Remember when you needed tickets to ride the monorail?

[sotoalf]

My parents, just returned from WDW, reminded me of the days when you had to present "World passports" and "transportation tickets" if you weren't a resort guest but wanted to ride the monorail.

When was this discontinued? I want to say the late eighties. I also distinctly remember separate queues for resorts if you were taking the monorail from the Polynesian and CR.

 

[seashoreCM]

The so called Transportation Ticket on the front of the ticket book (with individual tickets required for various rides) was given to the monorail or ferry attendant before boarding at the parking lot concourse (TTC). If you needed to leave the Magic Kingdom you got a hand stamp and that allowed you to board the monorail or ferry to leave and return to MK later. There were one-day, two-day, and 3-day ticket books with one, two, or three transportation tickets as applicable.

Although I am not sure when the Transportation Ticket was discontinued, the ticket books themselves were discontinued ca. 1982 (when Epcot opened) in favor of "pay one price" admission and no tickets/payments collected at rides.

The first pay-one-price tickets were manually stamped with the date at the park entrance. Later they had tickets of a slightly different shape (longer) that you inserted into a slot like a time card into a time recording clock, and the date was stamped mechanically. (The stamper also cut a tiny notch out of the corner of the ticket so the next time the ticket was inserted, the next date stamp would land on a slightly different place.)

 

[disneydave]

Well I was much younger and my brain gives out at times but seems as if I recall you needed a ticket or resort pass in '85 so must have been after then.