Disney Unveils a 1920s Theme for Park

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Disney’s California Adventure is poised for a $1-billion makeover that’s designed to give the troubled theme park the main thing it lacks — an emotional connection to keep people coming back.

The sweeping overhaul will transport visitors to the California of the 1920s, when Walt Disney first arrived in Hollywood. In the same way that Disneyland’s Main Street evokes Disney’s hometown of Marceline, Mo., a refocused California Adventure will follow the young animator’s journey to Los Angeles.

Like Sleeping Beauty’s castle in Disneyland, California Adventure will feature a towering structure that recalls Hollywood’s golden era — a re-creation of the Carthay Circle Theatre in Los Angeles where Disney premiered the movie “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs” in 1937.


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