In the 60s, when I was kid, my brothers and I would go to the park 3 or 4 times a year. Back then, you could purchase admission to the park for 50 cents, which did not include the coupon book. At the end of our visit we would wait outside the gate and ask people if they had any unused tickets (I mean coupons). We always got enough unused tickets for all of us to return, usually in the summer. Of course, we would have to buy E tickets because most people used those up. So I have purchased tickets at all the locations you showed. Great memories.
@@LiveFastDiePoor do you know I just missed lot I think about i just hope come back home to get Disneyland I just love it so much it's looks like history books documentary about biography book club fun and interesting interview review and I just was kid before I have been back I just love it so much fun making
I became a subscriber (just seconds ago) as I've spent most of the morning watching your videos. Can't seem to get enough of them. You've obviously done your homework well and you're a great tour guide on the history of the park. I still have my "coupon" book from 1965 with A and B tickets still in it. I remember buying lots of separate E tickets. Anyway, many thanks for keeping these memories alive. Can't wait for more of your vids!
You missed a few things: 1. Why the tickets were there in the first place. Disney wanted to keep the admission price low to make it easy for a family come and spend the day. You only had to pay extra if you wanted to ride or experience selected attractions. For those who just wanted to visit and wander around, that kept the price of admission very low. 2. In the last years before dumping the tickets entirely, they homogenized the tiers into one all-inclusive ticket. For a time they offered the ability to trade in old A/B/C/D tickets families invariably had a glut of in for the new homogenized ticket. Many many people took advantage of that promotion, which is why the old tiered ticket books are incredibly rare to find as originals and not reproductions. After the new fantasyland opened, Disney discontinued the ticket system, and just bumped up the main entrance fee. I know because I have a couple of each originals floating around somewhere.....
Yeah, the whole concept of having tickets rather than dropping a whole bunch of cash for an all-ride pass makes perfect sense to me. I work at the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk and we still have a ticket system. Do people overwhelmingly go for the all ride wristband? Hell yeah. But when you're a tourist without kids who wants to go on the main attractions and be on your way to the Wharf and the Cliffs, you aren't dropping $35 on a wristband that you won't take advantage of after spending $15 on parking and maybe a little more on souvenirs. That's why we're admission-free. Nothing else is. Surely there are people (again without those pesky kids) who don't really want to spend all day in Disneyland because they're visiting parts of Anaheim and LA for a week and/or aren't huge Disney fans?
Really cool seeing all the old ticket booths. My first visit to Disneyland was in 1983, so I missed the ticketing system, but I did experience it at WDW as a child. I remember my parents trying to ration the tickets so they wouldn't have to buy more.
My first visit to Disneyland was in 1955....I was born in 53 and my dad and mom and I was there about every weekend. I also was at Knott's Berry Farm a little before that! Oh yes, I was born in Whittier....now in Texas.
The tickets were an early attempt at crowd control. By having everything from A tickets for the Main Street vehicles to the E tickets for the popular rides, that encouraged people to seek out the less exciting rides in order to use up all their tickets and get their full money's worth. Since more tickets cost more money, people spent more time on sightseeing and other "free" things as well as the cheap rides and thereby didn't clog up the exciting rides quite so much. When I was a kid, my best friend's brother worked at Disneyland so we regularly went with comp'ed ticket books of "Magic Key" (or was it Magic Kingdom, I forget) tickets, which were essentially, all E tickets (they would work on anything). Whoa, we had the power to go on anything. And then when Inner Space opened up, it was completely free so we went on it endlessly. And now and then I got to go to a couple of private parties-- such as an employee night or high school Grad Night where you didn't need tickets at all-- woo-hoo! Eventually they decided it best just to charge more up front and did away with the tickets, which resulted in the line jams you see now and the other attempts to fix it (fast-pass, etc.). Looking back at it, I suppose the crowd control effects of the ticket books were beneficial but they became more and more unpopular. I still have a few old tickets from those days.
So THAT'S what my mom meant by "ticket quotas" at Disneyland! It makes perfect sense. Also, it allows the guests to be economical with their time and money in the park, but Disney wouldn't like getting less money for themselves, would they? I commented above about the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk where I work so I'll try to keep it related but different here. The ticket system we have in place really does help crowd control. Almost all of the kiddie rides (and by that I mean that if you're a certain height you can actually be too big to ride) are located in one part of the park. This means that the families with wristbands go to that spot and leave the highlight attractions for all ages in the middle of the Boardwalk more open. You do end up with a hefty line outside of the Giant Dipper coaster most days, but that's really the only spot where walking gets sluggish.
Magic Key is now a program in 2023 I think in response to crowd control over annual passport owners and visitors as opposed to general admission and tourists.
2:36 I love how when he says that they introduced their most hardcore invention when the Monorail passed by and everyone thinks "The Monorail?" and then he says "THE E TICKET!!!"
I love all your videos! Always so entertaining. We have annual passes too and I love learning about all the hidden stuff you don't appreciate on a regular visit. I can't wait to find all the stuff you have shown in your videos!
