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1956 Disneyland

January 1, 1956

D Tickets added to Ticket Books.

5 Millionth Guest Admitted

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1956 Articles:

Through The Jungles Of Disneyland
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When Walt Disney, creator of Mickey Mouse and other animated film cartoon characters who have become household names, first viewed 160 acres of flat sandy land in suburban Anaheim, California, 25 miles southeast of Los Angeles, he envisioned what others ...

2 Million See Disneyland In 6 Months
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A report on the first six months of operation of Disneyland Monday disclosed that 2,006,362 persons have visited the park here since it opened last July 18. The report by the park management said 35 per cent of that figure, or some 700,000 persons, ...

Land That Does Away With Time
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Parents entering Disneyland with their children are due for the same surprise they got from other Walt Disney creations. What is planned as a dutiful pilgrimage for the sake of the children turns out to be an eye-opening day of adult entertainment and ...

Disneyland Train Marks Anniversary
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Marking first anniversary of operation is one of the world most novel railroads, the 5/8-scale Santa Fe and Disneyland which is a feature of Walt Disney's magic kingdom near Anaheim. The tiny railroad began operations in mid-July, 1955, with two ...

Only Auto Of Its Kind
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Only auto of its kind, the early 1900's "horseless wagon," built by Carnation Company last summer to deliver its dairy products inside Disneyland has become one of the roost photographed objects in this photogra pher's paradise. Half the picture albums ...

Disneyland Is Sued For $2.7 Million
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A $2,700,000 suit against Disneyland was filed in Los Angeles Superior Court Monday for alleged breach of contract in the selling of souvenirs at the famed playland. In addition to the amount named in the suit, the court was also asked to restrain ...

Disneyland Turning Back Clock In Easter Parade
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The clock will be turned back a half century today at Disneyland as the multimillion - dollar amusement park celebrates Easter Sunday as it was at the turn of the century. The traditional "Easter parade" will feature bonnets and costumes worn in the ...

Tom Sawyer Comes To Disneyland
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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 ...

Indonesian President Sukarno Visits Disneyland
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President Sukarno of Indonesia dropped the cares of state Thursday to laugh and relax at Disneyland. Like any other father, Indonesian's chief kept one eye on the sights and the other on his 12-your-old son, Guntur. For President Sukarno the ...

Disneyland Summer Hours
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Disneyland offers some good news today. The fabulous fun land will be open 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. starting Saturday, offering more opportunities for sightseeing to those who find the present 8 p.m. closing time inconvenient. And starting now, Disneyland ...

Metro Operates Special Bus Line To Disneyland
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Even the ride from Los Angeles to Disneyland is enchanting for those who ride on a new bus line operated by Metropolitan Coach Lines direct to the l60-acre playground in Anaheim. Since its opening in July, 1955 Disneyland has come the lading ...

Sound Effects Add Realism To Disneyland
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Realistic sound effects provide a great deal of realism at Walt Disney's 160-acre "Disneyland" park at Anaheim, California, thus heightening the illusion of a simulated trip to the moon or a river cruise through the African jungle, hence the extensive ...

Big Disneyland Expansion Since Original Opening
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When Walt Disney completed the $2,000,000 expansion program at Disneyland this summer, it was estimated by park officials that the capacity had increased by 100,000 rides per day. Completion of Disneyland"s first expansion program came this past ...

Disneyland Hotel
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The formal opening festivities of the $10,000,000 Disneyland Hotel Saturday by owners Jack Wrather, Los Angeles and Texas industrialist, and Helen Alvarez of San Diego, marks a milestone in the 16-month construction program by Wrather-Alvarez Hotels, ...

Young Industrialist Wrather Adds Hotel To Vast Holdings
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Disneyland Hotel brings the holdings of Jack Wrather, 37- year-old Texas California industrialist, to three hotels, a television station, The Lone Ranger, Inc., two radio stations, a 2.000-acre ranch, Corriganville, near Chatsworth, and his oil business. ...

Jungle Trips Draw Crowds
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Disneyland officials report that 2,084,189 persons enjoyed Adventureland's jungle river cruise during the first year of operation. Runners-up were the Mark Twain with 1,318,926 passengers; the Santa Fe and Disneyland Passenger Train with 1,143,959; and ...

Hotel Restaurants Can Feed 2000 Visitors In Fine Settings
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The $350,000 Gourmet - Disneyland Hotel Restaurants, which opened this spring as a prelude to this week's formal opening festivities of the Wrather - Alvarez Disneyland Hotel, form the third of the triumvirate of facilities at the new western play-land: ...

Crane Co Showing Plumbing Future
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One of the newest exhibits in Disneyland is the display by Crane Co., makers of "Everything AND the Kitchen Sink." Giant cranes, fabricated of pipe, join Walt Disney's cartoon characters in a park dedicated to a new concept of entertainment for youngsters ...

Outstanding Shops Now Open In Hotel
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Disneyland Hotel has several outstanding shops which already have proven highly popular with the visitors. Carrying the finest in imports and domestic merchandise, the shops are of the latest styling in decor and invite visitors to the hotel or ...

New Type Of Locks Secure Each Room
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One of the unusual features which distinguishes the fabulous Disneyland Hotel is that it contains the first installation of new Yale 5400 series cylindrical hotel locks on the west coast. A product of the Yale & Towne Manufacturing Co. of White Plains, N. ...

Disneyland Prices
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Admission prices to Disneyland in Anaheim will be lowered to 90 cents for adults and 70 cents for juniors effective Saturday. The reduction is in line with the abandonment of federal amusement tax on admissions amounting to less than one dollar, ...

Magic Kingdom One Year After
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Above is pictured Disneyland as it looks today, some 14 months after the Grand Opening, of July 18, 1955. In that brief span of time the Anaheim Magic Kingdom has come to rank as the number one visitor attraction in the United States. It is expected that ...

