article_snippet: The site was bought in 1953 with construction beginning in 1954 and the grand opening the year after that .
article_snippet: The view down Main Street USA as final building and cosmetic works are completed in 1955 .
article_snippet: What Main Street looks like today as millions continue to stream through the gates every year .
article_snippet: Although it was supposed to have been unveiled in a press preview day with about 14,000 invitees on Sunday, July 17, 1955, that opening saw 28,000 people go through the gates due to thousands of counterfeit ticket sales.
article_snippet: The first thousands of guests flood through the gates at Disneyland, the original Walt Disney fun park .
article_snippet: And just like the end of this timelapse, which show the first guests arriving in Anaheim, millions continue to flood through the turnstiles - more than 130 million a year, in fact.