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One day Walt Disney had a vision. It was a vision of a place where children and parents could have fun together. The more Walt dreamed of a "magical little park," the more wonderous and elaborate it became. Finally in 1953, he had the Stanford Reasearch Institute conduct a survey for a 100-acre site. He needed space to build rivers, waterfalls, and mountains; flying elephants and giant teacups;a fairy-tale castle, moon rocket, and a scenic railway; a horse-drawn streetcar line, pirate ship, and a steamboat; a storybook village; and a thousand other marvels he envisioned.
Location was a top priority. The property would have to be within the Los Angeles metropolitian area, and accessible by freeway. It would also have to be affordable: Walt's pockets were only so deep. The search finally ended in the rural Anaheim, California with a purchace of a 160-acre orange grove near the junction of the Santa Ana Freeway (I-5) and Harbor Boulevard.
Construction for Disneyland started on July 21, 1954, a scant 12 months before the park was scheduled to From that day on Walt Disney's Life would never be the same.
Walt Stayed close to every detail of the Park's Construction, and he visited the site in Anaheim several times a week. Progress prevailed despite exasperating obstacles. The Rivers of America, carved out of sandy citrus grove soil, refused to hold water. The answer was finally found in a bed of native clay: an inch layer on the river bottom formed a pad as hard as cement.
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