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How many of you are old enough to know what that is? Those of you in La La Land should remember. I went there for the first time in '57, two years after they opened. They wouldn't let Nikita in. Need more hints?
 
First grader in Rolling Hills. I know what you are talking about.
 
Never went but know exactly what you're taking about.

By the way, Cheryl was always my fav and it's not surprising that she got in with the sports car racing crowd later one. :laugh:
 
Never used them but my wife did - also the year it opened, in 1971.
 
Been there, did that! :laugh:

I seem to recall my Mom may have a few mostly used books somewhere......
 
Very glad that changed. We hit almost every "E-ticket" we could 2 weeks ago. there were hardly any lines, and we hit most of em (thunder mountain twice). I would have had to buy extras. Ka-Ching!
Admission is enough!!!
 
Wish I'd kept my unused tickets :frown:

FWIW even the younger generation of Disney fans refer to the bigger attractions as "E Ticket" rides.

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My dad was a salesman for a big electric company and took all of the out-of-stater's to D-land whenever they came in to LA. Our family went once a year just using up all of the old books that Westinghouse had paid for. We almost never had E-tickets but lots of everything else!
BillM from LaMirada
 
they still actually called them e-ticket nights as recently as 2002 - you paid a few extra dollars (only a limited amount of people) and got to stay till Midnight - did enjoy that a few times
 
I've got some color slides from '55 of my Mom,Dad,
Aunt,Uncle,& Cousin taken there - even Autopia!
I also bought an Aurora plastic model kit of a gas-
oline tanker with an entry form for a contest.First prize
was a trip to the "new" Disneyland" - "expires Dec.31,1955".

- Doug
 
Ah, you youngster. The early days of Disneyland issued a book of tickets for the rides. The price of admission included this book. The tickets ranged from A, B, C, D, and E. E being the most coveted. They got you onto the really good rides. It got you on the Teacups or the likes. For years the expression E-Ticket meant first class, the best. Still does. Now the Disney parks just have a flat rate for admission and get on a ride when you can. Ah, the days of the E-Ticket.
 
JodyFKerr said:
Wow, I wish they still had that. I took my kids to Disney Land in '09 and would totally have paid for that.
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They went away because of the market and competition I think.

Universal Studios (Orlando, anyway) has a similar scheme. You buy your regular ticket, <span style="font-style: italic">then</span> buy an express pass ticket. The express passes let you get in a special line once per day per attraction (per pass). The effect is the same as the old Disney ticketing system except you're stuck paying the regular admission too.

Disney has the unlimited fastpasses for free, but that's a whole different situation.

They also have other alternatives to kill the lines, if you plan things properly: go to one of the ticketed special event nights (Mickey's Christmas Party, for example) in a relatively slow time and the lines can sometimes be nonexistent. The last few events I went to had zero-wait times at Pirates of the Caribbean and Thunder Mountain (I once rode the Thunder Mountain coaster 6 times with literally no wait - we kept changing where we sat just to see what it was like), and Space Mountain was maybe a 5 minute wait.

People like to point out (and complain) that those events are only supposed to give you access from 7pm-12am, but in reality you can get in around 5pm and after the rush everyone out the lack of lines compensates for the short attendance period. The lower admission cost and free food is a bonus. :smile:


Wheeeee
 
When we first moved up to Seattle 20 years ago we used to go home to Socal every year in February during the President's week school vacation. We would usually take the kids to Dland and it would usually be drizzling rain. My kids were used to the Seattle weather so they didn't care but the locals were nowhere to be seen and there were virtually no lines anywhere. Worked amazingly well.
BillM
 
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