INTRODUCTION

DISNEYLAND

"To all who come to this happy place - welcome. Disneyland is your land. Here age relives fond memories of the past and here youth may savor the challenge and promise of the future. Disneyland is dedicated to the ideals, the dreams, and the hard facts that have created America... with the hope that it will be a source of joy and inspiration to all the world. Thank you."

Walter E. Disney

It is recognized as an American theme park located in Anaheim, California. It was an invention and a creation of the Walt Disney Parks and Resorts a division of the Walt Disney Company. It was inaugurated On July 17, 1955. A very important information it is that this day, the park was opened for all kinds of press. Therefore, the following day, it was opened officially to the general public.It has been visited by a great number of persons including the ones of the high society as presidents.Disneyland was designed by a man called Walt Disney.

The objective was to construct a new and a different park for the family entertainment. This is why, it was thought to construct a park that was divided in eight different sectors of amusement.The years were passing and there was created the acquaintance Disneyland Resort who includes another park , three hotels and a mall.

In 2005 they were commemorated the 50 years of inauguration. This produced a great party of pyrotechnic games, artists' presentations, conferences, speeches, premieres of new spectacles and a lot of decorations.

The concept for Disneyland began one Sunday, when Walt Disney was visiting Graffith Park with his daughters Diane and Sharon. His idea was simple: a place that both adults and children could enjoy. His dream would lie dormant for many years. Walt Disney's father helped build the grounds of the 1893 World´d Fair in Chicago. This perhaps gave Disney the creative spark whence Disneyland originated. The fairgrounds for the World's Fair were a cheaply constructed set of individual "Country" areas from around the world and areas representing various time periods of man, it also included many "rides" including the first Ferris wheel, sky ride, a passenger train that circled the perimeter, Wild West Show, etc. Although the 1893 World's Fair was meant only to last a summer in Chicago,in Southern California the weather was accommodating to a "Fair Grounds" of stucco buildings that would otherwise disintegrate in the rain, snow and ice of other climates. One can see the resemblance of a "Land" filled with "rides" and a fair grounds with differently themed areas to the Disneyland created 60 years later in the 1950s as the population of America for the first time shifted West into desert climes. While many people had written letters to Walt Disney about visiting the Disney Studio, Walt realized that a functional movie studio had little to offer to the visiting fans. He then began to foster ideas of building a site near his Burbank studios for tourists to visit. His ideas then evolved to a small play park with a boat ride and other themed areas. Walt's initial concept, his "Mickey Mouse Park", started with an 8 acres (0.012 sq mi/0.032 km²) plot across Riverside Drive.
Walt started to visit other parks for inspiration and ideas, including Tivoli Gardens, Greenfield Village, Playland, Children´s Fairyland and Republica de los niños. He started his designers working on concepts, but these would grow into a project much larger than could be contained in eight acres.

Walt hired a consultant, Harrison Price from Stanford Research Institute, to gauge the area's potential growth. Difficulties in obtaining funding prompted Disney to investigate new methods of fund raising. He decided to use television to get the ideas into people's homes, and so he created a show named Disneyland which was broadcast on the then fledgling ABC television network. In return, the network agreed to help finance the 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 other companies who rented space from Disney.

Construction began on jULY 18, 1954 and would cost usd$ 17 million to complete and was opened exactly one year later. U.S Route 101 was under construction at the same time just to the north of the site; in preparation for the traffic which Disneyland was expected to bring, two more lanes were added to the freeway even before the park was finished