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05-05-2005, 10:34 PM
A happy 50th - and many more - Orange County Register, 5/5/05 (http://www.ocregister.com/ocr/2005/05/05/sections/commentary/orange_grove/article_507247.php)


As a child in the 1950s, my bedside table top drawer always held a residual ticket or two from our previous day at Disneyland. Woe is me, it was without fail an A rather than the coveted E, and no matter how many times I closed my eyes and wished upon a star (bippity, boppity boo!), the drawer's contents wouldn't alter - there was still just that A.

You see, being raised in Southern California, we knew our tickets: The As were for the middle-aged mothers and elderly who wanted just to sit in a quiet venue that after a time was even air-conditioned as opposed to the more adventurous experiences that required a C, D or E passport to obtain entrance.