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SimpTwister
12-15-2001, 01:15 AM
This was being discussed in the Rocket Rod Return? thread, so I'm giving it a home.

I have DL Guides (the ones they hand out at the park) from 1975 and 1980.

Here's the rundown:

1975

FREE

America the Beautiful Circle-Vision 360

A

Main Street Vehicles
King Arthur Carrousel
Sleeping Beauty Castle

B

Main Street Cinema
Motor Boat Cruise
Swiss Family Treehouse
Casey Jr. Circus Train
Alice in Wonderland

C

Fantasyland Theater ('Enjoy a Disney movie.' I'd forgotten...)
Mad Tea Party
Autopias
Shooting Galleries
Peter Pan Flight
Dumbo Flying Elephants
Mr. Toad's Wild Ride
Snow White's Adventures
Mike Fink Keel Boats
Adventure Through Inner Space

D

Rocket Jets
Peoplemover
Mission to Mars
Storybook Land Canal Boats
Skyway
Tom Sawyer Island Rafts
Davy Crockett's Explorer Canoes
Disneyland RR Trains
Sailing Ship Columbia
Mark Twain Steamboat
Mine Train Ride

E

America Sings
Jungle Cruise
Disneyland-Alweg Monorail Trains
Matterhorn Bobsleds
It's a Small World presented by Bank of America
Enchanted Tiki Room
Submarine Voyage
Pirates of the Caribbean
Country Bear Jamboree presented by Wonder Bread
Haunted Mansion



1980

(Only the changes are noted; 1975 designation in parentheses)

FREE

Fantasyland Theater (C) (Here it says 'Enjoy Mickey's Home Movies')

A

Main Street Cinema (B)

B

Shooting Galleries (C)

C

Mission to Mars (D)

D

REMOVED - [Mine Train Ride]
America Sings (E)

E

NEW - Big Thunder Mountain Railroad
NEW - Space Mountain

Nigel2
12-15-2001, 01:19 AM
Hmmm interesting. Was it 1983 when they finally did away with the ABC ticket system?

SimpTwister
12-15-2001, 01:21 AM
Not sure exactly, but I know it was before 1985.

SimpTwister
12-15-2001, 02:02 PM
What I find most interesting here is that the Tiki Room was an E-Ticket, even in 1980!

Also, even though I knew this, this info points out that BOTH Space Mountain and Big Thunder were built in that 5-year period!

If we could only get new E-Tickets at that rate today...:rolleyes:

Morrigoon
12-15-2001, 03:44 PM
I think it's safe to say that the early 80's (for the sake of argument, 84?) was a heyday for Disneyland.

Course, that being the Disneyland of my youth, I may be a bit biased by nostalgia.

Horace Horsecollar
12-15-2001, 05:01 PM
I think they did away with the ticket books completely in 1981. This sticks in my mind because I turned 21 that year, and I went down to Disneyland with my Cal Poly roommates to celebrate (this wasn't exactly a hard-drinkin' crowd). We pooled all our old Disneyland tickets, which you could cash in at their full face value. Five of us got in for, as I recall, five bucks apiece. Too bad those days are over.

I think you had the option of paying a quarter at the shooting galleries, much like you could pay the drivers of the Main Street vehicles a dime instead of using an "A" coupon.

Ace
12-15-2001, 10:29 PM
whenever I hear the year '1985' my mind plays it like "great scott! we have to (blah blah) 1985!" from back to the future.... but anyway, I still have a booklet of tickets that my dad gave me from I dunno when...