{"id":11193,"date":"2007-03-20T22:05:25","date_gmt":"2007-03-21T05:05:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2007\/03\/20\/early-disney-days.html"},"modified":"2014-11-07T10:29:31","modified_gmt":"2014-11-07T17:29:31","slug":"early_disney_days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2007\/03\/20\/early_disney_days.html","title":{"rendered":"Early Disney Days"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<div class=\"img-shadow-right\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Disneyland ca. 1955\" height=\"214\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/doingwrite\/images\/early-disneyland.jpg\" width=\"320\" \/> <\/div>\n<p>The remarkable thing about <a href=\"http:\/\/aracuanbird.blogspot.com\/2007\/03\/disneyland-aerial.html\" target=\"_blank\">this photo of Disneyland<\/a> (circa 1955 or so) (<a href=\"http:\/\/bp3.blogger.com\/_uxusb0mOf_Y\/Rf-WdYQxaEI\/AAAAAAAAAQ4\/GMQse27pJ9k\/s1600-h\/Disneyland+aerial+undated.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">large version here<\/a>) is not the things in the park no longer there, or the things missing from the park there today &#8212; but the fact that the place is <em>surrounded by orchards<\/em>. Back when &#8220;Orange County&#8221; wasa meaningful description.<small> <\/small> <\/p>\n<p><small>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedisneyblog.com\/tdb\/2007\/03\/early_1955_rare.html\" target=\"_blank\">Disney Blog<\/a>)<\/small>  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The remarkable thing about this photo of Disneyland (circa 1955 or so) (large version here) is not the things in the park no longer there, or the things missing&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[263,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-disney","category-travel"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6810,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2004\/12\/28\/no_room_at_the.html","url_meta":{"origin":11193,"position":0},"title":"No room at the Park","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 28-Dec-04 10:59am","format":false,"excerpt":"Why we aren't visiting Disneyland this week, despite the yen to compare it directly with Disney World: Disneyland Is Full That cheerful message greeted visitors as they entered the Disneyland...","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Disney\/Pixar&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Disney\/Pixar","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/media\/franchises\/disney"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":127440,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/08\/05\/the-growing-magic-kingdom.html","url_meta":{"origin":11193,"position":1},"title":"The growing Magic Kingdom","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 5-Aug-15 1:44pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Big property purchases by Disney around Disneyland in Anaheim. 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