Did you know How Disneyland Started?

Did you know How Disneyland Started? Fastpassfacts and Van Eaton Galleries will take you back to September 1953, to the weekend that’s known as “The Lost Weekend”. Don’t know what the lost weekend is? Stick with us and we’ll tell you all about it! So, September 1953. Walt Disney wants to build Disneyland but he can’t afford it and he realizes he needs something visual to convince investors of the magic that Disneyland will bring to its guests from all around the world! And so, while Roy Disney was setting up meetings in New York with potential investors, Walt was going crazy thinking about what they should do to make it happen. On Saturday, September 26, 1953, Walt called Herb Ryman, one of the best artists that Walt could think of, and asked him to meet him at the Disney Studios. When Herb got there, Walt asked him to help him draw the plans that were going to make this dream happen. Walt needed Herb to draw a large map of Disneyland so that Roy could take it to New York the follow