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VIDEO: Disneyland's first kids: These two were the first boy, girl in the gate in 1955
Orange County Register ^ | July 16, 2015 | Joseph Pimentel

Posted on 07/16/2015 4:50:28 PM PDT by EveningStar

They were supposed to be in Mexico that day, not at the opening of some amusement park.

But 7-year-old Michael Schwartner persuaded his parents to take a detour.

And then his cousin Christine Vess tripped and skinned her knee.

And that’s how Michael and Christine became the very first official guests in Disneyland 60 years ago this week and unexpectedly received a lifetime of privileges.

That’s how they were escorted past 15,000 people, how they met Walt Disney, and how they posed with Disney for a photograph beamed around the world.

(Excerpt) Read more at ocregister.com ...


TOPICS: History
KEYWORDS: 1955; anaheim; disney; disneyland; orangecounty; southerncalifornia; waltdisney
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Video: The Story of the First Two Kids into Disneyland with Walt Disney

There's a slideshow too. :)

1 posted on 07/16/2015 4:50:28 PM PDT by EveningStar
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To: 5th MEB; AgThorn; al baby; BAW; bboop; BenLurkin; Bob J; Bon of Babble; BunnySlippers; bunster; ...
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2 posted on 07/16/2015 4:50:57 PM PDT by EveningStar
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To: SunkenCiv

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3 posted on 07/16/2015 4:51:40 PM PDT by EveningStar
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To: EveningStar

Was it a”GAY DAY”?


4 posted on 07/16/2015 4:56:43 PM PDT by WENDLE
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To: EveningStar

I don’t think Walt would like the present incarnation of his dream. Just my opinion.


5 posted on 07/16/2015 4:57:07 PM PDT by left that other site (You shall know the Truth, and The Truth Shall Set You Free.)
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To: left that other site

and 55 years from now, it will be jose and lupe.


6 posted on 07/16/2015 4:58:18 PM PDT by max americana (fired liberals in our company last election, and I laughed while they cried (true story))
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To: EveningStar

I was 7 years old living in Orange County in 1955, just having moved back from several years in Utah, Wyoming and Colorado.

Went to Disneyland soon after it opened. Had HS “grad-night” there as well.


7 posted on 07/16/2015 4:59:09 PM PDT by truth_seeker (come with the outlws.)
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To: EveningStar

Little girl has a few band-aids on her leg. Nowadays, her parents would be brought up on charges of child endangerment and neglect.


8 posted on 07/16/2015 4:59:22 PM PDT by Veggie Todd (The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. TJ)
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To: max americana

Or Jose and Miguel.


9 posted on 07/16/2015 5:00:00 PM PDT by left that other site (You shall know the Truth, and The Truth Shall Set You Free.)
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To: max americana
They were supposed to be in Mexico that day....

Amazing! Fifty five years later and the same thing could be said about so many attendees, and yet they're here.

10 posted on 07/16/2015 5:06:10 PM PDT by Covenantor ("Men are ruled...by liars who 4refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern." Chesterton)
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To: max americana
and 55 years from now, it will be jose and lupe.

Who were also supposed to be in Mexico that day...

11 posted on 07/16/2015 5:08:43 PM PDT by Yo-Yo (Is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
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To: EveningStar

..back when America was evil and white and didn’t have a whole lotta mass killings or ISIS in our midst, sodomites with Supreme Court victories, illegals invading our Southern border by the MILLIONS, importing hundreds of thousands of people who WANT TO KILL US, a progressive-Marxist Muslim gay illegal alien president and his ISLAMO-FASCIST, CHRISTIAN-HATER ‘DEMOCRAT’ COHORTS working on behalf of the enemy to sabotage America, blah blah blah..


12 posted on 07/16/2015 5:08:59 PM PDT by Obama_Is_Sabotaging_America
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To: left that other site

nag, the AIDS strain should be stronger in the future


13 posted on 07/16/2015 5:09:22 PM PDT by max americana (fired liberals in our company last election, and I laughed while they cried (true story))
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To: Yo-Yo

Well, L.A. already looks like mexico now so there wont be a difference...


14 posted on 07/16/2015 5:13:06 PM PDT by max americana (fired liberals in our company last election, and I laughed while they cried (true story))
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To: Yo-Yo
55 years from now the world's population will probably have been cut by MORE than half. Yes I said it. If you pay attention to trajectory, mass, velocity and look at all the horrible things that have happened just within the last 7 years OR EVEN THE LAST 2 YEARS IN THE U.S., 55 years is totally unattainable for many thinking they'll actually live long enough to get there.

Roll the dice, because you never know where you'll be when the Iranian-Russian-Chinese-NoKorean nukes hit.

15 posted on 07/16/2015 5:14:08 PM PDT by Obama_Is_Sabotaging_America
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Yeah, but Disney can still produce some classics. Frozen, IMO, is the greatest animated movie of all time.


16 posted on 07/16/2015 5:16:32 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist
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To: max americana

Are they straight? Isn’t it bigoted to talk about the first boy and first girl at Disneyland? Who was the first gay boy and gay girl? What about firsts for transgendered youth at Disneyland?

This is so hetero normative to talk of the first boy and girl visitors. Our LGBT friends will be sick to their stomachs as they go into their over acted mock.outrage.


17 posted on 07/16/2015 5:18:12 PM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: truth_seeker
We must have gone the following year when I would have been 14; we drove from Iowa to CA to see lots of sights and visit some friends and relatives.

I don't remember a whole lot about it, and it wasn't crowded like in the news photo.

We rode the teacups, I made them turn and got dizzy lol. I remember a cable car type ride up high and a riverboat we didn't go on.

That's all I remember, don't remember prices, food, etc. I think there might have been a shuttlebus from the huge parking area but am not sure.

I never really wanted to go back; my kids had Adventureland and 6 Flags. But I'm glad I got to go; it was my dream and I begged my father to take us there.

18 posted on 07/16/2015 5:18:13 PM PDT by Aliska
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

I would rather watch animation done by hand rather than CGI. But, as you said, IMO!

We are all still entitled to that, thank God.


19 posted on 07/16/2015 5:20:47 PM PDT by left that other site (You shall know the Truth, and The Truth Shall Set You Free.)
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To: EveningStar

I have a friend who’s boyfriend’s brother stowed away overnight on Tom Sawyers Island and was killed when he got entangled in the cabling and tracks running underwater for the Riverboat.


20 posted on 07/16/2015 5:25:22 PM PDT by atc23 (The Confederacy was the single greatest conservative resistance to federal authority ever)
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