TABLE OF CONTENTS

TABLE OF CONTENTS.................................................................................................................1
FOREWORD...................................................................................................................................2
CHAPTER 1....................................................................................................................................3
History.........................................................................................................................................3.
1.1 Concept and construction......................................................................................................3
1.2 1955: Opening day...............................................................................................................4
CHAPTER 2....................................................................................................................................6
Park layout................................................................................................................. 6
2.1 Lands of Disneyland.......................................................................................... 7
2.1.1 Main Street, U.S.A....................................................................................... 7
2.1.2 Adventureland................................................................................................... 7
2.1.3 Frontierland................................................................................................. 8
2.1.4 Fantasyland....................................................................................................... 8
2.1.5 Tomorrowland.............................................................................................. 9
2.1.5 New Orleans Square......................................................................................... 9
2.1.6 Critter Country................................................................................................ 10
2.1.7 Mickey's Toontown........................................................................................... 10

CHAPTER 3..................................................................................................................................11
Live entertainment....................................................................................................................11.
3.1 Characters..............................................................................................................................11
3.2 Parades ..................................................................................................................................11
3.3 Fireworks ..............................................................................................................................12
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................13
BIBLIOGRAPHY..........................................................................................................................14

FOREWORD

The Beatles were an English rock band that formed in Liverpool in 1960. With
members John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr, they became widely
regarded as the greatest and most influential act of the rock era.
The Beatles built their reputation playing clubs in Liverpool and Hamburg over a threeyear period from 1960. Manager Brian Epstein moulded them into a professional act and
producer George Martin enhanced their musical potential. They gained popularity in the United
Kingdom after their first hit, "Love Me Do", in late 1962. They acquired the nickname "the Fab
Four" as Beatlemania grew in Britain over the following year, and by early 1964 they had
become international stars, leading the "British Invasion" of the United States pop market.
From 1965 onwards, the Beatles produced what many consider their finest material,
including the innovative and widely influential albums Rubber Soul (1965), Revolver(1966), Sgt.
Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (1967), The Beatles (commonly known as the White Album,
1968) and Abbey Road (1969). After their break-up in 1970, they each enjoyed successful
musical careers. Lennon was shot and killed in December 1980, and Harrison died of lung cancer
in November 2001. McCartney and Starr, the surviving members, remain musically active.
According to the RIAA, the Beatles are the best-selling music artists in the United States,
with 178 million certified units. They have had more number-one albums on the British charts
and sold more singles in the UK than any other act. In 2008, the group
topped Billboard magazine's list of the all-time most successful "Hot 100" artists; as of 2015,
they hold the record for most number-one hits on the Hot 100 chart with twenty. They have
received ten Grammy Awards, an Academy Award for Best Original Score and fifteen Ivor
Novello Awards. Collectively included in Time magazine's compilation of the twentieth century's
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100 most influential people, they are the best-selling band in history, with estimated sales of over
600 million records worldwide.

Chapter 1
History

1.1 Concept and construction

The 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 their children could go and
have fun together. His dream would lie dormant for many years. Walt Disney's far helped build
the grounds of the 1893 World's Fair in Chicago. This perhaps gave to Disney the creative spark
whence Disneyland originated. The 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 in 1893 World's Fair was meant only to last a
summer in Chicago, in Southern California the wear was accommodating to a "Fair Grounds" of
stucco buildings that would orthewise disintegrate in the rain, snow and ice of other climates.
While people wrote letters to Disney about visiting the Walt Disney Studios, Walt
realized that a functional movie studio had little to offer to visiting fans, and began to foster ideas
of building a site near the Burbank studios for tourists to visit. His ideas evolved to a small play
park with a boat ride and other themed areas. The initial concept, the Mickey Mouse Park,
started with an 8-acre (3.2 ha) plot across Riverside Drive. Walt started to visit other parks for
inspiration and ideas, including Tivoli Gardens , Efteling, Greenfield Village, Playland,
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and Children's Fairyland. He started his designers working on concepts, but these 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 the
area's potential growth. With the report from Price, Disney acquired 160 acres (0.250 sq mi;
0.647 km2) of orange groves and walnut trees in Anaheim, southeast 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 then-fledgling ABC television network. In
return, the network agreed to help finance new park. For the first five years of its operation,
Disneyland was owned by Disneyland, Inc., which was jointly owned by Walt Disney
Productions and ABC. In 1960 Walt Disney Productions purchased ABC's share. In addition,
many of the 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 park was finished.

