{"id":25227,"date":"2018-06-23T16:04:07","date_gmt":"2018-06-23T23:04:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=25227"},"modified":"2018-06-23T16:04:07","modified_gmt":"2018-06-23T23:04:07","slug":"california-attraction-birthdays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/california-attraction-birthdays\/","title":{"rendered":"California Themed Attraction Birthday Celebrations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/steimuse.jpg\" alt=\"img\" width=\"650\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/museums\/salinas-national-steinbeck-center.html\">National Steinbeck Center<\/a> in Salinas turned 20 in 2018. To celebrate, guests gain free admission to the museum and events June 24-30!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/aquariums\/long-beach-aquarium-of-the-pacific.html\">Aquarium of the Pacific<\/a> in Long Beach also opened in 1998. It hosted a VIP and Charter Member anniversary party this week, and has special lectures and contests for the public to participate in.<\/p>\n<p>Each of California&#8217;s theme parks and attractions is worth celebrating but none quite takes the cake like the grand opening of Disneyland on July 17, 1955. Among the opening day snafus:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>100 degree temp and lack of water fountains<\/li>\n<li>food ran out<\/li>\n<li>gate crashers doubled the attendance<\/li>\n<li>7 mile back up on Santa Ana Freeway<\/li>\n<li>many rides not open<\/li>\n<li>Mark Twain Riverboat nearly capsized<\/li>\n<li>not enough bathrooms, kids peed in parking lots<\/li>\n<li>creepy looking Mickey &amp; Minnie Mouse costumes<\/li>\n<li>fresh asphalt on Main Street USA ensnared women&#8217;s heeled shoes<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/themeparks\/theme-parks-history.html\">California Theme Park Openings<\/a><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>1907: Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk<\/li>\n<li>1915: Universal Studios Hollywood $0.05 tour | <a href=\"https:\/\/arestravel.com\/attraction\/single\/5454\/10\">See prices now<\/a><\/li>\n<li>1923: Steinhart Aquarium \u00a0in San Francisco (now part of California Academy of Sciences) | <a href=\"https:\/\/arestravel.com\/attraction\/single\/5454\/790\">See prices<\/a><\/li>\n<li>1923: San Diego Zoo $0.10 charged | <a href=\"https:\/\/arestravel.com\/attraction\/single\/5454\/1\">See prices now<\/a><\/li>\n<li>1955:\u00a0Disneyland charged $1, $0.50 kid, rides $0.10 up | <a href=\"https:\/\/arestravel.com\/attraction\/single\/5454\/18\">See prices now<\/a><\/li>\n<li>1964: SeaWorld San Diego charged $2.25 admission | <a href=\"https:\/\/arestravel.com\/attraction\/single\/5454\/1310\">See prices now<\/a><\/li>\n<li>1968:\u00a0Knott&#8217;s Berry Farm began\u00a0admission $0.25 | <a href=\"https:\/\/arestravel.com\/attraction\/single\/5454\/11\">See prices now<\/a><\/li>\n<li>1971:\u00a0Six Flags Magic Mountain charged $5, $3.50 child | <a href=\"https:\/\/arestravel.com\/attraction\/single\/5454\/166\">See prices now<\/a><\/li>\n<li>1972: Wild Animal Park (now San Diego Zoo Safari Park) | <a href=\"https:\/\/arestravel.com\/attraction\/single\/5454\/2\">See prices<\/a><\/li>\n<li>1976: Marriott&#8217;s Great America (now California Great America)<\/li>\n<li>1986: Marine World (now Six Flags Discovery Kingdom) in Vallejo<\/li>\n<li>1992: Safari West in Santa Rosa opened<\/li>\n<li>1999: Legoland California in Carlsbad | <a href=\"https:\/\/arestravel.com\/attraction\/single\/5454\/3\">See prices<\/a><\/li>\n<li>2001: Disney&#8217;s California Adventure opened<\/li>\n<li>2001: Bonfante Gardens (now Gilroy Gardens) opened<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>National Steinbeck Center in Salinas turned 20 in 2018. To celebrate, guests gain free admission to the museum and events June 24-30! Aquarium of the Pacific in Long Beach also opened in 1998. It hosted a VIP and Charter Member anniversary party this week, and has special lectures and contests for the public to participate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25227"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25227"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25227\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25228,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25227\/revisions\/25228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}