Disney California Adventure - February 2001
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- Опубліковано 28 вер 2024
- Come along on our trip to Disney's California Adventure - February 2001
Including views of the original postcard entry with the Golden Gate bridge. The original Paradise Pier and the Mission Tortilla Factory. Watch the excitement of the Eureka Parade.
"We're gonna go to Superstar Limo since there is no wait!"
Famous last words...
Feels like I’m really there. This version of the park had plenty of faults, but this was a fantastic blast of nostalgia. Thanks to your 2001 self for filming this
The DCA I grew up with :)
I miss this version
RossLovesDisneyNature what
Oh shut up! All Disney cares about nowadays is money and when Walt Disney Imagineering thought of constructing California adventure in the first place, they didn’t even start to think that since they were the people who were responsible for changing rides at the Disneyland resort then that means that they would take away all the California themed rides in CALIFORNIA adventure and they would just turn the theme of California adventure into the same exact Disney kind of theme as the Disneyland park. That’s why California Adventure should’ve never existed.
Miss this DCA
@@ryanmomtahan4786 You need to work on your people skills
Even though this land needed lot of improvement and luckily it got it, I still have great memories of this place from when I was a kid. The classic music, California screamin, and especially that metro train style food place
I grew up with this DCA, and I absolutely adored it. Brings me a lot of nostalgia to be able to see it all again (especially while the parks are closed)
Same
Same. I grew up with it too. I only remember fondly because I was soo little
@@epicmickey1719 how old were you?( I was about 6-7 in 2006-2007) I'm always the age of whatever the last 2 digits of the year are.
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@@epicmickey1719 I remember the entrance and the tortilla factory and the disney junior show and some of the park. It feels like a dream though and it's so crazy and weird. It's because those memories were from when I was about 2 years old.
Wow - it’s insane how many things I just forgot were there. Just seeing the old entrance with the big letters out in front was so nostalgic. I think the last time I saw the park looking like this I was about 9 years old. It’s also crazy to think that this park got redone within like 10 years of it being open. Thanks for sharing
Just got hit with nostalgia, I remember going here as a kid. Lot of a fun memories made here. It’s changed so much, it really isn’t the same theme park. Hope to visit one of these days real soon.
Same but it's odd how i remember some parts of this park even though those memories were from when I was just 2 years old. It makes my memories seem fake like they were just some dream or from an old movie I watched.
Me too.
Truly thank you so much for sharing your private memories with us, I really appreciate seeing this video of the original DCA
I was born in January of 2001 and I remember when Disneyland used to look like this. My family and I used to go a lot. Now it's been almost 8 years since I last went. Planning to go to Disneyland again soon.
Omg california screamin the first rollercoaster i've ever been on i grew up in DCA
Happy 20th Anniversary California Adventure! My Son And I Went To Anaheim Earlier Today To Commemorate The 20th Anniversary
PAINT THE NIGHT PARADE is coming back to DCA in June 2023
Ohh how i miss this. Now this is DCA, not this Pixar Park we have now.
although i wasnt born when california adventure first opened, i really miss the old design of it. it really fitted the title of the park
Haven’t been in 11 years but been lots of times to disney, i stay about 4 hours away!! I reamber when this was just a parking lot and it was just the Disney park! I also stayed in anahiem over a month!
I remember going to this California adventure when I was a baby (I was born in 2004)
Super star limo was long gone by then.
Gotta be one of my earliest memeories
I Remember Going To This Disney Adventure When I Was 5 Years I Had a Good Memories me and My Family I Saw The Disney parade it Was Fun 🤩
I was here June that same year. Memories 🥲
wow this is fantastic! So glad this video exists. Feel like I just time traveled
My friends and I loved the act/sing performance thing in the Animation Studio! Somewhere in my parent's attic is a VHS of us doing the Lion King scene together.
Now that’s a break area for the character meet-and-greets ugh
This is awesome footage. thanks for posting
Iconic California letters. I miss the California part of California Adventure
They’re still around. Go to Sacramento and you’ll find them at the Cal Expo entrance
I worked DCA as part of the opening crew. No joke i watched your video looking for me and any friends working that day.
Aw man. I wished you saw yourself. I love when moments like that happen.
