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Disneyland, Walt Disney's 70-acre "Magic Kingdom" at Anaheim, California, probably draws more visitors each year than any other attraction in the world-6.5 million annually, 58 million to date. Each season new visitors come, and others return for repeat visits.
Disneyland is worth returning to again and again because something new is always being added. During its first decade (1955-1965), the ...
Disney's Fantasy Empire
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This article was conceived as a critique of a man, his works and organization. The recent death of Walt Disney necessitated not only changes in tense but a look at the Fantasy Empire's future. No other revisions of fact, opinion or judgment are deemed imperative. -The Author
Walt Disney, grand vizer of fantasy, possessed the world's largest collection of personal honoraria-praise emblazoned on plaques, ...
Disneyland Sets Summer Preview
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Seven nights of star-studded musical variety will fill Disneyland for Easter Week as a sneak preview of Summer '67 in the "Magic Kingdom."
From the famous Mills Brothers to teen favorites Steve Alaimo and Martha and the Vandellas in Country Music with Hank Thompson and his Brazos Valley Boys, Easter Week will feature musical entertainment for every taste.
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New Disneyland Adventure Introduced To Newsmen
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A shipload of newsmen, some accompanied by their wives and a number of small children, were "captured" by a band of pirates Wednesday as they sailed the Rivers of America somewhere in the waters of Disneyland.
The mass abduction, engineered by Edward Meck, Disneyland publicist, and its band of newsroom raiders was arranged to introduce the Park's newest action - packed high adventure, "Pirates of the ...
The Living Legacy Of Walt Disney
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It was an unusual stockholders' meeting for a great far-flung enterprise. Many of the stockholders were children, and they whooped with glee at films in which Blackbeard's ghost played havoc with crooks, or Baloo the bear, from Kipling's Jungle Books. cavorted through a dance. The company, of course, was Walt Disney Productions, and the films were previews of its movies.
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Dinning In The Magic Kingdom
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No company in entertainment annals has provided visitors with such a variety of fabulous things-to-do as Disneyland - even in dining the Park excels. In fact, some of the finest eating places in all of Orange County are found in the Magic Kingdom.
Located throughout Disneyland are more than 25 restaurants and refreshment centers, each designed in the "theme" motif of its location.
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New Tomorrowland Where The Dreams Of The Future Are Reality Today
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Realizing that time had naught It wish Disneyland's Tomorrowland, Walt may and his use at WED Enterprises began research in 1964 for an entirely new Tomorrowland - a $22 million project costing $5 million more than the total initial Disneyland investment.
This complete rebuilding of Disneyland's world of Tomorrow follows Walt Disney, philosophy first expressed Disneyland's Dedication ...
Pirates Of The Caribbean
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Picture, if you will, the eerie and cavernous headquarters of the infamous Blackbeard, or the swampy bayous on the treasure-laden island of John Laffite. Take a page out of history when pirates sacked the Spanish Main, looted cities, set them ablaze, auctioned off the fair ladies and conquered fortress after fortress. Combine all of this with the most hilarious blackhearted buccaneers the world has ever ...
Happy Parks II: Disneyland
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Tivoli, that Bosky enclave of pleasure in the center of Copenhagen whose name has become a generic term for amusement parks, is 124 years old, more than ten times the age of Disneyland, which will mark its 12th anniversary this summer. In these short dozen years. Disneyland has achieved a sudden, enormous and saturating fame. While its purpose to please is exactly akin to Tivoli's role in Danish life, ...
Babes In Disneyland
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"If you take me to Disneyland I will be your best friend," said the little girl who lives in my house. And the Crown Prince, who is going on five and lives there, too, allowed that he might put away his hammer, with which he alters the furniture, refrain from loud shrieks except an occasional one of joy, and generally act like the tall people if only he could go, too.
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Automated Transportation PeopleMover
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Cars that don't have motors, and roads that do, are features of an automated transportation system introduced at Disneyland in a preview of a future without traffic jams. The system, named the Goodyear PeopleMover for its ability to carry large numbers of passengers in continuous motion is operating in the new Tomorrowland.
It was hailed by Russell DeYoung, chairman and chief executive officer of the ...
Vaudeville Returns To Disneyland
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Vaudeville will be revived Wednesday night at Disneyland during a celebration headlined by singer Giselle MacKenzie.
Sharing the spotlight with Miss MacKenzie will be comedian Gene Sheldon, the Acrobatic Gimma Brothers and the Dancing Dolls.
A hootenanny on the following Sunday night at the Magic Kingdom will feature the Bluegrass Music of the Dillards the New Two and the Laymet.
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Conservatism is enjoyment," Walter Bagehot wrote a century ago. It is of some significance that America's two principal fun-fairs are situated cheek by jowl in the heart of Goldwater-Reagan territory, and that both are the creations of conservative gentleman of imagination.
I refer to Disneyland and to Knott's Berry Farm and Ghost Town, in Orange County, California. Don't let anyone tell you that these ...