I always appreciate the relics of park history. Interesting how millions pass by that stuff every day and have no idea. I once read that there is/was a ticket booth used inside Adventureland Bazaar. Great video!!
We have no original tickets left, because each time we left the park at the end of our day we gave them to others who were still there or retuning the next day. i miss the early days of Disney, when life was good, fun and magical.
I remember when my dad used to take us , he had to buy those tickets. He didn't buy E tickets until I was around ten years old. He wasn't going to "waste" his money on something we were going to be too scared to ride. Awesome job, Definitely an E Ticket video.
This was excellently done. And, lo and behold, your facts were accurate! (from an old Disney buff like me, it's nice to see someone actually know what they are talking about). Great Job!
It's amazing what you can walk past at the park and never know it was there! I hope I can get a chance to see that booth before it goes away. You always make learning fun! :-)
That's true! Thanks Dragon! And speaking of amazing what you can walk past, outside the restrooms alongside the Bank on Main Street is a light fixture with a Dragon on top I never saw until last year. 30 years of going to Disneyland and I almost always use that restroom, just NEVER noticed it til 2013! Amazing!
Love love love your videos! And as far as the ~coupons~ go…even Disney succumbed to the public's willful insistence on calling them tickets offering a nod to the battle lost when they opened up a backstage cast cafeteria called "The Eat Ticket."
Hot chick 3:51 Oh yeah.. and I love the videos buddy! Watch them from a state away in AZ waiting to go back. I wanna add to the encouragement for you too keep doing these videos, its a great style. Simple, well edited with voice overs, good sights, good fun facts, and some random unwritten comedy. Ill see you there soon!
I've been going to Disneyland since 1957 and I want you as my guide! I always learn something when i watch your videos. Thanks for the hard work i know this takes! keep up the good work!
I remember when DL made the transition from coupons to single passes. We were all amazed and excited and chatting about how we could go on all the rides now and ride our favorites again and again!
i have an E ticket...ahem, coupon... phone case. i can't believe thats how the park worked back then, but i bet the lines weren't two hours long haha radiator springs racers would be like, a Z ticket
It is terrible to say but the last time I was at Disneyland, we had to buy tickets....I was at Disney World and can use wristbands to scan into the park AND purchase things! Go figure. Oh, I am planning a Disneyland trip in October.
This was great! You really do your research. I visited Disneyland in 1972 and we had tickets, uh, I mean coupons. We didn't use our A tickets. But we used our E ticket to get in the 2 new attractions: Haunted Mansion and Pirates. Thanks for your fascinating video!
Lol I remember when my family would go to Disneyland, I hated the fast rides, my brother hated the slow rides... The ticket books came with a combination of tickets so my parents would split the tickets between us, and we would go different directions. My mom had to go with me and my dad went with my brother. My mom actually loved roller-coasters but would suffer through many, many, many, many repeat trips through small world to keep me happy... But every once in a while she would convince me to go on something faster. =) I miss those days...
I remember those E-Tickets from when I was a wee lad in the 70s. I can remember my Dad having several of them and taking a ticket out of each for us to get on Pirates of the Caribbean and Haunted Mansion. Almost like yesterday! I actually have a old school souvenir book from the first time I went in 1975. Fun to look at all the old rides but even better to look at how people dressed. :D
I know this is an old video, but I’m a (relatively) new Vacation Planner (I sell tickets & stuff) and is found this video a really neat look back. Thanks a lot!
Yep.. It is there. It is now disguised as a... ticket booth. It has windows on both sides, and is now locked with a hasp and padlock up high where kids can't reach.
Joshua Daniel Of course! I always try to reply in the first few days and me and my pals from the website always try to reply at the facebook as well :D
Next time I visit Disneyland, I'm definitely going to check those ticket booths out. I don't know why I never two and two together. Thanks for this video!
Your so knowledgeable and funny! Thanks for all the history of Disneyland! I'll be out there in June and I'll be looking at all the hidden things you've showed me in your vids.
You ran to the E ticket rides before the crowd got too big, and ended the day with A rides in Fantasy Land on the Carousel. The end of a perfect day. When we were little we could get into the park free and spend hours without tickets, then went out to the lockers in the parking lot, now Downtown Disney, to get our packed lunch and rest for the afternoon walking around and people watching.
Actually, I think ticket books were carried over from carnivals and fairs to Disneyland. As I understand it, it was kind of a standard for amusement parks way back to Coney Island and beyond. Some people always try to show me the ticket book stuff like it's super exciting, but I'm kind of glad they're gone. Lol! Think of how much they would cost with inflation? I like being able to ride all the rides. 1982 was the year I was born...maybe it's a sign. But I won't knock somebody's nostalgia trip either when they talk about tickets. Nostalgia makes people happy. Thanks for pointing out the booths. I think I've kind of looked at the one at the matterhorn before, and maybe realized what it was without really appreciating it. Next time I go, I think I'm gonna pay a little more attention. I love Disney history, and looking for its lost relics.
