Anniversary, Today !

[TheRustyScupper]

First Disneyland TV show.
. . . October 27, 1954
. . . "Disneyland"
. . . the park had not been built yet

 

[Josh Hendy]

It's a fact: George Lucas and his brother were huge fans of Disneyland. They would not only visit it as frequently as possible, but at home they were inspired to build model dioramas of buildings and landscapes based on what they saw.

Kind of like when Richard Dreyfuss starts building models of Devil's Tower in his mashed potatoes after meeting the aliens in Close Encounters of the Third Kind. An idea was implanted ...