Our first trip to DCA was late Feb or early March 2001... watched this video and I swear I think I saw us coming out of the Zephyr at night. I’m in a grey hoodie. Crazy. I’ve got to get out my old miniDV tapes and check my footage to see what I wore. I had just got a Canon GL-1 and was in art school for video production so I was always shooting video. I took that camera everywhere. Probably have 500 full tapes from trips & various events from 2001-2005. Then moved to a HDV cam and kept up through around 2010. I have a crazy archive of life.
Wouldn’t that be awesome?!
Happy 20th Aniversary today! February 8, 2021.
I feel like I have a hidden brief memory of that zephyr train
The thing that surprised me the most is how short the trees are in Grizzly Peak
Great observation.
1:13…that Toy store has returned from Yesterland. It moved over to Disneyland park and dropped the s from the “E.” It’s in the new Toontown. More than a decade later!!
It’s surprising how good quality it is.😅
Greetings! May I use this footage in a video I'm making about this park's history? I will give full credit to your channel.
Yes. Thank you.
I miss it being like this so much… /:
woah nostalgia trip, i totally remember going to the park when it was overcast and mostly empty
God this takes me back. I miss those days. Loved the style of the park then but I think its grown more into itself as Ive grown more into myself, which has been great to see. I'll be going back soon and hopefully the animation building is open this time, thats the best attraction in the park imo. I definitely prefer Buena Vista Street to the Sunshine Plaza, but I miss Paradise Pier, good thing the bay and the Paradise Gardens bit are still there. How'd you feel about me using some of this footage in a video retrospective, I'd credit you of course. What an odd history
“Oh look, it’s Mexicans. Mexican dancers!” 19:10
…have you never seen Mexicans dance before? 😂😂😜
In seriousness, this video took me back to my senior year in high school. I went to DCA in May 2001. I remembered a few things but others I’d forgotten. Nostalgia at its finest, heh.
They should have instead of making flat images made some rockwork to look like the sierras or something. I do miss the Bridge though
34:31
40:44 where is the store, oh wait, they don’t sell them anymore
But in all seriousness this brings back nostalgia, RIP old DCA
Why Did You Ship California Girls
0:11 👱” I’m gonna go right in between the I and the F” 👱♀️” iiiiffff🎶”
Hi Eric, is it okay if I use this video for some footage for my 20th anniversary of DCA video? I’ll give credit to you, and ect.
Sure. Just please source @ericthomaschu - thank you. Eager to see your final project.
@@EricChu88 👍 thank you so much.
34:49 California Screamin
2:52 wtf was this man thinking
I wasmt even borned yet neither was my suster lol
It says The Evil Queen not witch.
Beauty and the Beast 10 year anniversary (1991-2001) 20 year anniversary (1991-2011) and 30 year anniversary (1991-2021).
Alice In Wonderland 10 year anniversary (1951-1961) Alice In Wonderland 20 year anniversary (1951-1971) Alice In Wonderland 30 year anniversary (1951-1981) Alice In Wonderland 40 year anniversary (1951-1991) Alice In Wonderland 50 year anniversary (1951-2001) Alice In Wonderland 60 year anniversary (1951-2011) Alice In Wonderland 70 year anniversary (1951-2021)
I like Beast’s Library.
I thought Mad Hatter and March Hare are invisible and just legs.
1:05:05 Poor Ariel
I miss old DCA. People hated it but my 11 year old self thought it was a blast. It was much less crowded than DL.
People didn’t like that it didn’t “feel like a Disney park” but I thought it was actually kinda nice. Disneyland was right across the esplanade if people wanted Disney characters left and right.
It was much better than the current era with all the lazy, uninspired Marvel crap they’re shoving in.
I'll always have a soft spot for this 1/2 done version of DCA. Something about it brings up emotions.
The Animation lobby is so great. Surrounded by all those screens with familiar Disney music playing… I would just sit in there with friends for like an hour on hot days. We’d do Animation Academy a couple times and the voice-over stuff in Ursula’s Grotto.
In 2015 when I was working at DCA I did a show for employees called “Flashback” and we got to rehearse in there after hours hahaha.
I really love seeing the DCA of my childhood I think the reason I love this version is because all the nostalgia it holds to me as a child. Idk if I would love it as much going into it as an adult. But I loved seeing your commentary and that you guys thought the park was beautiful
Me too.
Back when this park had everything that had something to do with the theme of it.
