China Disney rumors bring out the frauds

[DVCFAN]

There is an article in the weekend Wall Street Journal ( I was bored and needed something to read) about a rumor that Shaghi will be getting a Disney
park. They get paid to more off the land when this happens so people are building shacks and forming fake companies on the land.

The article said this paid off for a guy in califonia who planted a strawberry farm next to the site of the disney park in 195? got 80 Million in 1989.

 

[todd222222]

It's my understanding that the man already had the farm down the road from Disneyland when it opened.

He refused to sell to Disney. Upon his death his family sold it to Disney.

Here it is on Google Maps. When/if Disney builds a 3rd gate this is probably where it will be:

http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=33.799513,-117.912977&spn=0.005724,0.009398&t=k&z=17

 

[DancingBear]

I don't have the article, but since when did being a land speculator equal being a fraud? Do you think Disney had a right to buy that strawberry farm for less for some reason?

 

[Horace Horsecollar]

The article said this paid off for a guy in califonia who planted a strawberry farm next to the site of the disney park in 195? got 80 Million in 1989.

Two brothers, Hiroshi and Masao Fujishige bought the land back in 1954. They refused to sell out to developers, preferring to pursue agriculture on the increasingly valuable 56-acre land.

Here's an excerpt from a 1998 Orange County Register article:

They could have bought a fleet of Mercedes limousines and hired drivers to haul them around.

Instead, Hiroshi Fujishige got up at 5 a.m. every morning, put on his overalls and work boots and headed out to the fields. He came home at night tired and muddy.

His brother, Masao, got up at 3 a.m. and climbed into a battered truck loaded with fruit and vegetables, driving it to the Los Angeles Produce Mart to sell.

To some people, it seemed as if the Fujishiges had won the lottery and then neglected to claim their prize. But, to the sons of Japanese immigrant farmers the land itself was the prize.
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Masao Fujishige died in 1986. Disneyland was unable to acquire the property until after Hiroshi Fujishige died in 1998. The heirs had made arrangements with The Walt Disney Company to sell after Hiroshi's death.

I can think of a lot of words to associate with Hiroshi Fujishige -- but "fraud" is not one of them.

 

[todd222222]

The story is talking about people moving onto land they don't own in China and that the Govt has deemed no one should live on, on the hope they will get a payday when/if Disney builds.

Since they don't have the right to live on the land they are being called "Frauds"....the fact that the article also mentions the strawberry farmers down the road from Disneyland in the same article was a very poor act, but you know how writers like to "tie" things together....