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1965 Disneyland

August 1, 1965

August--50 Millionth Guest Admitted (Mary Adams)

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1965 Disneyland Articles:

Disney Gardners Create Cartoons Sculptures From Plants
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At Disneyland even the gardener is a cartoonist. Working with pliable shrubs and plants, Disneyland horticulturists are creating a set of green masterworks for a Topiary Garden. Topiary is the art of creating life-like sculptures from plants. ...

Disneyland Jumping During Tencennial
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Opening of "Great Moments With Mr. Lincoln" plus a new Victorian restaurant and spectacular nighttime entertainment will make Disneyland's Tencennial Summer the most exciting in its 10-year history. "Mr. Lincoln" will provide a new three-dimensional ...

Foamrubbersville
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Foamrubbersville: Los Angeles obviously believes in its own existence but it is hard for the visitor to share the native faith. The faith it self is as nebulous as it is intense-as all enduring faith should be-but one really needs to be born to it, for ...

Walt Disney King Of Fantasy
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Walt Disney and friends. Walt Disney, whose Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck brought laughter to the world and whose Disneyland is a playground for the world's people, calls his home at Smoke Tree Ranch, "my laughing place." Whimsical, as always, he ...

Tinker Bell, Mary Poppins, Cold Cash
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It is a place of improbable dreams, a 65-acre world drifted over with pixie dust. It is a place where Tinker Bell and Mary Poppins soar matter-of-factly through the evening sky, where Tom Sawyer plies his raft on the muddy Mississippi and the Lost ...

Brazilian Navy Leader Inspects Disneys Fleet
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Brazil's minister of the navy included an inspection of Disneyland's submarine fleet in a weekend tour of Long Beach and San Diego navel installations. The retired admiral of the fleet, Paulo Bosisio, his wife, staff officers and an attache from ...

Machine Tooled Happyland
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The wondrous devices of Disneyland take on startling importance in the mind of a science fiction seer Two thousand years back, people entering Grecian temples dropped coins into machinery that then clanked forth holy water. It is a long way ...

Idea Is New So Is Cast In Fantasy Parade
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Traditional concepts of holiday parades will be turned topsy-turvy for the coming Christmas season at Disneyland beginning Saturday night when Walt Disney unveils his new "Fantasy on Parade." Instead of a procession of four horses, marching band, ...

Swiss Family Tree Burns At Disneyland
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A portion of the Swiss Family Tree House at Disneyland received minor damage from fire Saturday. Flames broke out about 7:50 p.m. near the Crows nest at the top of the tree located in Adventureland. Three units from the Anaheim fire Department ...

Anaheim Gal Disneyland Envoy
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A pretty 21-year-old Anaheim girl Monday was named Disneyland's Ambassador to the World for 1966. Connie Jean Swanson, a tour guide at Disneyland for the past four years, will travel throughout the United States and many foreign lands during the ...

Fantasy On Parade Set At Disneyland
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An entirely new kind of parade will greet. Disneyland visitors this Christmas season with daily performances of "Fantasy on Parade" from T Saturday through Jan. 2. Walt Disney his discarded the traditional "band, float and horse" procession for "a ...

Fantasy At Yuletide
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In typical Walt Disney fashion-the beautifully spectacular - Disneyland staged its "Fantasy on Parade" Saturday night as its contribution to the joy of the Christmas season. Visitors to the Magic Kingdom got a treat Saturday afternoon, a full scale ...

Disneyland Attractions Opened/Closed in 1965:

Fashion And Fabrics Through The Ages

Great Moments With Mr. Lincoln

Disneyland Restaurants Opened/Closed in 1965:

Plaza Inn

Red Wagon Inn

Disneyland Parades Performed in 1965:

Fantasy On Parade

Disneyland Shops Opened/Closed in 1965:

Calico Kates Pantry Shop

Disneyland Events in 1965:

Disneyland celebrates 10th anniversary.

Julie Reihm is named Disneyland Ambassador to the World

Lord Louis Mountbatten of England Visits Disneyland

President Taurice Yameogo of. Upper Volta Visits Disneyland

New Zealand Defense Minister Dean Eyre Visits Disneyland

Gov. Mark Hatfield of Oregon Visits Disneyland

Princesses Chandra and Suddhavong of Thailand Visits Disneyland

August--50 Millionth Guest Admitted (Mary Adams)

Prince and Princess Mikasa of Japan Visits Disneyland

Gov. Hayden Burns of Florida Visits Disneyland

ADDITIONS:

*GREAT MOMENTS WITH MR. LINCOLN (a personal experience with history, in a new $1.5 million theater in the Main Street Opera House) -- Main Street, U.S.A.

*PLAZA INN (offering dining in the grand manner) --Main Street Plaza

INVESTMENT: Total to date: $53 million

ATTENDANCE: 6.4 million

HIGHLIGHTS:

Disneyland celebrated its tenth anniversary with a year-long "tencennial celebration."

New Year's Eve brought 20,000 to begin the observance of 1965.

A new addition to Disneyland, "Fantasy on Parade" was introduced during the Christmas season. Walt Disney's "Wonderful World of Color" television show saluted Disneyland's first decade.

Disneyland's first Reihia, traveled to New Zealand, Japan Valentine's Dance, Fling" and special attendance.

Ambassador to the World, Julie Europe, Canada, Mexico, Australia, and throughout the U.S. Catholic Schools Day, "Spring youth days attracted record More than 50,000 celebrants from 138 high schools attended four all-night Grad Parties.

Les Brown, Si Zentner, Frank Sinatra, Jr., Stan Kenton, Wayne King, Harry James, Duke Ellington, Woody Herman, Tex Beneke, Hootenannies and Humdingers filled the summer with music. Disneyland's Community Service Awards program honored 17 county organizations with cash awards totaling $15,000. The Outstanding Award was won by the Orange County Association for Retarded Children.

FAMOUS GUESTS:

*Lord Louis Mountbatten of England (March)

*President Taurice Yameogo of. Upper Volta (April)

*New Zealand Defense Minister Dean Eyre (April)

*Gov. Mark Hatfield of Oregon (June)

*Princesses Chandra and Suddhavong of Thailand (June)

*Prince and Princess Mikasa of Japan (September)

*Gov. Hayden Burns of Florida (November)

*Premier W.A.C. Bennett of British Columbia (December)