Originally Posted By wonderingalice I only had the opportunity to ride the Rocket Rods once, but really got a kick out of the queue's nostalgia - I think I liked it better than the ride itself! *LOL* Sure miss the PeopleMover!
Originally Posted By Dabob2 <*LOL* For me it was "ATIS," the "Carousel of Progress," (though I took plenty of spins on "AS," too... and the AT&T displays that rocked me the hardest.> It could be because those were all free attractions in the days of ticket books... I know that we spent an awful lot of time in TL in those days; not only because it was a great TL, but because with ATIS, CoP and ATB (and AT&T displays) being free, we ended up doing them EVERY time we went. We didn't always go on the same rides otherwise (because you only got 5 E tickets in a book, 4 D's, etc.) but we would do those 3 TL free attractions every single time.
Originally Posted By danyoung Very interesting point. It's hard to imagine a time when you had to carefully allocate your E tickets, knowing you only had 5 E ticket rides in a day unless you had the bucks to buy more tickets (which we usually didn't!).
Originally Posted By wonderingalice Wow, I never thought of that, even though we always rode ATIS several times a visit! Like Dan, we never purchased additional tickets. It wasn't an option on my family's budget. My dad's "junk drawer" at home always had partial ticket books in it - with plenty of unused "A" and "B" tickets. (Wish I had those now... They certainly wouldn't be considered "junk" to me.
Originally Posted By DlandDug I still have the three ticket books my parents and I used on my single trip to Disneyland in my childhood. My parents' books have some leftover A and B tickets. My book? Empty!
Originally Posted By wonderingalice ^^That doesn't surprise me at all, Doug... I can see you dashing here and there - not missing a single thing on that visit!
Originally Posted By Sara Tonin In his burmuda shorts and Peter Pan green felt hat with a red feather.
Originally Posted By DlandDug Actually, I looked a like this: <a href="http://s325.photobucket.com/albums/k375/newdug/?action=view¤t=Dland197202.jpg" target="_blank">http://s325.photobucket.com/al...7202.jpg</a>
Originally Posted By Dabob2 I have a bunch of partially used ticket books, most with a few lower tickets. But I have one complete book, because we were moving away from SoCal, and I knew that was the souvenir I wanted most - a complete A-E ticket book to remind me of the place, so that's what I bought.
Originally Posted By DlandDug Ticket books with the main gate coupon attached are very collectible. And back in 1972 I thought I looked terribly cool...!
Originally Posted By SafariRob I rode it once...right before it closed. It had a creepy feel to it but that could have been because of the Paul Frees + Omnimover combination. When I got in line for Star Tours the first time, I remember thinking that the elevated part of the queue (where you go up the ramp) used to be the beginning part of the actual ride track for Inner Space. Can anyone confirm this?
Originally Posted By wonderingalice *LOL* You did, Doug... You looked like every other young teen boy, just like I looked like every other young teen girl... We couldn't help that it was the '70s! ;-) That's a very cool (and a little bittersweet) souvenir, Dabob2.
Originally Posted By iamsally >>>>Actually, I looked a like this:<<<< That is so cute Doug. This is my very first trip. Pre-ATIS. To this day nobody in the family, including my sister, knows why she had curlers in her hair at Disneyland. <a href="http://www2.snapfish.com/slideshow/AlbumID=154266246/PictureID=3332349540/a=79203744_79203744" target="_blank">http://www2.snapfish.com/slide...79203744</a>
Originally Posted By danyoung Very funny. Every time I see someone out in public with curlers in, I always wonder just where do you have to go that's so important that you schlub around town looking like that???
Originally Posted By wonderingalice That's an easy one... They simply weren't dry yet! Thank God for that marvelous invention - the portable blow dryer! *L*
Originally Posted By Dabob2 I love how in the 50's and 60's (by the 70's, not so much) you saw lots of men wearing suits to DL, and women wearing, if not their Sunday best, something close to it.
Originally Posted By wonderingalice We always wore our very best casual clothes to Disneyland. My favorite outfit was this awesome shorts/jacket combo that was striped like Burt's jacket from "Mary Poppins" - white, fuschia and orange. I have a photo at home of me in that outfit with my brother just before we got in the car to head to Anaheim. I'll have to scan it and share one of these days.
Originally Posted By amazedncal2 We always called it Monsanto, I didn't know there was another name. It was make out central for DH and myself when we were teenagers I'd always wait for certain moments when I was SURE others couldn't see us, not sure about the hidden cameras in those days, YIKES! It was all PG anyway.
