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This July, Walt Disney will realize a lifelong dream, when the fabulous wonderland he is raising out of the dust of a 160-acre tract in the heart of California's orange-growing country opens to the public. The 5 million young at heart who are expected to visit it annually will know it as Disneyland-"a place where you can leave Today, with its cares and worries, behind and enter a world of Yesterday, ...
Disneyland Digs In At Anaheim
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With opening date set for July 15, construction is going full speed ahead on Disneyland, multi-million dollar wonder of the entertainment world at Anaheim in Orange County. The total investment is expected to approximate $17 million.Grading and bulldozing are completed. Excavation of the various waterways in Disneyland is finished. Construction has started on several buildings, with the exterior of one ...
Disney Investment In A Dream
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Adventure is the goal of master showman Walt Disney as he transforms 160 acres of [arm land on the outskirts of Anaheim into a spectacular showpiece of past, present, future, feet and fantasy -- to be known as Disneyland. Opening date is set for July 15.
Adventures will include activities of Frontierland, one of the four major realms of Disneyland. America's frontiers of the 18th and -19th Centuries ...
A Wonderful World
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The saga of the aging cinema star is a part of American folklore-the heady upward trajectory, the few brief seasons on the summit, and the swift descent to "B" pictures, guest appearances, and, of late, odd jobs on television. Next October the saga will be re-enacted again, but with one big difference. The old friend taking a job as TV master of ceremonies will have all his joints in top working order, and ...
Disneyland Prices Announced
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Scheduled to open July 15, this world's greatest fantasy has announced prices that will prevail. Adults will pay $1 to enter and children under 12 will pay 50 cents.
The general admission will permit the visitors to go through such places as Adventureland. Tomorrowland, Fantasyland and Frontierland without additional cost.
Prices for the various rides in the 169-acre attraction will be from 10 to ...
Disneyland A New Wonder Of The Amusement World Nears Completion
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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 into three dimensional reality.
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The Tomorrowland section of Disneyland near Anaheim will feature the ultimate in wide screens, a completely circular movie on a 360-degree screen.
A part of the commercial exhibit by American Motors Corp., the new process was demonstrated Tuesday in Disney studio. It will be shown to a preview audience July "17 in Disneyland and be open to the general public the following, day.
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All Aboard For Disneyland
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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, cars-of-tomorrow. "flying" pirate galleons ...
Disneyland Fabulous New Magic Kingdom
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On A sprawling 160-acre tract near Anaheim, Calif.. there is rising a fabulous magic kingdom. a wonderland of entertainment without counterpart on earth. The fantastic dream world is being brought into reality by man famed for his vivid imagination and showmanship - Walt Disney.
Called "Disneyland" the $9 million project is in final stages of construction on a part of an historic California rancho a ...
Celebrities At Disneyland Debut July 17
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Some 15,000 special guests will attend a preview of Disneyland Sunday afternoon, July 17. The multi-million-dollar play area at Winston Rd. and Harbor Blvd, in Anaheim, will open to the public at 10 a.m. the next day.
Gov. Goodwin J. Knight will assist Walt Disney in the opening ceremonies by operating the Santa Fe and Disneyland miniature train on its inaugural trip.
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Making Waves With A Hair Dryer
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They're making the Long Beach breakwater out of Grapenuts, and putting waves in the Pacific Ocean with a portable hair dryer.
Sounds like a lot of foolishness, but it's: all being done for Disneyland, and everybody knows that the gent behind Disneyland is foolish like a fox.
The Grapenuts breakwater and ocean with a permanent are just two of the unique parts of a novel, new Diorama being made for ...
Mouse That Turned To Gold
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In real life, fame rarely leads to fortune--particularly if you are a mouse. But in Hollywood, almost anything can have a fairy tale ending. After more than a quarter-century of paw-to-mouth existence, Mickey Mouse finally is piloting his creator, Walt Disney, to the pot of cheese at the foot of the rainbow.
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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 ...
Walt Disney Takes Two Children Through Disneyland
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No figure in the world today is closer to the hearts of children than at 54-year-old boy named Walt Disney.