Disneyland Visitors VIPs All
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Today the magic of the name Disneyland the excitement of Disneyland extend from homes and people around the world to castles and royalty around the world -- even to many surprising places, like a Texas courtroom.
In San Antonio, Texas, a prospective juror told the judge that he was perfectly willing to serve, but he had already made plans to take his six children to Disneyland. The judge, ...
Fantasy On Parade
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All new, and packed with excitement, the 1967 premiere of Walt Disney's Fantasy on Parade opens the Disneyland Christmas Season on Saturday night, December 16, at 9:00 p.m., with scores of Hollywood celebrities scheduled to attend.
During the following two weeks, through December 31., the parade will he held twice on Main Street, U.S.A., at 3:00 and 9:00 p.m., except on December 24, 25, ...
Free Shows And Exhibits
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Walt Disney always believed that entertainment of educational value should be presented so that everyone is able to see it, and the Disneyland staff holds on to that important ideal today.
Since everything at Disneyland is set either in the past or the future, most of the free exhibits deal with history or things to come. Main Street, U.S.A. is a free show in itself a perfect replica of a ...
Natures Wonderland
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When Disneyland opened to an eagerly awaiting public in 1955, 22 adventures and attractions (there are now more than 50) were presented for the first time, one of which was the Mine Train journey through Nature's Wonderland. As the first Mine Train pulled out of it's Frontierland station, its load of "pioneers" were comfortably seated in railway cars to recall those long-forgotten days of mining and ...
World Of Disneyland Is A World Of Transportation
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One would never think that Disneyland, the most fabulous entertainment center in the world, would feature an interwoven complex of nearly every kind of transportation conceived. There are transportation systems of the past, vehicles of the present day and transporters of the future.
The first vehicles Disneyland visitors come in contact with are the Main Gate trams, a series of bench-seat ...
Disneyland's Big New Pirate Ride
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Cutlasses to all hands and prepare to take the town! In the costliest and most technologically sophisticated amusement park ever built, California's Disneyland has evoked the blood-curdling buccaneering past of the Spanish Main. Called The Pirates of the Caribbean, it is a 15-minute boat ride through the sacking of a town, marked by as harrowing a series of misadventures as the likes of Captain Kidd and ...
4.3 Million Set Records At Disneyland
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Disneyland had reported today that 4,3000,000 persons-a record number - visited the pleasure park during the summer.
Daily, weekly and monthly records were shattered for the12-year history of Disneyland between Memorial and Labor Days.
The Summer total was 600,000 more than last year.
The new one-day attendance mark of 61,228 set Aug 19 was more than 6000 above the previous high.
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Fantasy On Parade
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Some of the most humorous and colorful Disney characters over imagined will come to life this Christmas at Disneyland as a fresh new approach to parading, Fantasy On Parade, will make two appearances daily from December 17 through December 31, after a colorful premiere at 9,00 p.m. on Saturday, December 16.
Instead of the usual band and Boat procession, Fantasy On Parade is a series of ...
Sub Statistics Parks Undersea Fleet Big Attraction For Curious
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No attraction at Disneyland evokes more behind-the-scenes interest and questions than the landlocked fleet of submarines, whose passengers want to know all about capacity, operations, names, and the ships' full-sized counterparts in the U. S. Navy.
Ride operators, thoroughly schooled by the University of Disneyland for the job, are equipped with a beautiful blue handbook packed with ...
Christmas Shopping Something For Everyone Including Those Who Have Everything
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There is probably no busier time in department stores and city streets around the country than Christmas, with last-minute-rushes, shoppers buying dozens of presents and people deciding what to buy. But at Disneyland. this is no problem. Not only is the Magic Kingdom more comfortable and less crowded in the winter, but it also provides the world's most unusual assortment of merchandise for everyone from ...
Club Members Look Forward To Mineral King
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It's been a good year.
Well over 1,000,000 of you signed up for membership in 1967. New Chapters were opened in the San Francisco Bay area and north. Now, Magic Kingdom Club membership privileges are available in most communities and Disneyland is becoming ever mow popular with our neighbors "up north."
Mail has doubled, and your many letters indicate a growing interest in ...
Disney Artists Revive Art Form For New Orleans Square
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Reverse painting on mirrored panels of glass, an almost forgotten art form that dates back to the fourteenth century, has been revived by Disney artists for Mlle. Antoinette's Parfumerie, in Disneyland's New Orleans Square.
Artists at WED Enterprises have prepared panels to provide a unique and exceptionally feminine decor for the shop, one of the most popular spots in New Orleans ...
Transportation Is Large Part Of Show
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One would never think that Disneyland, the most fabulous entertainment center in the world, would feature an interwoven complex of nearly every kind of transportation conceived. Transportation systems of the past, vehicles of the present and transporters of the future are a big part of the Disneyland show.
The first vehicles a Disneyland visitor encounters are the Main Gate trams, a series of ...
