Happy birthday to the “The Happiest Place On Earth”!
1955
Scaffolding covers what will eventually become the entrance to Sleeping Beauty's Castle in the heart of Disneyland.
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1957
Main Street USA at Christmas Time in 1957. The town situated at the entrance of the park was modeled after a turn-of-the-20th-century American town, circa 1910.
Walt Disney once said, "For those of us who remember the carefree time it recreates, Main Street will bring back happy memories. For younger visitors, it is an adventure in turning back the calendar to the days of their grandfather's youth."
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1958
Walt and Lillian Disney dancing at Carnation Plaza Gardens, June 1958. So cute!
Anaheim Historical Society
1960
The Disney Monorail ride at Disneyland, California, circa 1960. The ride opened the year before in 1959 and was the first operating monorail in the Western Hemisphere.
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