Despite his ever-growing fame and current financial solidly (thanks particularly to his Disneyland series and the Davy Crockett boom it touched off), the king of the animated cartoon has never lost contact with the dreams youngsters dream. Latest proof is what he considers his outstanding (and ...
500 Anaheim Children To Help Introduce Disneyland On TV
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Five hundred children from Anaheim Sunday Schools will play a big role in the ABC television -Show which will introduce Disneyland Park to a national TV audience Sunday.
The lucky youngsters will enjoy a preview of Sleeping Beauty's Castle and the rides of Walt Disney's new magic kingdom.
They will arrive at the park in 14 buses each of which will be under direction of a clown leader and two ...
Santa Fe To Have Novel Railroad At Disneyland
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The world's newest and most novel railroad, the Santa Fe & Disneyland, is all steamed up and ready to roll for the dedication Sunday (July 17) of Walt Disney's "magic kingdom" at Anaheim.
Fred G. Gurley of Chicago, president of the transcontinental Santa Fe Railway, prototype of the SF&D, will be among ,the distinguished guests. He will join Walt Disney and Governor Goodwin J. Knight in ceremonies ...
Mechanical Wizard Emcees Continual Show Of Fashions
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The Wonderful Wizard of Bras, famed symbol of the Hollywood-Maxwell Brassiere Company and major-domo of the novel, eye-popping exhibit prepared by Disneyland by this manufacturer of intimate apparel is one of the major magicians in the nation's greatest magicland.
The Wonderful Wizard highlights the Hollywood-Maxwell display which is one of fifty "famous names in American business" selected by ...
GallenKamp Shoes Joining Disneyland
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Howard Braun district manager for GaIlenKamp's Valley shoe stores announced today that GaIlenKamp's is one of the 31 lessees represented in Disneyland with a retail merchandising operation.
The store is located on "Main Street, U.S.A.," a duplication of an American town at the turn of the century. GallenKamp's Blue Bird Store, featuring the famous Blue Bird children's shoes. is approximately 52 feet ...
Disneyland Is Ready For Curtain Time
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When the curtain goes up tomorrow on Walt Disney's fabulous new entertainment world of Disneyland, '60 acres of happiness for young and old will be completed and ready for an expected five million visitors a year.
But behind the scenes, an equally fabulous story of the hectic, time and overtime-consuming hours of preparations to ready Disneyland in completed form has been going on for weeks.
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Trip To Disneyland Will Be Literally Out Of This World
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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 fun for all kinds and ages of ...
Disneyland Opened To Public
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Walt Disney's $17,000,000 Disneyland was formally opened to the public yesterday at 10 a.m.
The 60-acre wonderland at 1313 Harbor Blvd., Anaheim was previewed for the press civic officials and entertainment industry Sunday.
Disneyland was formally dedicated by Disney "to the people of the world young and old with a dream in their hearts." Gov. Goodwin J Knight added:
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Bank Of America To Open Disneyland Branch Tomorrow
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In a setting of old-time teller wickets, brass hatracks, a roll-top desk, shiny cuspidors and Gay Nineties costumes, Bank of America will open the doors of its new branch tomorrow in the town square of the magic kingdom of Disneyland in Southern California.
"There will even be an 1880 typewriter in first class working order," said Frank M. Dana, vice president-operations at the San Francisco ...
Disney Welcomes Young At Heart To Disneyland
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"To all who come to this happy place: welcome. Disney-land is your land. Here age relives fond memories of the past ... and here youth may savour the challenge and promise of the future.
"Disneyland is dedicated to the ideals, the dreams, and the hard facts that have created America ... with the hope. that it will be a source of joy and inspiration to all the world."
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Disneyland Hotel First Units Readied For August Opening On Site Adjacent To Park
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Reservations and requests for information about the Disneyland Hotel, located opposite the main exit of Disneyland Park, are pouring in to Jack Wrather, operator of the modern new establishment.
From all over the country letters of inquiry have been received asking for information about the accommodations, opening date and other facilities, according to Wrather.
