Mickey Mouse Club Circus Articles
A Brief History Of Disneyland, An American Classic
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"The thing will get more beautiful year after year. And it will get better as I find out what the public likes; I can't do that with a picture it's finished and unchangeable before I find out whether the public likes it or not." Walt Disney on Disneyland. Walt Disney found different reasons to build his seventeen million dollar Magic Kingdom in Anaheim in 1955. The idea had originally stemmed ...
Big Top Goes Up At Disneyland
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"SHAKE IT! Shake it!" the echoed across Disneyland as circus workers and Mouseketeers joined hands to raise the Big Top of the Mickey Mouse Club Circus, a feature attraction of the Christmas season at Disneyland opening Thanksgiving Day. The cry to the workers to "shake it" was to help the huge tent float on air bubbles and relieve some of the effort required to stretch the tent to the anchor areas. ...
Holiday Parade At Disneyland Disney Davy Lead Yule Parade
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Two of the entertainment figures in the nation - Walt Disney and Fess Parker -- co-starred as -grand marshals in the spectacular circus parade at Disneyland Thanksgiving Day to open Christmas festivities here. Beginning at noon the parade was headed by a color guard from Town Square and progressed down Main St, around the Plaza and into Holidayland. THIS NEW part of Disneyland opened especially ...
Big Show At Low Prices
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Walt Disney's circus is one of the greatest values in Big Top history, show business surveys revealed last week. Once inside Disneyland, general admission tickets are only 50 cents. Reserved section tickets are $1. Admission to Disneyland with all its brilliant Christmas season music and decorations -- remains $1 for adults and 50 cents for children. The Mickey Mouse Club Circus is a ...
Disneyland Hosts Great Circus During Yuletide
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One or history's most remarkable circus events now is playing In the "magic kingdom" of Disenyland. It is the fast-moving, colorful "Mickey Mouse Club Circus," produced by Walt Disney at a cost in excess of $300,000. Featured in Holidayland-Disney's newest realm--the circus is inaugurating the first annual Christmas Festival at Disneyland with all the romance and color of years long forgotten. ...
This Is How Disneyland Looked In 1955
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When Disneyland opened on July 17, 1955, there were sections of it that were not done. A reporter noticed all the construction still ongoing and asked Walt Disney if Disneyland would ever be finished. Disney replied in what has become an oft quoted quote: "Disneyland will never be completed, as long as there is imagination left in the world." Disney was true to his word - Disneyland has never been ...
New Book Covers Disneyland From A To Z
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The Disneyland Encyclopedia' features entries on popular attractions, trivia and insider secrets. Like most of us, Chris Strodder vividly remembers his first trip to Disneyland, a journey to the Magical Kingdom from Northern California in the 1960s. "The overall impression was a whirlwind of sensations, of sights and sound and smells," he says of that visit as a child. Most of all, he ...
Disney History President Sends Turkeys To Disneyland
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Take a look at what happened this week in Disney history: Nov. 24, 1955: Mickey Mouse Club Circus, starring Jimmie Dodd and many of the original Mouseketeers, premieres in Fantasyland (it will become one of the shortest lived attractions at the Park, closing January 8, 1956). Nov. 24, 1955: "Christmas Show Parade" kicks off its first holiday season at the Park on Thanksgiving Day and runs daily ...
In Step With The Mouse, Disneyland's Opening Was A Wild Adventure
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No one said magic would be easy. Still, 50 years later, what almost no one remembers is the opening day that stumbled like Dumbo dancing in leg irons. When the widely anticipated, but hardly completed, Disneyland opened its doors on July 17, 1955, so eager was the world to share Walt Disney's dream that instead of 6,000 invited guests, more than 28,000 people - most armed with counterfeit tickets - ...
Disneyland Turning 50
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Here's the deal with Disneyland. The two women ahead of me in line were Elizabeth and Lexi, twins fromWinnetka, Ill. Elizabeth is a communications and political science major at the University of Southern California. Lexi is a philosophy major atYale. They knew the words to ''We Can Fly,'' a song from Walt Disney's ''PeterPan.'' It's the song the chorus sings when Wendy, John and Michael,powered by ...
For Her, He Was Dad, Not Uncle Walt
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To millions around the world, he was known as Uncle Walt, but to one Napa resident, he was simply Dad. As Disneyland celebrates its 50th anniversary, Walt Disney's daughter, Diane Disney Miller, agreed to sit down and reminisce. She talked about her father's life and a special gift she's planning at San Francisco's Presidio to honor his memory. Walt Disney was the king of cartoons, making ...
I Love You, Baby, But The Season's Over Part 1
Winter Quarters October 20, 1955 At age 17, I graduated from Dorchester High School in Boston in and soon ran away from home to join my older brother, Tony, who was a flying trapeze artist with the Gil Gray Circus, traveling throughout the Mid-west and South. I had started with the show in mid July, playing 25 dates in 77 days, traveling through seven states: Nebraska, Texas, New Mexico, ...
I Love You, Baby, But The Season's Over Part 2
The Mickey Mouse Club Circus Opened Friday, November 25th 1955 Well, here it was opening day at Disneyland! This was no longer the mud show with the misnomer of The Show Beautiful. This was the Mickey Mouse Club Circus everything perfect to the last detail. Every piece of rigging was shining, every costume clean and bright, each animal and person groomed to perfection. The Ringmaster ...
Disneyland At 55 Still A Marvel In Southern California
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Disneyland, which celebrated its 55th birthday in July, drew more than 1,300 rabid devotees to a two-day, sometimes irreverant, sometimes reverential convention starting Friday at the Disneyland Hotel. Being a Disney fan, I was there, feverishly taking notes in the dark as "Disney Legends," men and women who made Disneyland what it is today, pop singers and behind-the-scenes "Imagineers" -- the people ...
Graveyards At Disneyland Weird Finds At The Happiest Place On Earth
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You may be distracted by the holiday lights and decorations at Disneyland this time of year, but if you look closely, lots of weird secrets are waiting to be discovered all over the iconic amusement park. Strodder told AOL News that one of his weirdest discoveries while researching Disneyland was finding out just how many graveyards are actually scattered throughout the park. Yes, graveyards. ...
World War II Veteran's Wife Was Disney's Secretary During 1950s
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When my colleague Denise Goolsby was interviewing a World War II veteran not long ago, she couldn't wait to tell me that his wife, Dorothy Wrigley, had been Walt Disney's secretary for five years during the 1950s. She was there for the development, building and opening of Disneyland - and so much more. Being able to sit down with her and talk about Walt and the development of Disneyland was like ...
Disneyland The Exhibit Takes A Ride Through 60 Years Of History
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Here's a challenge: Try to condense 60 years of Disneyland history into a single museum-like exhibit. That's the test facing Becky Cline, Walt Disney Archives director. She's putting the finishing touches on "Walt Disney Archives Presents - Disneyland: The Exhibit," which in August will attempt to encompass the theme park's past six decades for D23 Expo, Disney's biennial fan event. Now factor in ...
Time Disneyland Had Its Own Circus And It Did Not Go Well
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When Walt Disney first conceived of the idea that would eventually become Disneyland, much of his desire to build his own amusement park location was born from the fact that he was largely unhappy with the offerings of the day. Simple "kiddie rides" were only fun for children, and mom and dad had little to do. Carnivals and circuses tended to be dirty and frequently brought in a bad element. Adults tended ...
