My first visit to Disneyland was around 1956 or 1957, after a train trip from Texas, I think my dad, who didn’t live with us paid for the trip, he must have had a good year.
Another favorite place to visit was Knott's Berry Farm, where admission used to be free. My mother worked as a waitress in its Chicken Dinner Restaurant in 1941-1942--back when Knott's was still a berry farm. I occasionally swing by there for some take-out fried chicken.