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Tomorrowland Exhibits Show World Of Future
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Man's activities in 1986, the world of the future, are being presented in various exhibits In Tomorrowland by some of the major corporations in the United States.
The earth's history, dating back three billion years, is portrayed through an animated display by Richfield, while the "Story of Oil," in Cinemascope, is also present. The Autopia, gasoline powered car which travels the ...
Stanleys Exploits In Search For Livingston Brought To Life By Adventureland Boat Trip
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The only boat trip of its kind in the world, satisfying the adventurer's urge to explore wild and uncharted tropical lands, is highlight of the Adventureland section of Disneyland.
Seven boats, christened "Congo Queen," "Swanee Lady," "Amazon- Belle." "Ganges Gal," "Nile Princess," Mekong Maiden," and lrrawaddi Women" carry adventure seekers along an authentic tropical river, where ...
Goff Takes Up New Hobbies
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"I've given up all my own hobbies now--and taken over Walt's!"
Harper Goff was the man talking. Three years ago, the creative designer had been called by Walt Disney and told that Disney intended to build a park to commemorate Early Americana, adjacent to the Disney Studios in Burbank, California.
Thus began the story of the actual designing of Disneyland. Goff became ...
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 ...
Conestogas Once Tops
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America's most popular means of transportation today may be the automobile, but between 1780 and 1850 Americans were well satisfied with their own most used vehicle the Conestoga wagon.
Two of the wide, long and deep wooden structures, surrounded by canvas covered hoop tops, have been preserved in Frontierland and are available for visitors to journey in over dusty roads of the Painted ...
Celebrities Officials Join Walt Disney To Dedicate New Era In Entertainment
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More than 50,000 visitors were attracted to Disneyland on Monday, July 18, when the Park officially opened its gates to the general public. Reactions were mixed but highly enthusiastic, ranging from exclamations of "fantastic" to "unbelievable" and "too terrific for words to describe. Governor Goodwin J.. Knight of the State of California assisted Walt Disney and some 25,000 invited guests at the official ...
Santa Fe Disney Line Is Railroaders Delight
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Model train enthusiasts dream about a complete terminal and railroad track of their own, but Walt Disney, who enjoys model railroading as a hobby, has carried his dream into reality with the Santa Fe and Disneyland Railroad which travels around the perimeter of the Park.
Built to five-eighths normal size for the enjoyment of children and adults alike, the Santa Fe and Disneyland Railroad ...
Steeds Prance To Caliope Tunes
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Old and colorful looking Dentzel mounts, whose design combines the austere tones of the 6th century with the heavy barouge common to the 12th and 13th, whirl horse-mounted riders around the gay carrousel in the courtyard of Fantasyland's medieval castle.
Seventy-two steeds of this King Arthur Carrousel prance to callope tunes which act as a call to prospective young knights, enticing ...
Mark Twain River Steamer Docks Again
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Have you over had the desire to hear the fabled Mississippi riverboat cries of "by the mark, twain." or "steamboat round the bend?"
These and other exclamations like them, first shouted on the riverboats which plied the muddy waters of the Mississippi between New Orleans and St. Louis, can be heard on the "rivers of America" in Frontierland, where a replica of those steamboats cruises a ...
Disneyland A 20 Year Dream
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For over 20 years- almost from the time Mickey Mouse's voice was first heard all over the world - Walt Disney envisioned a park that would appeal to young and old alike with every conceivable type of entertainment included, and an his cartoon fatally grew, so did the dream. This dream of the creator of characters which have brought enjoyment to people all over the world has finally become a reality at ...
Noted Rocket Moon Authorities Contribute Skills To Space Ride
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Some of the world's leading rocket experts and scientists contributed their extensive knowledge of the field of space exploration as Tomorrowland creators sought to produce authentic settings for the world of 1986.
Willy Ley and Werner von Braun, two of the foremost rocket authorities and historians, aided Disney builders in the creation of the TWA Rocket to the Moon, a simulated ...
