Happiest Homecoming on Earth
The Happiest Homecoming on Earth or the Happiest Celebration on Earth was the eighteen-month-long celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Disneyland theme park, which opened on July 17, 1955. It commemorated fifty years of Disney theme parks and celebrated Disneyland's milestone throughout Disney parks all over the globe. The "Homecoming" name was only used for Disneyland Resort; all the other Disney Parks resorts used the "Celebration" name.
Sleeping Beauty Castle with its 50th Anniversary Overlay
Lamp post with 50th Anniversary decor.
Flowers outside Main Street, U.S.A. train station during 50th celebration
Disneyland is a theme park at the Disneyland Resort in Anaheim, California. It was the first theme park opened by the Walt Disney Company and the only one designed and constructed under the direct supervision of Walt Disney, and opened on July 17, 1955.
The park's icon, Sleeping Beauty Castle, in 2019
Walt Disney (center) showing Orange County officials plans for Disneyland's layout, December 1954
Disneyland aerial view, 1963, which includes the new Melody Land Theater at the top of the photo
An aerial view of Disneyland in 2004