KALAMAZOO COUNTY, MI — When it opened in 1955, Disneyland’s Main Street U.S.A featured a Kalamazoo-area company.

Main Street, U.S.A. was a reimagined reproduction of Walt Disney’s hometown at the turn of the century.

The Upjohn exhibit was a replica of a Victorian-era pharmacy, Author Stephen Hall said. The Upjohn Company, founded in Portage in 1886, was a perfect fit for the 1890-1910 theme.

It showcased the evolution of medicine since Upjohn’s inception, highlighting the invention of the friable pill by Dr. William Upjohn, with photos, tools, packaging and medicine.

It also had a section dedicated to the future, Hall said, featuring a picture of Upjohn’s Building 41 at the Portage plant.

Pharmaceutical giant Pfizer now operates it’s largest manufacturing site there.

Hall first un

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