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Disneyland: How Main Street, U.S.A. is rooted in Walt Disney's Missouri childhood

Kansas Avenue, also known as Main Street, runs through the heart of tiny Marceline in northern Missouri. But it's also known as Main Street, U.S.A.

Why? Because Marceline, sleepy now, is where the young Walt Disney spent a handful of formative years, long before he dreamed up Disneyland or the all-American commercial thoroughfare that leads from its entrance to the heart of the theme park. Years later, Disney credited Marceline as an inspiration.

His stay in Marceline was brief. The family arrived when Disney was 5 and moved to Kansas City, Mo., in about 1910, the year Walt turned 9.