"I never saw it as work," Gurr said of those days. "I love to make stuff that doesn't exist." Some of those things: a giant mountain inside a park that became Matterhorn Bobsleds, and the inner ...

Like many of the people hired by Walt Disney in the mid-1950s to help bring Disneyland park from fruit field to fruition, Bob Gurr was young, eager ... and not really suited for the job. “In 1954, ...

Bob Gurr poses for a photo with fellow Disney Legend Pluto. Bob Gurr is known for designing just about anything that moves on wheels in Disney theme parks worldwide ... miniature cars, fire trucks, ...

Gurr test-driving an early prototype of his Autopia vehicle in 1955 In his 27 years as a Disney Imagineer, Bob Gurr was known for doing the impossible: He designed a submarine fleet, the cars of ...

Famed Disney Imagineer Bob Gurr, who grew up loving planes and cars and would design the Disneyland Monorail, in surrounded by memorabilia his Tujunga Home. (David Fouts / For The Times) Bob Gurr has ...

Bob Gurr (age 23) showing off a Disneyland Autopia "Sheriff's Patrol" car. (June 1955) Credit: Photo by Lester Nehamkin/Courtesy Fandom Productions Bob Gurr (age 23) showing off a Disneyland Autopia ...

Over 11 years and 570 episodes, John Rabe and Team Off-Ramp scoured SoCal for the people, places, and ideas whose stories needed to be told, and the show became a love-letter to Los Angeles. Now, John ...

Hey, everyone. I’m sure you read Adam’s story about the Matterhorn’s 50th birthday last weekend and his profile of ride designer Bob Gurr in yesterday’s Orange County Register newspaper. Thanks for ...

The Garner Holt Foundation will present “An Afternoon with Disney Imagineering Legend Bob Gurr,” a fundraiser to benefit the foundation’s Bob Gurr Scholarship Fund, 3 p.m. June 1 at Garner Holt ...

ALISO VIEJO, Calif. (KABC) -- A family in Aliso Viejo with a passion for Halloween is using a one-of-a-kind spooky attraction they've created for a good cause, but it also recently caught the eye of a ...

Bob Gurr has often joked that if it's at Disneyland and it moves, he likely had a hand in its design. Gurr first started working for Disney in late 1954, just months before Disneyland would open in ...