>People forget that Disney made up the whole idea of a theme park (as opposed to something more like a carnival) Ummm...not sure if this is really true or a my

>People forget that Disney made up the whole idea of a theme park (as opposed to something more like a carnival) Ummm...not sure if this is really true or a myth propagated by Disney; Storytown USA (now Six Flags Great Escape) predates Disneyland by a year. As the name suggests Storytown was similar to Disney in that is was story-themed: Mother Goose, Humpty Dumpty, Alice in Wonderland, Cinderella, etc. Definitely not like a carnival at all. EDIT: Also nearby was a Western themed amusement park called Frontier Town, which according to this source [of questionable reliability] http://vermonter.com/frontier-town/ http://vermonter.com/frontier-town/ was conceived 3 years before Disneyland opened. DOUBLE EDIT: I just thought of an even older one, Santa's Workshop in Wilmington, New York (near Lake Placid) which is Christmas themed and opened in 1949. It already had its own post office by the time Disneyland opened.