Main Street Penny Arcade--Disneyland History--TMS-539

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00:09straight ahead lies the heartline of america an old-fashioned main street

00:14hometown usa combining the color of frontier days with the oncoming excitement of the new 20th century

00:30staying true to his desire to recreate what would have existed in small american towns in the early

00:391900s walt disney built a penny arcade on disneyland's main street an oversized indian head

00:45penny dated 1901 is mounted over the doorway the arcade's big entrance gates with tantalizing

00:51sights and sounds that invite curious pedestrians to step inside most of the penny arcade has always

00:58been given over to old-fashioned family fun simple games hand crank silent movies viewed for only a

01:04penny and bizarre gizmos that were neither games nor movies of these latter devices guests could still

01:10try the electricity is life device that hooks them up to a battery the souvenir coin pressers and the

01:16beautiful esmeralda fortune telling machine from wide disneyland dictionary 1968 includes penny hand

01:23crank moviolas and antique fun machines of every description esmeralda the fortune teller story to

01:30main street hostess and fortune teller esmeralda meeting new people and predicting futures is a

01:35common occurrence esmeralda is a resident teller of future truths on main street she sits in front of

01:41the penny arcade providing knowledge to hundreds of curious guests each day she began her fortune teller

01:47career as a young girl her family used to manage a traveling gypsy show to make ends meet during the

01:52off-season she began dealing cards during village poker games now she has developed her skill with

01:59the cards to such an extent that she can predict people's futures with one shuffling of the deck one

02:05might think however that sitting in a booth the same one every day reading fortunes might get a

02:10little boring not so she says i meet a lot of interesting men with bright futures she also adds lots of the

02:18guests who approach me are quite respectable those who know esmeralda can attest to the fact that she's a solid

02:24citizen

02:24player piano being serviced

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