*People are so naive, have you ever noticed that anything that goes against government, banking, certain incidents, etc. are all labeled, "Conspiracy theories"? 😂😅 Let me get this straight, "Anything that knocks the status quo's belief system and attacks the "powers that be are a conspiracy "theory". You still haven't proven Jesus, we still haven't proven "only" 3 dimensions or that we're alone in the universe. So...nevermind.
**My net went down during this post and it wasn't a conspiracy, my ISP sucks. Be practical in your thoughts.
**My net went down during this post and it wasn't a conspiracy, my ISP sucks. Be practical in your thoughts.
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On the 50th anniversary of Walt Disney's death, we revisit some strange-but-true (and some strange-but-probably-not-true) tales about the legendary animator, his studios and his famous Anaheim theme park.
1. Disneyland grew out of Walt's obsession with trains
After becoming disillusioned with the financial constraints imposed upon his film studio, and with the difficulties involved in making expensive feature length animations, Disney began pouring all his (considerable) creative energy into his childhood hobby: Pokémontrading cards. (Okay, model trains.)
In 1950, working from his home in California's Holmby Hills, he constructed the Carolwood Pacific Railroad, a scaled down, ride-able miniature railway system, which he would invite friends and family round to test out. He also collected and built smaller engine models, and amassed an impressive collection... some of which can be seen today at the Carolwood Barn Museum (as shown in the video below).
According to his biographer Neal Gabler, however, while the hobby initially offered a way for Disney to retreat from the world, it eventually laid the seeds for his most ambitious project yet.
"At first he hatched the idea of running a train around his studio. Then he elaborated upon it with the idea of providing a turn-of-the-century village where passengers could disembark," Gabler explains.
Disney's schemes soon grew to incorporate a Wild West town... and befor elong , instead of planning a village, he was planning an entire resort... and decided to purchase land in Anaheim.
2. The theme park's opening was a complete disaster
Poor Walt. After dreaming up his inspirational, educational wonderland – or as he described it, a "happy place dedicated to the ideals, the dreams, and the hard facts that have created America" – and watching it spend a year under construction, the animation entrepreneur was finally able to open Disneyland on July 17 1955.
He planned a select opening event, with 6000 tickets issued to members of the press, sponsors, and Disney studio and construction workers and their families. A television crew from ABC was on standby to capture the entire event, while the construction of the park itself had also been filmed, as part of an ABC series.
Unfortunately, the tickets in question, as you can see below, weren't exactly counterfeit-proof. Thousands of additional guests (some sources suggest a total figure of 28,000) simply forged their own versions and turned up on the day, leading to traffic jams and overcrowding.
*Apologies, I need to run.
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