Disneyland's Abandoned Ticket Booths - Fantasyland Secrets! - Randomland
Forgotten & Abandoned ticket booths? Secrets?!
This week, we learn where the expression "E-ticket" comes from! It's the History of Disneyland ride Tickets, and then a quest for the remains of the forgotten and abandoned ticket booths (selling & taking) of Disneyland! Make sure to visit http://www.yesterland.com and http://vintagedisneylandtickets.blogspot.com for more information on the history of the tickets.
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Transcript
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We're back! ...at Disneyland!!!
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here you leave today and enter the world
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of yesterday, tomorrow, and fantasy.
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Well, Christmas and New Years have come and gone. But even though the holiday season is over
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and the peak
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of the holiday crowds have diminished there are still plenty of Homo sapiens
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and
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Christmas decorations left over from the holiday season
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but while the park rejiggers and reconfigures itself for 2014 I wanna go
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back in time
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and check out some amazing leftover relics of the past here
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at Disneyland. All these people paid a lot of money to be here today
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Some of them bought their tickets online Some of them bought their tickets at the front gate
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some people bought park-hopper tickets for California Adventure and Disneyland
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and some people (like yours truly) didn't buy any ticket at all cuz we dropped the whole
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shebang
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worth of money for an entire year of Disneyland with an annual passport.
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Now, everybody knows when you drop the a-bomb on your wallet and buy your ticket to
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Disneyland you get FREE,
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AWESOME access to all the rides here in the park. But it wasn't always that way...
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Although there's plenty to see and do without them,
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you actually had to buy tickets to ride on the various rides at Disneyland when
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they first opened
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Perhaps most famous for Disney fans, and may be some of you remember
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this first hand...
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was the ticket but book. On the front of the ticket but would be your admission ticket and
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you would rip it off
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leaving you with a bevy of assorted tickets. This is just a replica.
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now these tickets were like money and they came in four denominations
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(originally)
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A, B, C and D tickets. Each attraction at Disneyland
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was split up into one of those categories an "A ticket ride" a "B ticket ride"
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....and so on. "D" tickets were used for the most popular rides, "A"
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tickets were used for the more... "calm"
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attraction. As a result "A" tickets were cheaper than "B" tickets. "B" tickets were cheaper
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cheaper than "C" tickets.... you get the idea.
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For the first four years of the park, your "D ticket" was your most extreme
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hard-core ticket for all the popular rides and
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consequently the most expensive. Ooh, here's one for 35 cents! [weird noise]
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But all that changed in 1959 when they opened several metric tons of new attractions including The Submarines, Monorail, and
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the mighty mighty Matterhorn ♫
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With the opening up new thrill rides and these new high-tech attractions
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Disney have to introduce their most hardcore extreme innovation ever
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The
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"E Ticket"
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now because of the use of these these tickets it became part the Disney
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goers vernacular (slang) and people still refer to attractions as
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A ticket attractions and E ticket attractions to this day. "E" ticket would be
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like Space Mountain, the Matterhorn - all kinds of stuff like that... your "A" ticket would be
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more like
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sitting on a...
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bench? Even though they were sold in ticket books from ticket booths they were
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called... coupons!?
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Technically, yes. Even though everybody else called them tickets, the
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tickets called themselves coupons! Slang, though, is an
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unstoppable rebel force. Just think some poor guy out there
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insisted on them being called coupons
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and sad to say
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he lost the battle. Oh well...
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"this is a real rad E coupon attraction" just doesn't have the same ring to it
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now as you can imagine people ran out of these tickets... doh, coupons... really fast.
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I mean, come on! 10 coupons aren't gonna last
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a bunch of excited kids a whole day little jimmy is not going to stop asking
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to ride an
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authentic automobile on the autopia just because mom ran out of tickets.
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it would be pretty annoying to go all the way back to main street
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to get more tickets so of course Disneyland was
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peppered and littered with ticket booths!
