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 ...

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, ...

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. Kick-off for the Park's Easter season ...

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 ...

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. But no laughter greeted the ...

"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. All it meant really was a ...

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, ...

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 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. ...

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 ...

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 ...

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. Since ...

August 21 1967:--Ricky Lee Yama, a 15-year-old Hawthorne, CA, resident, was killed when he disregarded safety instructions and exited his People Mover car as the ride was passing through a tunnel. Yama slipped as he was jumping from car to car and was crushed to death beneath the wheels of oncoming ...