Disneyland honors nine employees for 50 years of service with a ceremony in the Golden Horseshoe restaurant and a cavalcade along Main Street USA.
During his 50-year career at Disneyland, Jimmie Payton was the first to climb Matterhorn mountain with Mickey Mouse and scaled the man-made peak more than 300 times — including during the 50th anniversary of the park when he planted a flag at the top.
The gym rat, rock climber and backpacker was a natural fit when Disneyland was looking for mountain climbers interested in conquering the 147-foot-tall Matterhorn Bobsleds attraction — a 1/100th scale replica of the 14,700-foot-tall original. The Matterhorn climbers developed a few regular show routes traversed by Mickey and Goofy while also carving out more than 30 alternate routes of differing difficulties while practicing on the mountain.“In the summertime it’s blistering hot,” Payton said during an interview at Disneyland. “It doesn’t have the same traction that real rock has. It’s a bit slippery.”
“It was kind of shaky up there because there’s an attraction and the whole mountain moves a little,” Payton said.Disneyland has nearly twice as many expensive dates as cheap days after ticket price increase In the 1990s, Payton was a duty manager who oversaw entertainment for all of Disneyland — a job that required him to circle the park eight times a day to check in on every live show and atmosphere performance.Since 2000, Payton has been Disneyland’s parade maintenance manager — overseeing the floats and vehicles. He’s worked on every Christmas Fantasy Parade in some capacity since 1973.
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