In 1997 Scrooge McDuck celebrated his 50th birthday, and Disney World* in Florida saw a chance to promote this occasion along with his creator Carl Barks, who was invited to also celebrate his 96th birthday in a special event called A Birthday Celebration! The celebration was held on the 12th of April at one of the resort's finest restaurants, the California Grill, on top of Disney's Contemporary Resort Hotel and included a huge banquet as well as a special Scrooge and Barks birthday cake. Later in the evening Barks had the opportunity to open a special gallery exhibition of some of his 75 newly finished pastels on which he had been working secretly for 6 months (see more HERE).

The next day a selection of fans, old friends and foreign visitors had brunch with Barks in his suite on the top floor of the hotel. In the afternoon Barks and Scrooge were driven in an open cabriolet, escorted by a marching band, to the copy of Grauman's Chinese Theater at the Disney/MGM-Studios. Stickers on the sides of the car showed Barks' name.
In front of the theater Barks placed his signature in a tile of wet cement and made an imprint of his hands. A number of journalists attended and tourists cheered. The cement tile was later placed on the theater's Walk of Fame.
This page presents you to a small selection of photos from Barks' own archives commemorating his Immortalization.

* Opened in 1971 as The Walt Disney World Resort (originally to be called DisneyWorld) but is normally referred to as Disney World or simply WDW.

See more examples on some of the other honours bestowed on Barks at THE HONOURS and THE CITIZEN HONOURS.