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There’s a double-decker omnibus passing by the yellow Wurlitzer Music Hall.
Go into the store to buy an organ, piano, or player piano—a great Christmas present and a fine souvenir of your visit to the park. Maybe a player piano roll would be easier to carry.
As you look past the bus, you can see the Main Street Opera House, with its beige façade and its green awnings.
Too bad the Opera House isn’t open to guests.
(The park’s lumber mill is in there.)
Come back to the park next year.
The holiday decorations are bound to get better every year.
Beginning with Disneyland’s very first Christmas in 1955, and continuing to the present day, Disneyland has always been decorated for the Holidays.
Over the years, the decorations have become more elaborate, more creative,
and more carefully matched to themed areas—such as garlands with purple and green ribbons in New Orleans Square, garlands with pine cones in outdoorsy Critter Country, and all sorts of crazy, fun decorations in Mickey’s Toontown.
Two major Disneyland attractions now get extensive holiday makeovers each year—resulting in Haunted Mansion Holiday (based on the 1993 movie The Nightmare Before Christmas) and it’s a small world holiday (featuring holiday traditions around the world).
In case you’re wondering about some of the things you read on this page...
- Pepsi-Cola sponsored the Golden Horseshoe Revue until September 1982.
In 1990, Coca-Cola became the exclusive soft drink provider for Disneyland and Walt Disney World.
- The Wurlitzer Music Hall operated on Main Street from Disneyland’s opening in 1955 until September 1968.
It was a showroom in which guests could see and hear Wurlitzer products.
- The Main Street Opera House was not open to guests until December 1961,
when it became the home of the Babes in Toyland Exhibit.
Guests could see the sets from Walt Disney’s 1961 holiday release, Babes in Toyland.
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