Disneyland in Anaheim, California officially opened for business on July 17th, 1955.

It's about to turn 64 years old.

It's the Zenith of Walter Elias Disney's vision, better known as Walt Disney.

An aspiring film director, he had become interested in animation after he was laid off from his job as an artist apprentice.

He would later end up moving to California, which at the time was becoming the Entertainment

Epicenter. Throughout the 1930s and 40s,

Disney had taken his daughters to visit various amusement parks.

And he first thought about developing a similar tourist attraction

next to his studio where he worked at the time

in Burbank, California as a way of entertaining visitors. But he quickly came to realize that the place

was too small for what he was envisioning. He hired a consultant in order to seek out a location that would suit what he was looking for, and that's when he settled on a large 60 acre swath of land in Anaheim, California in

1953.

And the rest is history.

More people have visited Disneyland than any other theme park in the world,

with a cumulative total of 726 million visits since its grand opening.

In 2018, 18.6 million people visited Disneyland,

second only to the Magic Kingdom in Orlando, Florida.

With tickets today averaging about $104 per person, no doubt that the amount of

money the park earns is astronomical. Of all of their parks combined, Disney rakes in about $13,611 billion.

That's $13.61 trillion.

The company is also a major employer.

It goes without saying.

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