Happy 55th Birthday Disneyland – A Photo Tribute

“To all that 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 hope that it will be a source of joy and inspiration to all the world.”

— Walt Disney, at the opening of Disneyland in Anaheim, Calif., July 17, 1955

This is a rare color image of opening day taken outside the Main Entrance of Disneyland on July 17, 1955.

Walt Disney reads the Disneyland dedication plaque before a national television audience; “To all who come to this happy place – welcome…”

Hundreds of children run through Sleeping Beauty Castle after the long-awaited lowering of the drawbridge into Fantasyland on July 17, 1955.

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