Disneyland Book of Lists (eBook)

Chris Strodder is the author of The Disneyland® Encyclopedia, which was named a “Best Reference Book” by Library Journal. His other works include the pop culture compendiums The Encyclopedia of Sixties Cool and Swingin’ Chicks of the ’60s. Strodder has also written the children’s book A Sky for Henry, the adventure story for young adults Lockerboy, the comic novel The Wish Book, the Stories Light and Dark collection of short fiction, and articles for various periodicals, including Los Angeles and California magazines. Strodder first visited Disneyland® in 1966 and has been collecting Disneyland® souvenirs and ephemera ever since. He lives in the green hills of Mill Valley, California.

Walt Disney ListsThirty Walt Disney Quotes About DisneylandA Dozen Sites Walt Disney Considered Before Choosing to Build Disneyland in AnaheimSeven Reasons Why Walt Disney Chose Anaheim as the Site for DisneylandA Dozen Pieces of Advice Walt Disney Ignored Before He Opened DisneylandTen of Walt Disney’s Additional Projects While Disneyland Was Being Planned and BuiltTwenty-One Examples of Walt Disney and Marceline in DisneylandLet’s Get Small: Seventeen Examples of Walt Disney’s Love of MiniaturesThirteen of Walt Disney’s Disneyland FavoritesHistory ListsThirty Quotes About Disneyland from Prominent SourcesInvestors in Disneyland, Inc.A Dozen Details on Herb Ryman’s Famous Drawing That Didn’t Make It Into DisneylandA Dozen Dilemmas on Black Sunday”Lonnie Burr’s Mousekememories of Opening DayDisneyland’s Opening Day Attractions111 Disneyland Debuts After Opening DayMonths When Attractions DebutedA Dozen Key Years for New Lands and AttractionsA Dozen Attractions and Exhibits That Permanently Closed Within One Year of DebutingThe Dozen Oldest Attractions to Be RetiredGone/Not Gone: A Dozen Locations That Closed Permanently” But Later ReturnedA Dozen of the Most-Missed Attractions and ExhibitsThirteen Areas and Attractions Never BuiltThirty-Three Signs and Structures Reminding of Disneyland’s PastA Dozen Tomorrowland Features Introduced with 1967’s World on the Move”A Dozen Tomorrowland Features Replaced by 1967’s World on the Move”Ten Fantasyland Changes in 1983Ten Tomorrowland Features Introduced in 1998Seven Tomorrowland Features Replaced by 1998’s New Tomorrowland”Disneyland and the Disney Decade”A Dozen Disneyland PercentagesForty-Four Acronyms and Initials from Disneyland’s HistoryLife in 1955Local Population ChangesTwenty-Five Additional Sixtieth Anniversaries in 2015Fifteen Additional Sixtieth Anniversaries in the Walt Disney CompanyAges of Ten People If They’d Lived to 2015Then and Now at DisneylandEleven Tributes to DisneylandFifteen Historic Firsts Eleven Historic Lasts A Dozen World Records Set at DisneylandDebuts of Ten Other ParksGeography ListsDistances from Disneyland to Other Disney ParksDistances from Disneyland to Other Prominent LocationsSeven Thoroughfares Around DisneylandSeventeen Streets Inside DisneylandSections of the Old Disneyland Parking LotDisneyland’s Original 160 Acres Placed Within a Dozen Prominent LocationsA Dozen Prominent Locations Placed Within Disneyland’s Original 160 AcresDisneyland Measured in Football FieldsEight Attractions and Lands Beyond the BermEight Ways to Look Outside the Berm from Inside the ParkCounting the Steps on Thirty-Six Disneyland StairwaysThe Sixteen Tallest Structures