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Word: fantasyland (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1954-1954
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...million "permanent World's Fair" set on 160 acres in Anaheim, just 30 minutes from the center of Los Angeles. "Disneyland" opening next July, will be able to handle 10,000 cars and 40,000 people a day. The park will be divided into four areas: 1) Fantasyland-a guided tour through the Disney imagination, during which the visitor takes a ride in an airborne pirate galleon, pops through the rabbit hole into Alice's Wonderland, hops on a mining cart for a trip to the diamond mines of the Seven Dwarfs; 2) Adventureland-an outdoor museum...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Father Goose | 12/27/1954 | See Source »

...show was mostly an hour-long promise of good things to come. Disneyland will be divided into four parts: 1) Frontierland, dealing with U.S. history and folklore; 2) Tomorrowland, featuring rocket trips to the moon and Mars; 3) Adventureland, assembled from Disney's outstanding nature films; and 4) Fantasyland, represented by animated cartoons of Disney's well-loved characters. Despite its fragmented character, the opening show had the true touch of Disney enchantment, ranging from a Portuguese bullfight, in which neither the beast nor its baiters got hurt, to a 20-minute study of Mickey Mouse, made...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The Week in Review | 11/8/1954 | See Source »

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