Disneyland Park 1959

[flaccojoe]

Awesome! pretty cool

[goldeneyesofafrica]

This was good! Thanks!

[iscrapman]

sweet , you got a video treasure there !

[kendradkennedy]

wow how awesome, thanks for sharing

[Starangelica]

Actually there was a hotel that opened up to the public right across Disneyland In 1955 named the Tropicana Inn and Suits, Now It is a historic hotel and All original

[n2demusic2]

i've always seen that place but i always thought it still was an inn.

[snipercutey]

my grandpa helped build that im so happy he helped =3

[annerogue22]

This is fantastic! what a treat to see!

[muffles12]

where you get old disneyland video from ? who is litte kids ?

[thebrinksf]

I love how it transferred to 3 mediums. What's next?

[club33az]

What an odd song to have with this video.

[robotwookie]

I was thinking the same thing

[sleepyhollowboy27]

Thank you for the great video. It was awesome!

[AcousticalMagic]

Great video! It's amazing how some parts of Disneyland haven't changed at all and some parts are entirely different.

[disneylandlover101]

I love disneyland and this made my day. Thank you so much and this is going as my favorite!

[karlavio]

i hard that wadisny dide be fore the park was made

[lilclerk]

Walt Disney died before Walt Disney World in Florida was built. He was most definitely around for Disneyland in California. It was opened in 1955 and he died in 1966.

[Zticket]

This is so cool. Thanks for posting!!

[bababooey2002000]

Thanks! Your welcome!

[bababooey2002000]

Thank you!

[strangedays777]

youtube rocks

[FlashDotDash]

Wow. It looks like there are a lot less rides.

I bet it was amazing when it first opened.

X's

[don5l10]

Sorry Anthony, but the opening clips are actually from Knotts Berry Farm. It is really amaturish to slap your copy right notice on the face of your film, really think someone will swipe it?

[bababooey2002000]

I am well aware that the opening clips are from Knotts and yes, somebody did try to swipe the footage for some "Disneyland History" DVD they were making. I'm not going to sit back and watch someone steal my family movies.

[commentmutant]

@bababooey2002000 doesnt matter because they got it anyway.

[TVrawks301]

This is cool!

I read somewher that the first time Disney opened, it was rough because roads broke down and food ran out! But, things worked out anyway. XD

[ferkco]

I can help you with the black thing. We were in Orange County a light industrial farming area at the time. Emphasis on farming. Black people were not into agriculture, they were up in LA a more urban area. But to this day black people still prefer Magic Mountain in Valencia, just do. I know for a while they kept out guys with long hair though. Man the hippies burned the American flag on Tom Sawyer Island in the late 60's, cold. Just my perspective.

[saniray11]

i knew there would be no one black. i wonder if walt was a racist or just didn't want to be tarroized but he still rules for creating that park

[RunAwayWithYou]

For god sake, it was probably nothing to do with Walt himself. Yeah the world itself was more racist, but its gettin better-

Get over it..

;/

[saniray11]

sorry i wasn't tyin to be like he racist or tryin to make a controbution. but that park always says something to the color so.

[Entropy56]

That music is not from 1959

[GuitarHeroStudios]

nice footage!

[bababooey2002000]

Thanks! :)

[TwilightMaybeMidnite]

I love vintage!!

[moto1666]

go after thanksgiving and before the christmas week  best time is all janurary - feburary

[DawnWeatherby]

I still love Disneyland but to me the real magic is found in the attractions that were built by Walt before he died. It's always a mistake when they remove them.

[jum205]

History took a magic turn! Turn!

[linhongye]

Definitely after. After Thanksgiving and before mid-December are the best times of the year. I've confirmed it through web research and through Disneyland books found at bookstores. Oh, I also went on a Saturday in early December and my longest wait-time was an hour (finding nemo) which, in my opinion, is great for a Saturday.

[dawnXashforever]

looks moslty the same

[karlosx8]

omg?????so that is from 1959? CUZ OMG ALL THE RIDES ARE LIKE THE SAME! ????

[coliseumdog]

Man that was really cool.

I remember the spinning rock that looked like it would tip over on you during the grand canyon train ride; or, the Indian attack on the fort at Frontierland.

