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DISNEYLAND (continued): • ABC TV guaranteed a $6 million loan in exchange for Walt’s pledge to produce a weekly television show for them. • Construction began on July 21, 1954, with the park divided into five sections with 18 attractions. Main Street was at the front of the park, a turn-of-the-century city Main Street. Adventureland was to be an “exotic tropical place,” complete with jungles. Frontierland would allow visitors to experience America’s pioneer days. The goal of Fantasyland was to “make dreams come true,” complete with princesses and flying fairies, while Tomorrowland offered a glimpse into the “marvels of the future.” The parking lot was designed with 15,167 spaces. Walt’s “magical little park” had turned into a $17 million theme park. • Just shy of a year later, Disneyland held its opening day. Its first day was to be limited to by-invitation-only guests for a preview of flying elephants, giant teacups, moon rockets, and a castle. Six thousand invitations were sent to Disney studio workers, the park’s construction workers, the press, and officials of company sponsors. Unfortunately, because of counterfeit tickets, an additional 22,000 people entered the park. • 53-year-old Walt Disney dedicated the park in the morning, then got busy with ABC filming a 90-minute live special, hosted by TV and movie personalities Art Linkletter, Ronald Reagan, and Bob Cummings, a broadcast that would be watched by 90 million people. • The day was plagued with mishaps, including a 7-mile (11.3-km) freeway backup. A heat wave caused temperatures to approach 110 degrees (43 C), accompanied by a plumbers’ strike which left most of the park’s water fountains and rest rooms out of order. Asphalt laid the night before became soft and women’s shoes sunk into the tar. A gas leak temporarily closed Fantasyland. Yet nothing could stop the opening to the public the following day.

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DISNEYLAND (continued): • The entrance fee was $1.00, about $6.50 in today’s dollars. Roy Disney purchased ticket number one, but the first visitor to buy an entrance ticket was David MacPherson, ticket #2. Three attractions were free, but individual tickets for 18 rides ranged from 10 cents to 35 cents each. (Current ticket prices start at $95.00 per day.) • To avoid overcrowding, Walt Disney limited daily attendance to 20,000. It took just seven weeks for the park to welcome its one-millionth guest. Ten years after opening day, more than 50 million visitors had passed through the gates. • Shortly after Disneyland’s opening, Walt Disney was heard to say, “We’re gonna kick ourselves for not buying everything within a radius of ten miles around here.” • Disney’s weekly television series guaranteed to ABC in exchange for the $6 million loan debuted on October 27, 1955. • The Mark Twain riverboat seen in Frontierland sailed for the first time four days before the park opened, carrying guests at a private party celebrating Walt and Lillian Disney’s 30th wedding anniversary. On Opening Day, with the mad rush of uninvited guests, the ride became overcrowded and nearly capsized. It seems that no had established its maximum safe passenger capacity. • Since Disneyland’s opening day, folks have been getting motion sickness at the Mad Tea Party, a ride featuring 18 spinning tea cups. The inspiration for this attraction came from a scene in Disney’s 1951 animated film, Alice in Wonderland, when the Mad Hatter and friends celebrated with an Unbirthday Party. During the first two years after opening, the tea cups had no brakes or clutches, and there was no limit on how fast they could spin.

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DISNEYLAND (continued): • Although the flying Dumbo elephants are a longtime favorite at Disneyland, they weren’t there on Opening Day. The original 10 elephants, based on Disney’s 1941 film Dumbo, didn’t 1. Name the most visited theme park in all of debut until Europe. three months after the park opened. 2. What part of Disneyland contains the “Big When former U.S. President Harry S. Truman Thunder Mountain Railroad” and “Tom Sawyer visited Disneyland in 1957, he declined a ride Island”? on the revolving pachyderms. It wasn’t due to 3. What is the name of the transportation system motion sickness – the Democrat didn’t want to throughout Disneyland? 4. What ride beings in Space Port where guests associate with an elephant, the symbol of the board a rocket? Republican Party. One of the original Dumbo’s 5. Where would a visitor find “Mr. Toad’s Wild can Ride” and “Peter Pan’s Flight”? be viewed at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History. • The Matterhorn bobsleds were also not an original Disneyland feature. The steel roller coaster ride opened on June 14, 1959, the same day the Monorail and the Submarine Voyage made their debut. Walt Disney conceived the “What youngster has not dreamed of idea while in the Alps of Switzerland filming flying with Peter Pan over moonlit Third Man on the Mountain. Inspired by the beauty of London, or tumbling into Alice’s the Matterhorn, he sent a postcard of nonsensical Wonderland?” the mountain to his Disneyland architect Vic -- Walt Disney Greene with the words, “Vic, build this. Walt.” The park’s mountain was built to 1/100th scale of the original, 147 feet (44.8 m) versus the 14,700 feet (4,480 m) of the original. David Hasselhoff 7/17/52 • The Submarine Voyage was open from 1959 Vin Diesel 7/18/67 until 1998, and simulated an undersea voyage Vikki Carr 7/19/41 through coral reefs, mysterious caves, and a Carlos Santana 7/20/47 graveyard of sunken ships. A portion of the Jon Lovitz 7/21/57 ride imitated the 1958 voyage of the nuclear Selena Gomez 7/22/92 submarine, the USS Nautilus as it sailed Daniel Radcliffe 7/23/89 under the Arctic Ocean’s polar ice cap. From 1965 to 1967, female employees dressed in mermaid costumes sunbathed and performed synchronized swimming stunts in the lagoon surrounding the attraction, receiving $1.65 per hour for their efforts. After several complained of health issues related to the subs’ diesel exhaust fumes, this feature was discontinued.

