Disney had paid for them, to promote Up, a new animated film about an old man who refuses to sell his house. Many people assumed Edith had inspired it. She hadn't; the film's story was developed before construction began around her house.
Barry later wrote a book about the two of them, called Under One Roof.
And the balloons stuck. For years afterward, visitors tied them to the fence of the little house, some with messages written on them.