Rocket Trip To Moon Blasts Off For Realistic Space Ride
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A blast of mighty rocket engines, the whine of rushing air, then the utter quiet of hurtling through space at supersonic speed . . .
These are realistic sensations of passengers taking off on a TWA Rocket To The Moon, one of the major features of Tomorrowland.
After speeding by a space station to the half-way point in its simulated flight, the ship turns end over end to reverse ...
Areas Of Disneyland Provide Visitors Wide Entertainment Choice
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Adventure, fantasy, the future, the past, the modern the old and the outdated-all are present in quality and quantity at the Disneyland world of entertainment, enchantment and variety.
Starting with their entrance into the Park leading onto Main Street; U.S.A., visitors can project themselves into any one of four worlds which await them during their 1 1/4-mile walk through ...
Story Book Adventures Live Again In Fantasyland
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Story-book adventures have long fascinated and excited the imagination of young and old alike. The stories of the escapades of Snow White, Peter Pan, Mr. Toad and a whole host of other unforgettable tales have been read through the years, and passed on from generation to generation.
Recognizing this and desiring that the youth of all ages have the opportunity to take part in the same ...
Davy Crockett Tops Disneyland Crowd
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The big attraction for the small fry at Disneyland Sunday was Fess (Davy Crockett) Parker.
A swell of excited comment and shrill cries of "Davy! There's Davy!" rippled through the sidewalk crowds as Parker was spotted in the parade.
And every youngster was hoisted to his father's shoulder for a glimpse of Davy in the flesh.
Among the spectators were such celebrities as Debbie Reynolds and ...
Visitors To See Historic West
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Glimpses of the old and historic Western movement of American history are provided to visitors of Disneyland in Frontierland.
The period of Frontierland is approximately from 1810 to 1860, but flags flying over Frontierland encompass the period from the establishment of our union of states under the Constitution through the post-Civil War era.
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Restaurant Facilities Offer Variety Wide Menu Range
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Restaurants and refreshment stands capable of serving nearly 8000 people per hour offer high quality food at moderate prices in all the realms of Disneyland.
A wide and varied choice of restaurant facilities is provided on the Park's 60 acres, including different dining places in every area, each in keeping with the theme of the particular part of Disneyland in which it is situated. ...
Complete American Small Town Of 1900 Era Reproduced Here
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Main Street, U.S.A., houses a complete American small town where visitors will find every type of shop, store and other business establishment which existed In a turn of the century city of its type.
At Town Square, the Bank of America offers full banking service which will be available seven days a week from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Bekins Van and Storage has a horse-drawn moving van ...
Disney Antique Collectors Find U.S. And Canadian Items
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A bronze plaque accompanying an anchor on exhibit in Frontierland contains the following Inscription: "LaFitte's Anchor. Said to be from a pirate ship commanded by Jean LaFitte in the Battle of New Orleans, Jan. 8. 1815.
"It is also said that LaFitte's pirateering ships left a wake of blood from the mainland to Barataria Bay but don't believe everything you read."
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Main Street Is Historic Replica
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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, where the Park's dedication ...
Disneyland Has Its First Fire
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A passerby's cigarette ignited a small gas leak near the Peter Pan booth in Disneyland Monday afternoon. The little fire was put out quickly by crewmen with hand extinguishers.
However, the Fantasyland section of the park was closed to the public as a safety precaution until the line can be repaired.
Disneyland authorities believed the leak could be fixed by opening time of 10 a.m. today.
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Freeway Jammed By Disneyland Mob
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Honking horns and steaming engines of cars backed up for miles on the Santa Ana Freeway and other roads near west Anaheim Monday morning sounded fanfare for the public opening of Disneyland.
The huge amusement area officially opened for business at 10 a.m. Monday after some 35,000
invited guests attended the press preview Sunday.
The public opening drew some 50,000 persons to the $17,000,000 ...
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The newspapers boosted the event like a Community Chest drive. The Hollywood Bowl was jumping with thousands of kids wearing coonskin caps. ABC-TV put on a special one-and-half-hour telecast requiring 24 cameras, and Simon and Schuster published a special book about it. The man behind the trumpeting was Walt Disney, who gave the nation Mickey Mouse and Davy Crockett. The occasion was this week's opening of ...
