“About a 3 ticket ride...”
Yeah. Woke me up, but definitely nowhere near an “E Ticket” event; MAYBE a B.
I barely remember those old days at Disneyland where you could park your car and get into the park quite inexpensively. You didn’t really pay until you wanted to go on a ride, and then you had to buy a ticket book. Walt had it set up that the rides didn’t cost you different NUMBERS of tickets; they cost you different LETTERS. So you had your no-thrill “A Ticket” rides that the little toddlers could enjoy, all the way up to the Matterhorn roller coaster, which cost you the famed “E Ticket.”
This precipitated an interesting social interaction, because you couldn’t buy a ticket book that had, say, all E Tickets in it, so you’d see people trading partly-used ticket books. There’d be a family with little kids dickering with a group of teenagers; offering them D and E tickets in exchange for A and B tickets. Sad those days have gone; Disneyland was such a unique and magical place that going to “the Park,” as they called it, was worth the few bucks entry fee even if you never got on a ride.
Yes, and the parking area was a few feet from the entrance under the train trestle into Main Street of Disneyland. Now it seems like a mile away. We would stay at the tiny motels across the street like "Inn of Tomorrow" which cost maybe $20 a night, and jaywalk across the street to the entrance. Lots of empty orchards and bare land around. Now it's crazy crowded in the area.