Disney Land for kids

Before while was born his father was a carpenter for the Chicago's World Fair in 1893 also known as the World's Columbian Exposition millions of people came from all over the world to visit the fair because

Walt's father was there he may have told Walt about it this may have been one of his first inspirations in building his own park after Disney Studios became famous and Walt was a parent on Sundays he liked to take his daughters to Griffith Park in Los Angeles at. Griffith Park they bought treats and rode the merry-go-round during one visit while his daughters were riding the merry-go-round Walt thought to himself wouldn't it be fun to build an even bigger Park and one that kids and adults could enjoy Walt was always a kid at heart and one of his hobbies was building model train cars he became interested in larger train cars and liked to visit places with trains and ride the trains around eventually. Walt built a miniature train track in his own backyard it had train cars which were about the size of wagons and while his friends rode the train cars around in the backyard with the popularity of their movies Disney Studios had a lot of extra money to try new things.

Disney Land

Walt decided his next big project would be a theme park he had dreamed about in 1948 Walt sent a note to an employee at his studio with the plans for what he called the Mickey Mouse park the next step would be to design the park and decide where to build it the first version of the park was very small only about eight acres but as his designers visited other parks and gathered more ideas the size of the park began to grow in size eventually Walt and his team decided to buy 160 acres of land in Anaheim California at this time the land was mostly just orange groves when Walt first shared his idea many of the people around Walt discouraged him from Creed the park even Walt's brother Roy worried about how they would ever pay for all his grand ideas Roy and many others thought that if the park failed it may hurt the rest of the studio in some ways we can't blame

them it was a very big risk and Walt's Park was going to cost more money than he had so he needed to find investors an investor is someone who would share their money to help build the park then when the park started making money they would get paid back and some extra for letting him borrow their money but sadly at first. Walt couldn't find enough of Esther's so his next idea was to create a TV show about what he was calling dismal Disneyland each the TV network ABC began showing his TV series with an agreement that they would be an investor in his park - Walt the idea of Disneyland was a real-life fantasy like his favorite fairy tales brought to life when people visited Disneyland they would become the characters in his movie and it would feel like they were actually in a

fantasy world in the summer of 1953 they began construction of Disneyland because. Walt loved trains so much the front of Disneyland included a train station with a train that visitors could ride around the park past the train station visitors would walk down Main Street USA a make-believe town that reminded Walt of his childhood in Marceline Missouri Disneyland was designed in a wheel shape where visitors entered through Main Street USA then dirting off into the spokes of the wheel into different lands with names such as Fantasyland Adventureland Tomorrowland and frontier land each land had a different theme and rides to match the theme at the center of. Disneyland was a gigantic castle patterned after Sleeping Beauty's castle which interestingly was designed after

the late 19th century new in chiffon Stein castle in Bavaria Germany which means if you ever visit Germany you can tour the castle that looks like Sleeping Beauty's castle construction of Disneyland completed in 1955 if you've ever visited Disneyland it looked very different then than it does now which was over 50 years ago when it opened there were only a few rides such as. Peter Pan Snow White scary adventures the Jungle Cruise the carousel and the Mark Twain riverboat people from all over came to Disneyland on opening day what was very excited but also very nervous unfortunately like many things in life opening day didn't go as planned it was actually quite a mess the first problem was how many visitors showed up Disney only gave out 15,000 tickets but someone figured out how to make fake tickets and the 30,000 visitors showed up on the way to the park there was a huge traffic jam it was also one of the hottest days of the year another

Disney Land View

problem is that the restaurants weren't ready so people were hungry and thirsty and many of the bathrooms didn't work right if that wasn't enough many of the rides broke down on opening day after opening day many people thought. Disneyland was going to be a complete failure but after the first day of Walt and his team fixed what needed to be fixed made changes that needed changing and opened the park.the next day this is what you can do when things don't work out right if any failure in life you can say well that was a bummer but failure is okay let's stand up and try it again when the first version of the park was done Walt said Disneyland will never be complete unlike his movies he loved that he could continually change the park and add to it always making it better year by year and that is exactly what he did because. Walt liked to be at the park to supervise its operation he had an apartment built in the second storey

of the fire station on Main Street USA in the mornings when he stayed there he would slide down the fire pole then walk out onto the street and greet visitors after staying in the fire station one night he woke up the next morning to a child a visitor in the park climbing up the fire pole that was a big surprise and they had to change the way it was set up over time the park grew in popularity and Walt continued to have new ideas and add new rides and other attractions to the park later came the. Dumbo ride and the Matterhorn bobsleds later Pirates of the Caribbean with its advanced animatronics Space Mountain and Thunder Mountain Railroad the Imagineers at Disneyland are always coming up with new ways to make the park more exciting at Disneyland they called the engineers. Imagineers a combination of the words imagination and engineer by 1966 Walt still had many ideas for his Disneyland but sadly he passed away leaving it in the hands of his brother Roy and the Imagineers when you visit Disneyland if you look in the upper story of the fire station on Main Street USA you'll see a lamp that always burns to honor Walt to the parents if you visit our Instagram page you'll see photos of the fire station and the fire pole and the burning lamp not long after Walt's death Disney World was constructed in Orlando Florida did you know there are a total of six Disney parks across the world they're in Paris France Shanghai China Hong Kong and Tokyo Japan and later California Adventure was added to Disneyland California when we visited recently we saw construction of the new. Star Wars park called Star Wars

Galaxy edge which should be ready in a few months like Walt Disney you can dream big and make your dreams a reality through practice and persistence his ideas for Disneyland didn't come to him in a day first he practiced trying then he became an animator failing many times as he went along but Walt always got back up put his failures behind him and continued on if you remember from the last episode at one time he lost his favorite cartoon character Oswald the Lucky Rabbit but he put that behind him and created an even more popular character. Mickey Mouse if you were to create your own theme park what would it look like what would it be called what kind of rides would it have next time you have a pencil and paper in hand draw your own theme park and share it with others. it's amazing what incredible things can be accomplished that start with a dream.