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  • If he was antisemetic why would he have the Jewish faith represented here? Exactly, he problably was not.

  • Regardless of historical and social debates on here over the past few years, Disneyland is the symbol of joy, happiness, and the inner child in us all. This place has given me wonderful memories, and I will take my children in the future to experience the magic that I felt there. Yes, the world isn't perfect, nor the important figures who we see here. But, instead of fighting over the downfalls, let's appreciate the great things that the word Disney represents. That is what Walt wanted afterall

  • Besides waiting 2hrs in line in the blazing hot sun and high prices and screaming children everywhere it really is the happiest place on earth lol

  • This is beautiful. Truly the happiest place on earth. I'm glad Walt's vision has been honored all this time.

  • 2:19 HOLY SHIT RONALD REAGAN!

  • prayer was such a buzzkill

  • @mdmakk Its about humility and thankfulness. Every culture does it.

  • @foamyjesus, Nobody forced them to pray. And I know full well that atheists aren't necessarily hate filled.

  • I miss the prayerful, more Conservative America.

  • i love that dedication speech. i wonder what Walt would say if he found out that they are now charging us $100 just to see "our" land.

  • life was better back then i agree,now america is ruined..full of hate,lies,sex,and evil..and the president we have now is just vacationing instead of fixing some of the major problems that we have now. cant wait for an actual president who knows what he's doing.

  • yall stop complaining about the blacks!!!! we now have a friggin black president, for heavens sake!!!!!!!! Stop living in the past!!!!!!! and shut the hell up about how blacks where treated back then. that was then this is now!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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  • Happy 56th Birthday, Disneyland!

  • This is how the 'real' world should be....Heaven on earth for children and families. Goodwill toward fellow men and Peace on Earth....It's a Small World after all....

    God bless Walt and his team of Imagineers, Artists and Designers who gave his inspiration, ideals, hopes, dreams, and faith a true reality for all to share. The world is better because of Walter Elias Disney, and childhood has no better hero than the Dreamers of Dreams. Thank you, Walt.

  •  tomorrow land really did show the future of 1986 they had the 1986 president there!!!

  • We always think the older generations are more patriotic...but notice that no one is singing the national anthem....hmmmm...in todays day and age...everyone would be singing!!!

  • Back then people knew that you are not supposed to applaud after the national anthem. Except for one guy.

  • i wish i could've lived in these times SO BADLY! everyone was just so innocent and clean

  • and now please remind standing remove your hats and stand for the playing of the Star Spangled Banner

  • Where may I ask did you find this footage??

  • @PieFights This was featured on the Walt Disney Treasures DVD set "Disneyland USA". It was released in December 2001, and it long out of print. You may be able to find some copies (albeit expensive) on Amazon and eBay. Hope that helps! :)

  • even my 22 year old son wishes he lived during these "good old days"

  • "Silent prayer" (in other words, shut up and don't dare pray out loud).

  • yeah better days if you were white... keep in mind that colored people were still discriminated in the 1950's

  • Is it wierd that when Walt came up in the train I gave a salute?

  • times have changed

  • Walt Disney for president...all in favor say hip hip hooray....Ronnie can run the park!!!

  • Ronald: And now.....it's the honorable Goodwind Knight governor of...

    Knight: THANK YOU RONALD REEEGAN....

    Ronald: wtf......can you let me finish?

  • Ronald Regan: The military chaplains representing the various creeds are present. But all were agreed that it would be most fit....

    Guy: I HAVE KNOWN WALT DISNEY FOR MANY YEARS...

    Ronald Regan: ..........bitch

    

  • Omg... If I was of those people waiting for the train to see Walt, I would of fainted on the spot. o.o

  • OMG 2:22 Reagan! xD

  • who like "runs" disney? right now

  • @TheAlexDDiaz that's what i always think about!

  • every time I hear "to all who come to this happy place, welcome" chills run down my spine. Walt Disney meant that with all of his heart.

  • Yo, I hope Walt wanted to let black people in but had no say in the matter

    Or was he a huge racist too

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  • @anaheimrocker You can thank primarily Eisner and his cronies for turning a good part of what WAS Disney into an incubator for whores like Hannah Montana. Walt would have NEVER tolerated it, and he would have never tolerated Eisner. Roy Disney fought a long hard battle to recover Disney back into what Walt envisioned it to be.

  • 01:30...I'll bet they had a few highballs...

  • Heh, the hatter had a tiny hat.

  • It's Mickey Mouse!! -----> ºoº

  • A female Peter Pan @9:41

  • I know this rumor if Walt being frozen isn't true. But if it was, Walt would probably barf if he saw what he created had involved into.

