Six Red Log Cabins

 

For ages, I’ve dreamed of living IN Disneyland; of waking up in the happiest place on earth, and of being part of the magic. Impossible, I know, but for one couple, that dream was a reality for sixteen years. In 1950, Owen and Dolly Pope were told Walt Disney had seen their horse show at Los Angeles’ Pan Pacific Auditorium, and that he wanted their help with a big new project he was planning. They assumed the “big new project” was a movie requiring horse trainers and handlers. Instead, it was a theme park. Owen and Dolly managed the pony farm – later called the Circle D Corral – ten acres of land behind Frontierland where Disneyland’s horses lived. The Circle D stables were torn down in 2016 to make room for Galaxy’s Edge. But the Popes’ 1,300-square-foot bungalow was moved to a different backstage area in a parking lot off Ball Road, where it’s occasionally used for special events.