Nichols:Walt Disney's Disneyland

Naturally, Donald Duck actually lives in Duckburg, Winnie the Pooh in the Hundred Acre Wood, Snow White in Germany, and the Wonderland traveler Alice somewhere in Victorian England. However, they all have a second residence in the same place, in Anaheim, California. In the early 1950s, Walt Disney realized his long-held dream of creating an amusement park where visitors could meet all of his animated characters and take a journey through American history, from the Wild West to the future in space. Under Walt Disney's leadership, architects, artists, engineers, and a legion of construction workers transformed a few acres of orange grove into a realm of eternal youth, a destination that every child in the USA dreams of visiting at least once. By the early fifties, the time had come. Today, there are Disney resorts from Paris to Shanghai, but the original Disneyland in Anaheim, California, remains one of the most popular attractions in the USA, drawing over 16 million visitors from around the world each year. This lavishly illustrated chronicle relies on Disney's extensive archives, private collections, and press archives, documenting the history of Disneyland over six decades, from the first designs to the present day. With its wealth of original documents and background information, this chronicle is a treasure trove for all Disney fans, fairy tale believers, eternal children, and pop historians.