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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.
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.
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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.
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.
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https://youtu.be/9y9YuyZ8Rjc
I remember when there was a gondola cable ride that took you on a peaceful quiet ride from Fantasyland through the Mattahorn to Tomorrowland.
Apparently costs, or the inability of today’s public to behave themselves and not drop stuff on people, resulted in the gondola ride being removed.
We just visited Disneyland 2 months ago. The former parking lot is now a plaza inside a security area between new lands and the old Disneyland. It takes a long time to snake your way past the security checkpoint to the interior plaza. If you go through the plaza to first shop at one of the new areas with Disney stores and restaurants, you must then wait in lines to again go through security checkpoints to get back to the plaza - a double check! Those lines are horrible, it took us an hour of waiting to get through before being able to enter and go to the old Disneyland.
What's worse is that there are no separating ropes between the lines leading to the security tables, so there can be ten or more lines that merge to four, causing friction between peoples as they merge. Really bad planning, Disney. The Disneyland of decades past, was much better.
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great find
Coming soon - Poofland
I grew up not too far away..who remembers the ticket books?
My mother n law was Alice in Wonderland in 1960’s..she has some very cool stories, memories! Disneyland different then & throughout the years but even in my 40’s..still get butterflies walking through the main entrance & now get to see it through my sons eyes.
Sad times.
Dad piled us kids in our brand new 1956 Chevy station wagon (2 door, but not a Nomad) and left Kansas for CA and Disneyland. Been there more times than I can count, but not Disney World.
Disneyland opening day, full ABC broadcast (B&W) with Art Linkletter. Ronald Reagan has a spot starting at 12:20.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JuzrZET-3Ew