Have you done a video of the old sky way ride. You can still see the landing in Fantasyland. It's overgrown by trees, but still there. I'm old so I actually remember the ticket books and a lot of these old rides. I like learning about Disney history. I too am a proud owner of an annual pass!! : )
Did I ever tell you that I first went to Disneyland when I was five years old? That was in the first year it was open. That tells you how freaking old I am. I have enjoyed your video about tickets (*coupons*). I used to save my leftover tickets. But I am sorry to say I lost them many years later. *sigh*
Love the video man. I was just there this past Wed. Thur and well... yesterday. (Fri) If I would have seen you I would have offered you a DCA "Grown up Juice box" =) Keep the fun facts coming dude!
Disneyland is such an awesome place and I love that even though the park keeps changing, as Walt himself said it should, the Imagineers don't forget their roots and they remember to pay tribute to the legacy and history of Disneyland, which is just as important.
If I remember correctly, there is a ticket booth upon the entry to the Snow White ride. I believe it is upon entering past the "apple" you can rub to the left.
I don't remember a specific post office, but I do recall being able to buy Disney commemorative stamps at a few places in the park (I think now it's basically down to one or two places). The Disneyland mailboxes are working mailboxes delivered to the Anaheim post office, and at various times of the year they (Disneyland) stamp "Disneyland USA" and other Disneyfied messages near the cancel stamp, which is pretty cool!
Couple more ticket booths for you. The turnstiles at Mark Twain / Colombia and the Main Street Cinema were booth tickets booths. Also, the Frontierland Train station use to be on the opposite side of the train tracks and turned around 180 degrees. The windows on that side of the train station use to be the ticket booth for that attraction. I never noticed they said coupon on them but some did say ticket. The Jimmy's Cricket Ticket as one example. Thanks.
Thank you! I didn't even think of the Main Street Cinema, and the MT loading area never crossed my mind either! Thanks for pointing those out! I've never seen the Jiminy Cricket ticket, but I do have a few Magic Key 'coupons' around my house. Thanks for sharing that!!!!
The tickets were originally only A,B, and C. They added D tickets later on and then finally added E tickets after they added more rides. Rides that previously were C & D tickets changed to E tickets meaning customers had to pay more for the rides they previously went on for cheaper. Making them outraged. But that never stops disney.
Hey Random land guy, I really love your videos about Disneyland. I think it would be amazing that your next Disneyland video be about the famous Main Street Electrical Parade. It's just a suggestion but thank u
As if I didn't already have enough information and history of the park stored in my Disney-obsessed brain! My boyfriend will have to deal with this the whole drive to Southern California this summer! -And I'm hoping to get a glimpse of the abandoned booth!
I love these videos and stories, but I've never had the least desire to actually go to any Disney property. All I see and hear about from people who do go is: crowded, expensive (and especially in Florida), too hot. But it's fun to learn about these places, and all the engineering feats and creative design to built them.
Aw, you've got some great energy in your videos. It's clear you've done your research too! I found you through Adam the Woo and I'm glad I did. Consider yourself subscribed.
I laughed so hard! I always Talk about the tickets...or....coupons...with people who remember them! Ive been wanting a booklet for so long! I doubt i can get my hands on one though. (: loved the video! thanks for making me smile everyday!
Apparently these were also in WDW until '82, I read. Didn't know about these until my brother (14 years older than me) said when he was a kid going to WDW they had those tickets
I love your videos, they are very interesting! Being a huge Disney freak I always love to learn more about the parks. Do you think you could do a video on the Main Street Electrical Parade? I love that parade and would love to see you do a video on it. Thank you!
Where is the parade now? Magic Kingdom? It would be pretty hard to do unless I could get someone to film the parade in FL and send me footage. But if I get out there anytime soon I will definitely do that!!
Main Street still has Booths. The c.Cinema and Opera House. The Main Street Transportation System would collect tickets by driver, except for Streetcars. A Conductor would jump cars at the pass point and collect the dimes (A tickets)
That explains the joke on the Simpsons where Homer is asked at the admission booth if he wanted to buy $100 worth of tickets for Itchy & Scratchy Land and when they entered the park, all the signs said "Not accepting park tickets." LOL.
I remember those ticket books when I was a little kid in the 70's I was amazed when six flags (then just magic mountain) came out with 1 ticket to ride everything, then I think knotts did, then finally Disney. well I guess Disney cant be first in everything
I've only been to Disneyland once, but I went to Disney World many times. Alas, I am old enough to remember the ticket books. I really want to go back but if I do it will probably be Disney World since I'm on the east coast.
Bella parker Yeah, back in the day you could buy ticket books which came with 1 or more of each type of ticket, usually they would come with three E tickets, three D tickets, two C tickets and so on. There's a great article on Yesterland about them.
I used to go to Disneyland a lot as a kid. and I bought film from that ''coupon'' booth, but didn't even know that's what it used to be until now. I love these Disneyland videos from LFDP and cant wait for Disney in 2015. quick question, do you know when Disneyland is going to do a 24 hours at the park in 2015?
