2025-07-20 10:00
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2025-07-20 10:00
70 years ago in Anaheim, Disneyland – Walta Disney's first thematic park was opened in the suburbs of Los Angeles, California. An attraction that revolutionized the amusement parks industry still attracts millions of tourists a year.
Disneyland in California, promoted as “the happiest place on earth,” remains one of the most popular amusement parks. It is also the only such place, designed and built under the guidance of Disney himself.
– Everyone who comes to this joyful place, welcome! Disneyland is your land. Here, mature age experiences nice memories of the past again, and youth can taste the challenges and promises of the future. Disneyland is devoted to ideals, dreams and hard facts that created America, hoping that it will be a source of joy and inspiration for the whole world, “said Disney during the opening ceremony on July 17, 1955.
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For the first time, the opening of the amusement park was shown live on television. The report was broadcast by ABC, and it was led by art links, Bob Cummings and Ronald Reagan – later US president. 11,000 were invited to the ceremony. people, but thousands of additional people managed to enter with counterfeit admission tickets.
The construction of the park lasted exactly a year and cost $ 17 million. On the first day Disneyland offered guests five thematic lands and a total of 20 attractions. Some of them are still operating, although over decades have been renovated and improved – the local ABC channel in Los Angeles emphasized on their ABC7 portal.
California Disneyland began celebrating his 70th birthday in May. The park announced in a statement that the celebrations will last until the summer of 2026, to “worship seven decades of happiness and many moments of joy.” Special shows and other events are planned on the occasion of the anniversary; The evening parade with lights called “Paint the Night” (“Paint the Night”) has also returned, in which over a million LED lamps are used.
According to the data cited by the “Fortune” magazine in 2023, 17.3 million people visited the California Disneyland, while in the first full year of the visitors' park there was “only four million”. Since then, the park has expanded significantly – just like admission ticket prices.
Initially, they cost one dollar and 10 to 30 cents for each ride. Calculated to current dollars, including inflation, it would be about $ 50 for admission and a few rides. In 2025, people who go to the “happiest place on earth” must have to take into account the expenditure from $ 104 to 206, depending on the season.
Over time, the Walt Disney Company consortium was also growing. Currently, the ABC television network is its property, and six of its thematic parks operate in the world; Others are located in Florida, Paris, Tokyo, Hong Kong and Shanghai. Built as the second, Walt Disney World park in Florida, much larger than that in Anaheim, was founded in 1971, five years after the death of the company's founder. (PAP)
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