Kids' Dream World Comes True
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Disneyland--a steel-and-concrete Never-Never Land for youngsters--has come to life at Anaheim, Calif. It's Walt Disney's fantastic kingdom dropped out of a cloud onto 160 acres. There your child can drive the car of the future, ride in a Mississippi stern-wheeler or romp through a medieval castle. If he wants a glimpse of Tomorrowland, Fantasyland, Frontierland or Main Street, U.S.A., there are two ...
Disneyland Attendance Is 413420 In First Three Weeks
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Disneyland officials said Monday that 413,420 people have streamed through the gates of the $17,000,000.Anaheim playground empire in the first three weeks of operation.
Researchers employed at the huge playground totaled figures ranging from daily attendance to the amount of money each person spends.
Although visitors are now averaging 20,000 a day, they say there is no crowding because of the ...
Daddy Nixon Given Disneyland Works
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Two little girls tugged at the hands of the nation"s vice president Thursday pulling him this way and that through the milling throngs and the wonders of an amusement park called Disneyland.
The vacationing Richard Nixon, putting aside the cares of office, became a smiling full-time daddy for the day. He tried manfully to keep up with the cries of, "Daddy, let's go here let's go here."
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It may be more than the kids can bear. It has an Adventureland from Tahiti, a Frontierland entered through the log gates of an old fort complete with a Davy Crockett museum, a Fantasyland full Snow White, Peter Pan, Sleeping Beauty and all their associates, and a Tomorrowland with a Space Port. Walt Disney arranged it all, of course, and then named it Disneyland. Sprawled over 160 acres at Anaheim, Calif., ...
If Hubby Is Shy Watch Him At Main Street Corset Shop
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Is the modern male embarrassed about walking into a corseteria? No he isn't or at least, not as "shocked" as his father would have been, according to the Hollywood Maxwell Company, operators of a corset and bra shop on Disneyland's Main Street.
Surprising as it may seem to some, it's the teenagers who are most affected by the exhibit of old and new in corsets, bras, and petticoats. The younger sets' ...
Disneyland Announces A New Plan Of Book Ticket
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Announcement of a new "Day at Disneyland" ticket book plan, effective October 11th through November 23rd, was made today by the management of the park in Anaheim.
The new ticket book plan offers Disneyland visitors their choice of 8 rides and amusements and includes admission to Disneyland, all for a fixed price.
The ticket plan books will only be sold at Disneyland's boxoffice.
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There has been criticism of "Disneyland" in Anaheim and I want to say a few words in defense of the Disney project.
Mr. Disney's motion pictures have been excellent and have had constructive and educational value. I feel his project in Anaheim is just as fine, and comes under the category of good planning and creative genius.
My husband, and I went to Disneyland recently and we were thrilled and ...
7 Russ Newsmen Delighted By Disneyland
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Seven Russians, members of a journalistic delegation touring the United States, walked into Disneyland sober-faced Saturday afternoon but sauntered out at evening wearing smiles.
The group, armed with cameras and thick notebooks, snapped dozens of pictures and continually scribbled notes during the first {ew minutes after entering the gates at Disneyland.
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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. ...
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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 ...
King Authur Bright Carrousel Has History
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Pacing to happy calliope tunes, the 72 proud steeds of King Arthur's Carrousel will carry young Pasadena knights during their Christmas season visits to Fantasyland.
This gayest of carrousels is topped by King Arthur's gold crown and ten spears, bearing the shields of ten founding Knights of the Round Table, supporting the covering canopy.
Who would think that such a carrousel could have 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.
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Lost Earthlings Far More Trouble Than Any Space Travel K-7 Finds
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How far is It to the moon?
How long does it take to get there?
These are just samples of the questions fired at Disneyland's "Space Man" by visiting small fry.
The Space Man, known to friends as K-7, is really John Catone and he threatens to give Buck Rogers or Captain Video a run for the money these days.
But even though he is a space man he frankly admits he spends most of his time ...
