I still remember the ticket books. A-E, with the A’s and B’s piling up in the kitchen junk drawer.
I mean, you only had to zip through the Swiss Family Robinson Treehouse once to know it sucked. And Tom Sawyer Island? Well if you liked the smell of urine...
Burned us kids up that our parents would make us waste perfectly good E tickets on that insipid PC “It’s a Small World” ride. Dumbo was way better and that was only a C (or maybe D) ticket. Paid em back on the teacups though, lol.
I remember the ABCDE ticket books as well. Pleasant memories.
Disneyland used to have shooting galleries. I think they were either an A ticket or a B ticket. I remember they also had a gun store with old civil war muskets for sale in a barrel.
Knotts Berry Farm used to be free admission. My aunt and uncle would take me there for Sunday fried chicken dinner.
One of the cool things about getting old is remembering how things used to be.
That may have been me. Hey, I was 17, it was our second date and where else could I go?
I wonder if they ever thought of using that tune to extract information from the guests at Club Gitmo. It would have been just as effective as water boarding.
Some movie I attended recently had a brief promo prior to the showing, celebrating the guy who wrote the "Small World" song 50 years ago, who now appears to be senile (small wonder). I couldn't contain myself and said in a loud voice, "He should be taken out and shot!"
I remember that.
At least the A-B could get you on a few good ones like Peter Pan. I loved being suspending instead of on a track.
Mr. Toad was okay. I actually remember the first year of the Pirates of the Caribbean and it was a long line. We saved up E tickets for it. Never got to the Haunted House as a kid, we moved away from CA by the time it was finished.
I rode it on Disneyland’s 30th birthday in 1985. I was no my honeymoon! lol
What, exactly, is there to do in the “Tom Sawyer’s Island” area? From what I’ve read, there are no attractions there: no restaurants and no rides.
