History Of Disneyland

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History of Disneyland Disneyland is considered to be one of the greatest amusement parks of all time, people say it is the place that will never stop growing. Disneyland was something that Walt Disney always wanted to create, after making his company he dreamed of making Disneyland come true. Disneyland was officially opened on July 17, 1955 right outside of Los Angeles, California (Nardo 69). The grand opening was watched my millions of people around the world. Disneyland was the first amusement park of its type, and forever had a great impact on the world and American culture. The idea of having a new, safe and kid friendly environment got Walt excited. According to Nardo, Walt had always dreamed of a new type of entertainment because the television shows they had been all the same and all of the amusement parks were the same as well. “Walt felt the media had a serious drawback. No matter how good or exciting the stories they presented, the images were only two-dimensional, and the scenes were usually depicted from faraway scenes, forever unreachable for the viewer (Nado66).” Disneyland was the first theme park. Many people predicted it to fail. Disneyland had a very high success rate. People were lining up at the gates as early as two in the morning the day after the grand opening (Bennett 1). There were about 50,000 guests the day after, July 18th (Bennett 1). Disneyland quickly became a huge attraction and gained a lot of publicity for the company. Disneyland was crushing other parks such as Cedar Point when it came to the amount of guests per

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