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Let’s get hopping by taking a look at the kangaroo, the most common member of the marsupial group. • Marsupials are distinctive in that they carry their young around in pouches. Besides kangaroos, the group includes Tasmanian devils, wallabies, and pademelos. Although kangaroos give live birth, the gestation period is very short, only 21 to 38 days, but as soon as the offspring is born (up to four at one time), they climb from the birth canal into the pouch where the mother’s mammary glands are located. There they will continue to develop for several months. At birth, the tiny hairless kangaroo is smaller than a bee, ranging from 0.2 to 0.9 inches (5 to 25 mm) in size. • The four different species of kangaroos all reside in Australia – the red kangaroo, the eastern, the western gray, and the antilopine kangaroo. The red kangaroo is the largest, as well as the largest of all marsupials. Its length from head to rump is between 3.25 and 5.25 feet (1.0 and 1.6 m), with the tail adding another 40 inches or so (101.6 cm). Its weight can reach 200 lbs. (90 kg.). The musky-rat kangaroo measures just 8 inches (20.3 cm) long, weighing just 12 oz. (340 grams). Its tail contributes another 6 inches (15.2 cm). • Of course, the most familiar characteristic is their method of transportation – hopping! They are the only large animals that do so. One hop usually measures a distance of 15 feet (7 m) and kangaroos have the ability to jump up to three times their height, yet the red kangaroo can leap an amazing 25 feet (8 m) up to 10 feet (3 m) in the air.

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KANGAROOS (continued): • The kangaroo’s top speed can reach close to 40 mph (60 km/hr), with normal “cruising” speed about 15 mph (25 km/hr). In addition to their strong hind legs, they also use their muscular tail as a means of pushing off the ground. • Oddly enough, kangaroos can only move their back legs together at the same time and are incapable of moving them individually. In fact, if one leg is seriously injured, the kangaroo will probably die because it cannot move about freely. However, when a kangaroo is swimming, it can kick each leg independently. • The habitat of kangaroos varies by species. The tiny musky-rat kangaroo beds down in little nests in Queensland’s rainforests. Gray kangaroos like Australian and Tasmanian forests, while the antilopine likes the eucalyptus woodlands. Their diet consists of grasses, flowers, leaves, ferns, moss, and the occasional insect. Their digestive system is like that of a cow, regurgitating their food and re-chewing it before digesting it.

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• The boat ride through the “Pirates of the Caribbean” attraction was personally supervised by Walt Disney. He had originally envisioned it as a walk-through wax museum, but after the success of “It’s a Small World’s” boat concept, he adjusted his designs. “Pirates” was the last ride Walt Disney would be involved with. It was under construction when he passed away and opened in 1967, three months after his death. A new section of the park, New Orleans Square, was built at a cost of $15 million, ironically the same cost as the real Louisiana Purchase in 1803. The cost of the Pirates attraction came in at $8 million. The Spanish-style building was built with a 3,000 square foot apartment on the second floor, intended for entertaining and relaxing by Walt and his brother Roy. Following Walt’s death, the space never served its original purpose. • The Disney-produced Pirates of the Caribbean film series, based on the theme park’s attraction, began in 2003 with The Curse of the Black Pearl. Three more films followed, with the series grossing over $3.7 billion worldwide.

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