After this time Monaco struggled financially, but continued to design toys and games. He opened the Land of MakeBelieve in 1953 and ran the park until 1979 when he had to close it due to continuous flooding from the Ausable River. But his biggest project was his own theme park that he built in Upper Jay. Monaco designed the entire park and after its great success, went on to assist with other parks including Old McDonald's Farm, Storytown (later Great Escape), and Frontier Town, among others. In 1947, a man named Julien Reiss came to Monaco with an idea to build a theme park near Wilmington that eventually came to be known as Santa's Workshop. He designed and built toys that were sold across the United States. After the war, Monaco worked on a variety of projects before deciding to open his own business, Arto Monaco's Toy Company, in Upper Jay. While in the army, he developed training aids and helped set up the first Training Aids Division.
In 1941, he went back home and married Gladys "Glad" Burrell before enlisting in the army. During that time he also did work as an interior decorator for Fannie Brice, Dorothy Parker and others. He worked at several big studios including MGM, Paramount, Disney, and Warner Brothers for about four years. After graduating, he went to California to pursue a career in Hollywood. Kent helped him get into the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn where he eventually graduated in 1937. Monaco got his start in design after Rockwell Kent noticed his artwork in his father's restaurant. He was born on Novemin Elizabethtown, NY and was the son of Ida Martin and Louis Monaco, an Italian immigrant. The majority of the materials date from 1940 through 2002.Īrto Monaco was an artist, theme park designer, toy designer, and cartoonist from the Adirondacks. It consists of his personal correspondence, sketches and drawings, and other materials involved with his design projects for toys and theme parks. This collection contains a variety of documents relating to the artist, Arto Monaco.
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