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The history of it’s a small world began when executives at Pepsi approached Disney about creating a pavilion for the 1964 World's Fair in New York <ref name= "64fair"> http://www.nywf64.com/pepsi03.shtml </ref>. Although only a year before the World's Fair would begin, Pepsi wanted to Disney to construct a pavilion that would be a "salute to UNICEF and all the world's children. <ref name= "64fair"/>. In February 1963, Pepsi executives (encouraged by board member and film star Joan Crawford) approached Disneyland's head of construction Admiral Joe Fowler. Regrettably however Fowler informed the executives that Disney would be unable to work on the pavilion on such short notice, due to the fact that their time and resources were needed for the other three pavilions that Disney was working on at the Fair, these being pavilions for: Ford Motors (the Skyway), General Electric ([[The Carousel of Progress]]) and the State of Illinois ([[Great Moments with Mr. Lincoln]]) <ref name= "mouseplanet"> https://www.mouseplanet.com/8343/The_History_of_its_a_small_world </ref>. When Walt Disney heard that Fowler had rejected the idea of creating Pepsi's pavilion, he was furious. Overruling Fowler, Walt committed the company to a fourth pavilion for the World's Fair.