THE CROWD far surpassed Sunday's dedication day, when Walt Disney welcomed 35,000 special guests to a preview of the 160-acre "magic kingdom." Invited guests were members of the nations press, film celebrities and civic officials- and children.
About a fourth of the wonderland was still incomplete, visitors found. Workmen labored to put the finishing touches on rides and shops.
Dedication ceremonies were televised nationally. Disney himself piloted a five-eights scale locomotive on its first run, accompanied by Gov. Goodwin J. Knight and Fred Gurley, president of Santa Fe Rialroad.
A parade down "Main Street, U.S.A.," hub of Disneyland's four departmentalized attractions, followed the dedication.
Then Fantasyland, Tomorrowland, Frontierland and Adventureland were opened for the first time.
[Insert #1 - ] TWIRLING TEACUPS in Alice in Wonderland theme which makes up a portion of Fantasyland brought avid acceptance from young customers at the Sunday premier.
AT FANTASYLAND, hundreds of Anaheim Sunday School children, fired with excitement scrambled into a 70-foot fairyland castle as the castle drawbridge fell across the moat.
And there was a flying circle of Dumbo elephants... Mr. Toad's Wild Ride.... A Casey Junior locomotive ride.....A whirling ride aboard cups and saucers from Alice in Wonderland's tea party...and many, many others.
At Tomorrowland, the preview crowd got a glimpse into the future, including a space ship trip to the moon. There also was a scaled-down super highway on which children drove tiny autos at 11 miles an hour. Guests also were taken on a four-minute stratospheric flight across the nation.
At Frontierland, visitors found a huge log stockade, an Indian Village, the Golden Horseshoe frontier saloon (serving soft drinks only), an outdoor New Orleans cafe and a 103-paddle-wheeler which operates on a man-made river.
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[Insert #2] - PURCHASE OF THE FIRST TICKET to Disneyland was made today by a Long Beach man, Dave MacPherson, of 2312 Iroquois Ave. He achieved the distinction by getting in line at 2a.m. By dawn, almost 6,000 others were in line behind him. A "Davy Crockett miniature" watches the transaction. - (Staff Photo.)AND DAVY CROCKETT himself-actor Fess Parker-there to greet the children.
In Adventureland, spectators were given a boat ride through a man-made jungle on a winding
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