Originally Posted By YesImANaturalBlue I am reading one of my interesting history books about DL, and I started wondering if there is a book out there with a timeline history of Disneyland. I would like one that shows the opening rides, the dates that other rides opened and closed over the years. And any cool interesting facts about the rides. I would love to spend a couple of days going through Disneyland and riding everything in order.
Originally Posted By ecdc The Nickel Tour is a real treat but is a pretty penny these days. Honestly, I think you're just as well off going to some fan websites or Wikipedia.
Originally Posted By Devmonium Try this one...I have it and I love it, It has some good informantion on almost all of the attractions!! <a href="http://www.amazon.com/The-Disneyland-Encyclopedia-Unauthorized-Unprecedented/dp/1595800336" target="_blank">http://www.amazon.com/The-Disn...95800336</a>
Originally Posted By karlg If you want a list of opening dates of the attractions in order, the link below has a nice list. <a href="http://touringplans.com/disneyland/attractions/opening-dates" target="_blank">http://touringplans.com/disney...ng-dates</a> As far as books that cover all of Disneyland goes, generally considered the "best" are "Disneyland, the Inside Story" by Randy Bright (published 1987) and "The Nickle Tour." The Hard Cover "Disneyland, Memories of a Lifetime" and Disneyland, Celebrating 45 years of Magic (both essentially the same book with different titles that publish circa 2000) are about 1/3rd history and 2/3rds pictures of the attractions with some brief History on each attraction. These books start with a timeline of the attractions. They are not in depth history books but do give a nice overview and have some a large number of pretty pictures. The later "Disneyland Resort - Magical Memories of a Lifetime" (2002 and I think the 2008 edition which I don't have) took out the 1/3rd of Disneyland history and replaced it with pictures and some light information on DCA. The Disneyland information is for the most part identical to the 2000 edition (but they stripped out the DL history overview to make room for DCA). Past these books on the "whole park," mostly there are books that focus on one or a few aspects of Disneyland and/or Imagineering. I probably have over 100 books on various aspect of the park from information/biographys on Imagineering/Imagineers to books on specific attractions (there are two books on the Haunted Mansion that are over 100 pages each - one Fanzine style By Theme Park Adventures and one "Official" By Jason Surrell -- who used the movie as an excuse to write a book about the HM). The "E-Ticket" magazine was a great source of early park information with each issue primarily covering one attraction. The Disney Family Museum bought out the E-Ticket copyrights and I believe still sells the collection on CD (as well as some individual magazines). A couple of more suggestions: THE source for information on Disney Books is the Disney Books Network By Didier Ghez. He has a short synopsis of just about everything every printed on Disney. I find the "What's new" link to be most useful for keeping up with what has been or will be published. Didier has been doing this for about 15 years and he is very complete. He also has some lists by category, but these lists are out of date. <a href="http://didierghez.com/" target="_blank">http://didierghez.com/</a> Another recent book I would like to give a plug for is Bob Gurr's relatively new book. It is very enjoyable and covers the wide range of attractions he worked on both for Disney and after he left Disney in the early 1980's. Bob is most famous for the design of the Monorail (see also my review at <a href="http://disneybooks.blogspot.com/2012_05_01_archive.html" target="_blank">http://disneybooks.blogspot.co...ive.html</a>). While this book is a tad expensive, it is a very limited edition. <a href="http://www.apepenpublishing.com/Bob_Gurr_Book.html" target="_blank">http://www.apepenpublishing.co...ook.html</a>
Originally Posted By DlandDug For timelines, I agree that "Magical Memories to Last a Lifetime" is a good choice. Another, older book that has a great timeline up front is Disneyland, Dreams, Traditions and Transitions." It was published after Randy bright's book, and before Magical Memories.