Not only was the Dumbo attraction moved, it was redesigned. DL Paris was being built at the time and they needed a Dumbo ride. So the first redesign for DL was sent to Paris and a second was built for the DL Fantasyland remodel.
List of ideas for that ticket booth: Small First Aid booth Telephone booth Food stand DVC Information stand Disney Photopass stand I'm just spewing out ideas so that thing doesn't rot out or so Bob Iger doesn't take it out of the park for no reason because I can see him doing that
Please do a history on Splash Mountain if you want to! That would be awesome :) I have watched all of your videos. And love them! :) You're so cute and funny!
WOW this is a very popular video for you. Great job. I barely remember E tickets but I know we used them in WDW because my father still calls them E rides.
I'm 43, I remember those well! They started to phase them out in the early 80's, and passes took over. I still have some of the books, did you know you can actually redeem them at Disneyland and get credit for passes? I would NEVER do that though, they're collectors items now.
Where did you get your Ticket Replicas? I'm a huge Disneyland history buff and would love to get my hands on some. Also you should do a video just on old Disneyland attractions and their remains. Like the "Skyway" station, and the "Journey Through Nature's Wonderland" tunnel ect.
I got them from that blog linked at the end, I think vintagedisneylandtickets.blogspot.com maybe - Just sized them correctly and printed them out. :) One-sided but I think they worked OK for this purpose
In the 60s, when I was kid, my brothers and I would go to the park 3 or 4 times a year. Back then, you could purchase admission to the park for 50 cents, which did not include the coupon book. At the end of our visit we would wait outside the gate and ask people if they had any unused tickets (I mean coupons). We always got enough unused tickets for all of us to return, usually in the summer. Of course, we would have to buy E tickets because most people used those up. So I have purchased tickets at all the locations you showed. Great memories.
I love your videos UFO Bob! God bless!
Donut Head Thanks.
UFO Bob that is so cool! Which ride is your favorite?
Incredible they didn't expire.
I love how Disney recycles and repurposes elements of the park. It really keeps the history and magic alive!
Completely agree! Head & Shoulders above other parks, imho
@@LiveFastDiePoor do you know I just missed lot I think about i just hope come back home to get Disneyland I just love it so much it's looks like history books documentary about biography book club fun and interesting interview review and I just was kid before I have been back I just love it so much fun making
@@LiveFastDiePoor history books documentary about biography book in movie theater in new into new life I just hope come back I just love it so much
Crazy idea, I know, but I'd go to that ticket booth and buy a replica ticket book as a souvenir.
I became a subscriber (just seconds ago) as I've spent most of the morning watching your videos. Can't seem to get enough of them. You've obviously done your homework well and you're a great tour guide on the history of the park. I still have my "coupon" book from 1965 with A and B tickets still in it. I remember buying lots of separate E tickets. Anyway, many thanks for keeping these memories alive. Can't wait for more of your vids!
You missed a few things: 1. Why the tickets were there in the first place. Disney wanted to keep the admission price low to make it easy for a family come and spend the day. You only had to pay extra if you wanted to ride or experience selected attractions. For those who just wanted to visit and wander around, that kept the price of admission very low. 2. In the last years before dumping the tickets entirely, they homogenized the tiers into one all-inclusive ticket. For a time they offered the ability to trade in old A/B/C/D tickets families invariably had a glut of in for the new homogenized ticket. Many many people took advantage of that promotion, which is why the old tiered ticket books are incredibly rare to find as originals and not reproductions. After the new fantasyland opened, Disney discontinued the ticket system, and just bumped up the main entrance fee. I know because I have a couple of each originals floating around somewhere.....
Yeah, the whole concept of having tickets rather than dropping a whole bunch of cash for an all-ride pass makes perfect sense to me. I work at the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk and we still have a ticket system. Do people overwhelmingly go for the all ride wristband? Hell yeah. But when you're a tourist without kids who wants to go on the main attractions and be on your way to the Wharf and the Cliffs, you aren't dropping $35 on a wristband that you won't take advantage of after spending $15 on parking and maybe a little more on souvenirs. That's why we're admission-free. Nothing else is.
Surely there are people (again without those pesky kids) who don't really want to spend all day in Disneyland because they're visiting parts of Anaheim and LA for a week and/or aren't huge Disney fans?
Really cool seeing all the old ticket booths. My first visit to Disneyland was in 1983, so I missed the ticketing system, but I did experience it at WDW as a child. I remember my parents trying to ration the tickets so they wouldn't have to buy more.
My first visit to Disneyland was in 1955....I was born in 53 and my dad and mom and I was there about every weekend. I also was at Knott's Berry Farm a little before that! Oh yes, I was born in Whittier....now in Texas.
