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00:09Behind the gates of Frontierland is the inspirational America of the past century.
00:15Here is the treasure of our native folklore.
00:18The songs, tales and legends of the big men who built the land.
00:22The Stagecoach Ride opened at Disneyland in 1955 as part of the original roster of Frontierland attractions.
00:34In 1956, with the addition of the living, desert and other new scenery, the ride became the Rainbow Mountain Stagecoach Ride.
00:42Although most Disneyland guidebooks and brochures from 1956 through 1959 continued to call it the Stagecoach Ride or just Stagecoaches.
00:51Though it must have seemed like a good idea at the time, the Stagecoach proved to be one of Disneyland's most problematic and dangerous attractions.
01:00The Coaches were beautiful wooden vehicles with large yellow wheels, gaudy yellow flourishes along the sides,
01:07the named Disneyland Stage Lines painted above the doors and seating for about a dozen guests,
01:13half of them inside and half of them on top, with even a shotgun space available next to the Coachmen.
01:18These were Concord-style stages, that is, they echoed the luxurious design created for the famous Overland Stagecoaches of the mid-1800s
01:28by the Abbott Downing Company of Concord, New Hampshire.
01:31When Frontierland, Wilderness Territory, was remodeled and the neighboring Mule Pack was rechristened the Rainbow Ridge Mule Pack,
01:38the stage was also renamed in the summer of 1956 as the Rainbow Mountain Stagecoaches.
01:44Teams of four horses from the Pony Farm pulled the stages through the same area traversed by the Mules and the Conestoga wagons.
01:53All three attractions loaded their passengers in the vicinity of what is today the Big Thunder Mountain boarding area.
01:59The operation was certainly photogenic. Disneyland's hardcover books included a picture of Vice President Nixon smiling from a window,
02:07and Walt Disney wore a cowboy hat when he posed next to the stage.
02:11Unfortunately, the stagecoaches were prone to tipping over.
02:14Breakaway harnesses did not solve the problem. Instead, it caused many a guest to be stranded while the horses proceeded on the journey.
02:20Low guest capacity and high overhead were the reasons the coaches were eliminated.
02:26The last journey of the stagecoach was September 13, 1959.
02:31Names of the Coaches
02:32California, Arizona, Colorado
02:34The lines for the stagecoachs were massive.
02:37The slow-moving vehicles could only carry a few guests at a time, so the lines often stretched far beyond the loading area.
02:44The stagecoaches required a C ticket in 1955 and a D ticket in 1956.
02:49The stagecoach was pulled out of retirement in 1980 for Disneyland's 25th anniversary.
03:07Here's a couple of shots of stagecoaches backstage, even one with Walt Disney posing.
03:12Here is a shot of a stagecoach after a tragic accident.
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03:35What is the mystery?
03:35Music
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03:37the
03:39middle
03:40prequel