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Disneyland Long

a Dream ofWalt

A creative

genius who

has thecapacity to

make

his

dreams

come

true,

WaltDisney has

made

his

biggest

one a reality. He

envisioned a playground

for

people of all

agesthat

would become asourceof

joy

and

inspiration

to

everyone who came to see

it.

The

result is

Disney-

land, a $17,000,000 park

in

Anaheim,

dedicated to

happiness and knowledge

a land

where

fantasy

and

imagination

are com-

panions with history, and

a

concretevisualization

of

the future is not out of

place.

Thiswide range

of

imaginative reality is in

keeping with the

Disney

scope of activities and is

typicalof the man

himself.

When

he came to Holly-

wood

in

1923, Walt Dis-

ney's assets

consisted of

$40 incash and a bound-

less imagination. He and

his brother Ro y , a partner

in

all

Walt's

ventures, in-

cluding

Disneyland,

man-

aged

to borrow

enough

money from an uncle to

set up a

cartoon

studio

back

of a real estate of-

fice.

Latermuch

later

He was

dealing

in millions

to set up Disneyland, his

.grandestventure

inpublic

entertainment.

Th ecreator

of Mickey

Mous e

snd founder ofD i sn ey l an dw as

born

in Chicago,

Dec. .", 1901.

His father was El ias Disney,

Irish

- C a n a d i a n : a n d h is

mothe r .Flora

Call Disney, wa s

of G er m an - A m er i can descen t .

He has

th ree brothers

and a

sister. He we nt to

publ ic

school in Chicago and Kansas

City

and at tended art

school

in Chicago. He is married to

the

former Lillian Bo u n ds

of

Idaho. They havetwo

daugh-

tersDiane an dSharon.

Diane

4smarried to

former

S. C.

foot-

ballstar,RonMiller. The Mil-

lers recently

made Walt a

proud

gr an d fa t h er u p o n t h e

birth of their son, Christopher

Disney Mil ler . Sharon, the

y o u n ges t dau gh t e r , i s a s t u -

dent

at the

Universi ty of

Arizona.

W al t

is one of the nat ion 's

most ardent rai l roading fans.

His interest in this diversion

r ang e s

f r o m

miniature

equip-

m en t

to

scale model operat ion

on track laid around

his Holm-

by Hills estate. Railroading

elements often ar e incorporat-

ed in his pictures , and two

*i

scale locomotives,

pull ing 4

HIS DRE M COMES TRUE

Walt

Disney, founder of

Disneyland

and

creator

of

Mickey Mouse, opens his 517,000,000 magic king-

dom in

Anaheim Monday.

The opening of Disney-

land

marks the culmination of Disney s dreamoi

24

vears and the beginning of an exciting adventure

fo r

the

millions

who

will

visit Disneyland annually.

cars

each ,

will

be in

dai ly oper-

at ion at D i sn ey l an d as the

Santa Fe andDisneyland Rai l -

r o ad .

In business,

Walter

Elias

Disney

ha s

been

a

life-long

par tne rwith his elder

brother,

Roy,

president

of Walt Disney

Product ions.

When

the

Disney brothers

f i r s t

set up

shop, Walt's pro-

ficiency

as anartist an d a self-

taught animator was the basis

of

the

und e r t a k i ng t h e f ound -

ing

of

an inst i tut ion which to-

day i s housed in a mul t i -mi l l ion

dol la r

s tud io

in Bu r b an k .

Al t h oug h

not h is

fi rst car-

toon charac te r ,it w as Mickey

Mouse, destined to become a

cont inuously famous

m o v i e

star,w hom a r k ed

W al t

Disney

as a genius of enter tainment .

"Silly Symphonies,"

a series of

bril l iant

short

musi-cornedies,

came next. In 19S7 "Snow

White" set a ne w pattern in

th e

feature- length field.

W h e n W o r l d

V V a r

II broke

out , scores

of

highly t rained

Disney technicians st reamed

into every branch of the armed

service,

and the

studio

turned

unreservedly

to the

service

of

Uncle Sam.

Th e

first

post-war feature

was a musical, "Make

Mine

Music," which h ighl ighted

a

new Disney idea the voices

and talents of screen

l u m i -

naries,

used

in

combinat ion

with the cartoon medium.

Two of hi s

latest

l ive-act ion

fea tures are "Davy Crocket t ,

Kingof the Wild

Fron t i e r , "

re-

cent ly

released, and "The Li t -

t lest Out law," to be released

th is year .

TURNS TO TV

In addi t ion to h is motion

picture activities, Disney

ha s

entered the television field on

a

grand scale.

In

October,

1954, "Disneyland," a weekly

hour- long show was launched

over ABC-TV. With in a few

weeks

it

jumped

to one of the

top

ten

shows

in the

nation.

Divided into

alternating

seg-

ments "Fantasyland," "Ad-

ventureland ," "Frontierland,"

an d "Tomorrowland,"shows

e manate

from one of

these

fo u r

realms on

succeeding weeks.

