A Trip Back to Liberty Square (WDW 1970s) - DisneyAvenue.com

Liberty Square in the early years of WDW portrays the United States at the time of its founding and features the most dramatic attraction in the Magic Kingdom: The Hall of Presidents. Here, life-size and lifelike figures of all 36 Presidents here in the early 1970s (Grover Cleveland was elected twice nonconsecutively) are seen on stage together in a striking production that blends the amazing Disney "Audio-Animatronics" system with a new motion picture process. Also in Libery Square is the eerie, foreboding Haunted Mansion, home of 999 of the strangest and most fun-loving ghouls, ghosts, and goblins ever assembled. Overlooking a riverbank in "deathly splendor," The Haunted Mansion resembles the nightmare architecture of Edgar Allan Poe: gloomy granite laced with wrought iron, a dagger-shaped belfry, and a gargoyled doorway that looks like the entrance to a massive tomb. Guests brave enough to enter find an array of lively spirits that seem to appear and disappear "supernaturally." Let's travel back to Liberty Square and revisit this patriotic land themed after colonial America as it appeared in the 1970s.

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