  • I was in the dark about theme parks until I checked out bestvaluethemeparks (.) com

  • is it me or did walt look a bit dishevled, and unkempt, idk maybe its me, but thanks for posting, its pretty cool to watch the opening of the happyest place on earth

  • Disneyland is not what it used to be. Filled with disney channel and pixar crap.

  • back then everyone was so polite now people wont evan listen to the poor cast members

  • OMG they have guns! CLose disneyland! Oh wait there "Patriots" I guess its okay ( call OHD. )

  • its funny how all the characters look so crappy i mean, the seven dwarves loom like friggen old men. tee hee

  • You know, they got all those crappy character costumes on loan from Disney On Ice.

  • walt disney would be sooo upset if he found out about disney now a days

  • You Can Never Forget This Saying At all if your a dinsey Freak Like Me 3:02

  • wow, future president ronald reagan...happy birthday DL!

  • @anaheimrocker he couldn't have liked WDW more, seeing as he died before they ever even started constructing it.

  • Happy 55th Birthday Disneyland ºoº

  • As wonderful as this place is I have to wonder when they first allowed African Americans in? Whites didn't even want blacks drinking from the same water foundation as them so I'd have to assume they were definitely unwelcomed. Anyone know?

  • HAPPY BIRTHDAY DISNEYLAND!!!! YOU'RE THE BEST AND HAVE GIVEN MY FAMILY SOO MANY GREAT MEMORIES!!

  • Best speech ever... I wish I could go back in time and visit during this time and meet Walt.

  • @anaheimrocker They probably wouldn't be famous if he was alive. Why did he have to get addicted to smoking?! But he would still probably be dead, unless he found a way to live over a hundred which only a few people in the world have achieved.

  • I never realised they had representatives there for the protestant, catholic and the jewish faiths!

  • 0:35 How did he mess it up that bad?

  • rest in peace,art.

  • Disney would never tolerate any of these tween characters they have on todays Disneys payroll....they would never make it in the door..all I want to see is a real cartoon, enough with all this Crap!

  • God will always bless Disneyland. I truly believe this and I think it was great that they asked God's blessing on such a wonderful pace that has made so many millions of people happy.

  • wouldnt it be lovely to have the last name disney!

  • i cried while watching this hahahaha.

    god, i wish i could've seen it in its glory days.

  • Great video!

  • This is really amazing

  • me to. i wish america had not changed. why cant it be good an innocent again? disneyland is the best

  • i love how they are all old fashioned. this makes me cry because i wish i could meet walt :)

  • los ang-les hahahah :]

  • I won't forget the whole dedication even after Disneyland's 55th anniversary.

  • i'm from boston & watched this on tv when i was 10 yrs old. we were of modest means so i never thought i would ever see that unbelieveable place.

    well 11 yrs later, 10 days after i arrived in L.A (on the exact day mr disney died) i was in disneyland. my dream had come true!

    over the next 4 yrs i went to disneyland often.

    in 2005 i made a special trip back to disneyland to celebrate it's 50th anniversary.

    i sit here at 63 in boston with my gold commerative mickey mouse cap on my bald head. ;-}

  • 5:25-5:28 Not anymore

  • What happend to the carrages seen in the parade

  • Walt Disney is my role model

  • *raises hands* hes my yen sid and im the apprentice lol

  • That's because it was. The last good times we had in this country were the 50's.

  • I wish I was alive then. Everything looks like it was so decent back then.

  • @ricky0317 It was, if you were a white male.

  • @BlueParatroopa Yeah except you'd probably just come back from ww2 where you'd just murdered a bunch of people.

  • @BlueParatroopa or Korea

  • Hmm...kinda makes you wonder what happened to people, don't it?

    At least Disneyland (the last time I was there anyway) is still a friendly, welcoming place. I think at the very least they have tried, so hard, to stay true to Walt's vision.

  • Imagine in this hate filled country now if they ever asked for heads to be bowed in a moment of prayer? These were better days for sure :(

  • asking for a moment of prayer is still ok in this country robert. however asking that everyone pray to a certain god is not.

    we think they were better days, but did you see a large contingent of minorities in that crowd? no you didn't! even disney discriminated. the discrimination going on during that time was horrendous. many blacks were still being murdered just for being black. they hid the injustices back then, so we only thought they were better times.  they were far from it.

  • @Robert4770

    Gimme a break - better days if you were a white Christian I guess.

