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Posted on 07/16/2025 4:48:59 PM PDT by DallasBiff
Walt Disney’s first theme park debuted 70 years ago, and almost everything that could go wrong did.
Sweltering temperatures, inoperable rides, massive crowds, and dwindling food and drinks. Disneyland was hardly the “Happiest Place on Earth” during its grand opening on July 17, 1955.
It was 70 years ago that Walt Disney debuted his pioneering theme park in Anaheim, California, promising a fun escape for family members of all ages. He invited around 15,000 patrons—mostly special guests such as Disney studio workers, construction workers, members of the press, and dignitaries—to be the first through the gates. Amid the pomp and circumstance, a number of problems ranging from irksome to outright dangerous emerged in the park.
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This is crap. It wasn’t that bad. I had two relatives who were there that week.
During my life, the older I got the more in awe of Walt Disney I became.
He was a rare man of history and it seems to me that his fame and memory have been somewhat squelched.
Such is life now in this country. I saw the title, and I thought for sure it was going to be about racism that occurred at Disneyland’s opening 70 years ago.
I knew a guy who was an animator for Disney back in the day. He said they all liked and respected Disney, but they also feared him. When he came into the studio they would pass the word “Man in the woods” from the movie Bambi to let the others know he was there.
I visited the place before it was Disneyland. In 1954, we went “way out in the country,” as my mother described it, to my uncle’s chicken ranch, had dinner, and stayed overnight. It was exciting to be awakened by crowing roosters something we couldn’t experience in suburban West Whittier.
Many years later, I learned that the ranch “way out in the country” was on the site of Disneyland.
Please take me back to 1950s America... not this woke ‘diversified’ communist version
I grew up in Orange, CA back in the 60’s & 70’s. Spent a lot of time at Disneyland. Sad, what has happened to Disney.
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