The tickets were an early attempt at crowd control. By having everything from A tickets for the Main Street vehicles to the E tickets for the popular rides, that encouraged people to seek out the less exciting rides in order to use up all their tickets and get their full money's worth. Since more tickets cost more money, people spent more time on sightseeing and other "free" things as well as the cheap rides and thereby didn't clog up the exciting rides quite so much. When I was a kid, my best friend's brother worked at Disneyland so we regularly went with comp'ed ticket books of "Magic Key" (or was it Magic Kingdom, I forget) tickets, which were essentially, all E tickets (they would work on anything). Whoa, we had the power to go on anything. And then when Inner Space opened up, it was completely free so we went on it endlessly. And now and then I got to go to a couple of private parties-- such as an employee night or high school Grad Night where you didn't need tickets at all-- woo-hoo! Eventually they decided it best just to charge more up front and did away with the tickets, which resulted in the line jams you see now and the other attempts to fix it (fast-pass, etc.). Looking back at it, I suppose the crowd control effects of the ticket books were beneficial but they became more and more unpopular. I still have a few old tickets from those days.
So THAT'S what my mom meant by "ticket quotas" at Disneyland! It makes perfect sense. Also, it allows the guests to be economical with their time and money in the park, but Disney wouldn't like getting less money for themselves, would they?
I commented above about the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk where I work so I'll try to keep it related but different here. The ticket system we have in place really does help crowd control. Almost all of the kiddie rides (and by that I mean that if you're a certain height you can actually be too big to ride) are located in one part of the park. This means that the families with wristbands go to that spot and leave the highlight attractions for all ages in the middle of the Boardwalk more open. You do end up with a hefty line outside of the Giant Dipper coaster most days, but that's really the only spot where walking gets sluggish.
Also jacked up the price for all. They assumed everyone were gonna do 25 e tix and the teen or the parent paid the same. Pure money plan
Magic Key is now a program in 2023 I think in response to crowd control over annual passport owners and visitors as opposed to general admission and tourists.
What gives that I can't reply to come comments? Is that because some people haven't connected their YT accounts with Google+ yet or what? :/
yup. if they dont have google+ connected it wont let you comment.
That's weird, because it seems like I automatically got a Google+ account when they merged and it automatically connected.
It's probably because some of them are maybe really old
Lindsey Barton Since my last post, I've discovered that there is an option to turn off "replies".....I'm sure that's it.
Lindsey Barton yes...not old but turned off their reply button...oh well..their cowards.............
Completely addicted to all your videos! I'm a disney world geek but I love learning about disneyland! Keep em coming:)
:D Will do! thank you for watching!!!!!
watching this after getting my tales from random land copy, you’ve come a long way justin and we couldn’t be prouder. LONG LIVE RANDOMLAND
2:36 I love how when he says that they introduced their most hardcore invention when the Monorail passed by and everyone thinks "The Monorail?" and then he says "THE E TICKET!!!"
I love all your videos! Always so entertaining. We have annual passes too and I love learning about all the hidden stuff you don't appreciate on a regular visit. I can't wait to find all the stuff you have shown in your videos!
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I actually have an old ticket book that my grandma gave to me from when my mom was a kid! it still has a few A & B tickets in it!
Me too. It's my favorite disney stuff...
So cool.
I always appreciate the relics of park history. Interesting how millions pass by that stuff every day and have no idea. I once read that there is/was a ticket booth used inside Adventureland Bazaar. Great video!!
We have no original tickets left, because each time we left the park at the end of our day we gave them to others who were still there or retuning the next day. i miss the early days of Disney, when life was good, fun and magical.
I remember when my dad used to take us , he had to buy those tickets. He didn't buy E tickets until I was around ten years old. He wasn't going to "waste" his money on something we were going to be too scared to ride. Awesome job, Definitely an E Ticket video.
Thanks Jerry!!! Awesome memories!
This was excellently done. And, lo and behold, your facts were accurate! (from an old Disney buff like me, it's nice to see someone actually know what they are talking about). Great Job!
Thanks for including some actual (quick) shots of Disneyland in between long close-up cuts of yourself.
I used to work in that Fantasyland ticket booth selling Kodak film and cigarettes back in the 1980's. XD
Wow. Disneyland selling cigarettes sounds totally nuts.
It's amazing what you can walk past at the park and never know it was there! I hope I can get a chance to see that booth before it goes away. You always make learning fun! :-)
That's true! Thanks Dragon! And speaking of amazing what you can walk past, outside the restrooms alongside the Bank on Main Street is a light fixture with a Dragon on top I never saw until last year. 30 years of going to Disneyland and I almost always use that restroom, just NEVER noticed it til 2013! Amazing!
Your videos are amazing!! It's so cool being able to see the things that went on before my time. Keep up the good work!
Haha don't worry, they were before my time too! :D
Love love love your videos! And as far as the ~coupons~ go…even Disney succumbed to the public's willful insistence on calling them tickets offering a nod to the battle lost when they opened up a backstage cast cafeteria called "The Eat Ticket."
Great video Justin!!! Keep them coming. They are always great
Thanks Anthony!!!!
Hot chick 3:51 Oh yeah.. and I love the videos buddy! Watch them from a state away in AZ waiting to go back. I wanna add to the encouragement for you too keep doing these videos, its a great style. Simple, well edited with voice overs, good sights, good fun facts, and some random unwritten comedy. Ill see you there soon!
