The "E" Ticket - Part 5 the final years

I hope everyone had an outstanding Christmas this year, I sure did. I got a Premium Annual Pass to Disneyland from Santa! I guess I've been more nice than naughty! Since I am feeling so merry, we have 8 "E" tickets for your viewing pleasure on this post.

Picking up a couple of years from where we left of on Part 4 of the "E" Ticket, this June 1975 "E" is the new smaller size. Although I am not a big fan of the "little" tickets, they are still the real deal and lots of fun to look at. America Sings has its proper place on the "E". I thought America Sings was the ultimate show when I was 10 years old, I still do. I ride Splash Mountain today just to see my friends in the scene at the end. There is a great two part video on You Tube of America Sings last show on April 10th, 1988 (link).

Missing; Frontierland! The Pack Mule trails are already showing two years of over-growth, I bet this area was starting to look a little too "rustic" by this time. And the Mine Trains have moved to the "D" ticket for its last few years. I like the lower even serial number on this one.

Tomorrowland opened "Space Mountain" on May 27th, 1977. Certainly a mega hit attraction if ever there was one (so much so there are five of them around the world). Obviously an "E" Ticket attraction from its first appearance on this pair of May 1977 "E" tickets (One Adult and One Junior, they are they same size, my scanner is possessed!). American Sings has already moved on to the "D" ticket. Was this move due to the huge capacity of the attraction and an attempt to keep it full. I seem to recall it being pretty busy thru the 70's.

A slight change can be seen on this "E" ticket from June 1978. Apparently people did not know that Space Mountain was indeed a "Roller Coaster Type Attraction". I knew what it was from day one. What could people have thought it was? I guess because you couldn't actually see the track or cars until you are in the big launch room (actually I remember there used to be smoked glass that you could kinda see the ride before you got to the big room) Either way, there was and still are a few "Chicken Exits" anyway, so why the warning? Lawyers I bet!

This is also June 1978 "E". However, this is from those "Complimentary" books. Weird serial number on this one, nice and low, but what is the RX part? I've been told by a reliable source that the "X" serial Numbers were for cast member give aways, I wounder what RX was for?

May 1979 finds the Lawyers at work again. No attraction changes, but notice the asterisk * in front of some of the attractions. These are the attractions (as noted in the back of the ticket book - see next scan) were "Children under seven must be accompanied by an adult on most attractions except those marked by an asterisk (*)" It seems to me the Submarine Voyage is one attraction you would NOT want your 3 year old to ride alone, how about the Tiki Room? Am I the only person who finds this odd?

Frontierland is back, and with an all new Attraction. Opening September 2nd, 1979 Big Thunder Mountain Railroad raced and roared thru what was once Nature's Wonderland. This is also a "Roller Coaster Type of Attraction", maybe they just ran out of room on this rather full May 1980 "E" Ticket to tell us that fact.

Last of the line, call it day, the fat lady has sung... This September 1980 Child Admission "E" ticket is the latest (or newest) I have found. They may have printed Lettered ticket books in 1981, but I have yet to see any. That Globe paper is bold as ever! If Disneyland had left the Country Bear Jamboree in place (like they should have) every attraction on this 1980 "E" ticket would still be at Disneyland!

Well that does it for our trip thru the ages with Disneyland lettered tickets. I hope everyone out there enjoyed as much as I did. I know it can be a little dry to some people (I read technical manuals just for fun, so there's not too much I find dry).

I have LOTS more to post, research and talk about. I have Tons of tickets to show everyone still and Lot's of other unique tickets and ticket related items to share. And some just cool Disneyland stuff to show as well. Maybe I should have called my Blog "Vintage Disneyland Ticket and Stuff"!

Plus for you Knott's and Magic Mountain fans, check on weekends, I have decided to post about Disneyland's neighboring parks at least once a weekend.

Merry Christmas to all.....

Merry Christmas Everyone! I hope you all have a safe and happy holiday.