in Disneyland HistoryDisneyland’s HillsSeven Trains and Their Approximate DistancesA Dozen Distinctive Things Seen from the Disneyland RailroadNine Relocations Within DisneylandEleven Serene HideawaysTwo-Dozen Locations of Cemeteries, Skulls and SkeletonsTwo-Dozen Dazzling Views and Night SightsSeventeen Facts About Flowers and TreesTwenty-Three Locations Named After Real PeopleThirty-Five Locations with Names That Reference Real PlacesEleven Locations Named After RoyaltyThree Locations Named After SongsA Dozen Locations with Magical or Supernatural NamesFourteen Locations and Events Named After Mickey MouseA Dozen Disneyland MapsAttractions ListsA Dozen Attractions Commonly Known by One NameTwo-Dozen Attractions and Exhibits with the Longest NamesFourteen Imports from Walt Disney WorldTen Disneyland Attractions Not Found at Walt Disney WorldTen Attractions Not Based on Previous Films or BooksEight Attractions That Were Dramatically Different in the Planning StagesApproximate Ride Times of Disneyland AttractionsA Dozen Attractions with Relatively Short Wait-TimesFASTPASS AttractionsYou Must Be at Least 40” Tall to Read This List: Height Requirements on Nine AttractionsApproximate Speeds of Fifteen AttractionsDisneyland’s WatercraftNames of the Original Canal BoatsNames of the Storybook Land Canal BoatsFourteen Miniature Scenes Viewed from the Storybook Land Canal BoatsNames of the Submarine Voyage’s SubsNames of the Jungle Cruise BoatsNames of the Astro-JetsNames of the Big Thunder Mountain Railroad TrainsNames of the Birds in the Enchanted Tiki RoomA Dozen Vehicles on Disneyland’s Dark RidesFifteen Unique Horses on the King Arthur CarrouselA Dozen Areas Inside It’s a Small WorldA Dozen Sights Visible from the PeopleMoverThe Four Theatrical Scenes of the Carousel of ProgressFifteen Areas Inside the Indiana Jones AdventureEight Opportunities to Shoot GunsThirteen Scary Moments on Disneyland AttractionsTen Factors That Make Tom Sawyer Island So Wonderfully UniqueA Half-Dozen Questions About Pirates of the CaribbeanA Dozen Awesome Audio-Animatronics CharactersA Dozen Great Updates of Existing AttractionsNine Surprising ScenesA Dozen Uncomfortable AttractionsA Dozen Innovative AttractionsRanking Disneyland’s Thrill RidesTen Attractions with Great Scenes That Are Way Too Short or LimitedEighteen Secrets in The Haunted MansionA Dozen Quotes from The Haunted MansionA Dozen Quotes from Pirates of the CaribbeanTen Jokes from the Mine TrainThirty Jokes from the Jungle CruiseTen Announcements and Inside Jokes from Star ToursA Dozen Quotes from Other Disneyland AttractionsFive Incongruities on Disneyland AttractionsEleven Attractions with Excellent EndingsA Half-Dozen Ways to Experience the AttractionsDesign ListsRay Bradbury’s Summary of Key Disneyland Design FeaturesSeven Schizophrenic StructuresThirteen Hidden MickeysFifteen Cool QueuesTwenty-Two Castles in DisneylandNine Disneyland TreehousesTwenty-One Businesses in Rainbow RidgeNineteen Locations with Authentic AntiquesThe Haunted Mansion’s Main Outdoor CemeteryTombstones in the Tom Sawyer Island CemeteryA Half-Dozen Changes to the Burning Cabin on Tom Sawyer IslandBurning Down the Mouse: A Dozen Fires on View DailySeventeen Sound Effects Heard Just by Standing in the Right SpotsNineteen Things You Can Touch That Generate Unexpected Actions and/or Sound EffectsSixteen Examples of a Police Presence” in