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...DISNEYLAND INVESTMENT by American Broadcasting-Paramount has paid off handsomely. Company sold its 35% stock interest, purchased for $500,000 in 1954, to Walt Disney Productions for $7,500,000 in cash and notes...
Ranking Redskin. Expecting at least 5,000,000 visitors a year, Freedomland will ring with coin. However elaborate, roadside shows are as old as roads, but from Massachusetts' Pleasure Island to California's Disneyland, they are boffo as never before-perhaps because restless audiences, tired of passively watching so much canned and channeled entertainment, are eager for such tangible Freedomland features as an electromagnetic dragon, real buffalo grazing the prairies, honest Indians taking passengers for rides in birchbark Chippewa war canoes (the birch bark is actually Fiberglas, and the Chippewas are mainly Cherokees, recruited by Manhattan Cherokee Arthur...
...Entrepreneur Peter De Met, who owns a chain of bowling alleys and produces such TV shows as Championship Bowling and All-Star Golf, Freedomland has a 10,000-car parking lot (50?), expects 85,000 visitors on good days, an average of 37,000 (v. 60,000 tops at Disneyland). Many of the park's features are undisguised advertisements : ye olde brewery is built and operated by Schaefer beer; Elsie the Borden cow is the most conspicuous resident of a Midwestern farm; the Bank of New York operates regular banking facilities (the building is ancient, but the interest...
Walt Disney Presents (ABC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). Our Unsung Villains eulogizes the great heavies of Disneyland-Captain Hook, Br'er Fox, the Big Bad Wolf, the Wicked Queen. With Hans Conried...
...told you we shoulda' let 'em see Disneyland...