First Disney Memory

[DisneyfeverTN]

I remember going to DL for the first time around the age of 12 or 13. They used the tickets then, and Space Mountain hadn't even been built. I don't remember too much other than riding many rides and having a wonderful time.
I do remember the old submarine ride.

I remember how excited I was when I heard about Space Mountain. I couldn't wait to go back.

 

[Quest4Kingdom]

Going on the People Mover where you shrink and skyriding through the Matterhorn mountain!

 

[lillybug]

Mine was when my dad bought me one of those giant lollipops they sell, and I remember going on the skyway. I was 5 years old.

 

[lil_ragamuffins]

My first Disney memory is also my first memory ever.

I had just turned two and I was having lunch in New Orleans Square with my parents and older brother. I was muching on a cracker and walking on a brick curb haning on the wrought iron fence. That's all I remember, but pretty impressive for a two-year-old.

 

[jlmarr]

Grandpa herded the clan through the tunnel near the Opera House, poured over his ticket book and wondered aloud, "what should we do first?", then we all heard the announcement for the DL train "now arriving..." and that settled it. Later that day I saw the scaffolding around the partially constructed Matterhorn, so this would have been 1958.

 

[toyota]

I remember riding the mules when I was about 7.
I remember driving the boats and really thinking I was an excellent driver.
I remember the mine train and the area with the tippy rocks and the mudpots (very Yellowstone-esque).

When I visited in the 70's when I was a teenager, I remember seeing Jose Feliciano on the stage where HISTA is now.

 

[Quest4Kingdom]

I would have to add too, that having those mickey ear hats with my name embroidered on it.... Gee, memories seem to just jump around and I can't figure which came first either! Mine seem to be in puzzle pieces- I remember take home souvies and even having hot churros and mickey ear ice cream! Ahhhhh the good old days... (more like yesterday! LOL LOL)

 

[tofubeast]

For me, I think it revolves around my fear/love with Pirates! I was scared of the drop, but fascinated with the rooms. However, I was so scared of the village scene on fire....especially when you look up and see the furniture/wood/logs etc on fire that look like they can fall on you. Let's not even talk about being scared of being shrunk in Inner Space!

I also remember the wall around Thunder Mtn as it was being built and the Pirate Ship restaurant in Fantasyland. The big sign as you entered the park. The coffee shop at the DL hotel. Oh and getting my first pair of ears. I so wanted to be a Mouseketeer. (see my first pic on my signature!)

 

[Quest4Kingdom]

"For me, I think it revolves around my fear/love with Pirates! I was scared of the drop, but fascinated with the rooms. However, I was so scared of the village scene on fire....especially when you look up and see the furniture/wood/logs etc on fire that look like they can fall on you."

I think that about summs up what may become my kids' first disney memories with Pirates... Afraid to get on, not wanting to get off! they say those same things, and one of my girls think that one scene with the auctioning of women part (at least that's what i think it is) she says "OOOOooh princesses!"

 

[sweetbrat]

My first memories started BEFORE I got there. You see my dad took my mom to DL for their first date. They have been married for 45 years so that might give you a clue...it was back in the good ol days. We lived in Westminster, so it was not far to go visit. I went to Disneyland feeling excited, but also proud that it was "my parent's special place." I remember seeing the wrought iron around the haunted house and I think it was on POTC too. I just knew my dad built it, because that was what he did for a living. As I was growing up I told kids my dad made that wrought iron, not meaing to lie, as I truly believed it! I have never asked him, but I am quite sure it was just my imagination that he made it! LOL!

My disappointment, was that Tinkerbell did not greet us with her magical way like she did at the start of every Sunday Night Disney Movie on ABC. To me she represented the magical excitement of DL.

 

[KAT4DISNEY]

Here's a couple of my first memories......

Still have my mouse ears.

Dad had to work the pedals and was about ready to kill me after I bounced us back and forth off the rail for the whole ride!

Mom was obviously the photographer!

I also remember the mule rides (for the longest time I thought that must have been Knotts Berry b/c I didn't see the mules at Disney in later years but I understand they were there.

Being chased by the character pig that built the brick house - something about me squeasing his nose made him mad.
Oh - found a pic of that too. I think that was a year or two after the first photo. I never would go near that pig again!

 

[Diznygrl]

Thanks for sharing those pics! Love the pig's tennis shoes. Too funny!

Does anyone remember around what year they started to make mouse ears into the more circular shape that they are today? I have pictorial souvenir books from the 80s that still show ears that are shaped more like the first pic in KAT4DISNEY's post, but I really can't remember when they changed the design.

 

[catsintrbleagn]

My first memory is of the ride where you were "shrunk", I always forget the name. It is now Star Tours. I was fascinated and really thought they shrunk people!

 

[kaoden39]

My first memory is a sad one. My parents took to me to Disneyland for the first time when I was 4 years old. I remember wanting to say "hi" to Winnie the Pooh and having him walk away. (Back in 1969, for those who might remember, Pooh wore a honey pot on his head with bees flying around it.) Of course, I cried.

I have been back to DL many times since and I still joke about being scarred for life because Winnie the Pooh walked away from me.

By the way, me and Pooh are fine now after many years of counseling!

But one of my favorite memories is eating Mickey Mouse Pancakes at the River Belle Terrace and listening to the Swiss Family Treehouse music play in the background.

Yes I remember Pooh with the honey pot I have pictures of him still.

My first memory is of the ride where you were "shrunk", I always forget the name. It is now Star Tours. I was fascinated and really thought they shrunk people!

That ride was sponsord by Monsato. It was called something like Adventures Thru Inner Space. I used to love that ride.

Michele

 

[50sjayne]

Mine's pretty special to me as it involves an Uncle who died last year. Somehow, said uncle ended up having to babysit me. So he asked me what I wanted to do-- of course I said Disneyland. My Mom had just run off with my stepdad (still together) to California from Illinois and from previous visits there-- I assumed everyone just went to Disneyland all the time. So of course he took me. Greg was a long haired hippie-- it must have been '73 and I was 5. I remember clearly standing in line for the Rocket to the Moon line, going up and really thinking that I went to the moon- he had me completely convinced. That's all I remember about that trip, that and telling my grandparents that I went to the moon and being very adamant that I had gone to the moon. My parents said that he had carried me around on his shoulders all day too-- don't remember that-- just the moon lol.

 

[bumbershoot]

My main memory as a kid there was this cool hat I had. It had a red visor that came down, but it was more of a "bucket" hat, not what you think of as a visor. And I remember having my name put on it. It would have been in the 70s at some point, and I felt super-cool in that hat.

Along with the hat memory I remember standing in line for the subs, I also remember standing in an ages-long line for Space Mountain with my brother, and I also remember some orange drink that came in a "cup" that was like an orange.

Couple years later my mom and stepdad surprised us with the Disneyland Hotel, and I remember scrambled eggs from room service, thinking that adjoining rooms were sooooo cool, and my mom getting a nasty, ended-her-day, migraine from the teacups.

 

[tofubeast]

Yes I remember Pooh with the honey pot I have pictures of him still.

Pooh still had the honey pot on his head back in 1983. Here I am in between Pooh and Tigger back during Mickey's Month at DL.