Main Street USA Trivia

• The ornate base of the Town Square flag pole was discovered in 1955 on Wilshire Blvd. at the scene of a traffic accident – a car ran into a lamp post and the base was bought for $5.00.
• The cannons in Town Square are actual cannons used by the French Army in the 19th Century.
• The streets lamps on Main Street are 150 years old and were purchased in Baltimore for $.03 a pound.
• Walt refused to allow sharp 90 degree corners on Main Street sidewalks. He felt they would be too rigid and threatening, and therefore all curbs have gentle, rounded corners.
• The train engines were named after the founders of the Santa Fe Railroad: C.K. Holiday, E.P. Ripley, Ernest S. Marsh and Fred Gurley.
• The engine of the first train in the park was a larger scale reproduction of Walt’s toy engine the “Lilly Belle”, named after his wife, Lillian.
• Abe Lincoln’s speech in “Great Moments with Mr. Lincoln” is actually a composite of various speeches delivered by the Great Emancipator.

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