My parents and grandmother took me and my two siblings (the two others weren’t born yet) to California to see Disneyland (and visit my aunt and uncle and their six kids) when I was 4 or 5. They bought three bus tickets and off we went down Route 66. Yes. You read that right. They had three seats on the bus for three adults and three kids under 5. We qualified for lap travel from Toronto to Los Angeles. What an adventure! Did I say my parents were crazy?
Anyway, I think this video is great fun and shows what I saw there. I visited again a year or so ago when ALA was in Anaheim and loved it all over again. FutureLand was so Steampunk!
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Watch this on Sunday with any Boomer. There was no Disney World when we were little and Disney was appointment TV on Sunday night in those days!
Stephen
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I grew up about 10 miles from D-Land. My family got there in the first week of being open. They were appalled at the prices. (I think admission was almost $5!) But we did see “Uncle Walt” leaning out a second story window on Main Street overseeing his domain.
Bus from Toronto to LA, with 3 kids? Wow, brave parents, but what an adventure that must have been. Route 66 and all.
Disneyland opened the day I was born, one year they offered free admission for anyone born that day. Wouldn’t you know, I was on an island off the coast of Maine that summer. I still haven’t been! Someday!