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24 Surprising Things About Disneyland We Did Not Know But Should
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Dateline: December 2, 2018
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Source: thetravel.com
Disneyland is said to be the "Happiest Place on Earth." For one day (or several depending on your trip schedule) people of all ages from toddlers to seniors can have fun, let loose and become a kid again. It's a place filled with magic, music, your favourite characters and rides to fit whatever you're in the mood for.
It opened its doors on July 17, 1955, and was the
58 Ways Star Wars Land Is Changing Disneyland
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Dateline: November 5, 2015
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Source: Los Angeles Magazine
The Walt Disney Company recently announced that an entirely new land based on the Star Wars universe would be coming to Disneyland, likely in 2019. The 14-acre mini universe will feature two major new rides and other attractions including a restaurant based on the Mos Eisley cantina in the films. I'm not a big Star Wars aficionado, but I hear that the designers working on
Neat Facts About Disneyland Rivers Of America
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Dateline: October 25, 2015
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Source: Orange County Register
Disneyland fans have just a couple more months to enjoy Frontierland's Rivers of America before Disney closes it, and all its related attractions, for more than a year to make way for the construction of Star Wars Land.
So let's honor Disneyland's Rivers of America with some fun facts that you might not know about this section of the park.
On a personal note,
Disneyland 60 Things You Might Not Know About The Magic Kingdom
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Dateline: July 17, 2015
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Source: Los Angeles Times
TV show named "Gunsmoke" made its debut, and another named "Make Room for Daddy" won two Emmys. Elvis Presley and Pat Boone had young hearts all shook up, and for the first time, they could listen to those crooners and others on a new gadget called a pocket transistor radio. A new car cost $1,900, gasoline was 23 cents a gallon and rents averaged $87 a month..
It was
A Few Nuggets About Disneyland As It Turns 56
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Dateline: July 15, 2011
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Source: silive.com
Disneyland The Happiest Place on Earth turns 56 on Sunday.
Much has been said and written about the groundbreaking amusement enterprise in Anaheim, Calif. But even after more than five and a half decades in operation, some interesting nuggets can still be unearthed.
For instance, not many people are aware that during the first few years of operation, not
Marvelous Mechanized Magic Kingdom
Dateline: October 1, 2010
Status: Current
Source: MickeyMousePark.com
About five or six months ago I received an e-mail from the 1313 Club & Ape Pen Publishing Informing me of an event to take place at the Disneyland Hotel. The event, "The Marvelous Mechanized Magic Kingdom" was to feature the talents and stories of current and former employees and imagineers as they worked for Walt over the years. The 1313 Club and Ape Pen are both are
Disneyland At 55 Still A Marvel In Southern California
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Dateline: September 25, 2010
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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
Happy Birthday, Disneyland
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Dateline: July 16, 2010
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Source: silive.com
Disneyland was Walt Disney's baby, a dream he nurtured for years which eventually turned into a flat-out obsession ... an obsession that had as many skeptics as it had bank creditors demanding that Disney make good on all the loans he needed to make his pie-in-the-sky come true.
Tomorrow, The Happiest Place on Earth celebrates its 55th anniversary. Five and a half
An Ode To A Bygone Disneyland
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Dateline: July 10, 2010
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Source: Los Angeles Times
"I'm not Disney-obsessed, but I never discount the effect it had on me as a child," says the pop-culture humorist and author, best known for blending comedy and commentary in shows based on other people's family and vacation slides. "It helped make me a visual person in terms of recognizing motifs and themes. I like to say I studied at the Disneyland School of Style."
50 Years Of Disneyland
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Dateline: January 31, 2006
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Source: boxofficemojo.com
Disneyland spokesman Tim O'Day, hired as a parade performer in 1976 and knowledgeable about virtually every Disneyland detail, is practically the grand marshal of the theme park's rich history, including its integration to motion pictures. The co-author of Disneyland: Then, Now and Forever talked with Box Office Mojo about the Happiest Place on Earth.
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Disneyland: The Way We Were
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Dateline: February 1, 1988
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Source: Los Angeles Magazine
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 park-itself pushing a healthy 33-is celebrating this year from March 19 through September 8 with a new Mickey at the Movies
Walt Disney Reveals Just How Disneyland Was Created In Rare Interview
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Dateline: April 1, 1966
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Source: Readers Digest
“Twenty years ago,” Walt said as we drove toward Disneyland, some 25 miles southeast of central Los Angeles, “I was always trying to think of a place to take my two small daughters on a Saturday or Sunday afternoon-a place where I could have fun, too.
“At an amusement park, the only fun provided for a father, besides having his bottom dropped out from under
Magic Worlds Of Walt Disney
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Dateline: August 1, 1963
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Source: National Geographic
Disneyland really started more than 20 years ago, when Walt got the idea for an amusement park that grownups as well as children would enjoy.
"I had all my drawing things laid out at home, and I'd work on plans for the park, as a hobby, at night."
At the time, amusement parks were dying all over the country, "I talked Disneyland but no one could see it," Walt
Walt Disney's Magic Kingdom
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Dateline: April 1, 1960
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Twenty years ago," Walt said as we drove toward Disneyland, some 25 miles southeast of central Los Angeles, "I was always trying to think of a place to take my two small daughters on a Saturday or Sunday afternoon - a place where I could have fun, too.
"At an amusement park the only fun provided for a father, besides having his bottom dropped out from under him on the
Tom Sawyer Comes To Disneyland
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Dateline: May 13, 1956
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Source: Independent Press Telegram
Disneyland is now past the half-way point in a spring construction program that will add 1 1/2 million dollars in new rides and amusements to Walt Disney's Magic Kingdom in Anaheim.
Major areas of activity are Frontierland and the Tom Sawyer Island in the Rivers of America. More than $250,000 is being spent to make the island a "playland out of a youngster's
