Just as you walk into the park, situated above the firehouse and City Hall restrooms, is a small apartment that Walt Disney built for himself and his family. When I took the tour of Walt's in-park apartment a year or so ago,

He built a mini-Disneyland in his backyard — and you can walk through it this spring. Todd Martens. Wed, March 13, 2024 at 10:00 AM UTC. 10 min read.

In the 60 years since it was built, Disneyland has become a part of so many travel memories. It's hard to imagine that it wasn't so long ago that the theme park was just a patch of dirt.

The baby boomer Disneyland turns 50 this week. Host Jennifer Ludden talks with marketing expert Adam Hanft about the Magic Kindom's imprint on America and the family vacation.

When Disneyland opened, no one had ever seen anything like it. And Walt Disney was just getting started. He used 160 acres of orange groves and walnut trees as a three-dimensional canvas, creating …

Disney Imagineers who built Disneyland lost their homes in Altadena fire ‘Most of the places where we all lived burnt to ashes last night,’ writes former Walt Disney Imagineer Joe Rohde.

It would be great if Disneyland dumped the Pooh ride, rethemed Splash and re-created Critter Country as Grizzly Gulch, the new land built at Hong Kong Disneyland in 2012.

But certainly Disney didn’t spend a combined $2 billion on Star Wars lands on both coasts to attract an additional 225,000 visitors at Disneyland and Disney’s Hollywood Studios in 2019.

In 1928, humanity was introduced to “Steamboat Willie” and penicillin. According to “How Disney Built America,” antibiotics were mickey mouse compared to Mickey Mouse.Breathlessly and ...

Get a rare look inside how the park started, evolved and thrived for the past seven decades, from the people who made it.