Posted on 06/14/2015 10:32:02 AM PDT by QT3.14
Disney needs a Deliverance white water ride including a mountain man visit for the homos.
“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 spent two weeks in Mexico in 2009 with a Mexican family. I saw no tourist spots to speak of. I was struck by how well Mexicans dressed. The average person on the street was what my mother called “put together.” Their hair was cut, combed and in place. Their clothes were pressed, tucked, buckled and matched. It was so nice. The guy running a fish taco truck wore denim jeans with a long sleeved western shirt, matching boots, belt and hat. Then I get back to the US and everybody dressed like they were alone in their bedroom.
I’ve learned this. If I have to take something back to the store I’ll wear a long sleeved shirt and slacks. If I want people to pay attention to me, I dress well. If I’m on a trip in the car I dress like I’m going to a business meeting. If you get in trouble with the cops, they turn to you to find out what happened. If you dress well, people treat you well. (I do miss my hair. Sad to see it migrate south.)
I took the family to Disney World about ten years ago. Since we home-schooled, we could go during the school year, when it's cooler and less crowded. We had a great time.
Six Flags and Busch Gardens are cheaper than Disney. As a result, you see a number of "inner city" types there. I'm thinking the high ticket prices at Disney are a deliberate effort to keep it unaffordable to "undesirables".
Wouldn’t go there now if you paid me.
1) Regarding the admission price: Yes, it was only $3.50 back in 1971, and it's over $100 today...but that $3.50 ticket didn't include a single ride. Back then, you had to pay for every ride individually, the best rides requiring "E" tickets that cost $0.90 each. Today, admission includes unlimited rides. It would be realistic to add at least $5 to $10 to the 1971 cost of attending the park, which (taking inflation into account) doesn't make today's prices look as bad.
2) Food: Yes, you can have a $115 steak and stay at a $2100 a night bungalow. You can also have an $8 hamburger and stay in a $100 a night room. When I went to Disney World a few years ago, there was a promotion for the Deluxe Dining Plan, and I hopped on. My typical lunch and dinner entrees were twin lobster tails, porterhouse steaks, and sushi plates. I could have eaten on the cheap, but I didn't want to.
I remember it well. I also loved the fact that older people had a "uniform" of sorts: the older women wore navy, brown or black rayon dresses, often with white polka dots, to church, with a hat and gloves and sensible shoes and a corset underneath that made hugging them feel like hugging a tree trunk. During the week they wore cotton "housedresses" with aprons that covered the breasts as well as the lap. The older men wore baggy grandpa front-pleat pants with cuffs and high waists, suspenders, a fedora, a flat cap or a straw boater, spectator shoes or wingtips, and if they took their coat off, frequently they would have elastic arm bands between the elbow and shoulder to keep their sleeves up and out of the soup.
Well said.
Do you want Washington-based Federal Themepark Control Commission setting the admission price?
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If I see more articles like this one, I will be convinced that these are talking points that are shuttling us toward just such a takeover.
Cardinal fan here. Their stadium is packed for every home game.
Six Flags ticket is currently $70. Universal Studios is $95.
Just more Disneyland bashing by the leftist elites.
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I have never seen so many fat slobs with bad tattoos anywhere else in my life, and I was a roadie for a hardcore band in the 90’s and hung out with the confederate hammer skins.
I have a theory that most of these people are on some kind of unemployment or disability and are working off the book jobs to raise the kind of scratch to get into the parks.
They certainly don’t look middle class, look like welfare types.
Not a lot of blacks though.
I’m always looking around at the others, lots of them of Mexican heritage, locals, wondering how they afford this place! It’s become a once a year extravagance for a child’s birthday for me.
And I would never go on a weekend on a warm day. I choose cool or cold temps, and Tuesdays or Thursdays.
My grandfather wore those pants that were belted just under his nipples. So funny. But I don’t remember any corsets. Never saw mom or grandmas in one.
Busch Stadium is beautiful, why is it that the Cards are able to get such a great crowd every game?
Is it because they charge a reasonable price for good seats and are really cheap for the nosebleeds?
Used to have sellout crowds at Yankee and Shea Stadiums all the time up until about 10 years ago, but the tickets on the lower level are astronomical now.
When our son was small, we always went on Super Sunday. Yeah, we would record the game for the commercials and enjoy Disneyland all day. In the winter it closes earlier than summer, but we didn’t have to wait too ling for any ride on Super Sunday. Good luck!
“When Walt Disney World opened in an Orlando swamp in 1971, with its penny arcade and marching-band parade down Main Street U.S.A., admission for an adult cost $3.50, about as much then as three gallons of milk. “
BS- Disney used to sell lettered tickets; the crappy rides were A tickets which cost next to nothing...the E rides were the best and the tickets were more expensive..
now you pay the admission and if you get there at 8AM you can ride as many rides as you want as often as you want until the park closes...
on the mark- we are a Disney family and go every year...regardless of when you go the park is always crowded...on certain holidays (Easter, Christmas, New Years) they have to close the gates as they reach full capacity...
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