Counterfeiters Prefer Disneyland
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Disneyland's 1955 opening was plagued by snafus, including the widespread distribution of counterfeit tickets.
More than 60 years later, security agents at the Anaheim theme park are on the lookout not only for phony tickets but for bogus money, too
Police reports show that crime rates at Southern California theme parks are extremely low, but each park wrestles with unique crime problems such as ...
Country Bears
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You know Disney's suggestion Jar must have come up empty when they start adapting the theme park attractions for films - but that' exactly what they've done with "the Country Bears", conspired a feature length film based around the hoary, slightly iconic, musical attraction at Disneyland. And just how confidant is Disney with their film? Let's just say they tore down the attraction shortly before the film ...
Couple Sues After They Were Kicked Out Of Club 33
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A Los Angeles couple who said they were banned from Disneyland's pricey and private Club 33 have sued the park, contending they were retaliated against for criticizing sexual harassment and other problems that arose as a result of new management.
"There is a waiting list to become a Club 33 member. It's our belief that new management has been told to force the older members out so they can bring in ...
Couple Tries For Year Of Daily Disneyland Visits
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It seems like a dream as flighty as Tinkerbell and as quirky as Mr. Toad's Wild Ride.
Yet a Southern California couple have passed the halfway mark in their quest to visit Disneyland every day this year.
"We joke around that we're here more than the cast members are," Jeff Reitz said Tuesday.
Reitz, 39, of Huntington Beach, and Tonya Mickesh, 45, of Lake Forest were both unemployed when she ...
Court Tells Disneyland To Study Segway Use
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A California appeals court told Disneyland it must consider allowing use of two-wheel Segways by disabled people.
Disneyland currently allows disabled visitors to use wheelchairs and scooters at the Anaheim theme park, but the justices of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco said it's time for "The Happiest Place on Earth" to study the idea of adding Segways.
"We have every ...
Crack Down On Disability Access Service Misuses And Abuses
Disneyland and Disney World will attempt to rein in the unwieldy Disability Access Service that has bogged down attraction queues and backed up Genie+ lanes as a result of a tripling in usage of the program ripe with misuse and abuse.
The Disneyland and Walt Disney World resorts updated the Disability Access Service programs on Tuesday, April 9 that offer assistance to theme park visitors ...
Craft Is Designed For Cushion-Air Trip To Worlds Fair
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A Maryland manufacturer of air cushion vehicles hopes to build a ferry on which Passengers can glide between Manhattan and the New York world's fair grounds in 1964 and 1965. A patent for the new craft will be issued next week. The inventor is Melville W, Beardsley, vice-president of National Research Associates. Inc., of Laurel, Md. The company has built a score of vehicles that ride on air, and regards ...
Crane Co Showing Plumbing Future
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One of the newest exhibits in Disneyland is the display by Crane Co., makers of "Everything AND the Kitchen Sink." Giant cranes, fabricated of pipe, join Walt Disney's cartoon characters in a park dedicated to a new concept of entertainment for youngsters and adults.
The Crane exhibit in the Tomorrowland section was dedicated by company President Frank F. Elliott and Walt Disney, creator of ...
Crews Put Out Fire At Disneyland After Small Blaze Erupts
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Crews put out a small blaze that erupted at Disneyland Thursday evening, fire officials said.
The blaze was reported just after 6 p.m., according to the Anaheim Fire and Rescue Department.
Officials said firefighters who responded to the scene put out the blaze before additional units arrived.
The blaze may have happened in a vegetation area of the park, officials ...
Crews Work 24 7 To Reopen Its A Small World After The Flood
It took a small village of more than 20 Disneyland departments to repair and reopen It 's a Small World in time for Christmas after a flood threatened to shutter the classic boat ride for the entire holiday season.
It 's a Small World is expected to reopen next week, according to Disneyland officials. Disneyland began testing Small World boats along the water canals of the attraction on ...
Crowded Or Not What Is Disneyland Like Now That All Passholders Can Return We Have The Numbers
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Disneyland continued to remain uncrowded in September after lighter-than-expected crowds following the launch of Star Wars: Galaxy 's Edge and a brief midsummer attendance spike, according to data from a theme park tracking company.
