This Day In History: Disneyland theme park in Anaheim CA was dedicated on this day in 1955. Disneyland has a larger cumulative attendance than any other theme park in the world, with 726 million visits since it opened (as of December 2018). In 2018, the park had approximately 18.6 million visits, making it the second most visited amusement park in the world that year (Magic Kingdom was number one). According to a March 2005 Disney report, 65,700 jobs are supported by the Disneyland Resort, including about 20,000 direct Disney employees and 3,800 third-party employees (independent contractors or their employees).
Disneyland has closed seven times in its history:
1: When JFK was assassinated in 1963.
2: During an anti-Vietnam riot in 1970
3: Because of a winter storm on Dec 16 1987
4: Because of a winter storm on Dec 7 1992
5: For an inspection after the 1994 Northridge earthquake
6: In 2001, after the September 11 attacks.
7: Covid-19 in 2020.
Walt Disney once said, "The House of Mouse is the Happiest Place on Earth", and it is most of the time...but not for some. Major accidents, injuries, deaths have been known to happen at Disneyland. In 1981, a teenager was fatally stabbed during a knife fight. In 1987, a 15-year-old was shot in the parking lot due to gang violence. Several years ago police uncovered a massive pedophile ring at Disney World in Orlando. In 1976, an woman sued Disney Parks because she claimed that one of the Three Little Pigs at the It's a Small World attraction grabbed and fondled her.
In 1985, Time magazine reported that nearly 100 lawsuits are filed against Disney each year for numerous incidents. However, a park of this magnitude and scale is bound to have issues.
In 1985, Time magazine reported that nearly 100 lawsuits are filed against Disney each year for numerous incidents. However, a park of this magnitude and scale is bound to have issues.
See also: List of incidents at Disneyland Resort
Grimly, people have been known to spread the ashes of their deceased loved ones at Disneyland. One family requested a private memorial for their loved one in the Haunted Mansion...and it was granted.
There is a "no one dies at Disney" theory when it comes to Disney. "It claims that, in order to keep up the "happiest place on Earth" image, the Disney parks have an unwritten policy to never allow anyone to die on the premises. Disney employees, the rumor goes, take great pains to conceal deaths from the public, sometimes covertly cleaning up the scene of an accident and alerting park security before paramedics. Even though there are published reports of people who have met their demise at Disney World, EPCOT and Disneyland, the legend holds that none of them have actually been declared dead on the property. Paramedics, allegedly, have been instructed to delay the official pronouncement until the person is in a hospital."~Alison Cooper
Disney also has an intensive mosquito management program. "The park has something called the Mosquito Surveillance Program to manage it all. There are carbon dioxide traps everywhere, and once they catch bugs, the team at Disney freezes and analyzes the population to determine how best to eradicate them. Interestingly enough, they also employ the use of chickens. These sentinel chickens, as they're called, live in coops all over Disney World. While these feathered employees are going about their daily life, their blood is being monitored for mosquito-borne diseases like West Nile virus. Lucky for the chickens, they don't get sick from the virus—but if they do pick it up, the Disney team knows where in the park they got it from so they can deliver a swift blow to the mosquitoes in that area." Madeline Raynor
"Bugs Bunny could be appreciated by adults and children alike. Mickey Mouse? Never said a single clever thing. Totally flat and one-dimensional, to this very day. His existence is an atrocity. Just saying what we all know." Tom Woods
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