled "Auschwitz: A History in Photographs." There is a copy of Otto Koritschoner's death certificate
The Hasterlik-Hine collection consists personal correspondence between Giulia Kortischoner (married name Hine) and her family and friends. The personal correspondence consists of letters, postcards, get-well-soon cards, greeting cards, and a small number of travel documents. The collection contains discussions about the Holocaust, life as a Jewish refugee, and the progress of the war and life afterwards.
