Here’s the Anaheim PD’s official history of the Yippie events.
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.
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.
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.
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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.
How did Walt and Roy Disney get through the gates?
It depended on your role. In Main Street, you could likely get away with a nice handlebar.
Yes, for guests.
When people behave badly, they are taken to Disney Jail, and then possibly turned over to authorities.
I was joking.
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)
My apologies. Sarcasm is hard to read sometimes.
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.
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.