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50 things you didn't know about Disneyland
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| Wednesday, November 23, 2005
| By JOHN FLINN
Posted on 11/25/2005 9:46:46 PM PST by Nasty McPhilthy
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To: Nasty McPhilthy
Uh, I forgot to do a search on this.
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posted on
11/25/2005 9:47:34 PM PST
by
Nasty McPhilthy
(Those who beat their swords into plow shears….will plow for those who don’t.)
To: Nasty McPhilthy
Thanks for posting this, what a hoot!
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posted on
11/25/2005 9:54:55 PM PST
by
Theresawithanh
(You'll get me to stop posting on FR when you wrench my laptop from my cold, dead fingers!)
To: Nasty McPhilthy
Hmmmm, nothing about the number of unsafe sex acts on Gay Day....
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posted on
11/25/2005 9:57:24 PM PST
by
Sociopathocracy
(Real martinis do not contain vodka, fruit juice or umbrellas.)
To: LibreOuMort
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posted on
11/25/2005 10:03:51 PM PST
by
sionnsar
(†trad-anglican.faithweb.com† || (To Libs:) You are failing to celebrate MY diversity! || Iran Azad)
To: Nasty McPhilthy
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.
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posted on
11/25/2005 10:06:25 PM PST
by
Petronski
(Cyborg is the greatest blessing I have ever known.)
To: Nasty McPhilthy
----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
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posted on
11/25/2005 10:07:16 PM PST
by
Flux Capacitor
(Trust me. I know what I'm doing.)
To: Nasty McPhilthy
41. Its a Small World was originally built for the 1964 New York Worlds 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 Worlds 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.
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posted on
11/25/2005 10:11:45 PM PST
by
this_ol_patriot
(What's good for the goose and all that.)
To: Nasty McPhilthy
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."
To: Nasty McPhilthy
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posted on
11/25/2005 10:16:11 PM PST
by
VOA
To: Nasty McPhilthy
I only knew 20 of these. Got some reading to do....
-Dan
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posted on
11/25/2005 10:17:28 PM PST
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Flux Capacitor
(Trust me. I know what I'm doing.)
To: Nasty McPhilthy
They didn't always have cameras inside the rides.
In the early 60's, my brother once jumped off the cart on Alice In Wonderland (IIRC) and wrote his initials on some piece of the scenery.. could still be there to this day for all I know. I was only 6 or 7 at the time and thought he was extremely brave and cool for doing it.. He had to run to catch up with the ride and almost didn't make it before it moved outside again.
I thought we were going to be arrested by those Disney cops that used to walk around dressed as cowboys.
To: Flux Capacitor
The opening on Sunday, July 17, 1955 was, of course, televised. In fact, it was the biggest live telecast to date! There were somewhere between 22 and 29 television cameras sprinkled throughout the Park - far more than the handful that had previously been used when covering live events. The ABC broadcast - seen by an astounding 90 million viewers - was hosted by Art Linkletter, Bob Cummings and Ronald Reagan. As the show went on the feed switched off between the three, offering different vantage points for the festivities. Walt also made appearances, but only when he was reading dedication plaques for the various lands.
To: Darth Republican
HELL YEAH! If you can get your hands on the "Disneyland USA" DVD set (not so easy to do now), you can see the entire kinescope of those opening day ceremonies, Ronnie and all. It's awesome to see.
-Dan
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posted on
11/25/2005 10:28:22 PM PST
by
Flux Capacitor
(Trust me. I know what I'm doing.)
To: Nasty McPhilthy
To: Flux Capacitor
I was ON the waiting list for Club 33.
FOR THREE LONG YEARS.
Of course, by the time I got the invite, I STILL couldn't afford it..
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posted on
11/25/2005 10:42:08 PM PST
by
Experiment 6-2-6
(Admn Mods: tiny, malicious things that glare and gibber from dark corners.They have pins and dolls..)
To: Nasty McPhilthy; All
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.
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posted on
11/25/2005 10:54:47 PM PST
by
U S Army EOD
(I NEED TO COME UP WITH ANOTHER TAG LINE)
To: Nasty McPhilthy
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.
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posted on
11/25/2005 10:55:18 PM PST
by
Jeff Chandler
(Peace Begins in the Womb)
To: Nasty McPhilthy
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!
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posted on
11/25/2005 10:57:25 PM PST
by
Jeff Chandler
(Peace Begins in the Womb)
To: Nasty McPhilthy
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.
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posted on
11/25/2005 11:00:04 PM PST
by
Jeff Chandler
(Peace Begins in the Womb)
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