Robert "Bud" Washo - my 134th pick as a Disney Legend

Robert "Bud" Washo was a senior designer for WED Enterprises or Imagineering. He is my 134th pick to be named a Disney Legend. He headed the Disneyland Staff Shop, where he supervised concrete and plastic modeling.
He was hired in 1954 as the superintendent of the Staff and Plaster shop for Disney Land Park. He and his crew were responsible for the molding, casting, and finishing of a vast array of unique Disney Park elements including Autopia cars, Jungle Cruise elephants, Primeval World dinosaurs, fiberglass stone archways, plaster rock battlements, and golden castle turrets. To create the mountain for the Matterhorn Bobsleds, Bud and his team laid four acres of plaster. In Orlando, he used an old fertilizer storage shed as the initial workshop for molding and creating the components for Cinderella castle in Walt Disney World Resort.

Bud Washo would go on to manage the Architectural Ornamentation Department at Walt Disney World. Washo and his departments were responsible for modeling pieces used for Animatronics, building facades and sculpting details for specific attractions. His father Bill Washo worked with him.
In addition to the theme parks he helped make exhibits for Disney's projects in the 1964 World's Fair. He was a member of the Disney Golden Years Club.

Washo has a window in his honor on Main Street (which he shares with father Bill) in the Magic Kingdom and at Disneyland (as seen above).