THEA 80N Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk, Animatronics, Walt Disney'S Enchanted Tiki Room
Lecture 13: Disneyland
5/15/2018
The Happiest Place on Earth
● Disneyland will never be complete, as longa s there is Imagination in the world”.
Walt Disney
● Coney Island
○ First theme park attraction
○ Largest theme park in 1880’s to after World War II
● Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk
○ About 110 years old
○ Blending vintage and modern attraction
○ Considered the Coney Island of the West
● WED
○ Walter Elias Disney Enterprises
○ Now called Walt Disney Imagineering
○ $10,000 from Roy and a part of Walt’s life savings went into creating the park
○ Wanted the park to be big so that it had room to expand
○ Orange County was found to be the best place to locate the park
■ 20 families owned the acres so it took about 2 years of negotiation for
Walt to get the land
○ Walt didn’t want any Hot Dog stands or Beer stands at the park as he thought it
would stink up the park on a summer day
○ 1953
■ Called Herbie to come up with the concept of Disneyland to show the
bankers in New Work
● Theme Parks
○ Creating a destination
○ Hybrid consumption
○ Themes
■ Status, tropical paradise, wild west, classical civilization, nostalgia,
Arabian fantasy, urban motif, fortress architecture and surveillance;
modernism and progress
■ Music sport, Hollywood
■ Cultural Domains
● The physical word
● Philosophical and psychological concepts
● Religion
● Politics and history
● Fashion and popular culture
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Document Summary
Disneyland will never be complete, as longa s there is imagination in the world . Largest theme park in 1880"s to after world war ii. Considered the coney island of the west. ,000 from roy and a part of walt"s life savings went into creating the park. Wanted the park to be big so that it had room to expand. Orange county was found to be the best place to locate the park. 20 families owned the acres so it took about 2 years of negotiation for. Walt didn"t want any hot dog stands or beer stands at the park as he thought it would stink up the park on a summer day. Called herbie to come up with the concept of disneyland to show the bankers in new work. Status, tropical paradise, wild west, classical civilization, nostalgia, Arabian fantasy, urban motif, fortress architecture and surveillance; modernism and progress. Literature - fictional characters, writers, fairy tales.
