Disneyland Flag Retreat Semper Gunny
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Every morning and every evening since it opened in 1955, Disneyland has raised and lowered the Stars and Stripes at the flagpole on Main Street USA, per American flag etiquette. But that wasn't enough for the Happiest Place On Earth; in 2005, the park began hosting the Flag Retreat, a daily ceremony that makes George M. Cohan seem as un-American as Abbie Hoffman. There's a barbershop quartet, shout-outs to ...
Disneyland For A Summer Vacation.
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Last night I was at the Disneyland Resort. On the first day of June, you would think it would be crazy busy and impossible to play. Not so! I had a wonderful time and the park was busy, but not crazy busy! And when you decide to go to the Disneyland Resort, planning is the key to have a great summer vacation. Yes, thousands of people will be enjoying the park, just like you, but that doesn't mean you ...
Disneyland For Adults Only
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When I told a friend I was heading to Disneyland to explore its appeal for adults, his immediate retort was that it would be a very brief visit. And when our group, not a person under 35, walked through the gates of Disneyland on a warm Saturday and contemplated the crush of elbow-high humanity before us, I wondered if perhaps he was right. Yet seven hours and eight attractions into my first day, a ...
Disneyland For Adults Without Kids A Primer
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Disneyland overlords, all about branding and stealth marketing, apparently have an in-house name for the likes of me: "nonfamily guests." I've been called worse. It's nothing derisive - derision and mockery, after all, is verboten at "The Happiest Place on Earth" - but I cannot help but feel the term connotes something vaguely sad and pathetic, a sense of displacement, as if you're that ...
Disneyland For Dads
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In the land of Disney, princess always reigned supreme. However, though Sleeping Beauty's Castle, the Bibbidi Bobbidi Boutique and those ever-popular princesses may get a lot of the attention, Disneyland and California Adventure offer a pixie dust-less world for the guys in your life too - all in time for Father's Day in June. Cars Land Route 66 comes to life for plain-old cars and animated ...
Disneyland For Haters
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Think you're too cynical, sophisticated, debauched or underfunded to visit the Happiest Place on Earth? This one's for you. I am of Disneyland. My love for Walt Disney's 54-year-old theme park can move (space!) mountains. In fact, my love for Disneyland is so perfect and so complete that I don't really mind if you hate it. Somehow I've managed to acquire a number of friends who steadfastly ...
Disneyland Forever Fireworks To Again Fill The Sky
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Ask an aficionado of The Happiest Place on Earth to name their absolute-est, beyond-est, most-est-and-forever-est favorite thing, and you'll hear more answers than an ice cream sundae has sprinkles. SoCal spookies do love their Haunted Mansion something wicked, and Dole Whip devotees are hot on the cold treat, and lots of people pine for the parades. But fireworks fans? ...
Disneyland Frites With Treats
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While I was at Disneyland for the premiere of World of Color, I stopped by Cafe Orleans. What a fabulous place to catch a meal. The nearby Blue Bayou is often filled to capacity, and same-day reservations can be tricky. I was able to get immediate seating at Cafe Orleans, however. The Cajun-Creole menu is similar to Blue Bayou, including the famous Monte Cristo, but at lower prices. At the suggestion ...
Disneyland From A to Z
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A recent four-night stay at Disneyland proves that this rich, glorious theme park, celebrating its 50th anniversary from now until 2007, is best enjoyed as a planned excursion, not as a whim. Begin with Birnbaum's, an indispensable annual paperback that's available for around twelve dollars. The goal-oriented guide should be read by every visitor to insure unit cohesion. It answers detailed ...
Disneyland Fun Facts
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515 million: Number of guests the park has welcomed since it opened. 26 million: Hand towels used in Disneyland's restrooms during the year. 13.3 million: Guests welcomed last year, making it the second-most-visited theme park in the country. Walt Disney World's Magic Kingdom in Orlando, Fla., was No. 1, with 15.1 million. 4 million: Hamburgers sold at the park each year. 3.2 million: ...
