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Posted on 07/17/2016 6:38:41 PM PDT by EveningStar
Part 1: This is how Disneyland looked in 1955
Part 2: This is how Disneyland changed from 1956 to 1959
Part 3: Here's how Disneyland looked and changed in the 1960s
Part 4: This is how Disneyland looked in the 1970s
Part 5: Star Tours, Captain EO, Splash Mountain – see how Disneyland changed in the 1980s
Part 6: From 'Fantasmic!' to Toontown, this is how Disneyland changed in the 1990s
Part 7: Gold, diamonds and new lands for the new century at Disneyland
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I have to admit, to me, the biggest challenge for ‘Star Wars Land’ is meeting the design and integration that was delivered with Cars Land and Fantasy Faire. Hopefully they’ll deliver, but with some of the issues at Shanghai and the delays with Avatar Land at Animal Kingdom, I’m not going to hold my breath.
The words I keep hearing are ‘cut expenses, cut expenses, cut expenses.’
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The 1955 pictures are just precious. Brings a tear to my eye just remembering going there as a kid in the mid 1960s and being on cloud 9. The rides were not as exciting as today, but the sense of wonder just emerged you in a new world and filled a kid with joy.
A symbol of my lost America that gives me another reason for tears. That world of 1955 was an America that I loved. 2015 America, not so much.
How the mighty have fallen. I am so sad.
avatarland is just smurfland or dances with smurfs land.
it is idiotic to buy into that.
I remember attending a “press day” at Disneyland in 1959 with my Dad who was a newspaper photographer. It was the day that the Matterhorn first opened and we had wrist bands that let get on all of the rides for free as many times as we wanted. Walt Disney and Vice President Nixon were there that day too.
I think Disney’s committed to dropping nearly 3 billion on it (the first two sequels and the Avatarland...) I can’t speak to if it is indeed a vast waste of money except for one thing: I’ve never seen the movie, nor have any urge to.
I bet that was some kinda day!
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I recall staying at my uncle’s chicken farm in 1953 and 1954. My mother described the farm as being “way out in the country.” But never in my wildest dreams could I have conceived that something called Disneyland would very soon occupy the place where crowing roosters were waking me up in the morning.
It was! I rode on the Monorail ride with “Timmy” and his Mom from the “Lassie” TV show and Fred MacMurray, star of the TV show “My Three Sons” was there too and I got his autograph.
cgi good, rip off of “going native theme” consistent.
politically correct BS, no thank you.
If the corp was really so bad they could, given their tech, just blown up the planet. Then just take the mineral.
Disney had walked the east parking lot at the LA County Fairgrounds in Pomona with the city council. They told him, “We already have the Fair, we don’t need an amusement park.”
When my family of five visited Disneyland in August, 1959, the total cost for parking, entry, rides, food and souvenirs was a whopping $30—a king’s ransom that came close to busting our budget.
It is that same old place it always has been. Nothing of significance has changed. If you have been there once, you have been there a million times. I will go back in there only if someone carries my dead body.
We’ve lived in Garden Grove since we were married in ‘74. We’ve been there once, in ‘77 I think, when my Grandma visited us. That was enough.
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