See you back soon for the Final part of the "E" ticket series!

The "E" Ticket - Part 4 1970 to 1973

999 Ghosts have arrived at Disneyland, they've moved into the Haunted Mansion! Obviously this was an "E" ticket attraction from the beginning and still is today.

This May 1970 "E" ticket is the first ticket I can find with the Haunted Mansion listed. The Sailing Ship Colombia and the Mark Twain Steamboat have traveled to the "D" ticket, where they will remain thru the end of the lettered ticket.

The Mine Train is back on the "E" Ticket, where it will stay until arriving on the "D" ticket in June of 1974! Also, notice the ticket price increase to 85 cents! Side note: Adult and Junior tickets always showed the same individual ticket price (even though the Junior book was cheaper than the Adult book), only the child's tickets showed the lower amounts.

This Child's "E" ticket is from September 1970, the only change from May 1970 is the absence of the Pack Mules thru Natures Wonderland. It's not listed in the back of the ticket book either, was it gone for the Winter, it comes back next year.

And last today, from April 1973, this is the last of the larger style tickets. A final appearance for the Pack Mules thru Nature's Wonderland, packing up for good... And what's this? A NEW land for Disneyland! "Bear Country" add's a sixth realm to "E" ticket, making for plenty of choices. The Country Bear Jamboree is all new, and it's one of the attractions I sorely miss, there was NO reason to removed this attraction, don't even get me started about that stupid pooh ride that belongs in Toontown!

Here is the "Adventures in Disneyland" attraction list from the back of the April 1973 book. WOW, this is the Disneyland of my childhood, can I go back to Disneyland of 1973 for just one afternoon???

This is the back cover of the April 1973 book. This is the last of the larger size book and last of the better quality paper and dual color printing. 1974 brings thin non-glossy single color back covers!

Mom is visiting for the Holiday's so I'm going to skip a few days of blogging. Fear not, I shall return soon with the final part of the "E" Ticket series!

The "E" Ticket - Part 3 the late 1960's

The great Castle Paper is back! I really am starting to like it. These are the first of the shorter length ticket, were the "A" tickets are now the longest (link). May of 1967 Saw many changes to the "E" ticket, so many we're going to need a chart to break it down.

Moved to the "D" Ticket (link):

• SF & D Railroad Trains (with no Fantasyland Station)


• Mine Train thru Nature's Wonderland


• Great Moments with Mr. Lincoln (Adult tickets on the "D" in 1967 only - Children still Free)

Gone for good, but not forgotten:

• Flying Saucers (incredible picture from Gorillas Don't Blog)

New to the "E" ticket:

• Fresh from the 1964/65 Worlds Fair - It's a Small World (Dave at Daveland's favorite ride!)


• New to Disneyland - Pirates of the Caribbean (OK, maybe this is Dave's favorite!)


• Enchanted Tiki Room - Opened in 1963, however tickets were originally sold separately for the Tiki Room

"Mark Twain" here she comes down the Rivers of America, heading right to this May 1968 "E" ticket, with her sister the Sailing Ship Columbia right behind her. They will spend two glorious years on the "E" ticket, then they set sail back down river to the "D" ticket.

May 1969, no changes to report, I just wanted to show the three colors of the "E" tickets again, they are pretty don't you think? Plus this is the last "E" ticket before the "Haunted Mansion" makes it's ghostly appearance.

And I am just tossing this in because I like the Art work. It's not dated, but it looks to be from the early days of It's a Small World. I am not a big fan of the ride, I seem to like the concept art and renditions better than the actual ride, anyone else?

Tomorrow we'll look at the "E" ticket - 1970 to 1973, last of the larger size tickets.

1959 Replica Ticket Book - The Review

Included with the new DVD: Disneyland - The Secrets, Stories and Magic of the Happiest Place on Earth is a fantastic replica ticket book of the first 1959 "E" Ticket book. Get the DVD just for the ticket book! OK, yes, the DVD is amazing too, I've watched it twice already!

