Disney Facts: 5 facts about Buena Vista Street in Disneyland Park Resort

Buena Vista Street in California Adventure park at the Disneyland Resort was created to reflect Los Angeles of the 1920s and 1930s when Walt Disney first arrived.

“It was July 1923. I packed all of my worldly goods – a pair of trousers, a checkered coat, a lot of drawing materials and the last of the fairy tale reels we had made – in a kind of frayed cardboard suitcase. And with that wonderful audacity of youth, I went to Hollywood, arriving there with just forty dollars. It was a big day the day I got on that Santa Fe California Limited. I was just free and happy!” Disney is quoted on a plaque in the section of the park which opened June 15, 2012.

Here are five quick facts about Buena Vista Street:

1. Buena Vista Street is named after Buena Vista Street in Burbank, where The Walt Disney Studios is located.

2. The two Red Car Trolley cars are numbered 623 and 717. The numbers represent when Walt Disney first moved to California in June 1923 and when he opened Disneyland on July 17, 1955.

3. The Carthay Circle Restaurant and Lounge is based on the the Carthay Circle Theatre, which opened in Hollywood in 1926 and was where “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

” debuted.

4. The Candy Mountain featured at Trolley Treats was inspired by an early concept for a water flume attraction in Disneyland.

5. Listen carefully when you walk into Oswald’s and Julius Katz & Sons. The radios are tuned to KBVS where “The Adventures of Hank and Wally,” the FF&P Classical Music Hour and Scary Symphony can be heard.