Long Haired Men, Employee Mustaches Were Banned From Disneyland For Decades
Long Haired Men, Employee Mustaches Were Banned From Disneyland For Decades A hippy at the Isle of Wight pop festival in 1970. (Photo by Evening Standard/Getty Images) When Disneyland opened in 1955 , men with flowing locks of hair were not welcome. An unwritten rule was in place to keep them out of the park -- men with long hair were few and far between in the '50s, so at the time the prohibition wasn't too consequential. Walt couldn't have foreseen the coming generational war over hair, but by 1965 there were plenty of proto-hippies growing it out. Disneyland, “The happiest place on earth,” and Walt Disney Studios gave birth to an unbelievably immense catalog of classic tales. From The...