1.2 1955: Opening day

Disneyland Park was opened to the public on

Monday, July 18, 1955. However, a special "International
Press Preview" event was held on Sunday, July
17, 1955 which was only open to invited guests and the
media . The Special Sunday events, including the
dedication, were televised nationwide and anchored by three of Walt Disney's friends from

Hollywood: Art Linkletter, Bob Cummings, and Ronald Reagan. ABC broadcast the event live
on its network; at the time, it was one of largest and most complex live broadcasts ever.
The event did not go smoothly. The temperature was an unusually high 101 F (38 C),
and a plumbers' strike left many of park's drinking fountains dry. Disney was given a choice of
having working fountains or running toilets and he chose the latter. This generated negative
publicity since Pepsi sponsored the park's opening; disappointed guests believed the inoperable
fountains were a cynical way to sell soda. The asphalt that had been poured that morning was
soft enough to let ladies' high-heeled shoes sink into it. A gas leak in Fantasyland caused
Adventureland, Frontierland, and Fantasyland to close for the afternoon.
The park got such bad press for event day that Walt Disney invited members of press
back for a private "second day" to experience true Disneyland, after which Walt held a party in
Disneyland Hotel for m. Walt and his 1955 executives forever referred to day as "Black
Sunday".
On Monday, July 18 crowds gathered in line as early as 2:00 a.m., and the first person to
buy a ticket and enter the park was David MacPherson with ticket number 2, as Roy O. Disney
to pre-purchase ticket number 1, Walt Disney had an official photo taken with two children
instead, Christine Vess Watkins (age 5 in 1955) and Michael Schwartner (age 7 in 1955), and the
photo of two carries a deceptive caption along lines of "Walt Disney with first two guests of
Disneyland." Vess Watkins and Schwartner both received lifetime passes to Disneyland that day.
In September 1959, Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev spent 13 days in the United States.
He had two requests: To visit Disneyland and to meet John Wayne, Hollywood's top box-office
draw. Security concerns prevented Khruschev's Disneyland visit; he responded by publicly
wondering wher missiles were hidden there. Walt Disney was reportedly upset, having been
denied showing Khrushchev his submarine fleet, which was among largest in the world at time.

Chapter 2
Park layout

The park is divided into realms, which

radiate like the four cardinal points of the
compass from Central Plaza, and well-concealed
backstage areas. On entering a realm, a guest is
completely immersed in the environment and is
unable to see or hear any or realm. The idea
behind this was to develop article "stages" with
seamless passages from one land to the next. The
public areas occupy approximately 85 acres.
When the park initially opened, it consisted of five med areas:
Main Street, U.S.A., an early 20th century Midwest town
Adventureland, featuring jungle-med adventures
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 Frontierland, illustrating western frontier

Fantasyland, bringing fantasy into a reality
Tomorrowland, looking into future.
Since the initial opening, additional areas have been added:
In 1957, Holidayland, a recreation area including a circus and baseball diamond, which
was closed in late 1961.
In 1966, New Orleans Square, based on 19th century New Orleans
In 1972, "Bear Country", med to the mountain forests of the South. It was later renamed
Critter Country and med around Splash Mountain's Song of the South elements.
In 1993, Mickey's Toontown, med around Toontown seen in film Who Framed Roger
Rabbit
2.1 Lands of Disneyland
2.1.1 Main Street, U.S.A.
Main Street, U.S.A. is patterned
after a typical Midwest town of the
early 20th century. It is a popular myth
that Walt Disney derived inspiration
from his boyhood town of Marceline,
Missouri. It is the first area guests see
when they enter the park, and is how
guests reach Central Plaza. At center of
Magic Kingdom and immediately North of Central Plaza stands Sleeping Beauty Castle, which
provides entrance to Fantasyland by way of a drawbridge across a moat. Adventureland,
Frontierland, and Tomorrow are arrayed on both sides of the castle.

For those of us who remember carefree time it recreates, Main Street

will bring back happy memories. For younger visitors, it is an adventure in
turning back calendar to days of grandfar's youth.1

2.1.2 Adventureland

Adventureland provides a 1950s view of exotic

adventure, capitalizing on the post-war Tiki craze.
Adventureland is designed to recreate the feel of an
exotic tropical place in a far-off region of the world.
"To create a land that would make this dream
reality", said Walt Disney, "we pictured ourselves
far

from civilization, in the remote jungles of Asia and

Africa." Attractions include opening day's Jungle Cruise, the "Temple of the Forbidden Eye" in
Indiana Jones Adventure, and Tarzan's Treehouse. Swiss Family Robinson.Walt Disney's
Enchanted Tiki Room which is located at the entrance to Adventureland is the first feature
attraction to employ Audio-Animatronics, a computer synchronization of sound and robotics.

2.1.3 Frontierland
Frontierland recreates the setting of pioneer days along the American frontier. According to Walt
Disney, "All of us have cause to be proud of our country's history, shaped by the pioneering spirit
of our forefathers. Our adventures are designed to give you the feeling of having lived, even for a
short while, during our country's pioneer days." Frontierland is home to the Pinewood Indians
band of animatronic Native Americans, who live on the banks of the Rivers of America.
Entertainment and attractions include Big Thunder Mountain Railroad, the Mark Twain
Riverboat, the Sailing Ship Columbia, Pirate's Lair on Tom Sawyer Island, and Frontierland
Shootin' Exposition. Frontierland is also home to the Golden Horseshoe Saloon, an Old Weststyle show palace, where the comedic troupe "Billy Hill and the Hillbillies" entertains guests.
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2.1.4 Fantasyland
Fantasyland is the area

of

Disneyland of which Walt

Disney said, "What
youngster has not
dreamed of flying with Peter Pan over moonlit London, or
tumbling into Alice's nonsensical Wonderland? In Fantasyland,
these classic stories of everyone's youth have become realities for
youngsters of all ages to participate in."
Fantasyland was originally styled in a medieval European fairground fashion, but its
1983 refurbishment turned it into a Bavarian village. Attractions include several dark rides,
the King Arthur Carrousel.

