Another 1955 Ticket Plan Flyer
I have another ticket plan flyer from ye olden days of 1955. A very good year. I'm sorry to tell you that it could cost you up to $2.50 to enter the park if you are an adult. I've never seen such prices!
Here's more general information for those who were not yet used to the Disney Way of Doing Stuff.
"Uh, Major, you musta been drinking shoe polish, because you already shared this flyer with us!". So mean. This is actually a different flyer altogether, though admittedly very similar. I've placed the two side by side, with the first shared example on the left, and the new one on the right. It's all about the same, though I noticed the addition of the Phantom Boats under the "Your choice of any 2" heading on the version to the left - which I suppose means that the example I shared before is actually the newer version.
Here's the backs of both, again, with the first shared example on the left, etc. There are some minor differences between the two. I think it's interesting that you could buy a "Ticket Plan" once inside the park, but the admission ticket would be removed, and the admission cost would be deducted. And the ticket taker would punch a hole in your bowler hat.
Anything from 1955 is pretty cool in my book, but you might find these to be a bit too samey-samey. Wait until you see my six different 1956 ticket plan flyers!
6 comments:
Major-
There's certainly no doubt about "rides" at Disneyland-! I find it interesting these flyers never mention the Tickets by name: 'A', 'B', or 'C' . I guess that would be telling tales out of school.
Thanks, Major.
In 1955 I would've been 2 years old, and it would cost only $1.50 for my admission to the Park. Of course, it would've been pretty much a waste for me to experience Disneyland at age two. I don't know how Chuck can remember his trip to the Park at that age... he isn't human. Mrs. Chuck would probably agree. Later on, didn't they allow kids under two to get in free?
3 rides (rides, not attractions, as Nanook noted) from column 'A', 3 from column 'B', and 2 from column 'C'. (Do you also get a fortune cookie with the book?) Almost everybody is gonna want to go on at least 6 of those column 'A' rides. Which means yer gonna have to buy some more individual tickets in addition to the money-saving Ticket Plan book. I think Disney was counting on that..
I'm licking my chops for those six 1956 flyers! ;-p Thanks, Major.
Rides...yes, I am unsure if the public of 1955 would understand the new Walt Disney creation of "rides and attractions"....so: they were all rides: thanks Disneyland Marketing 1955. 2.50 is about $30.00 today. Seems that the inflation doesn't add up, but the 17M to build the entire park with land is 201.5M today. So: a park with how many rides and attractions in 1955 compared to how many rides and attractions in 2025....would have to do more analysis on this to truly understand the variance and inflation rates as it relates to a much more (technically) sophisticated Park. I was going to buy a ticket for Othello on Broadway which was $995.00 for rear orchestra on a Monday night. Standing room in London was 5 Pounds at the Globe. "Perspective". (Note : I passed on the Othello tickets)...Back to 1955: I do like the simplicity of these old flyers, and they capture a time of history, before Disneyland became so very very legendary. It makes sense that the "Club 55" employees that I would talk to in 1980 wouldn't really think much about it being "amazing" or "historic"....most of them communicated that they were flying by the seat of their pants making things up as they went along. I would think that anything from a 1955 Disneyland today would be museum or "road show" worthy. If I was in charge, I would bring a road show to "important markets"....with these type of artifacts...and illustrate the cultural shift of the immersive entertainment experience that was created in a more innocent time: blending the shifts of thinking from the 1950's into the turbulent 60's and beyond. "We'll always have Disneyland." Thanks Major.
Major, this is PhD thesis material right here.
Bu, you are right and I’m making the same point. Both economic analysis and social development of the theme park phenomenon would make fascinating reading. We could add in the rampant inflation of construction costs, driven both by economics and the dramatic increase in complexity of building codes, as there is no possible way that even the 1955 Park limits could be built for $201.5 M in today’s dollars. Remember Wookie World was touted at a billion (with a “B”) dollars construction cost.
Also, I’m glad that Mrs G is in charge of buying Broadway tickets and she never tells me what they cost.
Thanks Major, I’m of the edge of my for those ‘56 flyers.
JG
*seat
JG
Note that 1B in the time of Wookie would be 100M in 1955. For basically a couple of "rides" ..... (starting thesis)
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