  • @Robert4770 There was plenty of hate back then. It just wasn't as available in the media as it is today. Walt Disney himself took part in the "Red Scare" in Hollywood. Accusing Union Organizers and former business rivals of being members of the Communist party.

  • @Robert4770 Or the mention of God's name :(.

  • @Robert4770 Religion aside(please), there was just as much hate in the past....possibly more. When that man mentioned 'good will towards men" I thought about how the colored's were treated then.

    When he said the US "extends the great ideals...of peace on Earth" I thought of the recent Korean war, the upcoming Vietnam war, the ongoing African "US cotton slaves" then the 80's, selling weapons to our friends: Iraq. and Israel

    Then there's good will towards the Indians, witches, 911 rescuers

  • @Robert4770 You assume everyone who doesn't share your religious beliefs is full of hate? People like you honestly make me sick.

  • @foamyjesus If you didn't notice, I didn't hear or see anyone mention a specific deity. That's not infringing on one's right to worship in the way they choose.

  • @DelilahJo3 It is if somebody is an atheist. And assuming somebody is "hate filled" because they don't believe in god is insane.

  • Walt disney is my idol!!!

  • the old costumes have really come along way

  • If those folks from yesteryear could see the riff raff of today , they would start a revoltion to win back this country. See all that class. decent people. Yea they probably had fetishes too, but they kept to themselves. thats true class. No baggy pants, filthy women addicted to meth. No tattoed hispanic or whit males acting stupid. Just real people who lived life correctly. That was America, and the best days are behind us. Now all we have is pure greed from both ends including enviromentalist

  • you're thoughts can't be further from the truth tissao!

    ONLY the rich and privileged were allowed there during the grand opening. i lived during that time, and part of the hollywood myths, especially disney's was to hide the ugly truth. i cast no aspersions on my disney...he was my mentor, but please don't be fooled that it was a kinder gentler time. not while blacks were still discriminated against...and even murdered for wanting to enjoy this country's freedoms.

  • 1ooth rating

  • wow! it has changed so much! im going in 67 more days!

  • i wish i could have gone there in that year!

  • To bad it is now little mexico around the city. I wish life could be this nice looking still. Really sad.

  • I just got back from Disneyland less that 24 hours ago. So much has changed is 50+ years!

  • Excuse me?

    I'm Mexican, and I dress nothing like a gang member. I think that stuff is stupid.

    You really shouldn't be talking like that on a Disney video.

  • good for you weirdgurl. good for you.

    mexican americans are the heart and soul of southwestern america. when i lived in california, i loved the hispanic community with it's sense of family, friends and honor.

    they are a wonderful, important segment of america with it's rich traditions and culture.

    peace!

  • 3:55 Those days are long gone. This country is full of people who are not God fearing. I wish I had been bone in the 1930's.

  • @Wowmer32 there r lots of ppl who are not religous that are completly amazing. who are very pure in thought. just because they have a different way of seeing things, doesnt mean they are bad.

  • Barack Obama hates Disneyland.

  • but he got cute two daughter they might take to disneyland if they want to . a cast member told me that every presdient go disney park but went in sercet . it all true

  • They didnt this year. They were suppose to repoen the HoP its sooo beautiful too but no. his girls have been to DL but....sadly he wont

  • @Engage777 so wrong. XD what are u trying to pull?

  • "To all who come tothis happy place...welcome. Disneyland is your land"

    Those words will always stay in teh hearts of disney fans everywhere

  • Couldn't agree more. (:

  • I used to be train fenatick growing up! This really cool in this piece of American history!

  • nope, I believe he felt very strongly AGAINST the nazis, have you seen all the propaganda cartoons?? ((my sis had to watch a lot in History class, she showed some to me, and some are quite funny :] ))

  • cant wait..cant wait...cant wait.....eeeeep!!!

  • did you go to disneyland? i'm going in 24 days

  • I couldn't keep myself from crying when I saw Walt :)

  • Me too!!!

  • Those people kept walking all over poor Reagan's lines.

  • somehow I feel relieved to see this...where'dyu get that?

  • It is really amazing that the people were so polite back then and how simple life was in those days. No video games, no computers, no colored tv. no cell phones either. Just amazing

  • They were 99% per cent white people, thats why.

  • how amazing for them people to been riding disneyland railroad buy walt disney himself.

  • Om my how woderfull the respect of people was back then. Manner which we lack nowadays and I say that at 16 years old. I may sound old fashioned but come on I dont even feel safe walking downt the street.

  • nowadays on tv its all like..oh you cant see the cameras and everything is so polished. i like how they actually seem normal on this video..like it isnt perfect.

