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Highlights:

Seven weeks after it opened, Disneyland welcomed its 1 millionth guest. General admission price on July 18, 1955: $1. Nearly three months later, Disneyland sold its first adult ticket book – eight attractions for $2.50.Today, it costs a lot more. But the increasing prices haven’t stopped visitors flocking here from all over the world. Hundreds of millions of visitors have passed through Main Street to see the attractions, characters, restaurants, live music, parades and fireworks since the park opened its doors.

Walt Disney was fascinated with the life of Abraham Lincoln. As a child, he recited his Gettysburg Address to classmates in elementary school. And as a grown-up, he created Great Moments with Mr. Lincoln, which welcomes visitors not far from the entrance to Main Street.

Some guests are so excited to visit the park that they rush past the Main Street Cinema, where classic films of Mickey Mouse play in a standing-room setting. But showing every day is “Steamboat Willie.” It’s the cartoon that made Mickey Mouse a star.

Claim to fame: It’s Disneyland – ’nuff said. This is the original Disneyland amusement park. It’s been replicated with larger parks around the world, but the Anaheim site remains the only one Walt Disney ever set foot in. He kept a furnished apartment above the fire station on Main Street U.S.A. Today, the light is kept on as a tribute to the park’s founder.

Did you know? The Enchanted Tiki Room was the first attraction in the park to feature Audio-Animatronics, a new technology Walt Disney Imagineering invented that led to the colorful macaws, toucans and crooning flowers that have sung and talked since 1963. Disney originally envisioned the attraction as a dinner show but changed the format so more guests could hear the birds “sing like the birdies sing.”