Starbucks On Disneyland's Main Street, U.S.A. Gets New Decor

Starbucks On Disneyland's Main Street, U.S.A. Gets New Bookstore-Themed Decor with Numerous Disney References

Guests with keen eyes can pick out the plentiful details.

Guests at the original Disneyland theme park in Anaheim, California may notice some updates to the Starbucks location on Main Street, U.S.A.-- namely some bookstore-themed decor in the seating area. As you’ll see in the photos below, these decorations contain more than a few references to Walt Disney Company history.

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On the shelf above, you can spot Jules Verne’s 1870 novel Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, Kenneth Grahame’s 1908 The Wind In the Willows, A Christmas Carol (1843) by Charles Dickens, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885) by Mark Twain, Le Avventure di Pinocchio (1883) by Carlo Collodi, and Grimm’s Fairy Tales (1812) by the Brothers Grimm. All of these have been adapted by Disney into theatrical films over the decades.
There is also a copy of the 1905 Standard Atlas of Linn County, Missouri, which is probably best known to Disney fans as the home of Marceline– Walt Disney’s childhood stomping grounds (and the inspiration for Main Street, U.S.A.).

More Disney-related details on the shelves below include The Swiss Family Robinson (1812) by Johann David Wyss, the memoir Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, a portrait of Washington Irving (author of the 1820 short story “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow"), Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876), a portrait of President Abraham Lincoln and his family, Treasure Island (1883) by Robert Louis Stevenson, a portrait of Mark Twain, and illustrations depicting the story of Peter Pan (which was both a 1904 play and a 1911 novel) by J.M. Barrie.
Despite repeated references to author Louisa May Alcott and her 1869 novel Little Women, there doesn’t seem to be any direct connections to Disney there.
Plenty of other books and images adorn the wall in Starbucks as well, and in the corner of the seating area rests a pot-bellied stove with a statue of Don Quixote atop it. Since the 1940s, Disney has made several false-start attempts to adapt The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha (1615) by Miguel de Cervantes.