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Title
Disney's Kingdom glows on
Alternative Title
Valley Times Photo Collection
Creator
Paulson, Larry
Contributor
This project was supported in whole or in part by the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act, administered in California by the State Librarian
Made accessible through a grant from the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation and Photo Friends
Date Created and/or Issued
1963
Contributing Institution
Los Angeles Public Library
Collection
Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information
Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description
Photograph article dated October 24, 1963 partially reads, "A month before Walt Disney opened his Magic Kingdom, in 1955, he led a dozen newspaper people on a guided tour of his dream-coming-true. With a boyishly happy grin and his eyes literally dancing, the creator of Happyland demanded we ignore the remaining sandhills, scaffolding, trucks and bulldozers... A preposterous $17 million went into the conversion of an Anaheim orange grove into a five-land wonderland. It took every cent Mickey Mouse and Pluto had earned; and all Cinderella could borrow. With anything less than the ambition, determination, personality and absolute magic of Walt Disney, it might have been history's most colorful catastrophe. Eight years and 38 million visitors later, Disneyland remains pre-eminent and unique, world famous and successful - and less than an hour's drive from the Valley." Photograph caption reads, "Wooden Indian and David Paulson meet again on Main St. after eight years."; See images #00142900 through #00142902 for all photos in this series.
Type
image
Format
1 photographic print :b&w ;26 x 21 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier
00142900
Valley Times Collection
HCNVT_d051_f36_i36
CARL0005771936
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/71467
Subject
Amusement parks--California--Anaheim
Outdoor recreation--California--Anaheim
Advertising--Tobacco--California--Anaheim
Young men--California--Anaheim
Statues--California--Anaheim
Boys--California--Anaheim
Cigar-store Indians
Wood--Figure
Disneyland (Calif.)
Anaheim (Calif.)
Valley Times Collection photographs
Portrait photographs
Time Period
1961-1970

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