Disneyland Gates Open Celebrity Throng At Premier
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Disneyland, a $17,000,000 fairyland dedicated to the pleasure of children, opened Sunday in a special preview of 35,000 invited guests whose enthusiasm indicated that Walt Disney's dream had lived up to expectations. The spectacular park will be opened officially to the public at 10 a. m. today and upward of 50,000 persons are expected for the event. Sunday the adults - members of the press from ...
Disneyland Gears Up For 55th Anniversary
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Nearly fifty five years ago, Disneyland transformed the orange grove-filled Anaheim into an international destination that attracts millions of visitors annually. And Disneyland and other groups plan to celebrate the milestone on July 17. The festivities won't be nearly as large as the massive 50th anniversary celebration, but Disneyland and other groups are scheduling events. Here's what's planned ...
Disneyland Gears Up For New Toontown Ride
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Toontown, Disneyland's first new "land" in 20 years, will unveil its latest attraction--Roger Rabbit's Car Toon Spin--on Toontown's first birthday, Jan. 26. Car Toon Spin is a gas. Those at the Disney-sponsored second annual Disneyana Convention in mid-September were treated to a gala evening party after the park had closed. The party was in Toontown, and it gave Disney's "imagineers" -- the ...
Disneyland Gets Brass Star On Hollywood Walk Of Fame
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The Award is given to organisations that have made significant contributions to the entertainment industry. Disneyland becomes the first ever corporation to receive a world famous brass star. Disneyland got the star treatment on Thursday, when it became the first ever corporation to receive a version of the world famous brass stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck joined ...
Disneyland Gets Green Makeover
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Disneyland has made a number of green changes that it says has saved the park $60 million over the past 10 years, mostly through reducing the amount of paper used, MSNBC reports. Earlier this week, Disneyland re-launched one of its oldest attractions, the submarine ride, nine years after it emptied the lagoon. The ride still uses all eight original submarines, but the engines are now powered by ...
Disneyland Gets Greener
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The trains that fueled the dream for Walt Disney and his empire are being fed a steady diet of cleaner-burning, more environmentally friendly biodiesel. The magic ingredient: soybean oil. Since January, the four operable trains that run along the Disneyland Railroad have been injected with the orangey-yellow liquid (resembling apple juice), with workers slowly weaning the steam locomotives off ...
Disneyland Gets Its 50th Party Started
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Here's what's new for Disneyland's 50th anniversary, an event being celebrated at Disney parks around the world starting this weekend. All attractions are at Disneyland, unless otherwise noted. 50 Magical Years: Exhibit and film about how Disneyland was created. Open daily in the Opera House. Parade of Dreams: Seven floats, huge puppets, 104 performers; 4 p.m. and 7:45 p.m. "Remember ... ...
Disneyland Gets Its Last Touches
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The final fantastic touches are being put on Disneyland. The $16,500,000 amusement park created by Walt Disney, the film producer, is scheduled to open July 18. It covers sixty acres and is calculated to draw about 5,000,000 visitors a year. Disneyland is situated in this citrus-ranching suburb twenty-two miles from Los Angeles. For it the appellation "amusement park" is inadequate; for it has ...
Disneyland Gives 2,400 Chance To Ride Star Tours Early
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Fans can register for the chance to ride Star Tours before the upgraded ride officially opens in Disneyland. Disneyland announced Friday (today) that the park will allow a about 2,400 fans to get on the ride May 20 during a preview event, according to the official Disney Parks blog. The attendees will be the first people who will get to see the new attraction. The ride officially debuts June 3 ...
Disneyland Gives Renamed Snow White Dark Ride A New Happily Ever After Ending
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Disneyland has removed the scary ending from Snow White 's Scary Adventures and added a happily ever after finale to the classic Fantasyland dark ride that will return when the Anaheim theme park reopens following an extended coronavirus closure. Walt Disney Imagineering updated the interior and exterior of the Snow White 's Scary Adventures attraction during an extended renovation that began ...
Disneyland Giving 18-Month Anniversary Party
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The 50th anniversary bash will last 18 months - long enough to give every Disney fan on the planet a chance to attend the party. Most of these changes will premiere Thursday (that's 05/05/05, a date Disneyland chose for numerical emphasis): * A new parade, "Walt Disney's Parade of Dreams," will feature floats that become mini-stage shows, music and more than 50 Disney characters. Performances ...
