Disneyland is a theme park at the Disneyland Resort in Anaheim, California. It was the first theme park opened by the Walt Disney Company and the only one designed and constructed under the direct supervision of Walt Disney , and opened on July 17, Disney initially envisioned building a tourist attraction adjacent to his studios in Burbank to entertain fans who wished to visit; however, he soon realized that the proposed site was too small for the ideas that he had.
After hiring the Stanford Research Institute to perform a feasibility study determining an appropriate site for his project, Disney bought a acre 65 ha site near Anaheim in The park was designed by a creative team hand-picked by Walt from internal and outside talent.
Construction began in and the park was unveiled during a special televised press event on the ABC Television Network on July 17, Since its opening, Disneyland has undergone expansions and major renovations, including the addition of New Orleans Square in , Bear Country in , Mickey's Toontown in , and Star Wars : Galaxy's Edge in Disneyland has a larger cumulative attendance than any other theme park in the world, with million visits since it opened as of December To all who come to this happy place: Welcome.
Disneyland is your land. Here age relives fond memories of the past, and here youth may savor the challenge and promise of the future. Disneyland is dedicated to the ideals, the dreams, and the hard facts that have created America, with the hope that it will be a source of joy and inspiration to all the world.
While watching them ride the merry-go-round , he came up with the idea of a place where adults and their children could go and have fun together, though this idea lay dormant for many years. When people wrote letters to Disney to inquire about visiting the Walt Disney Studios , he realized that a functional movie studio had little to offer to visiting fans, and began to foster various ideas about building a site near the Burbank studios for tourists to visit.
