# disneyland in the 60's **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [July 17, 2005, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disneyland-in-the-60s/312882 "2005-07-17T17:20:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Crandolph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7cd45c/32.png) [@Crandolph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crandolph)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2005, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disneyland-in-the-60s/312882/21 "2005-07-18T14:46:22Z")
Here’s the [Anaheim PD’s official history](http://www.anaheim.net/article.asp?id=672) of the Yippie events. ---
**Author:** ![BobT](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8e8cbc/32.png) [@BobT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobT)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2005, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disneyland-in-the-60s/312882/22 "2005-07-18T14:55:49Z")
[The U.S. Government kept Nikita Kruschev out of Disneyland](http://www.snopes.com/disney/parks/nikita.htm) ---
**Author:** ![Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spectre_of_pithecanthropus/32/12343_2.png) [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2005, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disneyland-in-the-60s/312882/23 "2005-07-18T17:40:35Z")
> [@Zsofia](#): > > I’ve read that female employees had their backs patted to make sure they were wearing bras at the time. For that matter I heard as recently as about 15 years ago that facial hair was forbidden for employees of the Studios, let alone Park cast members. ---
**Author:** ![rjung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/45deac/32.png) [@rjung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjung)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2005, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disneyland-in-the-60s/312882/24 "2005-07-18T20:38:42Z")
> [@BobT](#): > > [The U.S. Government kept Nikita Kruschev out of Disneyland](http://www.snopes.com/disney/parks/nikita.htm) In a related vein, Henry Kissenger spent some time moonlighting at Disneyland as a popcorn seller. He was on a visit when someone mistook him for a cast member and asked for directions to the restroom, and liked it enough to want to do it some more. ---
**Author:** ![hajario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hajario/32/171_2.png) [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2005, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disneyland-in-the-60s/312882/25 "2005-07-18T21:03:06Z")
There is indeed a holding cell in D-land. A guy I knew was put there until the police came to get him. He caught stealing a pair of sunglasses from one of the shops. Haj ---
**Author:** ![pinkfreud](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pinkfreud/32/17603_2.png) [@pinkfreud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pinkfreud)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2005, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disneyland-in-the-60s/312882/26 "2005-07-18T22:18:45Z")
> [@postcards](#): > > Of gourse, the fact that they put you back _at the end of the line_ after a fifteen-minute detention kinda negates that favor. They didn’t put us at the end of the line. They just didn’t escort us to the front of it. We really did look like counterculture types, so I’m not surprised that this happened. After all, we were the kinds of people that our parents warned us against. ---
**Author:** ![Walloon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/fbc32d/32.png) [@Walloon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walloon)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2005, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disneyland-in-the-60s/312882/27 "2005-07-19T01:52:16Z")
> [@Spectre of Pithecanthropus](#): > > For that matter I heard as recently as about 15 years ago that facial hair was forbidden for employees of the Studios, let alone Park cast members. How did Walt and Roy Disney get through the gates? ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2005, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disneyland-in-the-60s/312882/28 "2005-07-19T03:35:55Z")
> [@Spectre of Pithecanthropus](#): > > For that matter I heard as recently as about 15 years ago that facial hair was forbidden for employees of the Studios, let alone Park cast members. It depended on your role. In Main Street, you could likely get away with a nice handlebar. ---
**Author:** ![Large\_Marge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/50afbb/32.png) [@Large\_Marge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Large_Marge)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2005, 9:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disneyland-in-the-60s/312882/29 "2005-07-19T09:19:56Z")
> [@HeyHomie](#): > > Walt Disney World in Florida has at least two. One is on Tom Sawyer Island, and the other is in the line for Pirates of the Caribbean. The Pirates one has two skeletons playing chess incarcerated in it. > > Oh, you mean jails for _guests_??? Yes, for guests. When people behave badly, they are taken to Disney Jail, and then possibly turned over to authorities. ---
**Author:** ![HeyHomie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heyhomie/32/207_2.png) [@HeyHomie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeyHomie)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2005, 1:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disneyland-in-the-60s/312882/30 "2005-07-19T13:14:58Z")
> [@Large Marge](#): > > Yes, for guests. > > When people behave badly, they are taken to Disney Jail, and then possibly turned over to authorities. I was joking. ---
**Author:** ![chappachula](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/d2c977/32.png) [@chappachula](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chappachula)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2005, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disneyland-in-the-60s/312882/31 "2005-07-19T13:24:16Z")
> [@Large Marge](#): > > Yes, for guests. > > When people behave badly, they are taken to Disney Jail, and then possibly turned over to authorities. This doesnt really surprise me. There is a jail in almost every National Park, too. (of course, Yellowstone is not a private business, like Disneyland, so it isnt quite the same) ---
**Author:** ![Large\_Marge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/50afbb/32.png) [@Large\_Marge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Large_Marge)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2005, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disneyland-in-the-60s/312882/32 "2005-07-19T23:28:31Z")
> [@HeyHomie](#): > > I was joking. My apologies. Sarcasm is hard to read sometimes. ---
**Author:** ![DMark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@DMark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DMark)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2005, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disneyland-in-the-60s/312882/33 "2005-07-19T23:50:30Z")
I knew a girl in college who moved to California to work as Sleeping Beauty. She really looked the part, and we used to make fun of her as you never met a more up-beat, constantly happy person in your life. I never saw her once not smiling. Scary. I ran into her a few year later and she, of course, loved working at Disneyland. One thing she told me was that you could call in “sick” without losing pay if you were in a bad mood. She never used the option, but mentioned it. I also asked about hippies and black folks not being allowed and she told me only “dirty” hippies weren’t allowed in - which she clarified as bare-foot with non-clean clothes. This info came from about 1970 or so. ---
**Author:** ![OxyMoron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/e9a140/32.png) [@OxyMoron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OxyMoron)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2005, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disneyland-in-the-60s/312882/34 "2005-07-20T02:51:18Z")
I suspect the OP may be thinking about other amusement parks that were, indeed, segregated. The movie and musical versions of Hairspray are satirical, but loosely portray a real integration battle over a Baltimore amusement park, Gwynn Oak, that saw NAACP demonstrations before finally integrating in 1963. (Apparently, Gwynn Oak is now just a regular park.) Similarly, Glen Echo outside DC was segregated until [1961](http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/21/AR2005062101237_pf.html). [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disneyland-in-the-60s/312882.md?page=1)