Disneyland's BEST SECRETS Of Every LAND

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Hi Chris, having worked at Disneyland I knew most of the secrets you mentioned. But I have a secret to share that goes all the way back to the very early days of the park. Of course you know about the lamp in Walt's apartment. It was turned on when Walt was in the apartment. Directly across the Main Street Plaza opposite the firehouse and Walt's apartment is the Opera House where Great Moments with Mr. Lincoln is shown. Did you know that the second floor of the Opera House contained all the telephone operators and PBX switchboards? So when a call came in for Walt, the operator would literally look out the window over to the firehouse and Walt's lamp. If it was turned on, she could transfer the call to him. If it was turned off, Walt was not in the apartment. This "High Tech" procedure went on until Walt passed away and the light is now left turned on permanently as a tribute to Walt Disney. I was told this amazing story by a fellow cast member who actually used to be one of the Disneyland telephone operators. More deep history for your collection! Thanks for all your great content!

The story of the Date Palm gets even better. The Dominguez property owner said the palm was planted in 1895 as a wedding gift by his father. Just before the park opened Ron Dominguez at 19 became an employee of Disneyland. Working his way up through the ranks, the son became Vice President of attractions.. Walt kept his word and on Main Street there is a painted window that says Dominguez Real Estate and a saying below "We'll care for your property as if it were our own."

Thank you for always doing your "I'm talking to you" segments. Today I really needed it. I didn't know I needed a stranger to recognize my current struggles. It's going to carry me today. THANK YOU.

One of my favorite secrets, told to me by a Walt’s Apartment Tour Guide, is found in Fantasy Land, to the right of the castle. Behind the Wishing Well, there’s a few steps up to a service door. Go up the steps and you’ll find a tree with the initials of Peter Pan and Wendy Darling carved in the bark. PP+WD

When you stopped to tell us that we matter and that we are important…thank you. I really needed that and I cried hearing it so, thanks. You are great too!

You should do a video about all the quiet places in Disneyland. There are so many places where most people don’t go. They are great places to just sit and rest or maybe let your little ones nap or just walk around.

One of the best secrets at Disneyland are the backgrounds of the cast members to make magic there. There are cast members who’ve been there for over 30 years, but there are also cast members like myself Who came to Disney after retirement from Careers in engineering, Education, athletics, and even entertainment. Next time you and your fans are at Disneyland just walk up to random cast member who look older than 30 and ask him how long they’ve been making magic there and what they were doing before they came to Disneyland.

Ron Dominguez was son of the Dominguez famley he was Disneyland vic president until 1990 . Also his house he was raise on is still in side the park but in the back off stage .neear where the keep the horse.

My favorite "secret" isn't really a secret at all... It's how much the foliage has evolved at Disneyland over the years. It has grown-in SO MUCH compared to when the park opened, and even since I remember visiting as a little kid, long ago. When you pointed out the Dominguez Palm, that made me realize, there are really big, impressive, mature trees all around the park that didn't exist just a few decades ago. It just goes to show how magic happens, right before our eyes, and it barely gets noticed!

Not sure if this was mentioned, but in Tomorrowland, all the plants are edible. Pomegranate trees, kale, Swiss chard, purple cabbage, etc. are grown there because that’s how we feed the future of tomorrow.

I believe that "plaque" behind the water fountain is actually a cast iron fireplace front. Down South, back in the days before AC and central heating, people would close off the fireplaces with these fronts when the fireplace wasn't in use.

How the cast members make the Disney treats so perfect and practically identical in my eyes is amazing. They're so precise and clean. I'm here thinking I'd be spilling orange sugar everywhere and the chocolate for the stripes would be dripping especially with people watching. It's always so mesmerizing to watch them at work

More secrets please! One secret I have to share is on Tom Sawyer Island, there is a boat docked on the northern end. You can see it while riding the Mark Twain or the Sailing Ship Columbia. It's an ohmage to the Mike Fink Keel Boats attraction that operated from December 25, 1955- May 17, 1997. There were 2 boats that raced each other on the water during an episode on the Disneyland t.v. series. The boat that is docked on the northern end is called the Gullywhumper. Thank you as always Chris for sharing these secrets:_ParkPassChris:

I love that you not only have facts that I never knew, but you also are on location. It’s so much better than the basic YouTube slideshow information dump.

Brook putting the chocolate on the tigger tail was adorable.

A "secret" I have never heard anybody mention is on the Disneyland Railroad. It is just past the metal bridge. On the right hand side there is a post with a bag hanging on it. The sign says "RPO", Railroad Post Office. Back in 1838 all railroads were also designated a mail route. Small locations that didn't have a station to load and unload mail a "catch on the fly" device was used. As the train passed, a postal employee would throw out the locations bag of mail and an arm on the car would catch the hanging bag of outgoing mail as the train sped past - without stopping. There is a lot more fun stuff to the story,but this message is already getting long LOL.

More secrets please! My husband Cam and I had the absolute joy to you this week in the park on our honeymoon! I’ve adored all your videos for years, you’ve got us through some heavy Disney travel droughts these past few years in our family. AND there’s nothing better than seeing someone who you’ve loved watching and seeing their journey on YouTube for years, meeting them in person and seeing that they genuinely are in person who they are online! You are a bright light in this world Chris (and your whole family to boot!) keep being you, you’re so very much appreciated on this little corner of the internet 🥹

Oh my goodness. the end of the video after talking about the Palm tree, when you speak to us directly, it really touched my heart. Thank you!

Thank you for saying those words ..