[Political Junkie Too]

Admission may have been $3.50, but attraction tickets were sold separately in ticket books.

-PJ

[TontoKowalski]

For all the complaints about Disney World, real and/or perceived, I'll say one thing for them.

They treated me and my family wonderfully well when I was on active duty and planned a family vacation there during their Military Appreciation Month, which was in November back then.

Granted this was 15 years ago, but the memories are good ones. My son was 5 at the time, and he still remembers the trip very well.

[rabidralph]

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.

[SES1066]

Admission may have been $3.50, but attraction tickets were sold separately in ticket books.

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!"

[HotHunt]

Remember the E-tickets? The most valuable for the best rides.