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[snapdragen]

I remember E tickets!

My mom is glued to the TV watching MASH too.....

[Zen]

Of course we remember "E" tickets! What? They don't use those anymore?

[Tuckervill]

Nope, don't remember an e-ticket.

Am glad she got to come home, though, and that everything was fine.

Karen

[Crankin]

I have no idea what an e ticket is. I'm the same age as you guys, so please tell.

[bmccasland]

I have no idea what an e ticket is. I'm the same age as you guys, so please tell.

E-ticket: the ticket needed for the "good" rides at Disneyland. Back before there were all-over-park passes, you'd get a ticket book with tickets A-E, different rides needed different level tickets. Space Mountain was an E ticket. Seems the Mad Hatter's Tea Cups was an A-Ticket. So big kids would grumble about being stuck with tickets for "baby rides", and not enough tickets for the good rides. Seems you could buy more E-tickets once in the park. At the entry gate, you could buy ticket booklets according to your budget and family age group. I suppose this was when Disneyland had most of their visitors coming from the immediate area. When I was a University student (late 1970's), they were phasing out the ticket books and phasing in the all-over park pass.

[Crankin]

That explains it. I am a freak of American nature in that I hate theme parks. I lived in Florida when Disney World opened and went a couple of times. Took my older son to Disneyland in like, maybe 1986? Then, in the 90s my DH had a company meeting in Orlando, during our February school break. We all went, and my kids got to see Disney World for the first time at ages 13 and 15. They figured they were the only 2 kids in MA that had not been there...

[OakLeaf]

I did visit Disneyland once.

But I think "E-ticket ride" is one of those phrases that survives in the culture long after the reference is gone, like "dialing" a phone - oh, I can't think of any others right now, but I know they're out there.

[katluvr]

I hadn't even thought about the "dailing" the phone. We DO still say that at times. Although I think I mostly say "call so & so" or " I was just calling you" (not "just dailing your number").

That brings me to music....so when a band has a new release of an ...ok, it is not an album, so it is a CD. But I usually just buy/down load it. So I have "So & So's newest donwload"? I still slip and say album/cd. It just doesn't flow.

[Aggie_Ama]

E-ticket: the ticket needed for the "good" rides at Disneyland. Back before there were all-over-park passes, you'd get a ticket book with tickets A-E, different rides needed different level tickets. Space Mountain was an E ticket. Seems the Mad Hatter's Tea Cups was an A-Ticket. So big kids would grumble about being stuck with tickets for "baby rides", and not enough tickets for the good rides. Seems you could buy more E-tickets once in the park. At the entry gate, you could buy ticket booklets according to your budget and family age group. I suppose this was when Disneyland had most of their visitors coming from the immediate area. When I was a University student (late 1970's), they were phasing out the ticket books and phasing in the all-over park pass.

Even though my first Disney trip was 1983, I knew about these from Disney trivia. Tell your mom to take it is easy, it is 80 degrees before the sun comes up and no end in sight. Maybe she needs a DVD of M*A*S*H?

[Tuckervill]

An album is the proper term for any collection like a recording or book. I imagine it comes from the same root as albino, which means white or blank.

Karen

[BleeckerSt_Girl]

Never been to Disneyland, and never want to go.
Never heard of "E tickets" until this thread.

Albums? I still catch myself saying "LP's" sometimes!!! (most people don't even know what LP stood for anymore.)

It was only a few years ago that I finally stopped saying "ice box" instead of "refrigerator".

I miss the round metal dials on the heavy old black phones. Dialing was satisfying and made such nice sounds.

[DebW]

I hate theme parks too, but we took the kids to Disney World once at dh's insistence. My son was young and wouldn't go on any of the rides, so I just hung out with him while daughter and dh did the rides, though it was very hot and very crowded and not at all pleasant. Then we went to Epcot instead, and it was full of gardens and not crowded and my son would do the "rides", which were mostly Disney's version of the present future as envisioned in 1950. I will admit it was worth seeing Ellen Degeneres and Bill Nye the Science Guy together in the prehistory exhibit.

BSG, my family tried hard to break me from saying "ice box", and they mostly succeeded eventually. But "ice box" just flows off the tongue so much easier than "refrigerator". I still enjoy it when my grandmother calls it "the box".

[Crankin]

Lisa and Deb, I knew there was a reason we were friends !
I could never believe the amount of money people around here spent on taking their kids to Disney. I mean, people who couldn't afford other things, spent it there. I know, it's a choice, but with so much cultural stuff to do around here, you choose to go to Disney World? I even knew some who had some type of monthly/yearly pass that cost a fortune and they flew down there several times a year. Well, I think that the $ spent sending my kids to Audubon camp, where they slept in a tent for 6 weeks and learned about the environment and did sports of their own choosing was better spent. Yea, this is a sore subject with me.
It's thundering and raining AGAIN... just came back from another rainy run. had my cycling clothes on, but then it started raining. Changed to running stuff and quickly did 2.5 miles before any lightning started.

[BleeckerSt_Girl]

Yep, still raining and thundering here too. But the guys came anyway today and brought in my two huge dumptruck loads of topsoil for my new veggie garden. Got soil?

[Tuckervill]

I didn't go to Disneyworld until this decade!

I enjoyed it, because the three of us enjoy rides, but I never have to go back. I would enjoy another trip to Epcot, though.

Karen