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Disneyland Opening Day Dedication Addresses

delivered 17 July 1955, Anaheim, California

          

       To all who come to this happy place:

            Welcome.

                Disneyland is your land.

Here age relives fond memories of the past -- and here youth may savor the challenge and promise of the future. Disneyland is dedicated to the ideals, the dreams and the hard facts that have created America -- with the hope that it will be a source of joy and inspiration to all the world.

Thank you.



Frontierland Opening Day Dedication Address

 

Before you enter this realm, I'd like to read this dedication -- which will be inscribed on a plaque:

Frontierland: It is here that we experience the story of our country's past -- the color, romance, and drama of frontier America as it developed from wilderness trails to roads, riverboats and civilization; a tribute to the faith, courage, and ingenuity of our hearty pioneers who blazed the trails and made this progress possible.



Fantasyland Opening Day Dedication Address

 

Before our preview of Tomorrowland, I'd like to read these few words of dedication:

A vista into a world of wondrous ideas, signifying man's achievement, a step into the future with predictions of constructive things to come. Tomorrow offers new frontiers in science, adventure, and ideals -- the atomic age, the challenge of outer space, and the hope for a peaceful and unified world.



Now the plaque reserved for last. A few words of dedication for the happiest kingdom of them all: Fantasyland.

Here is a world of imagination, hopes, and dreams. In this timeless land of enchantment, age of chivalric, magic, and make-believe are reborn, and fairy tales come true.

Fantasyland is dedicated to the young and the young in heart, to those believe that when you wish upon a star, your dreams do come true.


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