DisneylandTwenty-Two Books in City Hall’s BookcaseTwenty-Three Books on Mr. Toad’s ShelvesEleven Books and Magazines in Minnie’s HouseMinnie’s Shopping ListThirteen License Plates Inside Roger Rabbit’s Car Toon SpinEleven Fantasyland Spires and WeathervanesFifteen Fine FountainsA Dozen Delightful Drinking FountainsSixteen Splendid RestroomsFour Machines That Give Advice or Tell FortunesTen Foreign Languages Used for DesignTwenty-Eight Photo CollagesTwo-Dozen Outdoor MuralsSeven Pirate Murals Inside Pirates of the CaribbeanA Dozen Famous Faces Shown on the Fifth Freedom MuralA Dozen Spirits of America Inside the Opera HouseEleven PlaquesI’m Late! I’m Late!” You Will Be If You Relay on Some of These ClocksTwo-Dozen Displays of Alluring WomenDrink Up Me Hearties, Yo Ho: Sixteen Sightings of Drinks and DrinkersTen Accidents Covered by the Toontown Insurance Co.Shops, Restaurants, Exhibits ListsExit Through the Gift Shop: A Dozen Attractions That Lead Guests to a Similarly Themed StoreOoh La La: Fourteen New Orleans Square Establishments with French NamesFifteen Unique But Extinct ShopsA Dozen Shops with Actual Artists at WorkTwenty-One Shops and Their Most Expensive ItemsTen Reasons Why Main Street’s Emporium Is Disneyland’s Best StoreA Dozen Stores and Eateries with Puns and Jokes in Their NamesDisneyland’s Bars, Inns, Taverns and MoreA Dozen Iconic Dishes and SidesA Dozen Iconic Desserts, Snacks, Candies, and BeveragesEleven Mechanical Grinders in Disneyland’s Popcorn MachinesThirteen Educational ExhibitsTen Disneyland Displays at the Walt Disney Family MuseumAttendance, Tickets, and Business ListsTwenty Attendance MilestonesDisneyland’s Most-Crowded WeeksDisneyland’s Least-Crowded WeeksEighty Celebrity Visitors from 1955 to the 1980s125 Celebrity Visitors Since January 2011Fifteen Presidential Politicians Who Visited DisneylandThe Guest ListTicketed Attractions, 1955-1982Adult Admission Prices Since 1982Thirty Years of Annual PassportsTwenty-Two Sponsors of Multiple LocationsTwenty-Three Official Products of DisneylandTwenty-Five Marketing CampaignsJack Lindquist Describes Five Disneyland PromotionsEleven Fondly Recalled GiveawaysAdult Action: Eight Ways Disneyland Has Tried to Attract AdultsTeen Scene: Ten Ways Disneyland Has Tried to Attract TeenagersEstimated Costs of Forty Disneyland ProjectsMedia ListsFourteen Fictionalized Disneylands in Popular CultureThirty-Eight Disney-Produced TV Programs Showcasing DisneylandSixteen Additional Appearances and Mentions on TV ShowsTwenty-Nine Additional Appearances and Mentions on Stage and ScreenA Half-Dozen DVDs with Disneyland Footage in Their Special FeaturesForty-Five Movies That Inspired Attractions, Buildings, and ExhibitsA Dozen Movies Based on Disneyland AttractionsFifteen Movies Shown in DisneylandA Dozen Locations with Movie Props on DisplayLong-Running Programs at the Main Street CinemaTen Disneyland-Related Inaccuracies in Saving Mr. BanksTwenty-Five Disneyland-Themed Record AlbumsFourteen Attractions, Fourteen Theme SongsSixteen Non-Disney Songs About DisneylandThirty-One Examples of Disneyland in Print and in PaintTen Dell Comic Books Spotlighting DisneylandSixty-One Attraction Poster SubjectsDisneyland’s Pictorial Souvenir Books (AT OVER 600 WORDS, BETTER AS A PHOTO LAYOUT?)A Dozen Picture Books for Every Disneyland Fan’s Book ShelfA Dozen Famous Photographs of DisneylandSeventeen