Walt Disney's imagination is running wild again. At Anaheim, Calif., 25 miles from Los Angeles, bulldozers are piling up miniature mountains for a new product of Walt Disney's fertile imagination—a fabulous playground called Disneyland. At present, »

The ABC-TV show and Disneyland would be unbelievable except for the imaginative genius of their creator, who says: "In Disneyland, clocks and watches will lose all meaning, for there is no present. There are only yesterday, tomorrow and the timeless »

Forty passengers at a time will get a realistic impression of space travel in a huge moon rocket being built near Los Angeles as part of Walt Disney's $9,000,000 Disneyland recreation park. Strapped to their seats, the passengers will thrill at »

This July, Walt Disney will realize a lifelong dream, when the fabulous wonderland he is raising out of the dust of a 160-acre tract in the heart of California's orange-growing country opens to the public. The 5 million young at heart who are »

The saga of the aging cinema star is a part of American folklore—the heady upward trajectory, the few brief seasons on the summit, and the swift descent to "B" pictures, guest appearances, and, of late, odd jobs on television. Next October the saga »

Byways, streets and rail lines of yesteryear, rivers of today, super freeways and sky-trails of the future, paths and celestial seas in the ageless realm of make-believe are ready for travel—and all can be traversed in a single day at Disneyland. »

In real life, fame rarely leads to fortune--particularly if you are a mouse. But in Hollywood, almost anything can have a fairy tale ending. After more than a quarter-century of paw-to-mouth existence, Mickey Mouse finally is piloting his creator, »

The final fantastic touches are being put on Disneyland. The $16,500,000 amusement park created by Walt Disney, the film producer, is scheduled to open July 18. It covers sixty acres and is calculated to draw about 5,000,000 visitors a year. »

The newspapers boosted the event like a Community Chest drive. The Hollywood Bowl was jumping with thousands of kids wearing coonskin caps. ABC-TV put on a special one-and-half-hour telecast requiring 24 cameras, and Simon and Schuster published a »

Disneyland--a steel-and-concrete Never-Never Land for youngsters--has come to life at Anaheim, Calif. It's Walt Disney's fantastic kingdom dropped out of a cloud onto 160 acres. There your child can drive the car of the future, ride in a Mississippi »

It may be more than the kids can bear. It has an Adventureland from Tahiti, a Frontierland entered through the log gates of an old fort complete with a Davy Crockett museum, a Fantasyland full Snow White, Peter Pan, Sleeping Beauty and all their »

When Walt Disney, creator of Mickey Mouse and other animated film cartoon characters who have become household names, first viewed 160 acres of flat sandy land in suburban Anaheim, California, 25 miles southeast of Los Angeles, he envisioned what »

Parents entering Disneyland with their children are due for the same surprise they got from other Walt Disney creations. What is planned as a dutiful pilgrimage for the sake of the children turns out to be an eye-opening day of adult entertainment »

Even the ride from Los Angeles to Disneyland is enchanting for those who ride on a new bus line operated by Metropolitan Coach Lines direct to the l60-acre playground in Anaheim. Since its opening in July, 1955 Disneyland has come the lading »

Realistic sound effects provide a great deal of realism at Walt Disney's 160-acre "Disneyland" park at Anaheim, California, thus heightening the illusion of a simulated trip to the moon or a river cruise through the African jungle, hence the »

Disneyland's newest exhibit, Frontierland s Mineral Hall, is giving many of the Park's guests their first exposure of the wonders of to Black Light, the Ultra Violet rays that are found at the low end or invisible end of the light spectrum. The »

Yes, the magic kingdom of Disneyland abounds in genuine antiques. Some of them dating back to the 1500's, are in Tomorrowland (of all places!) as part of the interior of the "Nautilus," the submarine in "20,000 leagues Under The Sea." Since the »

A summer vacation with pay. . . traveling down the rivers of America into the past . . . the exotic and the whimsical . . . this was my summer travel adventure. Dozens of school teachers and college students shared this unusual tour, yet none of »

During World War II, Dad's artists designed thousands of insignia for planes, tanks and shoulder patches; over 4000 designs in all. I collected them in scrapbooks, so I ought to know. Uncle Roy figured that each of those insignia cost the studio »

Nightly operations on the part of 64 men and one power sweeper maintain the cleanliness of one of the world's most famous kingdoms--Disneyland. Keeping the park clean is almost a 24-our job. A crew with brooms and dustpans patrol the park during »

Do as they do in Disneyland-with an assist from the ice-cream carton-to recapture the treats of yesteryear. These happy ideas are from the famous Ice Cream Parlor, The Coffee House, and Red Wagon Inn, all located on Main Street, U.S.A. Here are »

Once upon a time, in the magic realm of California, there was a grown-up heady boy named Walt Disney who set out to create the happiest place on earth. So he went into his counting houses and to his moneylenders, and he collected millions of »

The wonderful world of make-believe called Disneyland is now two years old, and it continues to delight Westerners by the thousands—small children, teen-agers, adults alike. What's more, it doesn't lose it's luster in a day's visit, nor in two or »

Take one creative genius with idea, engineers with mechanical know-how, a 160-acre orange grove in Anaheim, Calif., and mix thoroughly with $19,000,000. The result? Disneyland, U.S.A. Walt Disney, the genius behind this playground, has a mind »

More than 11 million people who have already visited Disneyland in Anaheim, California may never be aware of it, but their enjoyment is greatly enhanced by more than 500 varied pieces of tape, amplifier, microphone, speaker, and projector equipment. »

This is written in Mexico, my home in recent years. I've just returned from a visit to the United States, and am now once more enjoying the taste of unfrozen orange juice and fresh fish, conversations lasting four or five hours in which all »

It was a normal Sunday afternoon at Disneyland. The Gay Nineties show had just broken at the Golden Horseshoe, a make-believe salon located in the Frontierland area. The tourist-packed Mark Twain, a scaled-down reproduction of a nineteenth-century »

Once upon a time (i.e., four years ago) professionally sentimental, consistently profit making Hollywoodsman Walt Disney build the zingiest, zowiest toy his fertile mind could imagine—and then invited others to come play with it. So far, some 16 »

Forty-Passenger submarines, a bobsled down a replica of the Matterhorn, and 82-passenger monorail trains are features of a new addition to Disneyland near Los Angeles, Calif. Passengers on the submarines make a realistic underwater journey »

If they took time from their own enjoyment, any guest at Disneyland any day of the year would notice something remarkably similar about all other visitors: Everyone has fun at Disneyland! And that means every visitor of every age – »

It's a wonderful, leisurely time of year to visit Walt Disney's Magic Kingdom! Anytime is a "good time" to visit Walt Disney unique Magic Kingdom - just ask the 12 million adults and 4 million children who've already been here! But »

Whatever you wish – quick snack and refreshments or a delicious dinner – you’ll find ”good eating” at Disneyland. Located throughout the Magic Kingdom’s five ”lands” are 20 distinctive restaurants and refreshment centers. And directly across »

Disneyland Guided Tour – a personally conducted visit to all the realms within the Magic Kingdom – starts its second season, beginning September 14. When it was introduced last Fall, the Tour enthusiastically received by thousands of »