Wear one of these and the old ladies just clear out of your way
Posted on 06/14/2015 10:32:02 AM PDT by QT3.14
Wear one of these and the old ladies just clear out of your way
I was rummaging through my parents’ attic a couple years ago and I ran across our Disneyland ticket book from 1967. There was a single E ticket left in the book. Lots of great memories.
I believe that the sports coat was only required in the evening at dinner. Back in those days, that was dressing down. Men pretty much wore business suits and hats all the time and maybe slacks and open collar shirts on weekends.
I never saw my father in casual clothes the entire time I was growing up. Woman only wore dresses and mostly stayed in the house.
It was definitely true of my mother, who got much more assertive in her later years.
In 1971 the 3.50 was an entry fee with rides extra, purchased in ticket books.
Today it isn all in one cost, entry and unlimited rides.
Off the bat the ComPost is intellectually dishonest.
And thus the entry of the term "E Ticket Ride" into the American lexicon. Disney initially designated attractions in an 'A' to 'C' categories with cheapest 'A' being the least used or shortest in time or maximum for park convenience rides. Later as the attractions were new or upgraded the designations and costs were upgraded to category 'D' and eventually 'E' as the newest, most attractive and most desirable.
These coupon/ticket books started to be phased out in the early 1980s but the term of 'E Ticket' has stuck around as a synonym for the WOW factor. First US Woman Astronaut Sally Ride described her 1983 Space Shuttle flight; "Ever been to Disneyland? …That was definitely an E ticket!"
Busch Gardens seems to be able to keep a clean, well mannered park. I’d recommend them. Six Flags crowd can get a little rough at time, but they have lots of rides. If you really want a rough crowd, check out Dallas High School night at the State Fair. Cops have to walk a fine line between preventing a riot and causing one. Got caught on the wrong side of the mounted police line one year.
Our family went to Disneyland in Buena Park, CA about 20 years ago. I don’t recall what it cost but the majority of the crowd looked like Mexican and Central American bangers. I think my 3 year old daughter got to go on 3 rides over 8 hours because the lines were so long. The next day we went to Knott’s Berry farm and were greeted by two cowboys packing Colt Peacemakers. I knew I had found my favorite amusement park. Maximum wait for any ride was 10 minutes.
AND? People still go right?
“Nobody goes there anymore, it’s too crowded.” DW is now more dependent on big spending foreigners from Brazil, the Middle East,etc., even when exchange rates are unfavorable. They just don’t need Joe 12-pack anymore.
Remember the E-tickets? The most valuable for the best rides.
I agree about Busch Gardens- very nice and affordable when I took my son and his friend about 25 years ago.
ALL pro sports admission tickets are out of touch with the common folks. Basketball and football are the same high prices to get a seat. It’s not even worth it if you are in the nose-bleed section to get a lower ticket price. Might as well stay home and watch on TV.
What the heck does a tin roof have to do with it? I have a 60 year tin roof on my new home. No maintenance whatsoever. Sounds like your neighbor might be smarter than you give him credit for.
The same is true throughout the economy and most commodities. Of course, the government has done nothing to stop this inflation by printing money like it was toilet paper and borrowing never ending funds from foreign investors to pay the interest on our borrowed national debt. And most disturbing, is that they have deceived the American public for decades by announcing a low inflation rate on a regular basis. Problem is, they have, over time, eliminated from the formula to calculate that low inflation rate, all of the goods and services that make up the basic needs and necessities of the American public, like food, transportation, energy, housing, gasoline, etc. Sounds like an example right out of the book I had as one of my textbooks in business school in the 60s, "How To Lie With Statistics". The American public knows inflation has been affecting their cost of living for decades because they actually have to purchase those basic products that the government eliminates from their rate calculation.
I may be off on my specific calculations, but I think I got the inflation concept right.
Do you want Washington-based Federal Themepark Control Commission setting the admission price?
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No, but we want a level of opportunity that allows us to have an increasing standard of living versus costs, on average.
If you’re someone connected to the government, you’re getting that. Everybody else, on average, isn’t.
Everyone has aluminum roofs around here
Don’t want lines? About 20 years ago, when we were visiting my family in central Florida, we went to Disney World during one of those rare near-freezing days. We’re from Alaska, so it was still 80 degrees warmer than home. When we got there in the morning, it was 33 degrees F, and the only ones in the entire theme park were us, the Canadians, and a couple from Cleveland. We went on every ride by noon, and did endless loops on Goofy’s barnstormer for an evening.
Also went to Disney World with my 12-year-old son for a week in 2010. It was crowded, but it wasn’t bad, either. The only negative thing that happened was that it was spring break for Brazilian high school students, and the water parks were filled with Brazilian girls. Sadly, my son has still not recovered.
They didn't have Gay Days back in the 70s.
I have never been there. I class it with Starbucks in that company of establishments in which I will never set foot.
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