Originally Posted By gurgitoy2 "So did the merchants and other BofA customers have to pay to get inside DL to use the Bank on Sundays?" No, but you had to be escorted inside to the bank and escorted back out. This also used to be the way they handled merchandise returns. I remember my dad had to do that with a jacket he bought at the old Pendlton store in Frontierland. That was such a painful visit for us kids, because we were in the Disneyland parking lot, but could not go inside...instead we had to wait for my dad to return and then come back outside and go home...
Originally Posted By gurgitoy2 Oh, and before the passports were introduced, I believe you could just go inside without paying because you weren't using any tickets. You could go browse Main Street for free, as well as the rest of the park, I believe, but you just couldn't go on any rides back then.
Originally Posted By trekkeruss That must have been a REALLY long time ago, like before the tickey books, because for many years there was a separate admission fee.
Originally Posted By gurgitoy2 Oh, ok. For some reason I thought that you could go into the park for nothing but to ride anything you needed a ticket book. I guess I wasn't aware that there was a general admission ticket required as well.
Originally Posted By juicer Before the all day passport you could buy a ticket just to get in the park - and if you then decided you wanted to go on an attraction you could buy an a, b, c, d or e ticket at tickets booths that were all around the park -
Originally Posted By x Pirate_Princess x acoording to Yesterland.com, at the very beginning, you didn't have to pay admission, only buy the tickets. Eventually, you needed admission and tickets, which you could buy in books of 10 or 15 (plus admission) for $4.95 or $5.95, respecively. A-tickets were 10 cents, B-tickets were 25 cents, C- & D-tickets were 40 cents (why they were the same, I don't know). And E-tickets were 85 cents for adults and 75 cents for children. I could be a little off on the prices, but that's the general idea.
Originally Posted By nemopoppins Could you buy separate tickets or did you have to buy them by the book? What I remember from when I was little was that we were always out of D and E tickets and always had plenty of A and B tickets left. Would my mother not buy more E tickets because she was trying to save money or because you could only get them by the book?
Originally Posted By x Pirate_Princess x You could buy them seperately, hence the prices listed. The books were a way to save money... like the $4.95 book was worth like $12 or something, I can't remember the exact amount. But yes, you could buy them seperately.
Originally Posted By gurgitoy2 Each attraction had a booth out front where you could buy additional tickets for that attraction if you wanted to. Alice in Wonderland still has the booth out front, only it's used for dispatch now.
Originally Posted By imadisneygal The lighthouse in front of the Storbybookland Canal Boats was once a ticket booth as well. The ticket booths were located througout the Park but not at each individual attraction.
Originally Posted By imadisneygal If I could type it would be nice...Storybookland Canal Boats... Sorry.
Originally Posted By FerretAfros I'm not positive, but I think the little house in the Matterhorn queue used to be the place where they collected tickets for the ride. There are windows, about the right size, on each side of it, next to where each queue enters the covered waiting area.
Originally Posted By Dabob2 Only in the VERY first days of DL did each attraction have its own booth (a hangover from traditional parks that did it that way). Pretty soon they were using ticket books, so most people had the tickets they needed before they entered Main Street. But if you ran out and wanted to buy more, you could do so at the ticket booths scattered around the park. Each land had 2-4 booths. As someone noted, the StorybookLand lighthouse used to be one.
Originally Posted By imadisneygal Oops! Sorry. I was going by the tales told by the Ticket Sellers when I worked at the Main Entrance. Many of them had worked at the in-Park booths, but none of them worked there in 1955. That's interesting that each attraction had its own booth. Thanks for the history!
Originally Posted By DlandDug The whimsical little station at the entrance of the Casey jr. Circus Train was also a ticket booth. Did you know you could also purchase a round trip monorail ticket at the Disneyland Hotel? They would essentially lock you into the tail section, and allow you to ride over Disneyland, through Tomorrowland station, and back to the hotel. Now THAT would be a cruel treat for a child!
Originally Posted By Dabob2 According to my 1975 DL guidebook, there were ticket booths: Main Street: at the train station Adventureland: Next to "Sunkist, I presume" (about where the Bengal Barbeque is now). NOS: Just outside the HM Bear Country: Near the Hungry Bear FrL: Next to the Mine Train entrance (now Big Thunder) FaL: At StorybookLand, next to the FaL Autopia, and between Dumbo and the (original) FaL Theatre (now Pinocchio) TL: Next to the TL Autopia, and outside America Sings. I wish I could find one of my older guidebooks, because I know there used to be more - the Casey Jr. one Dug mentioned, and one next to the Tiki Room at least. I do remember there being more in the 60's than in the 70's.
Originally Posted By Amynleroy <You also had to speak at least 3 languages to work there. > Not true I had a family friend that worked there and he did not speak 3 languages. He was our Disney Terry and may he rest in peace!