DCA is SO much better now. Unfortunate that it opened in a rush with a crappy budget. I first went in 2003 and was so underwhelmed and frankly quite bored. I was 13 and my cousins were 11 and 9. We were like...why on earth didn’t we go to Disneyland. The Aladdin play was really good though.
Oh my god
The aladdin play scared the hell out of me when I was a kid
Did you ride incredicoaster ( An ride Based off of the incredibles) because that replaced california screamin
I have ridden Incredicoaster. And before that it was called California Screamin'. It's a play off a song called California Dreamin' by the Mamas and the Papas
I experienced "The Twilight Zone Tower of Terror" and "Muppet Vision 3D " when I went on 2008.
this is when Disneyland became a resort
I remember going to Disney California adventure when, I was 4 years old from 2001.
I really miss Paradise Pier 2001 version, i think the newer version wasn't really good, except Neil Patrick Harris. And Pixar Pier defently sucks.
The park is basically Disney Pixar Adventure, bear creek is basically holding the name of California Adventure
Hi. Eric @ericchu Thank you for this fantastic video of DCA. Tonight, I am filled with so many memories. We visited DCA when it first opened with my mommy who was already very sick and in a wheelchair. We took several oxygen tanks and she had a great time. It meant so much to see the park. Miss the big California letters. I am sure you know this but thought I would mention it to your followers Those California letters were donated in May 2012 to Friends of the California State Fair, a nonprofit organization that benefits California Exposition & State Fair (Cal Expo) in Sacramento. Cal Expo is the site of the California State Fair and hundreds of other events annually. They were honored to have them and many people get to enjoy them again. Thank you so much @ericchu God bless you
My boyfriend was trying to explain to me what DCA was like with the ‘old entrance’ since I didn’t come to the west coast until much later than 2001. He found this video so now I know. Thank you for recording and posting, this is a part of Disneyland California history.
Hah! I saw your video linked from an Offhand Disney video. Besides being delighted to see your name, I had to stop and seriously question if I had gone to DCA with you two during those early years! Hope you’re doing well!
You know, I’m not sure. Haha. I know we have a photo of you and Mom in front of the old Club 33 Door. 😀
We are and hope you and the family are well.
@@EricChu88 So glad to hear it. It’s hard to be distant, but we’re muddling through. Would love to get an opportunity to catch up!
February 1st 2001
Back when disneyland california was truly california and not some marvel and pixar stuff
King Triton’s Carousel Playing Surfin’ USA 38:35
Nice video. I liked the original park. Except superstar limo
Nostalgic :')
3:06 NO DON’T DO IT
😂😂😂
What was once a 100 acre Parking lot ✅️
wow what was disney thinking, thank god the park improved since then
No
SHUT UP
@@ScholarTheTerminator94 why
@@yuh2620 The Original Is Better, Now It’s Just A Dumping Ground For Disney IP
@@ScholarTheTerminator94 so? it way better themed now and higher quality, this old version literally looks like an outdoor mall
Miss the maliboomer
It was a good one!
takes me back to when peepaw took me to DCA in 2001 at the young age of 55. Good times
I went there during 2009 but, I wish that I grew up more with this version instead but, Buena Vista Street makes me want to puke and I like Sunshine Plaza better
I'll admit, even though there are parts of the old park that I miss (I miss Paradise Pier and don't like Pixar Pier nearly as much), I think that Buena Vista Street (the current entrance pathway) is better than Sunshine Plaza (the old entrance). Though, in some ways, I miss the old Sun Statue, especially since Carthay Circle never appealed to me as a restaurant.
Took me a long time to realize that Carthay Circle was a restaurant LOL.
California Adventure post-Condor Flats rework pre-Guardians - we didn't how good we had it.
Pixar Pier is the nail on the coffin for this park becoming Disneys Pixar adventure
Wow, what an ugly park! So glad they fixed it. Pretty fun place nowadays
yes
Except the problem now is the park doesn’t know what theme it wants to be
@@thesupermayoreo The park wants to be a collection of IPs, but it should change the name because it's nothing like California.
@@scrutiny145EXACTLY, just change the name to Pixar Adventure because there is a crap ton of Pixar ips in that park
@@thesupermayoreoExactly, just remove bear creek and the entrance to the park and replace it with a Pixar IP, Boom Pixar adventure, they screwed with the parks theme too much
Damn I was 10.. thanks for these videos. Really takes me back lol
As cheap and crony as a lot of DCA was back then, it had thematic cohesion which you cant say for DCA today.