  • I agree. Disneychannel or Disney for that matter isnt what i think he would want it to be. :(

  • it was 1955 people werent that good at costume desien as today

  • Think of it as like an evolution. Art said that they were loaned from the Ice Follies show. Donald Duck looks pretty good, though.

  • I don't see any African Americans...

  • i think that why are still have white only .

  • uhhh....yeah remember the year this opened?

  • Whoa!Is that flag pole bended?!

  • It's just the old film bending that makes it look that way.

  • How un-politically correct. Non of those speeches would be allowed today now that we're all so tolerant and crap.

  • after walt died i think they froze his body check wikepedia it tells yo all about him

  • God bless you, Uncle Walt.

  • HAPPY BDAY DISNEYLAND

  • how about the irony that this aired on ABC, which someday would be owned by .. guess who.. Disney.. it seems symetrical in some way ..

  • very eerie!

  • did walt just run thats one healthy man in terms of fitnes sadly not his lungs poor guy passed of lung cancer and where are you guys getting they froze him they creemated him

  • they were moving ahead of ron reagen he probobly took office to get back at them.

  • did he say his name was mr. girly!?!?! OH MAN! that's almost as bad as M*A*S*H's creator's name (richard hooker).

  • come on guys.Even though if we have to pay to get in,it`s our land!I mean Walt Disney`s reason to make this place is to visit the place and have fun and be happy. i mean I know it`s crazy that he froze himself,but it`s also beautiful I mean. He had a dream that he will come back to this kind of time,if they find the cure to bring him back. I know where his body is hidden in the whole park of disney! but he also had a dream that all people of all ages will be happy. Isnt that enough?

  • He didn't freeze himself! that's a myth

  • were is his body at plz replay

  • His body was never frozen. Walt would not want to come back if he was frozen. Too many bad things going on today.

  • yepp

    to think if he did come back && saw mily cyrus

    :S OUCH he would be mad

  • if he saw that Vanessa chick from High School Musical. I would be afraid to see his reaction to those two.

  • oh my! :0

  • Yeah.Poor Disney....

  • It's so sad that if someone would try to get everyone to pray like that nowadays, so many people would be offened. Sometimes I wish that it could be like 50's again.

  • looks so movie like ... no one is pushing to see... no barriers ... all smiling ... no speaking.... quiet clapping ... ITS LIKE ULTRA NICE ? :S

  • thats called the 50's.  Not to mention that every1 has an egual amount of space and there is some speaking, you just can't see it. They controlled who could b there at opening, too.

  • ah, yes....i remember that day well.

  • Seriously? Wow!

  • i love Disneyland!!

  • whell i benn disneyland summer 2001 i giong to disneyland in 2008 idleracer you are right it is 9:45a.m. beacuse long in 5 short in 9 and in 2008 i got very very bad news it is small world close for rehab ENTIRE YEAR OF 2008 damm it i am going to miss that unit 2009 trip

  • Do you speak English?

  • Yes?

  • It's difficult to tell the big hand from the small one on the clock that the flag passes on it's way up. I can't tell if it's 9:25 in the morning or 4:45 in the afternoon.

  • It's 9:25. That's when they first opened it.

  • Thank you SO MUCH for posting these!!!

    If only the Disney of today had the same decent values that Disney once had...

  • Disney has gotten a lot better. The 90s were a dark time, but now things are looking up.

    And as far as the park, they DO still have the same values. Walt wanted the park to change right? Well, they HAVE kept the park changing. Walt did NOT want to park to stay the same forever, like some selfish fans do.

  • Well I think Walt wanted Disneyland to be a place anyone can enjoy... charging 70 dollars for a ticket seems unfair as well as charging 4 dollars for a soda... Did Walt ask for that? Disney doesn't even have to pay for its soda and it still charges that much!

  • Well, in regards to the prices, Yes, that IS unfair.

    But that is just how the world is today, sadly.

  • Disney's got a LOT of shit to pay for and none of it is cheap

  • Disney does have to pay its employees, though. Basic rule of economics is that when the minimum wage goes up, so do prices for everything else. I'm not sure if Walt would have agreed with those practices, but at the very least, Eisner's not the one calling the shots anymore. :/

  • Thats a very good point

  • @mtakenM I wish they would have kept the single price of 1 dollar to get in.

  • The 90s weren't as dark as the 80s when they came an inch away from being part of a hostile take over that would've destroyed Disney far more than Eisner ever could

  • If you would have seen it back in the 70's like I did you wouldnt say that.