2.1.5 Tomorrowland

During
words:

the 1955 inauguration Walt Disney dedicated Tomorrowland with these

"Tomorrow can be a wonderful age. Our scientists today are

opening

the doors of theSpace Age to achievements that

will benefit our children and generations to come.
The Tomorrowland attractions have been
designed to give you an opportunity to participate
in adventures that are a living blueprint of our
future."

Current attractions include Space Mountain, Innoventions, Captain EO Tribute, Autopia,

the Disneyland Monorail Tomorrowland Station, Astro Orbitor, and Buzz Lightyear Astro
Blasters. Finding Nemo Submarine Voyage opened on June 11, 2007, resurrecting the original
Submarine Voyage which closed in 1998.

2.1.6 New Orleans Square

New Orleans Square is based on 19thcentury New Orleans, opened on July 24, 1966. It is
very popular with Disneyland guests, as it is home
to

some

of

the

attractions: Pirates

park's
of

the

most

popular

Caribbean and

the Haunted Mansion, with nighttime entertainment

in Fantasmic!. There is a doorway with number 33
beside it. This is the entrance to a private members-only club inside Disneyland, that members
pay high amounts of money to get into. Club 33 is the only place in Disneyland proper to have
alcoholic beverages.
2.1.7 Critter Country

Critter Country opened in 1972 as "Bear Country", and

was renamed in 1988. Formerly the area was home to Indian
Village, where indigenous tribespeople demonstrated their dances
and other customs. Today, the main draw of the area is Splash
Mountain, a log-flume journey inspired by the Uncle
Remus stories of Joel Chandler Harris and the animated segments
of Disney's Academy Award-winning 1946 film, Song of the
South. In 2003, a dark ride called The Many Adventures of
Winnie the Pooh replaced the Country Bear Jamboree, which
closed in 2001. The attraction is still open in Walt Disney
World's Magic Kingdom.

2.1.8 Mickey's Toontown

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Mickey's Toontown opened in 1993 and was partly

inspired by the fictional Los Angeles suburb of Toontown in
the Touchstone Pictures' 1988 release Who Framed Roger
Rabbit. Mickey's Toontown is based on a 1930s cartoon
aesthetic and is home to Disney's most popular cartoon
characters. The attraction is a small-scale recreation of
the Mickey Mouse universe where visitors can meet the
characters and visit their homes which are constructed in a
cartoonish style.

Chapter 3
Live entertainment

In addition to the attractions, Disneyland provides live entertainment throughout the park.
Most of the mentioned entertainment is not offered daily, but only on selected days of the week,
or selected periods of the year.
3.1 Characters
Disney characters, who greet
visitors, interact with children, and pose for
photos, can be found throughout the park.
Some characters have specific areas where
they are scheduled to appear, but can be
found wandering as well. One
reason Mickey's Toontown was created was
so that re would be a place for Mickey
Mouse to always be available to guests in
his own house.

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Periodically through recent decades (and most recently during the summers of 2005 and
2006), Mickey Mouse would climb the Matterhorn attraction several times a day with the
support of Minnie, Goofy, and other performers. Other mountain climbers could also be seen on
the Matterhorn from time to time. As of March 2007, Mickey and his "toon" friends no longer
climb the Matterhorn but the climbing program continues.

3.2. Parades
Disneyland has featured a number of different
parades traveling down the park's central Main Street
Fantasyland corridor. There have been daytime and
nighttime parades that celebrated Disney films or
seasonal holidays with characters, music, and large
floats. One of the most popular parades was the Main
Street Electrical Parade, which now resides at the Magic Kingdom at Walt Disney World in Lake
Buena Vista, Florida.
From May 5, 2005 through November 7, 2008, as part of the Disneyland's 50th
anniversary,Walt Disney's Parade of Dreams was presented, celebrating several of the classic
Disney stories including The Lion King, The Little Mermaid, Alice in Wonderland,
and Pinocchio. During the Christmas season, Disneyland presents "A Christmas Fantasy"
Parade..
In 2009, Walt Disney's Parade of Dreams was replaced by Celebrate! A Street Party,
which premiered on March 27, 2009.
3.3 Fireworks
Elaborate fireworks shows synchronized with Disney songs and often have appearances
from Tinker Bell or Dumbo, flying in the sky above Sleeping Beauty Castle. Over time,
presentations have become more elaborate, featuring new pyrotechnics, launch techniques and
story lines. In 2004, Disneyland introduced a new air launch pyrotechnics system, reducing
ground level smoke and noise and decreasing negative environmental impacts. At the time the

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technology debuted, Disney announced it would donate the

organization for use throughout the industry.

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patents to a non-profit