THE STORY OF Disneyland is a 20-year "dream come true" for its creator and chief architect, Walt Disney. Even before Mickey Mouse emerged as a box office star and "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" ushered in an entire new field in motion picture entertainment, drawings for a "Disneyland" — then a far-fetched idea — began appearing in Walt Disney's office.
This "Magic Kingdom" combines the wonders of nature, a look into the future, pages out of the historical past, and a showcase of storybook adventures, into a new concept in the field of family entertainment.
[img]The spectacular beauty of the Disneyland Sleeping Beauty Castle and the "snow covered" Matterhorn in the background are two of the features of Disneyland that attract about five million visitors to Anaheim, California each year.[/img]
The Disneyland that opened in 1955 in Anaheim, California, reflects the character and personality of Walt Disney. The man who came to Hollywood in 1923 with $40.00 in cash and a boundless imagination has the rare ability to transform his creative dreams into reality.
Disneyland is as diversified as the interests of Walt himself. A keen student of American history, he has preserved — in Frontierland — the spirit of the pioneers who blazed the trails across America. Main Street, U. S. A. typifies the leisurely-paced turn of the century small town main streets Walt and many others knew and loved so well. A man who often heard others express the desire to travel to far-off places, Walt included in Disneyland an Adventureland for the would-be jungle explorer and big game hunter. And one needs to look no further than other fields of entertainment to witness Walt Disney's interest in the world in which we'll soon be living (Tomorrowland) and the realm of storybook favorites of "the young at heart of all ages" (Fantasyland.)
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