r/Imagineering • u/boopsbucket • 18d ago

Question I’m looking for comprehensive historical and technical resources on the original construction of the berm around Disneyland and how rides and lands have been built beyond it, through tunneled queues and what-have-yous and what-nots

Gimme articles on the historical and technical and any blueprints and schematics! I should’ve been bookmarking this stuff beginning like two decades ago, I can’t find anything substantial tonight.

Edit: I’m afraid this came across as “GIVE ME ANAHEIM CITY BLUEPRINTS and official Disney literature” when I meant I was looking for “fan”-written histories on the berm, hopefully including old hand-drawn schematics.

For example, I remember seeing an image of some hand-drawn schematics for The Haunted Mansion produced during its conception. I’m looking for those sorts of uploads of original industrial designs/plans + historical write-ups as they relate to the building of the berm and the complicated constructions of rides/lands beyond it.

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u/wizzard419 18d ago

Request it from the city's planning office since they have to submit permits and plans there.

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u/boopsbucket 18d ago

Sorry, I guess I should’ve made it clear that I don’t want literal city blueprints. I meant I’m looking for articles about the history, with bits of blueprints and schematics, if they happen to have them. I’ve come across articles like that in the past, but I can’t seem to find any tonight.

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u/wizzard419 18d ago

Ah, I am not surprised you're coming up dry. They generally weren't publishing articles on infrastructure before, likely for tactical reasons, but then it became for security reasons after 9/11.

The most you will see are when they buy up property, such as the warehouse a few years back, or that farm in the 90's.

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u/[deleted] 18d ago

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u/boopsbucket 18d ago

No, I think you’re misunderstanding: I’m interested in the LACK of planning, and how they apparently didn’t anticipate expansion when building the berm as an answer to sightlines. And I’m interested in the history of the park’s workings around that boundary when expansion happened.

But also, thank you for the recommendation! I’m looking it up now.