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Walt Disney Is Your Tour Guide In This New Book
Dateline: November 16, 2021
Status: Current
Source: pe.com
Author Marcy Carriker Smothers had a continuing internal dialogue with the late Walt Disney as she wrote her new book about taking a walking tour of Disneyland from the park founder 's distinct and well-informed point of view.
“I can 't write about Walt or read about Walt without his voice in my head,” Carriker Smothers said during an online video interview.
Disneyland Band Returns With More Live Entertainment Coming Soon
Dateline: June 17, 2021
Status: Current
Source: Orange County Register
A Disneyland opening day attraction that was only intended to last two weeks but has stuck around for 66 years has survived the coronavirus pandemic closure of the Anaheim theme park and will make a triumphant return this week marching down Main Street U.S.A.
The Disneyland Band will return on Friday, June 18 after a 15-month absence from the park with
These Are The Best Places To Eat Right Now
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Dateline: October 4, 2019
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Source: thrillist.com
A while back we ranked every single place to eat inside Disneyland and Disney California Adventure. But times have drastically changed in the Southern California House of Mouse thanks to the addition of Star Wars Galaxy 's Edge, and it will continue to morph with the just-announced Avengers Campus. And that means that the food items, too, have changed.
Changes Coming Soon To Disneyland Park
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Dateline: August 26, 2016
Status: Archive
Source: delmartimes.net
There are two nightly opportunities to view the "Paint the Night" electrical parade: once as it slowly winds its way through Disneyland Park to where it concludes shortly beyond Disneyland City Hall, and then again as it returns after "Disneyland Forever."
A great way to be in a good position to see and take photos of both the parade and the fireworks show begins by
Disneyland Remodels Classic Restaurant And Shops
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Dateline: July 2, 2012
Status: Archive
Source: Orange County Register
Disneyland visitors can now dine indoors at a classic cafe, watch candy makers from more windows and find more space to buy ice cream or candy on Main Street, U.S.A.
The final business on a block of Main Street, U.S.A. recently re-opened after a five-month renovation project. Disneyland revamped the northwest quadrant of the entrance corridor, which stretches from
Remodeled Ice Cream Parlor Sweetens Main Street
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Dateline: May 3, 2012
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Source: Press-Enterprise
The biggest change in Disneyland's newly remodeled Gibson Girl Ice Cream Parlor is better crowd control and that's not a small thing.
The theme park as reopened the Main Street USA shop and the adjoining Penny Arcade/Candy Palace as it prepares for the rapidly approaching summer tourist season.
Gibson Girl's kitchen area has been pushed back, making room for a
Jolly Holiday Restaurant Opens
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Dateline: January 12, 2012
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Source: Press-Enterprise
Mary Poppins' teaspoon that made the medicine go down is on display at Disneyland's new Jolly Holiday Bakery Cafe. But there's no sugar in the spoon.
The sugar is in the pastry display cases.
The Main Street USA restaurant officially opened Saturday but began serving park guests a couple of days earlier.
It provides counter service with patio seating, in
Disneyland It All Started With A Mouse
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Dateline: October 3, 2011
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Source: etravelblackboard.com
Who wants sugar in their tea? The Mad Hatter asked. Everyone cheered. It is at this moment when I realised the greatest thing for the 'little traveller' was the parks unique way to bring treasured favourites to life, such as a favoured classic, Alice in wonderland.
Many years on from its opening on 17 July 1955, Walt Disney's theme park has sparked the imagination
California_vs. Paris: Main Street USA
Dateline: October 1, 2011
Status: Current
Source: MickeyMousePark.com
This month, I shall be comparing the Main Street, U.S.A.'s which can be found in the Disneylands closest to my heart (California and Paris).
Both are based loosely on Walt's home town of Marceline Missouri. Anaheim's is set in 1910, as part of the original idea that various Lands were set in years when Halley's Comet could be visible from Earth. According to themed
Only Pinocchio Nose For Sure
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Dateline: May 10, 2007
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Source: The Independent
We weren't even in the park yet when the perjury began.
Giddy with the excitement that only a day at the Magic Kingdom can conjure, my friend told Disneyland's parking attendant that she had given him a $50 bill rather than a $20 - just to watch him squirm.
I apologized to the unfortunately dressed, overweight gentleman and told my friend that she simply
Disney's Dream Theme
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Dateline: May 1, 2002
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Source: Puget Sound Journey AAA Washington
It was sometime in the 1940s, and a young father sat on an amusement park bench, licking a Popsicle and feeling slightly disgruntled. While his two daughters rode the merry-go-round, he waited restlessly, wondering why there was no amusement park that was equally "amusing" for children and adults.
