Lillian Disney’s Main Street Window Unveiled at Disneyland

Written by Joshua Posted July 13th, 2025

Lillian Disney has been honored with one of the highest tributes The Walt Disney Company can bestow: a window on Main Street, U.S.A. at Disneyland. “Lilly’s Bountiful Blooms” was unveiled earlier this morning during a private ceremony. The timing couldn’t have been more perfect as today marks what would have been Walt and Lillian’s 100th wedding anniversary.

Lilly’s Bountiful Blooms on Main Street, U.S.A. — Copyright Disney

Lillian Disney's window on Main Street, U.S.A. — Lillian’s window can be found next to the Disney Showcase. Copyright Disney.

Lillian’s floral-themed window is a fitting tribute. She and Walt famously disagreed about his model train plans when designing their new home. She wanted flower gardens. He wanted 8 miles of railroad track. It’s a great story that includes Disney lawyers drafting a “legal” document to settle the argument:

“Walt was not so much interested in a new house,” Lilly recalled, “as he was in the property so that he could build his train on it.” They found the perfect site in Holmby Hills, and as the architects drew up plans for the house, to be situated on Carolwood Drive, Walt had Studio employee Eddie Sargeant devise a system with a trestle, overpasses, and gradients that allowed eight operating miles of track. He was thrilled with Eddie’s plans, and rolled them up to show Lilly.

Lilly had thought the train would run around the lower portion of the property, and planned extensive gardens around the north side of the home. “I made it clear that I wasn’t thrilled because his train was going to run thought the middle of an area where I had planned to grow a beautiful flower garden.”

Walt had to come up with a solution that would save Lilly’s flowers and allow him to run his train. First, he consulted with Studio attorneys about devising a humorous “legal” document in which Lilly would grant him a “right-of-way” for his railroad.
Excerpt from “A Bloom in the Garden of a Marriage”

Walt and Lillian Disney in Disneyland — Walt and Lillian Disney. Copyright Disney.

Lillian eventually gave in, thanks in part to Walt building a 90-foot train tunnel beneath her gardens. What a couple they were!

Two of Walt’s 1/8th scale train cars can be found in the Carolwood Pacific Railroad Room in the Boulder Ridge lobby. Make time to see this beautiful room the next time you visit Walt Disney World.