The fort is still there, but no more Indian attacks, as well as saying the burning cabin was due to Savages on the Mark Twain.

[foundinnocent]

Definitely an E ticket! Thanks for sharing

[thelosthills]

Dude, the sone does NOT work with this great video. Raise your hand if you remember the live mule ride in Frontierland...heheheh. Looks like you caught a second of that. And those stupid saucers that floated on air in Tomorrowland but that was in the early 60's.

[bababooey2002000]

Whatever, I'm not into 50's style music, so I wasn't going to pick a song I didn't like. Glad you liked the video though!

[zperra]

This is really cool!

[Silverpsycho78]

Awesome footage! I always love seeing old-school Disneyland. Thanks for sharing. :)

[cacrobert]

Great song wrong time period.

[bababooey2002000]

Haha, I know, I just picked a song I thought went well with the footage.

[charisandchristina]

so awesome :)

[annielwhite]

i hate this song, doesnt go with it for me, but its your video and you have every right to use it ... =)

[DarthKazer]

Cool video!!!! great music!

[passadonut]

1959 is the year i was born and my family took me in the stroller there. I was hopin to maybe see one of us

[jennyjamboree]

hey dude thanks for this video i never saw disneyland in the old days i wasnt born yet, and keep the music, it rocks!

[auberginekaju]

yensid is a total retard

[Yensid40]

I don't like this kid. He gives me a bad name.

[01122330]

no, you give it!

[Disneylandgirl116269]

haha I wish I was alive at this time but my dad was so he got to go there and i am happy that i have the information from my dad. Thank you for posting this video of a classic

[GomerDose]

Great footage but ditch that crap music. Doesn't go with the year 1959.

[bababooey2002000]

Uh, thanks for the input, but I think I'll keep the music.

[Axelishere101]

No really please drop the music.

[bababooey2002000]

No, really, I'm okay leaving the music. Thanks!

[a0lsucks]

Crap music? Must be brain damage. Neil rocks. Loved the video.

[bababooey2002000]

Thanks!

[PrincessoftheSea89]

I like how the whole world thinks they get to tell you what to do with your video, if they wanna pick the music they need to make their own video and stop whining.

[dweighn]

WOODCHUCK,YENSID45 I love Disneyworld..spend two weeks a year there for the past 13 years..once road the Haunted Mansion at Disneyland and Disneyworld on the SAME DAY!! However, Disneyland has something that Disneyworld will never have...Walt Disney use to LIVE in Disneyland...but never "OK'D" or stepped foot in Disneyworld. He never intended Orlando to house another/bigger version of Disneyland. It was to be EPCOT with a full, clean, self run city of the future.But as I said, I love Disneyworld

[yensid45]

yes i totaly agree but he did set foot on he sight were the magic kingdom is today

[Woodchuck1536]

uhh yea, the entirety of disneyland could fit in disneyworlds parking lot...the only thing its got on disneyworld is a better pirates of the caribbean cuz of the new orleans theme...n the indiana jones ride

[tomokh]

Wow. Great footage! ^_^  O.o I wonder how much it cost to go to DL at that time? A dollar? 75 cents?

[calicobabe123]

probablly lik $10 b cuz disneyland is expensive. back then 10 bucks was a LOT.

[01122330]

when disneyland first opened, the tickets were only a buck

[bmcj199]

realy??? I would go all the time. Now it's like 50 buck for a park hopper.

[Rcp123190]

its like 94 bucks for a park hopper, (per person) and now single day tickets went up another 3 bucks to 69 bucks for a single ticket, for each Theme Park

[actmonkey21]

hahahahahahaha i went yesterday.....94 bucks for a 1-day 148 for a 2-day parkhopper...except i got everything free even the hotel...cuz i went with a radiostation i knew the person but i cant tell yew who and what radio station XD

[bababooey2002000]

How does that relate to this video?

[actmonkey21]

i was replying to someone who said the park hopper was $50.00 but im telling them what it really is today

[bababooey2002000]

Okay.....

[Hailthesuccubus]

I get in free to!I work there lol

[actmonkey21]

aww that was mean of me im sorry peoples

[YogaNate79]

Florida might have a bigger park, but the original and truly authentic Walt Disney experience is only in California.

