ANTET CONTENTS CONTENTS.................................................................................................................. 1 INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................3 CHAPTER I.................................................................................................................. 4 History........................................................................................................................ 4 1.1 Concept and construction.................................................................................4 1.2 1955: Opening day............................................................................................5 1.3 1990s transition: Park becomes Resort.............................................................7 1.4 Disneyland in 21st Century..............................................................................8 1.5 50th anniversary...............................................................................................8 CHAPTER II.................................................................................................................. 9 Park layout................................................................................................................. 9 2.1 Lands of Disneyland........................................................................................10 2.1.1 Main Street, U.S.A.....................................................................................10 2.1.2 Adventureland.................................................................................................11 2.1.3 New Orleans Square..................................................................................11 2.1.4 Frontierland....................................................................................................12 2.1.5 Critter Country..........................................................................................12 2.1.5 Fantasyland.....................................................................................................13 2.1.6 Mickey's Toontown...........................................................................................13 2.1.7 Tomorrowland.................................................................................................13 2.2 atrical analogy.................................................................................................14 2.3 Backstage........................................................................................................15 2.5 Transportation.................................................................................................16 2.5.1 Disneyland Railroad..........................................................................................17 2.5.2 Disneyland Monorail System...............................................................................17 2.5.3Main Street vehicles...................................................................................18 2.5.6Disneyland Helipad....................................................................................19 CHAPTER III............................................................................................................... 20 Live entertainment...................................................................................................20 1 ANTET III.1 Characters...................................................................................................... 20 III.2 Daily ceremonies............................................................................................20 III.3 Disneyland Band............................................................................................21 III.4 Fantasmic!...................................................................................................... 21 III.5 Fireworks........................................................................................................ 21 III.7 Golden Horseshoe Revue...............................................................................22 III.8 Parades...........................................................................................................22 III.9 Tomorrowland Terrace.....................................................................................22 III.10 Or performers...............................................................................................23 CHAPTER IV.............................................................................................................. 24 Miscellaneous information........................................................................................24 IV.1 Tickets............................................................................................................ 24 IV.2 Accidents, injuries and deaths........................................................................25 IV.3 Closures.......................................................................................................... 25 BIBLIOGRAPHY..........................................................................................................27 2 ANTET INTRODUCTION Disneyland is an American me park in Anaheim, California, owned and operated by Walt Disney Parks and Resorts division of Walt Disney Company. It was dedicated with a press preview on July 17, 1955, and opened to general public following day. Disneyland holds distinction of being only me park to be designed, built, opened, and operated by Walt Disney. Currently park has been visited by more than 515 million guests since it opened, including presidents, royalty and or heads of state. In 1998, me park was re-branded "Disneyland Park" to distinguish it from larger Disneyland Resort complex. In 2007, over 14,800,000 people visited park making it second most visited park in world, behind Magic Kingdom at Walt Disney World. "To all who come to this happy place - welcome. Disneyland is your land. Here age relives fond memories of past and here youth may savor challenge and promise of future. Disneyland is dedicated to ideals, dreams, and hard facts that have created America ... with hope that it will be a source of joy and inspiration to all world. Thank you."1 1 Walter E. Disney, July 17, 1955 3 ANTET CHAPTER I History 1.1 Concept and construction concept for Disneyland began one Sunday, when Walt Disney was visiting Griffith Park with his daughters Diane and Sharon. While watching his daughters ride Griffith Park Merry-Go-Round he came up with idea of a place where adults and ir children could go and have fun toger. His dream would lie dormant for many years. Walt Disney's far helped build grounds of 1893 World's Fair in Chicago. This perhaps gave Disney creative spark whence Disneyland originated. fairgrounds for World's Fair were a cheaply constructed set of individual "Country" areas from around world and areas representing various time periods of man; it also included many "rides" including first Ferris wheel, sky ride, a passenger train that circled perimeter, Wild West Show, etc. Although 1893 World's Fair was meant only to last a summer in Chicago, in Sourn California wear was accommodating to a "Fair Grounds" of stucco buildings that would orwise disintegrate in rain, snow and ice of or climates. One can see resemblance of a "Land" filled with "rides" and a fairgrounds with differently med areas to Disneyland created 60 years later in 1950s as population of America for first time shifted West into desert climes. While many people had written letters to Walt Disney about visiting Disney Studio, Walt realized that a functional movie studio had little to offer to visiting fans. He n began to foster ideas of building a site near his Burbank studios for tourists to visit. His ideas n evolved to a small play park with a boat ride and or med areas. Walt's initial concept, his "Mickey Mouse Park", started with an 8 acres (0.012 sq mi; 0.032 km2) plot across Riverside Drive. Walt started to visit or parks for inspiration and ideas, including Tivoli Gardens, Greenfield Village, Efteling, Tilburg , Playland and Children's Fairyland. He started his designers working on concepts, but se would grow into a project much larger than could be contained in 8 acres (32,000 m2). Walt hired a consultant, Harrison Price from Stanford Research Institute, to gauge area's potential growth. With report from Price, Disney acquired 160 acres (0.250 sq mi; 0.647 km2) of 4 ANTET orange groves and walnut trees in Anaheim, souast of Los Angeles in neighboring Orange County. Difficulties in obtaining funding prompted Disney to investigate new methods of fundraising. He decided to use television to get ideas into people's homes, and so he created a show named Disneyland which was broadcast on n-fledgling ABC television network. In return, network agreed to help finance new park. For first five years of its operation, Disneyland was owned by Disneyland, Inc., which was jointly owned byWalt Disney Productions and ABC. In 1960 Walt Disney Productions purchased ABC's share. In addition, many of shops on Main Street, U.S.A. were owned and operated by or companies who rented space from Disney. Construction began on July 18, 1954 and would cost 17 million USD$ to complete, and was opened exactly one year later. U.S. Route 101 (later Interstate 5) was under construction at same time just to north of site; in preparation for traffic which Disneyland was expected to bring, two more lanes were added to freeway even before