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as you may have guessed by now tickets
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coupons
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went the way of the dodo. In 1982 (perhaps frustrated that no one was calling them
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coupons) the decision was made to kill off
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tickets forever. And by the time New Fantasyland opened in 1983
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the tickets were all gone. Most the ticket booths went the way of the dodo as well
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in the gar-bagé. But at least one of those ticket booths survived and here it is...
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...
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BAM!
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back in the day this ticket booth used to stand near the center
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of fantasyland and was there for all your ABCDEFG ticket needs.
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I'm running out of tickets....
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Tickets please, more tickets!? No tickets...
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For years this little guy survived incognito as the KODAK photo booth
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where they sold film & disposable cameras
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but these days most of us have cameras in our pockets and
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I don't see where you put the film in these guys. And so, Recently abandoned,
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here it sits; Waiting some other kind of conversion and hopefully not destruction
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you can tell how old it is but those old door latches.
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So if you're near toontown or the small world make sure you stop by
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before this guy disappears... But wait a minute!
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we're not done yet we have more adventure left! Even though that's the last
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old-school ticket selling booth that I know of, we still have more to see!
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because what about the booths they used to TAKE the tickets
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Now a lot of them have been removed
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But many of the attractions here used to have a Ticket Booth incorporated into the front of the
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ride
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or the entrance to the Queue area where you would turn in
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your ticket. Case in point, The Matterhorn. This little hut at the base of the mountain
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is none other than a secret
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abandoned ticket booth.
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No one could enter the fastness of the mountain without paying
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with a ticket.
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I'd like to get you guys closer to it, but there's a little bit of a line...
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I don't have sixty five minutes to wait in line right now and show you guys
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up close the Matterhorn Ticket Booth but luckily across the street.....
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bing!
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Is another one! Before going down the rabbit hole and entering
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Wonderland you had to pay this mushroom a ticket!
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There's the employee entrance the mushroom, but there doesn't seem to be a
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window anymore.
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no window
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Maybe it's a magic mushroom.....
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In addition to the Matterhorn hut and the mushroom, right across the street again
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is Storybook Land!
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And THAT was Storybook Land's ticket booth right there
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Themed in miniature like the rest of the ride, It's easy to miss that
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this was once a ticket booth. No ticket window left in the lighthouse either
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but it's still here! [knocking] Hello?
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There's no one to take my D ticket
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Nope, I'm not making a mistake. Storybookland Canal Boats were a
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D-ticket ride
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Oh, I know why it was that D-ticket ride... It's because the scenery in there is so
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extreme...
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...ly tiny.
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He keeps winking at me. What does he mean?
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What do you mean Monstro?
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just a hop, skip, and a jump....
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..and a lot more walking past the Matterhorn is the last ticket booth
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that I know of in Disneyland. Also located right here fantasyland...
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The Casey junior circus train ticket booth
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Casey junior was B ticket ride. Although from the looks of this line you'd think it was
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an e-ticket attraction
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Sadly, I don't have any "B" tickets, so I guess I can't ride it.
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For Casey jr, they just moved the
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ticket booth a couple of feet into the planter and it becomes the Casey JR
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train station. One of the things that truly sets Disneyland apart is
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its ability to tie the past in with present by recycling all these elements
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and keeping a sense of history. It's one of those things that sets Walt's
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original park
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head and shoulders above all the rest. It's that sense that not only are you in
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a land of adventure,
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enchantment, and imagination; But also that you're connected somehow
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to the history behind this magical place. Sadly, much like the era of
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these tickets,
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this video has to end. Ticket duck! But I'll be back next week with some more buttery goodness for you
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So make sure you click Subscribe
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and the next video will pop in to your YouTube feed
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For FREE! That's a heck of a deal! So until next time....
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bye-bye! Wait! One more thing...
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if you know of any ticket booths I might've missed in there let me know down below.
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I like to learn too! ...Okay, now farewell.
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♫
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a grapefruit