Main Street Description Reprinted below, courtesy of Jason Schultz is the original description of Main Street USA used to pitch the idea of Disneyland to the loan bankers.
MAIN STREET has the nostalgic quality that makes it everybody's hometown. It is Main Street, U.S.A. Three blocks long, it is the main shopping district of DISNEYLAND. It has a bank and a newspaper office, and the little ice cream parlor with the marble-topped tables and wire-backed chairs. There is a penny arcade and a Nickelodeon where you can see old time movies.
On the corner is the great DISNEYLAND EMPORIUM where you can buy almost anything and everything unusual. Clothes, cowboy boots, toys, records, books, ceramics, old fashioned candies, jaw-breakers and licorice whips. Toys from all over the world. Gifts for the person who has 'everything.' Or you can get the big mail-order catalogue and purchase it by mail.
The MAIL-ORDER CATALOGUE will picture everything for sale in the Emporium or at any place in DISNEYLAND. If you want a real pony and cart or a miniature donkey thirty inches high you'll find it in the catalogue. Or if you want the latest Disney book or toy you can order by mail and the gift will arrive wrapped in a special Disneyland paper, bearing the postmark DISNEYLAND, CALIFORNIA - direct from the Disneyland U.S. Post Office.
You'll find quaint little restaurants on Main Street with family style cooking, and a bakery shop where Johnny can watch the baker write his name in icing on his birthday cake. Down one of the side streets is The Little Church Around the Corner. Nearby you will see the Mayor's House…a boarding house for guests and a Little Old Red School House…Continuing along Main Street past the intriguing shops, you arrive at the Hub.
