Anyone know about tickets from the 1980's?

[mrskay9]

When I was at my parent's house on the 4th, my father mentioned that he still had tickets from when we (last) went to Disney as a family in 1981. He went and got them (he saves everything!).

It looks so funny to me. It's a booklet of tickets marked A ticket, which could get you ONE ride from the list. The list was like Dumbo, Tea Cups, then well, B seems to be missing but he's got C & D tickets.

I was under the assumption that Disney was always pay one price and ride all the rides? Anyone know anything about these tickets?

Thanks in advance. I didn't know where to post this.

 

[cleo]

WOW! Them's OLD!!! They were used in the 70's (possibly the very early 80's?) when Magic Kingdom opened, and they're a real keepsake. I have a booklet from '71 (the year MK opened), and it's a real eye-opener to see the price (look on the back of the booklet).

What a wonderful treasure! Hang on to them.

 

[mrskay9]

Yeah, that's what gets me. I think it said it was $9.50. There's also like a greyhound ticket on there. my mother said it might've just been an ad, but I don't know. We didn't use greyhound.

 

[DVC'96]

I don't have an answer for you, but from what I've heard those type of tickets are worth more to collectors, than what Disney will credit you.
Apparently, when WDW first opened, you bought different tickets to go on different types of rides. Big Thunder Mountain would be an E ticket, a smaller, less popular ride would be a A or B ticket.
Maybe the Collectors Board would be able to tell you more about them.
That's amazing he still has those after all these years.

*Sorry about my mistake from before. I realized it when I was reading my Allears Newsletter!*

 

[Kae]

At www.allearsnet.com they are doing a story on all the different tickets right now.

Kae

 

[oogieboogie]

Take a look at allearsnet: http://allearsnet.com/tix/tickethistory.htm

 

[mrskay9]

Oh thank you so much! I did find it on there. $9.50??? Wow!

Thanks, yes, I was thinking it'd be worth more as a souvie than the value of it.

This board is wonderful. Thank you so much!

 

[paladin]

I remember using those tickets - you always had too many A's and not nearly enough E's (though you could of course buy additional)

 

[MrShiny]

Disneyland started with the ride tickets and so did WDW. They had them when we went in 1975, but switched to the one price ticket on our next trip in 1982.

I believe Disney will still give you what you paid for the tickets towards a new ticket, but you might do better selling them on eBay!

Still to this day though, the "big" rides are called E-Ticket attractions. There were also some that didn't need a ticket - like Adventures in Inner Space at DL and If You Had Wings at WDW.

 

[seashoreCM]

Apparently, when WDW first opened, you bought different tickets to go on different types of rides. Big Thunder Mountain would be an A ticket, a smaller, lesspopular ride would be a C or D ticket.

Other way 'round, the E ticket was for the biggest most spectacular rides.

A complete ticket book, including the cover page and "monorail ticket" may be traded in for a one day basic pass. For a partially used ticket book the individual coupons are traded in, I think an E coupon is worth 25 cents. It is my belief that a complete ticket book is worth a lot more to Disney collectors than $65. (gate price of a 1 day pass).

Disney hints:
http://members.aol.com/ajaynejr/dispass.htm

 

[Capt_BJ]

And so you explain how I show my age when I describe an event as

"a real E ticket ride"

as I did while sitting in the Captain's chair as my ship pounded thru 45 foot waves in the Bearing Sea

Yahoo...this is a real E Ticket ride

the crew just stared... some puked ..... everyone stared.

 

[SunFloridaDisney]

Oh yeah, I remember those.

My grandparents lived on Florida's west coast, and we'd go every year. Grandpa always had tons of those A tickets left (couldn't even give them away - no one wanted those rides) The E tickets were the best.

They did start the one price thing I guess in the late seventies? I do know when we were married in 1980 and went to MK, we bought 2-day passes, good for everything in MK. Cost: $18.99 each. When we were there a few months ago, $18.99 would buy counter lunch. Maybe. LOL

 

[Ishy]

My first trip was in 1981. I have the booklet in my scrapbook. I actually forgot all about it - till I was cleaning up some stuff and decided to show my children what I looked like as a teen. I missed my senior class trip to florida because my mom took ill and I used all my saved and earned money helping to pay bills that year. So the following year my boyfriend and I went down - we had a whooping 600$ to spend and it was plenty. Had to be... neither of us owned a credit card.. we lived on love.

Yup... If I thought it was worth anything - I would probably sell it.

 

[cleo]

It's funny to think Jungle Cruise was an E-Ticket attraction when the park opened! Seems to me the Main Street Vehicles were an A-Ticket attraction , along with (if I remember correctly) the Skyway. Haunted Mansion was also an E-Ticket, and I think it deserves that designation even today.

 

[Dancenash]

I have an old child stub it was 6.25
c ticket was for one of the following
main street steam trains
explorer canoes
peter fan
snow white
mr toad rides

b ticket was for one of the following
swiss family island treehouse
frontierland shootin gallery
mike fink keel boats
dumbo
mad tea party

the a ticket is removed from my book

 

[scrapperjill]

i was just reading today...in the Disney magazine (summer 05) about the old tickets...and I think it said they switched to the one price (admission and rides) in 1983....Of course they were focusing on Disneyland not WDW so....(special Disneyland's 50th edition) so WDW may have been earler...but they made it sound as if both change around the same time...either way it was early 80's

 

[Beca]

Well, they might have had the books as an option, but when we went in 1981, we got "unlimited" ride tickets. I remember we had large pink ticket with a picture of the castle on it. We tied it to a button on our shirt (I think they even gave us a pin on button in case we wore shirts without buttons). It was stamped with the days that we could use the ticket.



Beca

 

[dbanzai]

When I was there, we got the all-inclusive pass. So it was like a ski-lift tag. You just wore it on your clothes and they let you in. I'd read about the tickets at DL, but never remembered WDW using the same system. I never had to rely on tickets back then 'cause of that pass.

 

[lillygator]

ahhh - I remember those tickets....we were riding in the tram up to the TTC and I was holding on to a booklet - well somehow it got caught in the wind and I lost it...I thought my aunt would never let me live it down!
I was heartbroken...( I don't even remember how old I was.... )

My grandma still has tons of these in a drawer!

 

[seashoreCM]

I am reasonably sure that the ticket books and the unlimited (pay one price) tickets co-existed for some period of time with the ticket books disappearing around the time Epcot opened (1982).

If I remember correctly, in 1975 (my first WDW visit) there were different options: general admission only, ticket book with a small number of rides, ticket book with a large number of rides, and extra ride tickets. I got the book with a small number of rides, did use up the A tickets also, and still have the empty folder.