Welcome to our July 2009 Newsletter.

I hope all Americans had a safe and fun Independence Day! It has been very busy around here. We are scrambling to make DLDHistory.com W3c Complainant and  we are constantly looking out for new content. The site is growing and we are looking at new features to continue to make DLDHistory.com The Most Unique Disneyland History Site!

DLDHistory 2K9: This column will point out some new features at DLDHistory.com.  This month we talk about: W3c Compliancy,  Attraction Comments, Webmaster Tools. Disneyland's 54th Birthday is this month find out how you can see all of our content for FREE!  Each month we will have special offers to save you money on account upgrades. This month we have a special offer: Everyone that upgrades to a 12 month Bronze account during July will receive a 36 month Bronze Account! That brings the monthly cost from $2.50 to 85 cents. This offer is good until July 31,2009.  Click Here For More Information 

Are you not sure which DLDHistory.com account fits your needs? Try our NEW Account Selection Wizard

The Top Story this month is a complete show video of Captain EO.  Captain EO stared the late Michael Jackson and was presented at Disneyland from 1986 to 1997 in Tomorrowland. This video is 16 minutes long.  Captain EO Video.

Robert Baca is back with a new article.. Robert is a southern California local. He worked at Disneyland in Anaheim California from 1995 to 2003 as an Attractions Cast Member.  Robert will be giving us a behind the scenes look at the Rivers Of America. His fourth installment is his story about making some late night "unauthorized" improvements to the River Attractions. Robert Baca's Column

We have a new article from guest columnist: DLander In Time. He first worked as a Disneyland Operations Supervisor, and then became head of the Imagineering Show/Ride team at Disneyland. He was involved with all of the park planning that took place from the mid 80's to mid 90's. His second installment is his story about Disneyland's 30th Birthday Bash  DLander In Time Column

We have added the major characters from the Pixar/Disney movie Up to our Disney Character Email Names. Find our how you can get a Disney Character Email name.  Click Here For More Information 

In June we have added 22 new articles.  We now have almost 900 Disneyland Articles! Disneyland In The News

Spotlight on DLDHistory.com is a column that will point out a little known area of DLDHistory that may interest you.
This month we present: Fantasmic! We have the TV Commercial, a full video of the Premier show and full audio from the show.  Fantasmic Video

We have added 12 new backstage photos: 6 photos of Indian Jones And Temple Of The Forbidden Eye with the lights on. A photos of how Flotsam and Jetsam work in the Fantasmic! show. A sad photo of the Skyway buckets backstage shortly after they were removed. Haunted Mansion Doombuggies backstage being serviced. . .. and Much Much More!!   New Backstage Photos

We have added 17 new onstage photos: 4 very rare photos of Motorboat Cruise. Including a great photo of the sign showing that Motorboat Cruise was an attraction being a "B" Ticket attraction. 6 photos of some of the signs in Disneyland-The First 50 Magical Years describing the past and future Disneyland. 2 photos of the Matterhorn Bobsleds including one showing the sign saying that men should ride in the behind the ladies.. Also photos of Sea Witch ship from Pirates Of The Caribbean and Haunted Mansion Dinning room and the Gas Pump set piece for the Tomorrowland Autopia... and lots more!! New Onstage Photos

 Have you missed one of our Newsletters? In this newsletter we have included links to our Previous Newsletters.

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I hope you enjoy our latest newsletter and I want to say a big THANK YOU to all that have made a donation, you are the ones that allow DLDHistory to continue growing

--Richard

Hello folks. It’s me Robert again and this time I have a personal story that only my buddy, our wives and me knew about. Its still things that happened under the Disney radar, but this time it was all done for the children and older Disney fans just like your self who remember their childhood. See just like I mentioned in the first installment, I really loved Disneyland and really looked up to the one who stated it all. WALT DISNEY!!! I was one of those cast members that was all about the show and theme. I never allowed guest to see the failure points of the attractions on the river because Walt would of never allowed it. As you all know by now, Walt Disney was very adamant about leaving the outside world behind and making the guest feel that they were 100% in the era for which they were in. So when guest came into the Frontier Land, they were “really” in the old west frontier, and not just a point in Anaheim. All this was done due to the “Cast” and the theme or “show” as Walt called it.

 Click Here To Read Complete Article

Other Articles By Robert Baca:

Disaster Almost Avoided

Disneyland Mavericks

Great Balls Of Fire

Robert Baca is a southern California local.
He worked at Disneyland in Anaheim California from 1995 to 2003 as an Attractions Cast Member.

Robert can be contacted at:

The park had always celebrated three major birthdays in style: Disneyland’s, Mickey Mouse, and of course, Walt’s. But the 30^th birthday bash for Disneyland proved to be a great marketing opportunity for the fledgling management team of Eisner & Wells, barely in power one year. After taking on the company in 1984, they quickly learned that the park had never correlated the cost of living index, with ticket prices. Essentially, Disneyland in early 1984 was charging guests 1970’s prices for the newly initiated one price Passport ticket, which was to replace ticket books. That soon led to a progression of ticket price increases that would bring the Passport price up from $8.00 to $21.50 in a year’s time. What with the new Fantasyland open, and the beginning of the Gift-Giver Extraordinaire prize program, there were few complaints heard at City Hall. 

Click Here To Read Complete Article

Other Articles By DLander In Time:

When The Mouse Roared Back!

"DLander In Time" first worked as a Disneyland Operations Supervisor, and then became head of the Imagineering Show/Ride team at Disneyland. He was involved with all of the park planning that took place from the mid 80's to mid 90's. . 

"DLander In Time" can be contacted at:

2K9DLDHistory

We have completed our new site design 2K9DLDHistory. 

New features: 

W3C Compliancy: With the release of Internet Explorer 8 all sites will need to be rewritten to be W3c compliant. We are working hard to get DLDHistory.com to be compliant. Look for this image  on the bottom of the pages that are now W3c compliant.

We hope you enjoy the new features and look. This is the result of over 6 months of hard work. Feel free to let us know what you think: Contact Us

Special Offers For July:

Upgrade your account to a 12 Month Bronze Account and we will extended your account to 36 months for free!

NOTE: Offer valid July 1,2009 - July 31,2009
Limit one upgrade per member.

July 17,2009: Disneyland's 54th Birthday. As we do every year we will be celebrating Disneyland's Birthday by offering all of our content for free for 24 hours! All you need to do is go to DLDHistory.com between midnight July 16 and midnight July 17 and login using:

Login: 1955disneyland

Password: 54birthday

You will have full access to all of our content for free until midnight July17th 

Onstage Photos

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We have added 17 new onstage photos: 4 very rare photos of Motorboat Cruise. Including a great photo of the sign showing that Motorboat Cruise was an attraction being a "B" Ticket attraction. 6 photos of some of the signs in Disneyland-The First 50 Magical Years describing the past and future Disneyland. 2 photos of the Matterhorn Bobsleds including one showing the sign saying that men should ride in the behind the ladies.. Also photos of Sea Witch ship from Pirates Of The Caribbean and Haunted Mansion Dinning room and the Gas Pump set piece for the Tomorrowland Autopia...and lots more!!

*Onstage Photos are available to ALL our Members.*

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Backstage Photos

*Backstage Photos are available to our Deluxe, Premium, Silver, Bronze and GOLD Members.*