Friday, April 12, 2019

Lindgren Family - Brian Carl Lindgren - Disneyland Memories

[Brian remembers July 16th 1955:

Disneyland - "[I] was on teacups the day before Disneyland opened. Brian was in a church sunday school which were invited to populate the park live on TV. " 

He says "You turned the big disc in the middle of the teacups. The cameraman told us to start and it took 20-30 minutes. I might have gotten nauseated from going around in circles."


"We didn't know where we were going and none of us had been in there - we just showed up on the church bus."]

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Disneyland Enthralls Thousands 


CHILDREN SPRING across the drawbridge and through the castle which marks the entrance to Fantasyland during the premiere of Disneyland in Anaheim Sunday. - (Staff Photos by Roger Coar.)


DISNEYLAND OPEN


Freeway Jammed for Miles 


ANAHEIM - To the accompaniment of the worst traffic tie-up in the history of the Santa Ana Freeway, Disneyland opened its doors to the public at 10a.m. today.

     The first visitors were in line at 2a.m. By 8a.m., the traffic on the freeway was backed up all the way to Buena Park. 
     At 9a.m. there were some 6,000 people standing in line at the entrance. The 15,175-car parking area was filled almost at capacity by 10a.m. and hundreds of other cars were waiting outside the gates.

 Before noon, the gates were closed. Only 10,000 will be allowed in the seventeen million-dollar playground at a time.

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