I kind of have the biggest crush on you, wow. Watching all these videos to get ready for my Disney trip next month!
Kori Celeste Ask him out hahaha
I've been going to Disneyland since 1957 and I want you as my guide! I always learn something when i watch your videos. Thanks for the hard work i know this takes! keep up the good work!
Wow!! Well I'd be way more interested in having you be MY guide and sharing some vintage Disneyland memories with me!
The Fantasyland ticket-selling booth also sits on the original Disneyland Railroad route before it was rerouted in 1966 for It's A Small World.
I love watching your videos you are a great youtuber I always look forward to your
videos keep up the good work
I remember when DL made the transition from coupons to single passes. We were all amazed and excited and chatting about how we could go on all the rides now and ride our favorites again and again!
Your videos are always awesome... The wife and I used to go twice a week when we lived in so cal. We miss it dearly. Keep up the good work
Will do!!! thank you!!!
i have an E ticket...ahem, coupon... phone case. i can't believe thats how the park worked back then, but i bet the lines weren't two hours long haha
radiator springs racers would be like, a Z ticket
Haha!
where did you get it?
Emma Nutting i got it at D street, in downtown disney
Emma Nutting I have that phone case also and I got it off of amazon!
It is terrible to say but the last time I was at Disneyland, we had to buy tickets....I was at Disney World and can use wristbands to scan into the park AND purchase things! Go figure. Oh, I am planning a Disneyland trip in October.
Some of the old ticket booths can be seen ay Orange Empire Railway Museum, Perris, CA.
This was great! You really do your research. I visited Disneyland in 1972 and we had tickets, uh, I mean coupons. We didn't use our A tickets. But we used our E ticket to get in the 2 new attractions: Haunted Mansion and Pirates. Thanks for your fascinating video!
Lol I remember when my family would go to Disneyland, I hated the fast rides, my brother hated the slow rides... The ticket books came with a combination of tickets so my parents would split the tickets between us, and we would go different directions. My mom had to go with me and my dad went with my brother. My mom actually loved roller-coasters but would suffer through many, many, many, many repeat trips through small world to keep me happy... But every once in a while she would convince me to go on something faster. =)
I miss those days...
I remember those E-Tickets from when I was a wee lad in the 70s. I can remember my Dad having several of them and taking a ticket out of each for us to get on Pirates of the Caribbean and Haunted Mansion. Almost like yesterday! I actually have a old school souvenir book from the first time I went in 1975. Fun to look at all the old rides but even better to look at how people dressed. :D
I had a lot of fun watching this video! I love all the hidden history! I am glad they still have them in the park!
Your videos have seriously helped me out when I need a Disneyland fix. Thank you.
You're videos are really entertaining and surprisingly informative. Thanks for making them!
Thank YOU for watching!!!
Watching old Justin Scarred videos and feeling semi-nostalgic!
I am a huge history nerd and I really liked your history lesson.
Thanks for sharing!
I know this is an old video, but I’m a (relatively) new Vacation Planner (I sell tickets & stuff) and is found this video a really neat look back. Thanks a lot!
I still have a partially used Disneyland "coupon" book from when I visited the park in 1978. Yep, showing my age here. LOL
I think there's still a ticket-taking booth at the entrance to the Jungle Cruise, right?
I'm quite sure it was (is) the window just to the left of the entrance.
Yep.. It is there. It is now disguised as a... ticket booth. It has windows on both sides, and is now locked with a hasp and padlock up high where kids can't reach.
Yes
Yes I also believe thats it. What else could it have been?
This is so cool!!!! I get all happy every time a new video is uploaded
Thanks man! That pumps me up to make more!!!
Wow! I never thought you would ever reply to this! HA! Love your videos man!
Joshua Daniel Of course! I always try to reply in the first few days and me and my pals from the website always try to reply at the facebook as well :D
That's so cool!! Way to show tons of love to your fans!!
Next time I visit Disneyland, I'm definitely going to check those ticket booths out. I don't know why I never two and two together. Thanks for this video!
Thank YOU for watching!
Your so knowledgeable and funny! Thanks for all the history of Disneyland! I'll be out there in June and I'll be looking at all the hidden things you've showed me in your vids.
That's awesome!!! I'll have to think of more before then!
God this brings back so many memories... I still have some of the original ticket booklets with the D and E tickets in them.
You ran to the E ticket rides before the crowd got too big, and ended the day with A rides in Fantasy Land on the Carousel. The end of a perfect day. When we were little we could get into the park free and spend hours without tickets, then went out to the lockers in the parking lot, now Downtown Disney, to get our packed lunch and rest for the afternoon walking around and people watching.
Actually, I think ticket books were carried over from carnivals and fairs to Disneyland. As I understand it, it was kind of a standard for amusement parks way back to Coney Island and beyond. Some people always try to show me the ticket book stuff like it's super exciting, but I'm kind of glad they're gone. Lol! Think of how much they would cost with inflation? I like being able to ride all the rides. 1982 was the year I was born...maybe it's a sign. But I won't knock somebody's nostalgia trip either when they talk about tickets. Nostalgia makes people happy. Thanks for pointing out the booths. I think I've kind of looked at the one at the matterhorn before, and maybe realized what it was without really appreciating it. Next time I go, I think I'm gonna pay a little more attention. I love Disney history, and looking for its lost relics.
