Enchanted Tiki Room 50th anniversary

This week marks the 50th anniversary of the Enchanted Tiki Room at Disneyland. This post at Disney Parks Blog talks about the attraction and has some early photos of Walt with the singing birds.

When Walt Disney debuted his Enchanted Tiki Room at Disneyland park in 1963, it was a major milestone in the development of Audio-Animatronic technology. Some time earlier, Walt discovered a 19th century mechanical singing bird in a New Orleans shop while traveling on vacation. He began to think about animation, not just as a film medium, but as a way to bring characters to life at the Disneyland Resort.