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   Why did Jack Wrather build the Disneyland Hotel?

   • When Walt Disney was planning Disneyland, he turned to entrepreneur Jack Wrather to build an upscale hotel to serve park guests. The Disneyland Hotel opened in October 1955. It wasn’t like the high-rise Disneyland Hotel of today. It was a collection of modern, attractive 2-story buildings.

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   Did Jack Wrather own a hotel?

   • Jack Wrather was a Texas oil millionaire turned film producer who already owned hotels in Las Vegas and Palm Springs, and co-owned television stations in Tulsa and San Diego with Alvarez. The original Disneyland Hotel was designed by the firm of Pereira & Luckman and opened on October 5, 1955, nearly three months after Disneyland.

   Disneyland Hotel (California) - Wikipedia

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   Did Wrather Alvarez own Disneyland?

   • Wrather-Alvarez also financed and owned the Disneyland Hotel in Anaheim. Walt Disney asked Wrather to build the hotel when Disney exhausted his credit line building the Disneyland theme park. The hotel was completed in 1955, and immediately shared the success of Disneyland. When Disney later attempted to buy the hotel, Wrather refused to sell.

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   What happened to Disneyland Hotel?

   • As with Disneyland, the Park, the Disneyland Hotel has never stopped growing and improving. In 1954, Walt Disney asked his friend Jack Wrather to build a hotel in an orange grove across the street from his soon to be open theme park, Disneyland. On March 18, 1955, ground was broken for the Disneyland Hotel.

   Design & History of the Disneyland Hotel California: 1955 - 1965

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   The Disneyland Hotel is a resort hotel located at the Disneyland Resort in Anaheim, California, owned by the Walt Disney Company and operated through their Experiences division. Opened on October 5, 1955, as a motor inn owned and operated by Jack Wrather under an agreement with Walt Disney, the hotel was the first to officially bear the Disney ...

   • Opened: October 5, 1955; 68 years ago
   • Theme: Various, with elements of Classic Disneyland laced throughout

   • Rooms: 1,490 (originally), 990 (as of 2001)

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   May 21, 2015 · In 1954, The Walt Disney Company met Jack Wrather, a successful Texas oil wildcatter and television producer, with a net worth in excess of $5.4 million. His mother, Mazie Wrather, had assets in excess of $5 million. Wrather hired a firm to conduct a study on the terms for a motor hotel including its potential return on investment.

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   Wrather-Alvarez also financed and owned the Disneyland Hotel in Anaheim. Walt Disney asked Wrather to build the hotel when Disney exhausted his credit line building the Disneyland theme park. The hotel was completed in 1955, and immediately shared the success of Disneyland.

   • Children: 4
   • Born: John Devereaux Wrather Jr., May 24, 1918, Amarillo, Texas, U.S.

   • Alma mater: University of Texas at Austin (BA)
   • Resting place: Holy Cross Cemetery, Culver City

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   Oct 5, 2020 · Downtown Disney valet parking, ESPN Zone (now closed), Adventure Tower, and Fantasy Tower (2015) When the Disneyland hotel opened in 1955 with just seven rooms completed, the creative and entrepreneurial force behind it was Jack Wrather (1918-1984)—not Walt Disney.

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   Dec 26, 2006 · by Don Ballard. When Walt Disney was planning Disneyland, he turned to entrepreneur Jack Wrather to build an upscale hotel to serve park guests. The Disneyland Hotel opened in October 1955. It wasn’t like the high-rise Disneyland Hotel of today. It was a collection of modern, attractive 2-story buildings.

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   Dec 27, 2020 · Walt Disney sold his Smoke Tree Ranch home to help fund Disneyland. He turned to his near-neighbor in Palm Springs, Jack Wrather, to help build his hotel

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    In 1954, Walt Disney asked his friend Jack Wrather to build a hotel in an orange grove across the street from his soon to be open theme park, Disneyland. On March 18, 1955, ground was broken for the Disneyland Hotel. The complex was build by the joint venture 'Hodges and Vandegrift Construction Company'.