Here is the front of the 1959 Replica ticket book. It looks great!

Here is the view after you open the front, classic and very nice. The Welcome message is perfect, the purple-ish color is correct, sweet! The Globe paper is also perfect on these tickets, with the "D" yellow being particularly accurate.

This is the replica "B" ticket. The first thing I noticed is the serial number is in the wrong place, they got it right on the rest of them! Also, this is not the correct lineup for 6/59. This is more correct for early 1960 or a second run in late 1959, when the Horseless Carriages and Omnibus were moved to the "A".

From June 1959, this real ticket this is the first "B" from the ABCDE series.

Closeup of the date on my real 1959 book, 596-A= June 1959 - First Run:

Here's a run down of the other lettered tickets from the replica book. See Monday's post for a closeup of the 1959 "E" Replica.

The Globe paper is vivid and luscious on this "D" ticket replica, with the back having the correct Globe watermark bleed-thru that this color and some of the other would colors have. Lame legal warning on the back! I can see this on the admission ticket, but the lettered tickets?

This is the replica Back of the book. Very nice detail, I swear that little stain on the lower left was there when I opened it!

This is a real June 1964 back of the book, pretty close to the replica isn't it? Only a 50 cent increase in 5 years!

The only thing that is kind of a bummer is that the replica book only has 5 tickets in it, one of each letter. It is supposed to have 15! Oh well, I'll just have to get more!

Tomorrow, back to the "E" Ticket - Part 3 the late 60's!

The "E" Ticket - Part 2 1962 to 1965

Today lets look at the three different colors the "E" ticket was printed on. Going back a couple months from where we left off yesterday, this June 1962 "E" child ticket is I guess "tan" in color. There is a little bit of smearing on the ink on the word "thru" for the Mine Train, that's fairly rare. Generally, all of these tickets were printed even and consistent, pretty amazing since it was obvious they would only be used once. As you can see they have held up well for over 40 years.



June 1963. This would be "pink", I would think "junior" boys (12-17) weren't real keen on holding pink tickets! Maybe the Junior ticket should have been tan and the child's ticket pink? Maybe no one ever thought about it but me! Fantastyland Station is gone for good from the tickets. I hear it didn't close until 1966, I wonder whey it's gone, maybe they just need room for....

Papotin's Revue (6 shows daily. Start 3pm - Summer 1963 only). Yes I know you've been waiting patently for this show to arrive at Disneyland and now it's finally here! This odd show (link) played in the Fantasyland Theater daily after "Jack and the Bean Stalk" played until 3pm. (as shown on the 1963 "B" Ticket)

Back to Basic Green for June 1964! Papotin's Revue has packed up and move on. And I guess the Fastasyland Station is open but not on the this ticket. Maybe they knew it was going to close soon.

And we'll finish off today with a June 1965 "E" Ticket sporting a new price of 60 Cents! (Special ticket book price 43 cents, you saved 17 cents using Disney's ticket book plan!) Great Moments with Mr. Lincoln is all new to Disneyland, and it will cost adults one of these precious "E" tickets. As we learned in the "C" ticket series, Juniors and Children originally got a separate ticket in their book that let them see the show for free. I love this little detail about the free shows, I like to think Walt wanted to be sure the younger generation saw this show.



Tomorrow; We'll take a break from the "E" ticket series and have a review of the Replica 1959 Ticket Book from the new Disneyland Secrets DVD.

The "E" Ticket - Part 1 1959 to 1962

Well we finally made it, the "E" Ticket! Let's look at what caused the "E" ticket to happen in the first place.

As we learned in the "A" Ticket series, the first lettered ticket books only had A-B-C Tickets. This was from October 1955 thru the first half of 1956. By the summer of 1956 many new attractions had been added to Disneyland, therefore the "D" Ticket was introduced. Did this make Disneyland more money, I bet somehow it did.

