Disneyland Opening Day - Part 3 

I love how patriotic Disneyland can be and the depiction of the U.S.'s past and history in the park.

"In the mean time, let's take a little look around" *waves gun at all the kids* LOLOL

ha i have looked everywhere to find the full opening day show. thanks for providing, its interesting

Ebsen played Crockett's pal, George Russell, and then in the 1970s, he was the titular protagonist in the TV crime show, "Barnaby Jones". In the 1980s, Ebsen was the narrator for the Disney Channel miniseries called "The Disney Family Album".

Happy 58th birthday disneyland!!

Happy 56th Birthday, Disneyland!

In perspective, really the only time people got to see something like this was when they had the World 's Fairs...This was the first installation that was like the World's Fair that was permanent.

There was even an astronaut in the parade and that was 14 years before real astronauts went to the Moon!:D

I agree, today the parades are super cool though.

Walt DIsney's opening dedication can still be heard today at the Train station in New Orleans Square....It is however in Morse code.

I couldn't agree more. :)

"And here from the 1960s are a real family of hippies..". that would have freaked these 1950s folks out

This is 1955, I suppose you think they have cell phones? gosh, this is impressive, I think this is impressive still!

uh...it was the 50's. that is pretty damn impressive. Geeze.

dang they reallly upgraded on disneykand now

@anaheimrocker I wish i could go every month! I live in Wales, so i've never been to the California one before, but i've been to the one in Florida 3 times and love it there!

Notice not one African American aloud in the park? People talking about political correctness when things were pretty hard back then just after the Cold War and communist paranoia. Black listing actors, producers, and real shakers and movers who threatened political correctness back then. It was just as hard then as it is now, people. This video is showing a time when people needed to feel fantasy and feel peace and good will. I loved what Disney wanted to represent.

they did have color cameras but I don't think ABC broadcast in color yet because not enough people had color TVs so no point in broadcasting in color

@redhibernation So after some research, Disneyland was never segregated, or refused black people entrance. Like I said, this is Orange County CA, not some place in the south.

Disneyland first Parade look like crap, but tadoy disney's parades is soooooooo much better. Walt would be so please to see it.

@redhibernation It's unlikely there was any segregation. This is in Orange County, there simply isn't a high black population there, even today. At any rate in 1964 the Civil Rights Act was passed that outlawed segregation.

@anaheimrocker Aahh, thats cool :)

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1:49 LMAO!! couldn't get real Natives to appear. Oh the 50's. There were plenty of Natives in Los Angeles during that time.

well, it was the 50's :]

@anaheimrocker Lucky, you have a year pass?

Well, for starters, they wouldn't be referring to the Indians as "Red Skins" today XD

@Hauser43 Yes, great 50's, God-fearing, Indian-killing, wholesome-ness. That's what the hypocrites on part 2 believe.

You know, Sammy Davis Jr. was here on opening day. He was black, just thought people who didn't do their research might like to know that. You guys watch a little too much Family Guy. This was Anaheim in 1955. Orange County. Does anyone really think a lot of blacks were living around there at that time? Geez, we are more pre-occupied with race today than we have ever been in history

@dragonboatX Some did NOT survive.....or suffered. That's why we needed higher standards, which was then over-done, creating political correctness.

this parade is boring i like today with music on float

Wow...... "Red skins" huh???