Portrait of the 'perfect American family': Walt Disney's secret apartment is frozen in time above Disneyland's 解雇する／砲火／射撃 駅／配置する

By Jennifer Madison
Updated: 23:36 BST, 9 February 2012

He's the man who built the world where dreams come true.

But tucked away from Sleeping Beauty's 城, 花火s and whirling 主題 park rides, Walt Disney treasured his own 私的な hideaway in the Disneyland hills of Anaheim, California.

On the second 床に打ち倒す of the Main Street Firehouse, the film 生産者's little-known Victorian apartment remains almost 正確に／まさに as it did nearly 60 years ago.

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避難: Walt Disney sits with (clockwise from left) his daughter, Diane, an 身元不明の man, his daughter, Sharon, and wife, Lilly, while they read and drink from tea cups in their turn of the century apartment circa 1955

Tucked away: The Disneyland apartment sits on the second 床に打ち倒す of the Main Street Firehouse

Walt Disney's daughter, Diane Disney Miller, spoke to the Huffington 地位，任命する about the memories she 株d with her father at the family's Disneyland home.

'It was their 避難, it was their little place. The d?cor, it was all little things that they 選ぶd up when they were travelling around the country さまざまな times... It was really a very cozy, family place,' she told the website.

The apartment remains の近くにd to the public, but a ビデオ 小旅行する uploaded by Disney Parks gives a glimpse into how Mr Disney and his wife, Lillian Bounds Disney, kept their personal home.

Ms Disney Miller 解任するd the park's grand 開始, on July 17, 1955, when her father was in the middle of 生産／産物 on Lady and the Tramp.

１０年間s later: Walt Disney's 私的な Disneyland apartment remains nearly just as is did in the 1950s

Antiques: Mr Disney and his wife, Lillian, decorated the home with help from Oscar-winning 生産／産物 designer Emile Kuri

As it was: Cranberry curtains and matching couches 支配する the livingroom, accented with floral furniture and carpeting

Collectables: Lillian Disney had a love for cranberry glass and lamps from the Victorian 時代

Bric-a-brac: Walt Disney often collected items from his world travels

'I think he always 想像するd he'd have to be there - and he'd want to be there [at Disneyland],' Ms Disney Miller said.

Bric-a-brac acquired from her father's travels abroad - phonographs, picture でっちあげる，人を罪に陥れるs, 磁器 and candelabras - decorate the apartment.

Cranberry curtains and matching couches 支配する the livingroom, accented with floral furniture and carpeting that could perfectly 始める，決める the scene for a Disney 風刺漫画.

There was a 解雇する／砲火／射撃 政治家 hidden behind a closet door, and a 審査 room, where her father critiqued his live 活動／戦闘 films.

The apartment was decorated by Emile Kuri, who had worked on man y of Disney's own films, 含むing '20,000 Leagues Under the Sea', and who helped the Disneys to create what their daughter calls 'their Victorian masterpiece'.

Part of history: Disneyland opened on July 17, 1955, when Walt Disney was in the middle of 生産／産物 on Lady and the Tramp

Dear dad: Walt Disney reads a 調書をとる／予約する to his girls

Family: Diane Disney Miller, left, is 保存するing the memory of her father, Walt Disney, as the 創立者 of the Walt Disney Family Museum in San Francisco

'Mother and dad loved the Victorian period,' she explained. 'It was the period they grew up in.'

Ms Disney Miller, now 78, 設立するd and is the 長，率いる of the Walt Disney Family Museum in San Francisco. She said she hopes a glimpse into her father's life will 始める，決める the 記録，記録的な／記録する straight about the 肉親，親類d of man he was, she told the H uffington 地位，任命する.

'I 遭遇（する）d enough people who said "I love your father" and enough of the 消極的な comments,' she said. 'Other little kids would say to my kids, "My mother said your grandfather was anti-Semitic" or "Your grandfather is frozen, isn't he?" And I couldn't let that stand.

'And I thought, I have a really good life because of him and the one thing I can do is 設立する this place, and I wasn't doing it just for him, I was doing it for all those millions of people that 肉親，親類d of love him,' she said.

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