Rare Antiques In Disneyland
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Yes, the magic kingdom of Disneyland abounds in genuine antiques. Some of them dating back to the 1500's, are in Tomorrowland (of all places!) as part of the interior of the "Nautilus," the submarine in "20,000 leagues Under The Sea." Since the Nautilus ...

Ultra-Violet Sees Unseen In New Mineral Hall Exhibit
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Disneyland's newest exhibit, Frontierland s Mineral Hall, is giving many of the Park's guests their first exposure of the wonders of to Black Light, the Ultra Violet rays that are found at the low end or invisible end of the light spectrum. The free ...

Complain Elephants Trumpet
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Mrs. Ray Campbell. 900 S. Walnut St., Anaheim is having trouble -- with elephants. They won't let her sleep she complained to the police. Officers said they would ask authorities at Disneyland, where Mrs. Campbell says the elephants reside, to ...

5 Millionth Visitor At Disneyland
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Four-year-old Debra Rutherford knew Disneyland was going to be wonderful. When she arrived Wednesday it exceeded her wildest dreams. It was her insistence -- and that of her 3-year-old sister Patricia-that convinced their parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. L. ...

Omnibus In Wonderland
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Blending perfectly with its turn-of-the-century surroundings a specially constructed omnibus is the newest attraction on Disneyland's busy Main Street - of the world's most unusual thoroughfares. A "double-decker" with a capacity of 37 passengers and ...

Steamboat 'round The Bend
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A summer vacation with pay. . . traveling down the rivers of America into the past . . . the exotic and the whimsical . . . this was my summer travel adventure. Dozens of school teachers and college students shared this unusual tour, yet none of us ...

Christmas In A Magic Kingdom
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Brightest spot in all the Southland this Christmas will be Walt Disney's Magic Kingdom in Anaheim. Walt is presently readying a glorious old-fashioned festival for the enjoyment of the thousands of holiday season visitors to his 20 million-dollar ...

Russians Live It Up In Anaheim
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Eighteen Russian Olympic Games coaches, trainers and officials en route home from Melbourne had the time of their lives at Disneyland Wednesday afternoon. Visas were waived as was the Russian's inadmissibility to the United States as members of the ...

Attractions Opened/Closed in 1956:

American Rifle Exhibit

Astro-Jets

Bathroom Of Tomorrow

Disneyland Stage Coach

Dutch Boy Paint Gallery

Fantasyland Theatre (In Castle Courtyard)

Fort Wilderness

Harpers Mill

Horseless Carriage

Indian Village (Adventureland)

Indian Village (Frontierland)

Indian War Canoes

Injun Joe's Cave

International Street Preview

Junior Autopia

Keller's Jungle Killers

Main Street Omnibus

Mickey Mouse Club Circus

Mineral Hall

Mule Pack

Phantom Boats

Rafts To Tom Sawyer Island

Rainbow Caverns Mine Train

Rainbow Mountain Stage Coach

Rainbow Ridge Pack Mules

Skyway

Storybook Land Canal Boats

Tom And Huck's Tree House

Tom Sawyers Island

Wizard Of Bras

Restaurants Opened/Closed in 1956:

Carnation Plaza Gardens

Fort Wilderness Canteen

Indian Village Snack Bar

Mark Twain Juice Bar

Oaks Tavern

Plantation House

Welchs Juice Bar

Parades Performed in 1956:

Mickey Mouse Club Circus Parade

Shops Opened/Closed in 1956:

Blacklight Corp Of America

BoneKraft

Cole of California Swimsuits

Ellens Gift Shop

Fantasy Of Disneyland

Frontier Gun Shop

Guatemalan Weavers

Indian Trading Post

Intimate Apparel

Jimmy Starr’s Show Business Souvenirs

Mad Hatter Fantasyland

Events in 1956:

D Tickets added to Ticket Books.

5 Millionth Guest Admitted

5 Millionth guest walked through the gates.

New adventures for 1956 proved quickly that Walt Disney would keep his promise of Disneyland's continued growth. Added to the show were:

ADDITIONS :

*TOM SAWYER ISLAND -- Frontierland

*SKYWAY (aerial tramway between Tomorrowland and Fantasyland)

*TOM SAWYER ISLAND RAFTS -- Frontierland

*ASTRO-JETS (now the "Rocket Jets") -- Tomorrowland

*HORSELESS CARRIAGE -- Main Street, U.S.A.

*INDIAN WAR CANOES (now the "Davy Crockett Explorer Canoes") -- Frontierland

*JUNIOR AUTOPIA--Fantasyland

*OMNIBUS -- Main Street, U.S.A.

*RAINBOW CAVERNS MINE TRAIN (since removed) -- Frontierland

*STORYBOOK LAND CANAL BOATS (redesigned) -- Fantasyland

*RAINBOW RIDGE PACK MULES (redesigned) -- Frontierland

*RAINBOW MOUNTAIN STAGE COACHES (redesigned) -- Frontierland

*INDIAN VILLAGE, featuring live shows (removed for construction of Bear Country -- Frontierland

INVESTMENT: Total to date: $18.5 million

ATTENDANCE: 3.8 million for the year

HIGHLIGHTS: Disneyland's five millionth guest walked through the entrance gates in October.

At year's end, Disneyland had welcomed guests from every state and from 60 foreign nations. The holiday season featured scores of youth music groups performing in "Christmas Bowl."

This year marked the debut of the Park's spectacular fireworks displays, which highlighted the summer season.

Park hosted its first old-fashioned Easter Parade April 1.

FAMOUS GUESTS:

*President Sukarno of Indonesia (May)

*Earl Warren, Chief Justice of the U.S. (December)