Have you done a video of the old sky way ride. You can still see the landing in Fantasyland. It's overgrown by trees, but still there. I'm old so I actually remember the ticket books and a lot of these old rides. I like learning about Disney history. I too am a proud owner of an annual pass!! : )
I still have a ticket book from way back when.....keep up the great sight!
Did I ever tell you that I first went to Disneyland when I was five years old? That was in the first year it was open. That tells you how freaking old I am. I have enjoyed your video about tickets (*coupons*). I used to save my leftover tickets. But I am sorry to say I lost them many years later. *sigh*
Love the video man. I was just there this past Wed. Thur and well... yesterday. (Fri) If I would have seen you I would have offered you a DCA "Grown up Juice box" =) Keep the fun facts coming dude!
Love this! I knew about the Alice mushroom, the Matterhorn booths...the others! I walked pasted them puppies for years as a kid! BTW, great channel!
Thank you! :D
My mother still has a small box of the old tickets. Rumor has it, you can exchange them at Disneyland for new park tickets.
Actually - The admission tickets, you can! The other tickets can be traded for their face value off admission ($0.50) etc
That's what I mean. :)
jlafunk ? wait.......I have 3 ticket books......I can what?
You can trade in your old ticket books to use toward new park tickets. It's better to keep them, though. YOu can call in and ask how they do it.
Wow. That's so cool that they actually are willing to do that!
I noticed that door in the Alice in Wonderland mushroom before and thought it was strange. Thanks to you now I know.
This was so interesting! You had me hooked!
Disneyland is such an awesome place and I love that even though the park keeps changing, as Walt himself said it should, the Imagineers don't forget their roots and they remember to pay tribute to the legacy and history of Disneyland, which is just as important.
I love your channel! :)
I have some of those tickets from back then, good memories thanks for sharing
If I remember correctly, there is a ticket booth upon the entry to the Snow White ride. I believe it is upon entering past the "apple" you can rub to the left.
Great Video! It made me remember, didn't there used to be a Post Office and you could get a Disneyland post stamp? Can't wait for your next video!
I don't remember a specific post office, but I do recall being able to buy Disney commemorative stamps at a few places in the park (I think now it's basically down to one or two places). The Disneyland mailboxes are working mailboxes delivered to the Anaheim post office, and at various times of the year they (Disneyland) stamp "Disneyland USA" and other Disneyfied messages near the cancel stamp, which is pretty cool!
Couple more ticket booths for you. The turnstiles at Mark Twain / Colombia and the Main Street Cinema were booth tickets booths. Also, the Frontierland Train station use to be on the opposite side of the train tracks and turned around 180 degrees. The windows on that side of the train station use to be the ticket booth for that attraction. I never noticed they said coupon on them but some did say ticket. The Jimmy's Cricket Ticket as one example. Thanks.
Thank you! I didn't even think of the Main Street Cinema, and the MT loading area never crossed my mind either! Thanks for pointing those out! I've never seen the Jiminy Cricket ticket, but I do have a few Magic Key 'coupons' around my house. Thanks for sharing that!!!!
I still have a couple of ticket books from my childhood. We used to go every Saturday morning to have breakfast with the characters.
The tickets were originally only A,B, and C. They added D tickets later on and then finally added E tickets after they added more rides. Rides that previously were C & D tickets changed to E tickets meaning customers had to pay more for the rides they previously went on for cheaper. Making them outraged. But that never stops disney.
has anyone mentioned that you are hilarious and adorable?
because you are and these videos are amazing :D
Hey Random land guy, I really love your videos about Disneyland. I think it would be amazing that your next Disneyland video be about the famous Main Street Electrical Parade. It's just a suggestion but thank u
As if I didn't already have enough information and history of the park stored in my Disney-obsessed brain! My boyfriend will have to deal with this the whole drive to Southern California this summer! -And I'm hoping to get a glimpse of the abandoned booth!
I love these videos and stories, but I've never had the least desire to actually go to any Disney property. All I see and hear about from people who do go is: crowded, expensive (and especially in Florida), too hot. But it's fun to learn about these places, and all the engineering feats and creative design to built them.
Keeping the history alive! great as usual!!
:D Thank you!!!
Aw, you've got some great energy in your videos. It's clear you've done your research too! I found you through Adam the Woo and I'm glad I did. Consider yourself subscribed.
I laughed so hard! I always Talk about the tickets...or....coupons...with people who remember them! Ive been wanting a booklet for so long! I doubt i can get my hands on one though. (: loved the video! thanks for making me smile everyday!
eBay! They're pretty cheap if they're missing one or two tickets. Well, "cheap" - maybe $20?
Sometimes I see them for like $5
I'm so glad I found your channel omg. You're great.
