22 Things You Didn’t Know About Disneyland

(via Refinery29)  The Happiest Place on Earth, a.k.a. Disneyland, opened 63 years ago today in Anaheim, California. We now think of Walt Disney’s magical theme park as the wonderful place of many childhood memories that runs like a flawlessly smooth machine. But, that wasn’t the case on July 17, 1955. Disneyland’s opening day went down in history as a complete disaster, and the culmination of what the press began calling “Walt’s Folly.”