Disneyland rarely talks about attendance numbers. But Touring Plans, an online subscription service that lets users create custom theme park itineraries, tracks ...
Crowds Return For Halloween Screams Fireworks Show Filling Both Parking Garages To Capacity
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The triumphant return of the “Halloween Screams” fireworks show filled Disneyland 's two parking garages to capacity on Friday night as crowds returned to the Anaheim theme park for the kick off of the Halloween Time holiday season.
Halloween Time returned to Disneyland and Disney California Adventure on a hot and balmy early September day that topped 90 degrees as the parks ushered in the ...
Crowds Wait Five Hours For New Fireworks Show Wondrous Journeys
On Jan. 27, Disneyland kicked off 100 Years of Wonder, a celebration of the 100th anniversary of the Walt Disney Company. The yearlong party includes a makeover for Sleeping Beauty Castle and “platinum” decorations throughout both parks, new food and merchandise, and the opening of Mickey & Minnie 's Runaway Railway, a new ride in Toontown.
It also includes two new nighttime shows. World of ...
Cuban Sculptor Carves Furniture For Haunted Mansion
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For Ciro Rolando Santana y Arrite, a soft-spoken, wiry little Cuban sculptor of extraordinary talent, a temporary position at Disneyland has become a springboard to the fulfillment of a long-time dream - to bring his family from an adopted home in Puerto Rico to the United States and continue his career as a sculptor.
Rolando Santana came to this country early in 1969. He had been at ...
Cursed History Of Problematic Fantasmic Dragon That Burst Into Flames
The Disneyland dragon that burst into a towering inferno during “Fantasmic” has a troubled history stretching back more than a decade to the cursed debut of the 45-foot-tall audio-animatronic beast nicknamed after Murphy 's Law.
The “Fantasmic” dragon that caught fire during a performance of the nighttime spectacular over the weekend was an embarrassing no-show throughout summer 2009 when the ...
Cushions Added To The Matterhorn Bobsleds
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Rides got a little comfier on the Matterhorn Bobsleds.
Disneyland officials confirmed they have added cushions on the bottoms of the seats on the ride vehicles.
The bobsleds were converted to a single seat configuration in 2012, with new interlocking seatbelts. The belts were designed to keep people from unbuckling or slipping out of them while riding the tubular roller coaster. Under the current ...
Custodian Has Cleaned Disneyland Since 1964
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The first time Mike Larson walked along Disneyland's Main Street, U.S.A., he focused on the horse poop.
Larson started as a Disneyland custodian 48 years ago, his first job pushing a "honey bucket" to scoop up the mess that the carriage horses left behind.
"At that time for me, it was basically tunnel vision. I knew I had to do the job," said Larson, 67, of Orange. "I didn't have time to view ...
Customer Service The Disney Way
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I just returned from the Happiest Place on Earth in a foul mood. I'm not mad at Disneyland. As always they did everything right, providing an exceptionally magical experience for my family. I'm angry at other customer-facing merchants and businesses who fail to do the simplest things to improve customer satisfaction.
You must understand that as a communications specialist, I experience Disneyland ...
D23 Celebrates First Anniversary At Disneyland On March 10 But No Expo This Year
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There are plenty of birthdays celebrated at Disneyland and a good number of them are for 1-year-olds enjoying their first cake-and-candles experience. On March 10, though, the youngster celebrating one year of life will be D23, the Disney fan community that shares its name with the D23 Expo that was staged so memorably in September in Anaheim.
More on the party in a moment; first, a bit on that expo: ...
Daddy Nixon Given Disneyland Works
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Two little girls tugged at the hands of the nation"s vice president Thursday pulling him this way and that through the milling throngs and the wonders of an amusement park called Disneyland.
The vacationing Richard Nixon, putting aside the cares of office, became a smiling full-time daddy for the day. He tried manfully to keep up with the cries of, "Daddy, let's go here let's go here."
His ...
Daily Honored Tradition Returns
For many years, Disney 's daily Flag Retreat Ceremony has become a tradition of honoring and supporting our nation 's military heroes. Located near the entrance of Main Street, U.S.A., in Walt Disney World Florida and Disneyland in California, Guests come to celebrate and thank veterans of the past and present in a patriotic ceremony that touches the hearts of many Americans and out of state visitors from ...
