Want to take a ride on the Phantom Boats? Overlook North America from a satellite at Space Station X-1? Why not see Frontierland from the Conestoga Wagons? Just pull out your A, B, or C ticket and you’ll be welcome aboard any Disneyland attraction of your choice! It’s that easy. For nearly the first three months of Disneyland, Guests would pay admission, but then be required to purchase a ticket on the spot for every attraction they wanted to experience. Starting this day in 1955, they no longer needed to reach into their wallet for each experience because the famous ticket books first debuted. For just $2.50 per adult, $2.00 per junior, and $1.50 per child, ticket books included admission to the park and a selection of A, B, and C tickets for eight attractions. In 1956, D tickets were added, and the famous E ticket debuted in 1959. The A-E ticket system remained until 1982 when admission included unlimited use of all attractions. Although still remembered as tickets, the E ticket and other tickets were actually coupons. The books containing these coupons were referred to as both “ticket books” and “coupon books,” but the coupons differed from tickets. If you look at the famed E ticket from any year, you’ll see it always read E coupon. Striving never to disappoint, if a Guest ran out of coupons, no worries, they could purchase individual tickets specifically for any attraction.