Had this been anyone else, the thought might have disappeared
Pirates May Be Pc Now, But Rest Of Disneyland Isn't
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Dateline: January 12, 1997
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Source: Seattle Times
A chubby Aunt Jemima slave woman no longer greets pancake-house patrons.
A cabin fire long blamed on marauding American Indians is now attributed to "carelessness."
And, as of last week, automated pirates at one Disneyland ride no longer pursue terrified maidens.
Finally, it seems, the forces of political correctness have caught up to the aging Anaheim theme
Saving Disney From Itself
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Dateline: January 1, 1997
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Source: Harpers
Friends, the past few months have been a mere exercise in what is about to become the largest online and public battle against Disneyland-specifically its managers, starting with Paul Pressler. He is the one who will be held responsible for the destruction of Disneyland as we know it and as Walt planned it. I write this with a very heavy heart. I do not want my playground
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
Gay '90s Favorites From Main Street, Disneyland
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Dateline: May 1, 1957
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Source: Better Homes & Gardens
Do as they do in Disneyland-with an assist from the ice-cream carton-to recapture the treats of yesteryear. These happy ideas are from the famous Ice Cream Parlor, The Coffee House, and Red Wagon Inn, all located on Main Street, U.S.A.
Here are the recipes for Hot Fudge Sauce, French Fries, and Potato Salad.
The Coffee House Manager, Raul Grisanti, says their
Disneyland Gates Open Celebrity Throng At Premier
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Dateline: July 18, 1955
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Source: Independent Press Telegram
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
Main Street Is Historic Replica
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Dateline: July 18, 1955
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Source: Disneyland News
Nowhere else in the world but Disneyland can you turn back the clock to the turn of the century and project yourself onto a Main Street U.S.A. as a typical American small town actually existed in the period 1900-1910.
Walking under a trestle over which the Santa Fe and Disneyland Railroad tracks run, the visitor to Disneyland, in the center of Town Square,
Trip To Disneyland Will Be Literally Out Of This World
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Dateline: July 17, 1955
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Source: Valley News
For vacationers, week end travelers or plain Sunday drivers a tour through Disneyland Park in Anaheim which opens tomorrow will be a trip that is almost literally out of this world playground officials said today.
Because, behind the high embankment that shuts in the heart-shaped park and shuts long present day cares, there are "new worlds" of enchantment serving up
Disneyland Gets Its Last Touches
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Dateline: July 9, 1955
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Source: New York Times
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
All Aboard For Disneyland
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Dateline: July 1, 1955
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Source: Westways
Byways, streets and rail lines of yesteryear, rivers of today, super freeways and sky-trails of the future, paths and celestial seas in the ageless realm of make-believe are ready for travel-and all can be traversed in a single day at Disneyland.
Tours into four centuries in horse-drawn streetcars, stagecoaches. Mississippi stern-wheelers, old-time trains,
Disneyland A New Wonder Of The Amusement World Nears Completion
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Dateline: May 29, 1955
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Source: Sunday News Journal
A wonderland of delights such as the World may never have seen before is rising out of the orange groves in this sunny suburb of Los Angeles.
It is Disneyland, a 17 million dollar paradise for children. When the gates are opened on July 19, customers will see an amusement built on the scale of a World's Fair. The fantastic world of Disney films will be transformed
The Orchestron that is located in the back of the arcade contains over 300 pipes, triangles, bass drum and cymbal.
It was built in 1905 in Frieburg Germany and originally sold for $2,400.00.
It uses an electric motor which was developed around 1900 for power.
The Orgestron was purchased by Walt Disney in 1953.
It has been in the Penny Arcade since opening day.
In 1956 the phone extension for the Penny Arcade was 392
From WED Disneyland Dictionary 1968
Includes penny hand-crank moviolas and antique fun machines of every description.
From Steve Birnbaum brings you the best of Disneyland 1982:
Even that Cadillac among arcades-Tomorrowland's blipping, bleeping, and squeaking Starcade is no match for this turn-of- the-century version with its blinking chaser lights. Among the quainter of the antique amusements found here are the World Soccer mechanical foot- ball game, the recently restored Kentucky Derby, and the Electric Shock (circa 1920), which delivers a reduced version of the jolt with which the brave were zapped before Disney engineers modified the mechanisms. The Uncle Sam strength test used to bear the picture of a scantily clad female, but the arcade wizards took care of that one, too. The funniest is the one with the Egyptian theme, to the left as you face the large band organ at the arcade's entrance, and the best surprises are the vibrating machines two Massage-o-Matic chairs, found widely in old penny arcades and along boardwalks, and the early 1940s Vibrant Foot-Ease, which sets the body to tingling from feet to eyeballs when a feet to eyeballs when dime is deposited.
