Jack Olsen key Disneyland merchandising executive dies at age 56

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Disneyland Has Made Many Changes In The Past 25 Years
Dateline: 1/1/1980
Next July 17 will mark the 25th anniversary of a national institution that emerged from one man's dream-Disneyland. The Disney folks jumped the gun last month with a private celebration for the park's friends-12,000 of them. The Friday night

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Disneyland Mum On Negligence Suit
Dateline: 1/24/1980
Disneyland officials Wednesday had no comment on a Superior Court lawsuit filed on behalf of the family of a woman who died last August following a fide on the amusement park's Space Mountain rollercoaster. Sherill Anne Hoffman lapsed into

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California's Disneyland
Dateline: 2/1/1980
Disneyland, the country's first truly big-time theme park, is located 27 miles southeast of Los Angeles in Anaheim. When the park opened in 1955, Walt Disney promised it would get bigger and better. Well, Disneyland is celebrating its 25th birthday

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Why Ex-President Truman Would Not Ride Dumbo
Dateline: 3/10/1980
The Idea, Walt Disney once said, was conceived on a park bench and nurtured by peanuts. "Saturday was always 'Daddy's Day' and I would take my two daughters to the merry-go-round and sit on a bench while they rode," he recalled "And sitting alone,

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To Disneyland Without Your Car
Dateline: 5/1/1980
Does everyone drive to Disneyland? The sea of cars outside the entrance shows that most visitors do. Even so, there are many forms of transportation besides the car that will get you to the park, so we present a summary of what's available. By

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Pirates Arcade Museum ( Closed )

Gerardo Gonzales Crushed To Death
Death
Date: June 01, 1980
Gerardo Gonzales, a recent San Diego high school graduate, was killed on the People Mover. Gonzales, in the early morning hours of a Grad Nite celebration, was climbing from car to car as the People Mover entered the »

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