[Nasty McPhilthy]

Uh, I forgot to do a search on this.

[Theresawithanh]

Thanks for posting this, what a hoot!

[Sociopathocracy]

Hmmmm, nothing about the number of unsafe sex acts on Gay Day....

[sionnsar]

4 Beth ping

[Petronski]

51. Mickey Mouse was inspired by a mouse in Walt Disney's apartment...inspiring the world's most renowned amusement park. If it had been Richard Gere's apartment, it would have inspired the world's most renowned emergency proctological outpatient clinic.

[Flux Capacitor]

----50. Once and for all, Walt Disney is not frozen cryogenically at Disneyland or anywhere else.----

Don't tell me that. I have wonderful daydreams of Uncle Walt clawing his way out of cryofreeze to kick the living crap out of all of the people who've ruined his company.

-Dan

[this_ol_patriot]

41. It’s a Small World was originally built for the 1964 New York World’s Fair. It was later boxed up and shipped to Anaheim, where it reopened in 1967. People who rode it in New York, including this writer, have had that song stuck in their heads three years longer than everyone else. (Other New York World’s Fair attractions that migrated west: “Great Moments With Mr. Lincoln,” the G.E. Carousel of Progress and the robotic dinosaurs you pass on the Disneyland Railroad.)

I was there twice when I was 9 years old, Flushing Meadows in Queens, I believe we went through IASM sitting in a '64 Ford Fairlane convertable or maybe it was a T-Bird. I saw it again at Disney World in early 1973 when I was a senior in high school. Orlando was still a small sleepy city, the airport was still called McCoy AFB and there was nothing but orange groves, pine trees and gator ditches between Orlando and Disney World.

[beaver fever]

You are the God of esoterica.

"People can do without Pepsi Cola but they can't pee in the street."

Gotta love WD. He was a visionary with a very practical side."

[VOA]

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[Flux Capacitor]

I only knew 20 of these. Got some reading to do....

-Dan

[BigCinBigD]

Disney. (spit)

[U S Army EOD]

About a week ago, I just woke up from a coma that was induced in 1954 when the TV fell on my head. If I remember, they were talking about some kind of Interstate highway on Walt Disney. I still haven't gotten out of the hospital room and I wonder if they ever got any of those things built. I just don't see how it would be possible to do that.

[Jeff Chandler]

When Disneyland opened, they discovered that the soil beneath the waterway surrounding Tom Sawyer Island leaked the water. They had to drain the water and coat the dirt with clay.

[Jeff Chandler]

We used to sneak pints of liquor into the park inside our coats. We would then buy soft drinks and make our mixed drinks in the bathroom stalls.

We shared this with a friend of ours who worked there, and he said it was the best time he ever had at the park!

[Jeff Chandler]

Back when they still used lettered tickets, we would stand near the exit around closing time and ask people for their leftover tickets. Folks from out of town had no use for them, and we accumulated huge stacks of tickets. We would then get in for the general admission price of $1.50 and ride all day long.

[Jeff Chandler]

On senior ditch day my friend, my future brother-in-law, a friend of his, and I went to Disneyland. My friend and I went our own way in the park because my brother-in-law's friend was sloppy drunk and we knew he'd get busted. Sure enough, when he got to the end of the moving floorway of the Monsanto ride, he plopped face first onto the floor. Security was on him before he hit the ground.

[Jeff Chandler]

A friend of mine's father drove for Carnation Dairy and was Disneyland's first milk man.

[Jeff Chandler]

When my brother and I were little, we bought baby chicks at the swap meet. The chicks grew up to be noisy roosters, so we threw them over the fence one night into Knott's Berry Farm.

Wait a minute. That's a different amusement park. Never mind.

[judgeandjury]

In honor of Disneyland’s 50th anniversary, we present 50 cool, obscure and simply odd things you probably didn’t know about the self-proclaimed Happiest Place on Earth.

I assume by "cool" they mean interesting.

[tophat9000]

My mother went that first summer in 55 to Disneyland, the thing she alway talked about was that the were swarms of bees all over the place from the surrounding orange groves