Disneyland parking lot at the main entrance gate, 1956
This photo was identified as being taken in 1956, which makes it only a year after opening. There are a couple of noteworthy things to mention: look at how close the parking lot was to the main entrance gate! It’s so close you could measure it in feet! (These days, there’s a tram ride you take to get from the parking structure to the main gate.) And as gorgeous as that car in the foreground is, why didn’t that driver park between the lines? I hope they were just stopping briefly to take the photo and weren’t hogging two parking spaces at the front!
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No plate + dealer sticker in window = new ’56 Chevy being displayed in parking lot. Bet there were several of ’em in a line.
Ah, so that explains how they were “lucky” enough to be right up the front.
Yep! Wouldn’t be surprised if a lucky park patron wound up winning one of ’em…
Not only was the parking lot (where Disney’s California Adventure is now) walking distance close, it, and Disneyland itself, was surrounded by citrus groves.
On a warm spring evening, when the air temperature dropped below that of the sun warmed groves, the scent of orange blossoms was intoxicating, overpowering even the distinctive odor of diesel and hamburgers in Tomorrowland.
I went back once in 2000. I won’t go back again.
Gene, if those were my memories, I probably wouldn’t go back again either!