Next July 17 will mark the 25th anniversary of a national institution that emerged from one man's dream-Disneyland. The Disney folks jumped the gun last month with a private celebration for the park's friends-12,000 of them. The Friday night festival was said to be the only time Disneyland had been reserved for the management's own party. Guests included press, celebrities, civic leaders, Disney ...

Disneyland officials Wednesday had no comment on a Superior Court lawsuit filed on behalf of the family of a woman who died last August following a fide on the amusement park's Space Mountain rollercoaster. Sherill Anne Hoffman lapsed into unconsciousness while on the ride Aug. 14 and died at Palm Harbor Hospital seven days later, an attorney for the family, Marvin Burton, said. The lawsuit, filed ...

Disneyland, the country's first truly big-time theme park, is located 27 miles southeast of Los Angeles in Anaheim. When the park opened in 1955, Walt Disney promised it would get bigger and better. Well, Disneyland is celebrating its 25th birthday this year, with a spectacle of special happenings. In fact, you may want to check into what's on tap when and schedule your visit accordingly. But whenever you ...

The Idea, Walt Disney once said, was conceived on a park bench and nurtured by peanuts. "Saturday was always 'Daddy's Day' and I would take my two daughters to the merry-go-round and sit on a bench while they rode," he recalled "And sitting alone, eating peanuts, I felt there should be something built, some kind of a family park where parents and children could have fun together." Determined to make it ...

Does everyone drive to Disneyland? The sea of cars outside the entrance shows that most visitors do. Even so, there are many forms of transportation besides the car that will get you to the park, so we present a summary of what's available. By air: You can fly into John Wayne Airport, Orange County (in Santa Ana), from Denver, Las Vegas, Phoenix, Salt Lake City, and Tucson on Hughes Airwest; of from ...

June 1980:--Gerardo Gonzales, a recent San Diego high school graduate, was killed on the People Mover. Gonzales, in the early morning hours of a Grad Nite celebration, was climbing from car to car as the People Mover entered the SuperSpeed Tunnel adjacent to the former America Sings building. Gonzales stumbled and fell onto the track, where an oncoming train of cars crushed him beneath its wheels and ...