Disneyland Goes Back To The Future
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Millions of Disneyland visitors lined up a half-century ago to catch a glimpse of the future: a home teeming with mind-blowing gadgets such as hands-free phones, wall-sized televisions, plastic chairs, and electric razors and toothbrushes. The "House of the Future," a pod-shaped, all-plastic dwelling that quickly seemed quaint closed its doors a decade later. Now Disney is set to open a new abode in ...
Disneyland Goes On New Schedule
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With its biggest summer season now over, Disneyland announced yesterday that beginning Monday the park will resume its fall winter schedule and will be open Wednesday through Sunday each week. Disneyland will close its gates on Mondays and Tuesdays for rehabilitation and improvements. The park's basic hours Wednesday through Sunday will be 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. On Saturday nights, however, ...
Disneyland Got Her Magic Touch
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Disneyland fans and garden lovers alike are in for a treat on May 13, when the Walt Disney Family Museum opens its doors for a presentation by two landscape architects - Kelly Comras and Julie Bush - who will share their insight into Disneyland's landscaping and Ruth Shellhorn, the woman who influenced its design. If you plan to go, though, buy your tickets now, as the first presentation sold out ...
Disneyland Got Off To A Nightmare Start In 1955 But Walts Folly Quickly Won Over Fans
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Disneyland's opening day, July 17, 1955, was a nightmare. ides broke down. Restaurants ran out of food and drink, and a plumbers' strike meant drinking fountains were in short supply. Long lines formed at bathrooms. Bunting hid unfinished attractions. Women's high-heeled shoes sank into the fresh asphalt. All in front of a national audience of 90 million, then the largest live broadcast in ...
Disneyland Guided Tour
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Disneyland Guided Tour - a personally conducted visit to all the realms within the Magic Kingdom - starts its second season, beginning September 14. When it was introduced last Fall, the Tour enthusiastically received by thousands of Disneyland visitors. Their comments ranged from "wonderful" to "thoroughly enjoyable" And almost unanimously, those interviewed in Disneyland Public Opinion polls said ...
Disneyland Guides
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Speak to anyone who has toured the commercial playgrounds of the world. He will tell you that one of the cleanest, most imaginative, most efficient, most unforgettable fun centers is Disneyland. The major reason for this is Mickey Mouse's world famous father, Walt Disney. Disney is a man bedeviled by a perfectionist complex. According to him, "Everything can be improved." From time to time he ...
Disneyland Halloween Night Parties To Include Stormtroopers
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Stormtroopers, Duffy the Bear and Phineas and Ferb are set to crash Mickey's Halloween Party at Disneyland. Mickey's Halloween Party is a series of after-hours parties that include an exclusive fireworks show, trick-or-treating, a character costume party and dance parties. Beginning on Friday, Sept. 30, 10 events are scheduled for alternating Mondays and Tuesdays and every Friday throughout ...
Disneyland Halloween Party Offers Discounted Admission
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We're not yet finished with the hot summer months in the desert, but at Disneyland, already it's time to think about Halloween. If nothing else, thoughts of October may work as a psychological diversion from the heat. Tickets for the annual Mickey's Halloween Party went on sale weeks ago for annual passholders. They go on sale to the general public Wednesday, and I always tell people, this is a ...
Disneyland Halloween Time: Disneys Pumpkin People Now On Display
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The pumpkin people have arrived at Disneyland! Disneyland Halloween Time just opened the doors and guests are experiencing the delight of a not so scary Halloween Holiday, including the Pumpkin People. Found at Big Thunder Ranch, just behind Big Thunder Mountain Railroad, the Pumpkin People have invaded the Wild Western Ranch for a fun loving showdown that includes all sorts of poses. Leaving ...
Disneyland Hanging Up Its Gun Belt
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They took away the wench-chasing pirates. Now, they've stopped shooting the hippos. Disneyland officials, who say they're only keeping up with today's sensibilities, have quietly disarmed the skippers of the Jungle Cruise, raising eyebrows among fans of one of the park's oldest, most cherished attractions. No more do the wisecracking skippers reach for their Smith and Wessons and fire a few ...
