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Today on The Rest is History,
we are visiting Disneyland and we are exploring the backstory of theme parks because,
Dominic, you love a theme park, don't you?
So I actually do because I'm an adrenaline junkie as you know Tom.
So I really enjoyed doing this episode and actually the deeper we went into it the more fascinating it is.
So you know the first roller coasters.
Czarist Russia, the age of Catherine the Great,
serfs building great hills of ice and aristocrats going to boggling down them.
And then you get into the 19th century, you have gravity switchback railroads,
people travelling on these kind of mad railways against a painted background.
But there's other predecessors to Disneyland, aren't there?
So I know you love a Vauxhall pleasure garden.
Well, yes,
because it's nice to know that ultimately the origins of Disneyland lay in South London,
where I live.