[bababooey2002000]

Exactly!

[yensid45]

i love disneyland and know that thats where the magic started and still lives today but Walt Disney World was his baby, it was like coming to another country and starting a new for Walt and his experience lives more in Disney World because 1 That the way he wanted the Magic Kingdom to be, 2 because of Epcot and three the size he loved the blessing of size thats why he started over in Orlando He wanted it to be his World he new three was going to be more.

[PrincessoftheSea89]

however, Walt Disney didnt actually live to have a say in everything about Disney World and its much more about the money. The magic is definitely at Disneyland.

[Adiprower94]

I totally agree. All of the other disney parks were created by the disney imagineers, but Disneyland was made by the one and only Walt Disney himself!

[yensid45]

No Walt Disney World was created by Walt Disney himself. He created the Magic Kingdom, Epcot and 3 resort hotels The Grand Floridian, Contemporary, and the Polinessian so suck it bitch.

[Adiprower94]

Listen here moron, Walt disney World was created in 1971 4 years after walt died and it was made in honor of him if you wanna prove i'm wrong, then go to wikipedia or someother website that states the truth, and then you can call me a bitch, bitch.

[Adiprower94]

Can u just drop it? I dont really care anymore!

[Adiprower94]

Oh shut up u ass

[figaroismylife]

finally someone gets it! it's not about the size.. it's about the magic, and the magic that is in Disneyland is what Walt himself created! so disneyland is special than any other disney park.

[yensid45]

OMG Walt Created Disney World Himself. Disney World was more important than any other park to Disney he looked at the roof of the hospital before he died and his last thought was of Epcot which last time i checked was not in DisneyLand Bitch so fuge you

[01122330]

r u fukin stupid? yes u r. walt died right before they started building. stupid! if you dont understand, then fukin look it up!

[nekogirl05]

it was walt disney's idea for disney world. he started to plane it out but he sadly died before anything was built. but he did buy the property where disney world stands today with intensions to build disney world.

[Rcp123190]

theres a few reasons why Disney wanted to do a WDW, one is for more land to expand, also one time Disney saw a fontier charactor walking through Tommrowland, (i guess Tommrowland is the area where the charactors dress up) and also Disneyland was finished before the Freeways were really completed, so the entrance to Disneyland was just on Harbor Blvd. and people had to pass tacky Hotels and all that

[PrincessoftheSea89]

There actually werent any hotels by Disneyland when it first opened. it was built on farmland, in an orange grove. there were less than 20 hotels in the city of anaheim in 1955

[Rcp123190]

There were a lot of businesses around Disneyland so that gave a tacky enterance for the park guests when the drove into the park...I watched a lot of the specials on this park on the Travel Channel so thats how I got my info

[PrincessoftheSea89]

oh ok , my mistake :), I study Disney in my spare time but i dont know everything, thanks for the info :)

[Rcp123190]

But i think what you said too was true, i dont think there was a lot of hotels around, but there was a few

[DisneyMagicDreamer85]

Actually you're both correct.

Anaheim was mainly farmland and orange groves. Hotels were not common in that area in the 1950s.

Until Disneyland was built.

Seeing the buisness potential of the park, a whole bunch of Mom and Pop Motels, gas stations and restaurants sprang up around the park.

Walt hated how the area now looked so "tacky" and with WDW it was prevented.

But I happen to like the contrast between Real World and Disneyland. To me it makes it more magical, not less.

[Rcp123190]

same here, i like how you can get off the freeway and next thing you know Disneyland is right there haha

[PrincessoftheSea89]

how would you know what his last thought was? just wondering? I agree that he had big plans for Disney World but my heart will always be with Disneyland

[amoswt]

When Walt was alive.There was no OSHA.

[clevm002]

there have been more rides built in disney land when he was alive than have been built since he has gone !

[biggestlaangelsfan]

i have a pass srry!

[darkhoarse820]

Nice catch...now can you just send Torii Hunter up I-5 a ways? We'll give you Juan Pierre and Andruw Jones...

[Rcp123190]

Juan Pierre no, i like Pierre, but Jones i dont give a shit

[biggestlaangelsfan]

wow! i have a ass so i go alot!