For the summer of 1959, "Disneyland 59" was getting all kinds of cool new attractions. "Six Spectacular New Attractions!" Check out this cool clip of the Disneyland 59' TV Special, this clip actually looks cleaner and sharper than the Disneyland Treasures DVD version I bought, Hmmmm? Maybe it's just because it's smaller.

With so many new attractions, there was no way to fit them all on the A-B-C-D tickets, so Disneyland gave us the now famous "E" Ticket. Three of the Six new attractions in 1959 would be on the first "E" Ticket, along with Walt's best of the bunch.

From June 1959, the first "E" Ticket had a great line-up indeed! The SF & D Railroad, with all four stops! TWA Rocket to the Moon. The New; Submarine Voyage, Monorail and Matterhorn Bobsled. Rainbow Mules and Coaches, the Mark Twain & Columbia, Tom Sayer Island Rafts, and the Jungle Cruise!

This is a Replica 1959 "E" Ticket from the new Disneyland Secrets DVD. These are really nice. To my surprise, this is real globe paper and the colors are good. Check later this week for my full review of the replica ticket book.

Here we have a June 1960 "E" Ticket with no TWA Rocket to the Moon, its been demoted all the way down to the "C" ticket, I wonder why it didn't just drop to the "D" ticket? Speaking of the "D" ticket, the Mark Twain and Sailing Ship Columbia both sailed down to the "D" ticket in 1960. Also notice the upgrade to the Mine Train and the Pack Mules, they now go thru Nature's Wonderland! (Pack Mules closed at dusk).

Check out this June 1960 "E" ticket that sold on EBay for $405!!! There was no authentication for Walt's signature. Do you think it's real? Looks pretty good. If it's fake, this ticket is worth about $15 to $20.

This is the only "E" ticket I have from 1961, so try to ignore the poorly torn perforation on the left side. A couple of neat changes have occurred. The SF & D Railroad Trains now go thru Grand Canyon Diorama and the Fantastyland Station is gone but returns in 1962. And see the Monorail, by 1961 the line was expanded and now it goes to Disneyland Hotel & return.

October 1962 and we have the Fantasyland Train Station back, however this is it's last appearance on any ticket. When did it close? And what's this, have Flying Saucers landed in Tomorrowland? Oh boy, human air-hockey, this ride looks like it was more fun in pictures than in person, but I guess I will never know. (This is the ticket I use in my profile on blogspot.)

That's it for today's post, tomorrow we'll pick back up in 1962 and check out the other colors the "E" Ticket's were printed on.

1965 INA Guide Book - The Complete Post

As promised, here is the complete "Your Guide to Disneyland another INA Service" booklet. Though not dated, it appears to be from late 1965. There is mention of the park hours for December/January and mention of a "Gala" New Years Eve Party. "The world's biggest New Year's Eve Party as Disneyland visitors welcome in 1966 with noisemakers, hats and a midnite fireworks show". (see page 25)

Take this with you as we tour the INA Guide, it's a June 1965 Ticket book. I was generous and gave you the 15 Adventure Book, but you have 40+ attractions available. "True rewards await those choose wisely"...

Now for the Guide. If you have time, read a few pages and submerse yourself in the Disneyland of the past. There is an amazing amount of detail and information in these INA little books (6 7/8" x 4"). If you have a lot of time, read the whole thing, I have, many times....

Wow, that was cool wasn't it? Did you check out the coming attractions on page 26? Neat stuff.

Tomorrow starts the "E" Ticket series, I think it may be more than 4 parts, as I want to closely examine the famous "E" ticket. Also, mid-week I'll review the "replica" 1959 Ticket book that comes with the new Disneyland Secrets DVD. (I love this replica, it's almost perfect, if they can do this, the People Mover better be next!) And the DVD is Unbelievable, get it if you haven't already!