Q: I recently acquired a copy of The Disneyland News newspaper from July 1955. The copy that I have seems to look old enough, but the headline doesn’t look right. The newspaper that I have reads, “Vol 1, No.1″ July 1955, along with a headline reading, “The R.L. Purdys Visit Disneyland.” Of course, the newspaper that I am familiar with and have seen many times, has a headline that reads, “50,000 ATTEND GALA PARK OPENING.” Were there two different headlines for the same paper, or is the one I have a fake?
Peter, Monrovia, California
A: Guests to Disneyland in the mid-1950s could get their own headline printed on The Disneyland News.
Dave Smith