1988 Disneyland
January 1, 1988
Wrather Corporation (owner of Disneyland Hotel) acquired by Disney
1988 Disneyland Articles:
Behind The Magic Kingdom
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This past summer, as in previous summers, millions of people streamed into Disneyland, the self-proclaimed "Happiest Place on Earth." Not a single one of them, it's safe to assume, wondered how every retail shop and fast food stand kept their shelves ...
Disneyland: The Way We Were
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Part of the magic of the Magic Kingdom, of course, is that despite the slings and arrows peppering the outside world, it somehow remains as seemingly immutable as one of Aristotle's First Causes, or Walt's immortal mouse, whose 60th birthday the ...
Time's Stephen Koepp's Cover Story On Disneyland
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Associate Editor Stephen Koepp still likes Pirates of the Caribbean best. "As a kid growing up in Wisconsin, whenever I went to Disneyland, I was always yearning to get out of the boat and join the pirates." As writer of the main story in this week's ...
Do You Believe In Magic?
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Once upon a time in a popular tourist destination called the Magic Kingdom, there lived some very prosperous characters. They were happy all the time (except for Grumpy, but it was his job to be that way). They produced souvenirs, cartoons and movies that ...
Disneyland: Everyone Agrees, It's A Great Place To Visit
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Walt Disney's vision of a vacation kingdom that everyone in the family-children, parents, and grandparents alike-could enjoy forever changed the family vacation experience. "Like Alice stepping through the Looking Glass, to step through the portals of ...
One Virile Rodent
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Mickey Mouse, who hits the big Six-Oh this year, is still shaking money from vacationers the way a hurricane shakes fronds off a palm. Attendance at Walt Disney theme parks in Florida and California rose only 9% last year, but revenues grew 20% and income ...
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 ...
Disney Trippers
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The tears were still damp on the powdered cheeks of Gretchen Elizabeth Carlson when she announced to her waiting public that the very first thing she was going to do now that she was Miss America was go to Disney World. Her decision was not altogether ...
Disneys' Five Ways To Make Dreams Come True
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Sixty years ago, in a state of shock, a struggling young animator boarded a westbound train in New York. Walt Disney had traveled east to negotiate a better distribution deal for his cartoons starring Oswald the Rabbit-only to be told that his distributor ...
What They Teach You At Disney U.
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Just remember: two d's, two s's and three emotions.Thirty-six pencils record this information in notebooks, ensuring that their owners will know, if asked, the names of the Seven Dwarfs: Doc and Dopey, Sleepy Sneezy, Happy, Grumpy and Bashful.
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Disneyland Events in 1988:
Wrather Corporation (owner of Disneyland Hotel) acquired by Disney
March 25--Disneyland stages the Super Hooper Duper. This gathering of 1,527 engertic hula-hoopers in front of Sleeping Beauty Castle smashes the world's record for the most persons hula-hooping at one time in one location.
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