[blueyedevilboi86]

I bet you do baby.... mmhmm....

[blueyedevilboi86]

Love the music

[lp4ju]

it's so strange to see that there used to be live animals there and that the parking lot was right in the front of the ticket boot..now a days you gotta park like blocks away...lol...

[tinkishflowers]

i want to go back in the time when it only cost $14 to get in... my dad said it only cost 10 cents for the a-ticket and it was 85 centsfor the e=-ticket rides... but of course, the value of the dollar was worth more at that time and it has steadily decreased since then. What has happened to our economy?

[sweetpoisongirl666]

This is a wonderful video! I wish there was more to it! =)

[shortperson1026]

My mom had a vintage map (directly from disneyland) that she got because she knew a guy who worked at disneyland.. the map was a full blown (about 4 ft by 3ft) of Frontier Land.... and she GAVE IT AWAY!!! i was so sad@! :(

[GeoFly]

Was disneyland in Anaheim the first one?

[bababooey2002000]

Uh, yeah......

[diznylandrox]

it obviously was!!!

[GeoFly]

lol I really don't know these things. I've never been to any disneyland before.

[lp4ju]

Really? never, you should go, it's awesome

[d2tb]

nevermind the rude responses...some people live very sheltered lives. In any case, hopefully you'll be able to visit one at some point.

[SaesMoMoPrinCess]

thats totally amazing.

i'm going there in a month, and its kool to see what it used to be like. before toontown and tomorrowwland and stuff was put in.

[Ajnin42]

tomorrowland was there day one.

[ScrachyRules07]

Thats old School. its amazing how much the park has changed. thanks for posting it.

[jackerooskie]

this is amazing! thanks for posting!

[figaroismylife]

it's so amazing to see all the changes with disneyland, awesome video!

[9janbethany]

it has change so wow xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo­

[hoodriver77]

I was there in 1957...Grandpa and Grandma brought me from Oregon. It seems about the same. A very big deal.

[hannah0094]

whats the songg??

[uruseiranma]

Great stuff- Disneyland, at a time when Walt was still alive.

[Scarene1]

i was surpirsed at how many things have stayed th same

[paleoroundtable]

I'm surprised at how many things have been removed.

[deeeenosaur]

Same here D:

[kimonui]

ok. so. Neil Diamond turns 18 in '59. Creates a band called "Neil and Jack." There was a "Jack" employed at Dizzyland whose specialty was fixing seats so they nicknamed him Chairey and while he was fixing a ride that didn't work, Walt told him to "Find a way to make that move me, Chairey..."

yea.

[xanaduloot]

That was so fun to watch :-)

[JOHNNYSxMONKEY]

haha cool xD

[sexyladyr82]

disneyland look all borin back then

[tacopsp]

freaking awesome

[2ndarmor]

It is a good video the beginning is Knotts Berry Farm

[H4L0GaNGT4R]

wow bababooey keep up the awsome vcideos! im subscribing :)

[ob12]

Great video!!!

what is the name of the song at the end??

[bababooey2002000]

Thanks! Oh, and the song is "I'm Your Captain/Closer To Home" by Grand Funk Railroad.

[ob12]

your welcome!!

how do you get your old video on your PC, because I would love to put all of my mothers DL videos of when she was young.

by the way thanks for the song! :)

[bababooey2002000]

First you have to get a device or card that hooks up to the computer that allows you to hook up RCA cables to it. For my videos I use the "ATI TV Wonder" pci card but you can also get that for USB. After that you just have to hook up the VCR, put the tape in, and record on the computer.

[ob12]

Thank you so much, I gotta go by one of those for my laptop this way I could also watch tv on it.

so sorry if im bugging but whats the name of the song on the begaining of your video. I really dig it!

Thanks again.

[bababooey2002000]

Haha, it's okay. The song is "Cherry, Cherry" by Neil Diamond.

[minusRJ]

that's pretty cool.

[muffles12]

did you go disneyland trip 2007and did you meet walt disney in 59 or not

[superbu1]

Cool! It's fascinating to see the park in 1959. Thanks for sharing this.

[bababooey2002000]

No problem. :)