In general, the machines closest to the street cost a penny and date from 1900 to 1920, while those in the rear of the room to the left are of the 1920-to-1960 vintage; the ones in the rear wing to the right (including a Pac-Man game) are more modern. Occupying center stage in the street area of the arcade are the Mutascopes and the Cail-o- Scopes. The former, first introduced around 1900, require a penny and feature moving hand-cranked pictures such as Miracle Rider, in which Tom Mix is shot off his horse by a truck driver; the Absent- Minded Janitor, which depicts a balletic Charlie Chaplin, an artist, and a pretty dancing model; Out- laws Getaway, featuring a gun battle and an am- bush; In the Bag, an exercise in animation that conveys some impression of just how sophisticated the Main Street Cinema's Steamboat Willie really was; Bounced on the Bean, featuring Chaplin's Tramp as baker; The New Sheriff, a vignette featuring the lawman, the lawman's daughter, and the handsome bandito; more Chaplin, in The Dough Fight; Stage Coach, about an attempted abduction; still more Chaplin, in Dizzy Racket, and Gal- loping Fury, perhaps the best of all, in which the cowboy with the white hat gets the girl and gallops off into the sunset. The Cail-o-Scopes, which came about a decade after the Mutascopes, give a slightly three-dimensional picture that moves mechanically. All of them offer a few minutes' pleasant diversion, but some are really good. For example, there's the Painless Dentist, featuring a hammer, saw, pliers and a very sorry young boy; Big Beauty Buster, starring Bull Montana, which tells of a ruffian and a weakling boxer who is caught hiding a hammer in his glove; Forbidden Sweets, which has a terrific sequence in which father catches son pigging out on stolen pie, and smashes it in his face, and A Wee Bit O' Scotch, in which a Playmate of yesteryear takes a nip. While you're looking, you can be feeding dimes to the arcade's big music boxes. There are two. The Wurlitzer Orchestrion Style L, introduced around 1921 and probably used to entertain guests in a restaurant or speakeasy until the jukebox came along in the 1930s, combines a piano with 38 violin pipes (21 of them first violins, plus 17 violas) and an equal number of flute pipes, orchestra bells, a bass drum, a snare drum, and a triangle. Purchased by Walt Disney in 1953, it occupied a place on the Mark Twain dock until 1973 when it was restored and moved to the Penny Arcade. The larger Welte Style 4 Concert Orchestrion, which has called the Penny Arcade home since 1955, was built around 1905 in the German city of Freiburg. Its more than 300 pipes, plus a triangle, bass drum, and cymbals, are activated by an electric motor developed around the turn of the century. Change for all these diversions is available in a booth at the rear of the arcade.
ESMERALDA The Fortune Teller's Story:
To Main Street Hostess and Fortune Teller ESMERALDA meeting new people and predicting futures is a common occurrence.
Esmeralda is the resident teller of future truths on Main Street. She sits in front of the Penny Arcade, providing knowledge to hundreds of curious guests each day.
She began her fortune-telling career as a young girl. Her family used to manage a traveling gypsy show. To make ends meet during the off-seasons, she began dealing cards during village poker games.
Now, she has developed her skill with cards to such an extent that she can predict people's futures with one shuffling of the deck. One might think, however, that sitting in a booth (the same one everyday) reading fortunes might get a little boring . "Not so," she says. "I meet a lot of interesting men with bright futures." She also adds, "lost of the guests who approach me are quite respectable."
Those who know Esmeralda can attest to the fact that she's a solid citizen. As she puts it, 'My mother always told me I came from good stock."
Besides enjoying her work here, she has had the good fortune to travel extensively, to act (she was once a contestant on the game show "Cardsharks") and write books on the subject of Fortune Tel ling. In fact, her latest, Lotsa Luck... You'll Need It, was a best-seller, just as she cooly predicted.
Clad in her green and pink bandanna, the lovely Esmeralda, with her jet-black hair and sensuous smile, continues to greet those who enter the Penny Arcade. She enjoys having a hand in people' s futures. And hopefully, remaining at Disneyland is In her future, but only she knows.
