Disneyland is one of my favorite places in entire the world, I can talk about Disneyland for hours. In 1951 Walt Disney(the founder of Disneyland) was in Griffith Park watching his two daughters (Sharon,Diana) on the Merry-go-around, when Walt had the best idea ever. He wanted to create or build his own theme park.
In 1952 the major theme parks were Six Flags Magic Mountain and Knotts Berry farm and they were almost one hour away from Los Angeles. Walt wanted to make the park close by like in Los Feliz but he didn't find a good enough location for the park size. Roy Disney (Walt's brother) finally found a good enough location for the park, Anaheim,CA was going to be it. That same year in 1953 Walt wanted to being constructing and they did. Walt wanted to make the park in different sections.
Fantasyland would be the land of fantasy of peter pan all the princess. Frontierland would be the land of cowboys and the wild west. Tomorrowland would the land of invention and innovation and the land of future. Adventureland was be the land of all those adventure spirits that come out in movies.Main street USA would be model just like his old town Marcline.
In that same Walt was made a deal with a small TV network called ABC. Walt wanted to introduce the park on a tv show. 1954 was a good year for the Walt Disney co. the Disneyland Show was the highest rated show in the United States right next to "I love Lucy." on july 17 1955 the park was open just for the disney family member's and friends. they say that the rides werent working well but they still had a great time so much that walt him self on drunk and his daughter had to drive him home.
on july 18 1955 was the grand opening of disneyland and almost around 20,000 people showed up. the ticket cost about 50 cents plus tax which made it out to be one dollars. the firsts to enter the park were two children actually they were twines. the first day was a complete disaster there was not enough food the aslpht wasnt dry enough so the womens hees would get struck on it.
on December 15, 1966 ten days after his birthday Walt disney died of lunge cancer. Many people in his family even his own brother said that Walt was a good smoker. his first smoke was in the ww1 while he was driving a car for the united states army. the world was heart broke, America's greatest innovator was dead.
As the years went on the disney company kept and kept growing in 1971 Roy disney opened one of the biggest theme park in the world, it would be called the Walt Disney World. Walt disney company kept on growing now with their cruises and ships as biggest as hotels. The Walt Disney Company makes about 2.7 trillion dollars a year.