Wow thank you! & Welcome aboard! :)
God it’s so nice seeing that annual passport again! DARN THOSE DANG KEYS!
These videos are great now I have to wait a whole week for another
Hopefully the next one will be Monday though! I don't usually upload this late in the week but there were extenuating circumstances this time. :)
Apparently these were also in WDW until '82, I read. Didn't know about these until my brother (14 years older than me) said when he was a kid going to WDW they had those tickets
!!!hahaha! The lady @ 5:48 She be like "You filming me punk?"
She asked and I explained but it took her awhile to be cool, because at first she couldn't believe anyone would be just trying to film a building.
what? Seriously!!?? wow, get with the times lady.. haha
I love your videos, they are very interesting! Being a huge Disney freak I always love to learn more about the parks. Do you think you could do a video on the Main Street Electrical Parade? I love that parade and would love to see you do a video on it. Thank you!
Where is the parade now? Magic Kingdom? It would be pretty hard to do unless I could get someone to film the parade in FL and send me footage. But if I get out there anytime soon I will definitely do that!!
Main Street still has Booths. The c.Cinema and Opera House. The Main Street Transportation System would collect tickets by driver, except for Streetcars. A Conductor would jump cars at the pass point and collect the dimes (A tickets)
That explains the joke on the Simpsons where Homer is asked at the admission booth if he wanted to buy $100 worth of tickets for Itchy & Scratchy Land and when they entered the park, all the signs said "Not accepting park tickets." LOL.
I remember having "coupon books".
I was going to bring up the mushroom if you hadn't.
I remember those ticket books when I was a little kid in the 70's I was amazed when six flags (then just magic mountain) came out with 1 ticket to ride everything, then I think knotts did, then finally Disney. well I guess Disney cant be first in everything
I just wanna say i really love your videos !
Well, thank you for watching them!!!
I've only been to Disneyland once, but I went to Disney World many times. Alas, I am old enough to remember the ticket books. I really want to go back but if I do it will probably be Disney World since I'm on the east coast.
These ticket booths are giving me life. Especially the mushroom!
Knott's also had ticket books. I still have one. They look exactly like the Disneyland ones.
+brickman409 ticket books?
Bella parker
Yeah, back in the day you could buy ticket books which came with 1 or more of each type of ticket, usually they would come with three E tickets, three D tickets, two C tickets and so on. There's a great article on Yesterland about them.
Bella parker
www.yesterland.com/tickets.html
I used to go to Disneyland a lot as a kid. and I bought film from that ''coupon'' booth, but didn't even know that's what it used to be until now. I love these Disneyland videos from LFDP and cant wait for Disney in 2015. quick question, do you know when Disneyland is going to do a 24 hours at the park in 2015?
Your video was so awesome i forgot to click HD! that says a lot !
Really nice subject! thansk a lot ! I will subscribe !
Wow thanks man! Welcome aboard! :D
Im a cast member and we have an 2 of the old ticket booths where we come in to work.
Isn't the building in the dumbo line queue also an old ticket booth?
I doubt it because Dumbo moved for the 1983 re-opening of Fantasyland. By the time the new FL opened, there were no more tickets.
Oh that's right! I forgot it moved!
Not only was the Dumbo attraction moved, it was redesigned. DL Paris was being built at the time and they needed a Dumbo ride. So the first redesign for DL was sent to Paris and a second was built for the DL Fantasyland remodel.
Ok, so what is that little building for then?
I really enjoy these vids. Thanks.
Thanks for the vid. I really enjoy your channel.
Thanks man!!
The end always gets me!!! *gasp* a grapefruit!
Isn't that big window in Dumbo a ticket booth? Great videos, by the way. hope to run into you at the park one day.
Nope, I always thought so, but that was specially built for their big vintage Gavioli Band Organ.
List of ideas for that ticket booth:
Small First Aid booth
Telephone booth
Food stand
DVC Information stand
Disney Photopass stand
I'm just spewing out ideas so that thing doesn't rot out or so Bob Iger doesn't take it out of the park for no reason because I can see him doing that
Please do a history on Splash Mountain if you want to! That would be awesome :) I have watched all of your videos. And love them! :) You're so cute and funny!
WOW this is a very popular video for you. Great job. I barely remember E tickets but I know we used them in WDW because my father still calls them E rides.
Yep, they used them out there too!!
I'm 43, I remember those well! They started to phase them out in the early 80's, and passes took over. I still have some of the books, did you know you can actually redeem them at Disneyland and get credit for passes? I would NEVER do that though, they're collectors items now.
Where did you get your Ticket Replicas? I'm a huge Disneyland history buff and would love to get my hands on some. Also you should do a video just on old Disneyland attractions and their remains. Like the "Skyway" station, and the "Journey Through Nature's Wonderland" tunnel ect.
I got them from that blog linked at the end, I think vintagedisneylandtickets.blogspot.com maybe - Just sized them correctly and printed them out. :) One-sided but I think they worked OK for this purpose
As a Disneyland Fan since 1964, I was two. I never knew this cool info. Can I be your dad? You are the son I can be proud of.... No weird stuff.