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ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) - Art Linkletter, who hosted the television broadcast of the opening of Disneyland in 1955, returned to the park to help preview Disneyland's 50th anniversary plans.


Linkletter, who will turn 93 this summer as the Southern California resort celebrates its birthday, reminisced on Friday about hosting the live television coverage of the park's opening.


``Everything was being done ad lib at the last minute,'' Linkletter said. ``The bathrooms weren't working and the food wasn't being done right. Even some of the reviews the next day in the paper were very critical. But Disneyland opened and it has made history in the entertainment of families.''


Linkletter, who hosted the show ``Kids Say the Darndest Things'' for years, looked spry as he took the stage.


``Fifty years have passed,'' he said. ``Just offstage a minute ago, an old, gray-haired man with a cane came up to me and said, 'Do you remember me Art Linkletter?' He said, 'I was on your show when I was 4.'''