With the success of the

weekly show, AB C

contracted

with Walt

for a new

hour-

long

daily

television show,

Monday through

Friday, de-

signed

for theyoungsters. The

fall

of

1955

launches "The

Mickey Mouse Club," along

with a cont inuat ion of the

weekly show, "Disneyland,"

which received its title an d

fo r m a t from the "magic

king-

dom" in A naheim, Cal i f.

P lans

fo r

th is wonderland

fi rst began to go on paper as

far back as 1932 when Walt's

magnificent dream began to

take form.

In cleaning out

files

at the

Burbank studio"

re-

cently,

original Disneyland

sketches ,bearing the

1932

date,

were

found.

The openinc of

t is

magic

kingdom

will mark the pin-

nacle of a life-Ions dream for

its creator, Walt Disney, who

described

it as a

fabulous

playground

something

of a

fair, a city from theArabian

Nights, a metropolis of the

future,

a

show place

of

maffie

and

living facts,

bu t

above all,

a

place

for

people

t o find

hap-

piness

and knowledge.

Old South

Relives in

ig Diner

The Chicken Plantat ion

at

Disneyland combinesFrench

Provincial decor and old South-

r hospitality.

The restaurant, fe at u r i n g

carry-out chickendinners,

ison

the

bend

of a river where

side-

wheeler boats crnise through

the

Frontierland kingdom

and

the Rivers of America.

Customers

receive

dinners

at

a

serving counter

and may e a t

at

umbrel la-covered

tables on

the

r iver bank

or at

tables

on

a

pat io .

A c t u a l l y , t h e . Pl an ta ti on

Bui ld ing does double du t y .

The side fac ing the r iver has

the w i de ' v er an das ,

gri l le-work

and

graceful const ruct ion of

early

century

Ne wOrleans.

But the opposite side of the

bui lding faces a scene from the

old southwest a

stage coach

an d

a railroads tation from

Americas

c o l o r f u l "Iron

Horse"

era. This side

of the

restaurant

has an

ado b e

mot i f .

j j t s t t ^ l a t t d j o t e l

California's mostdistinctive

Hotel

and

Motor-Hotel will offer

the ultimate in

convenience

and

visitors

of

Disneyland

Park.

Situated

oppositethemain.exit ofDisneyland, on a

beautiful SO^creorange

tree-coveredsite,Disneyland Hotelwillcontain-650 hotel

and

motor-hotel rooms,

suites and

gardenapcrt-

merits. Dormitory accommodations

for organizedyouthgroups, clubs and

chickens

orgcmzcAor be

available.ThreeGourmet

restaurants,

a co f feeshop and

cocktail lounges

willhave a

combined

capacity

of 1,250persons.

To

open about

August

15thare the first 104

units

with the completsd structureplannediorlateNovember.

DisneylandHotelwas designed by the architectural and engineering f i rm ofPere:ra and

Luckman

and

Harold

Hodges-Byron

Vandergrift,

the

builders.

R E C R E A T I O N

Three

lovely swimming pools

(or all ages ,

tennis

co,urt, nine-

holegolfcourse,

situated

among

C a li fo r ni a '* fa m o u s

orar.ge

craves.

H O T E L

G f l R D E N

A P A R T M E N T S

California

l iving

at

U s

best.

Colors gracing

the

f u r n i s h i n g s

reflecting

the

h ue s

of the

gar-

dens . at the

door .

An

atmps-

phere of taste.

I N D O O R

O U T D O O R

D I N I N G

Superb f o o d

and

beverages

served

in four exquisite rooms

with opn-air dining on the

Pool Terrace or "Del Oesto"

Terrace.

M O T O R H O T E L

A C C O M M O D A T I O N S

Budget priced rooms

and

gar-

den sui tes ideal lor the ent i re

family, and

you

enjoy't he com-

plete facilities of Disneyland

Hotel.

W R A T H E R - A L V A R E Z

HOTELS,

INC.

For Reservation

3*3 Wilshir. Blvd..

Iv*rly

Hills.

Calif.

DISNEYL ND SP CE B R

DINNERTIME 1986

You will enjoy a delicious dinner of the future delivered to you

from

an

immaculate,

fully-automatic

foodservice. Just push

a

button

of yourselection seconds later you

will

have a complete,piping

hot meal.

Then

you eat

midst

all the splendor ofWalt

Disney's

"Tomorrowland," at family-sized tables in a shaded resting place

overlooking thefreewaysoftomorrow.

NATURALLY

You'll

want refreshments

during

your thrilling tour of Disneyland.

You'll

see a

history

of the confection industry at seven stands

located

at principal

points

throughout Disneyland.

You ll

see an ice cream

pushcart of the

1890's,

an old

fashioned

popcorn wagon, a

colorful

pavilion straight

from the days of King Arthur and a fully

automatic restaurant of

tomorrow.

Operated

by UPT

Concessions, Inc.,

a

Subsidiary

of

American-Broadcasting Paramount-Theatres, Inc.

EVEN

KNIGHTS

eat hot

dogs

in

Fantasyland Just after

you cross the

moat into

the

towering, medieval castle, you're confronted with a colorful

pavilionfit

housing for the most delicious

refreshments

of any

age.