Disney Marketing Legend and first President Jack Lindquist has passed at age 88

Remember Disney Dollars? Or the campaign slogan “I’m going to Disney World!/Disneyland?” Well none of that would have happen without Jack Lindquist, he was the first advertising manager at the Walt Disney Company. Unfortunately, he has passed away today at the age of 88. Lindquist was born in Chicago on

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