{"id":402215,"date":"2026-07-17T13:02:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T13:02:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/402215\/"},"modified":"2026-07-17T13:02:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T13:02:07","slug":"july-17-1955-disneyland-opens-in-anaheim-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/402215\/","title":{"rendered":"July 17, 1955 &#8211; Disneyland opens in Anaheim, California"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">MADISON, Wis. (WMTV) &#8211; On this day, July 17, 1955, Disneyland opened its gates in Anaheim, California.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Special invitations were sent out to commemorate the opening of Disneyland, but the pass was counterfeited, meaning thousands of uninvited people were admitted into the park on opening day. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The park was underprepared for so many people &#8211; food and drink ran out, a woman\u2019s high heeled shoe got stuck in wet asphalt, and the Mark Twain Steamboat nearly capsized due to the amount of passengers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Walt Disney had begun designing the park in the early 50s, intending for Disneyland to be a place where kids could learn and have fun, while also having entertainment for adults. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The amusement park was a huge success. Today, the park hosts more than 18 million visitors per year, and brings in nearly $3 billion. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">In 1971, Walt Disney World opened in Florida, a few years after Walt Disney died.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text text-start\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbc15.com\/page\/find-nbc15-news-wherever-you-are\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Click here<\/a> to download the WMTV15 News app or our WMTV15 First Alert weather app.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 WMTV. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MADISON, Wis. (WMTV) &#8211; On this day, July 17, 1955, Disneyland opened its gates in Anaheim, California. Special&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":402216,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,165,164,7,158293,36894,1341,553,8537,136302,28754,67962,158292],"class_list":["post-402215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anaheim","tag-anaheim","tag-anaheim-headlines","tag-anaheim-news","tag-california","tag-charlie-shortino","tag-disney-world","tag-disneyland","tag-florida","tag-orlando","tag-this-day-in-history","tag-walt-disney","tag-we-the-people","tag-wmtv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=402215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402215\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/402216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=402215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=402215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=402215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}