Danger In Disneyland
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"Just hook up a bottle of Greensweep to your garden hose and spray. . . the goof-proof way to healthier, more beautiful lawn," reads the promotion for this line of synthetic lawn care products. We wonder at the use of the word healthier when the products contain herbicides like 2,4-D, and insecticides like carbaryl-substances know to have toxic effects on humans, animals and the environment.
What's ...
Dangerous Disneyland Mental Fatigue Part 1
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Disneyland gets sued for injuries and deaths all of the time. Believe me, I get that accidents happen, but most of these tourists are simply victims of their own stupidity. Mild disclaimer: a few of these I've read about on only one site, so I'm not entirely sure they happened. Now, let's get down to business.
Matterhorn, Space, and Thunder Mountains are not most dangerous in that respect, ...
Dangerous Disneyland Mental Fatigue Part 2
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It wasn't until I was almost finished with the human stupidity portion of this "Dangerous Disney" article that I realized that this should be a two-parter, so that (in addition to keeping it from being too long) some might hopefully regain some faith in humanity. Here is that second part. Again, some of these I've only read about on one site.
I start with the PeopleMover, again. In 1968 a rainstorm ...
Dapper Dans Set To Make Emotional Return
The Dapper Dans barbershop quartet that has come to symbolize live entertainment at Disneyland are in rehearsals preparing for an emotional return to the Anaheim theme park after a 17-month absence due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
“It 's very exciting,” Disney Live Entertainment music producer John Glaudini said during an online video interview. “They sound great. They are masters of this music. ...
Dapper Day At Disneyland The Nattiest Place On Earth
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Sartorial events at Disneyland attract thousands who enjoy the outmoded notion of dressing up in vintage or modern style.
A day at Disneyland is a marathon, and the visitors lining up in the plaza outside the park were prepared to make it to the finish.
They had on sneakers and sweats and packs (both fanny and back). Young men with knee-length basketball shorts hanging off their hips shuffled ...
Dapper Day Returns
When Disney Imagineers of the 1950s and 60s created concept art for a new attraction, they populated the scene swirling with stylish patrons. The men often sported natty bow ties and fedoras, women were often shown in glamour gowns with three-hour hairdos. When Justin Jorgensen visited the parks he saw a sea of cargo shorts and flip flops and longed for something more elegant. In 2011 he created Dapper ...
Dapper Day The Glamorous Get Dressy Gathering Returns
What to Know
Dapper Day Fall Outing and Expo
The Dapper Day Fall Outing is Nov. 12 while the expo is happening Nov. 11 and 12 at the Disneyland Resort in Anaheim
A ticket and reservation are required to enter the parks; $19 advance Weekend Pass to the Disneyland Hotel expo; visiting the Downtown Disney District is free
The opportunities to swan about in ...
Darkness Creeps Into Disneyland On Bats Day Weekend
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It was only a matter of time, but dark imagery and creepy subcultures have irrefutably infiltrated pop culture. From fans of music genres like death metal and industrial to adherents of retro and retro-futuristic art movements such as Edwardianism and steampunk, folks who wear predominant amounts of eerie clothing are everywhere, but short of gathering in their respective niches for concerts and ...
Date Line Disney 74
Hello friends, I'm back for another personal look at Disneyland from my distorted perspective, Dateline 1974. Yes the days of bell bottom jeans, bun hugger pants and tight 501's. Tight? (You mean you guys wore your pants tight back then?) Yes son "tight" not loose and down not to our knees like you guys do today. Wow, totally gross Dad. Without argument, I just chalk it up to the ever-present generation ...
Dates Announced Disneyland Holidays
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JACK SKELLINGTON KNOWS: September through December -- or, let's be honest, early January -- is a whirl of bunting and lights and decorations and fresh costumes and special events at Disneyland Resort. But just because Halloween arrives before the December holidays on the calendar doesn't mean that The Happiest Place on Earth always sticks strictly to the order of things. Look to one of its most famous ...
