The A-B-C’s of Tickets

Today’s Disneyland guests go from attraction to attraction without a care. But most guests in the 1950’s, 1960’s, and 1970’s needed a ticket for each ride. Tickets came in denominations of A, B, C, D, and E—with E tickets being the best.

Let’s suppose you visited Disneyland in the Summer of 1972. This page tells you what tickets were required for each attraction.

From the Disneyland Guide, Summer 1972:

coupon or 10¢

• Main Street Horse Cars (Main Street)
• Horseless Carriage (Main Street)
• Omnibus (Main Street)
• Fire Engine (Main Street)
• King Arthur Carousel (Fantasyland)
• Sleeping Beauty Castle (Fantasyland)

coupon or 25¢

• Main Street Cinema (Main Street)
• Motor Boat Cruise (Fantasyland)
• Swiss Family Treehouse (Adventureland)
• Casey Junior Circus Train (Fantasyland)
• Alice in Wonderland (Fantasyland)

coupon or 40¢

• Fantasyland Theater (Fantasyland)
• Mad Tea Party (Fantasyland)
• Autopias (Fantasyland, Tomorrowland)
• Shooting Galleries (Fronierland, Adventureland)
• Peter Pan Flight (Fantasyland)
• Dumbo Flying Elephants (Fantasyland)
• Mr. Toad’s Wild Ride (Fantasyland)
• Snow White’s Adventures (Fantasyland)
• Mike Fink Keel Boats (Frontierland)
• Great Moments with Mr. Lincoln (Main Street)

coupon or 70¢

• Rocket Jets (Tomorrowland)
• PeopleMover presented by Goodyear (Tomorrowland)
• Flight to the Moon presented by McDonnell Douglas (Tomorrowland)
• Storybookland Canal Boats (Fantasyland)
• Skyway (Tomorrowland, Fantasyland)
• Tom Sawyer Island Rafts (Frontierland)
• Davy Crockett’s Explorer Canoes (Bear Country)
• Santa Fe & Disneyland Railroad (Main Street, New Orleans Square and Tomorrowland)
• Columbia Sailing Ship (Frontierland)
• Mark Twain Steamboat (Frontierland)

coupon or 85¢ (adults), 75¢ (children)

• Mine Train Ride (Frontierland)
• Pack Mules (Frontierland)
• Jungle River Cruise (Adventureland)
• Disneyland-Alweg Monorail Trains (Tomorrowland)
• Matterhorn Bobsleds (Fantasyland)
• It’s a Small World presented by Bank of America (Fantasyland)
• Enchanted Tiki Room presented by United Airlines (Adventureland)
• Submarine Voyage (Tomorrowland)
• Pirates of the Caribbean (New Orleans Square)
• Country Bear Jamboree (Bear Country)
• Haunted Mansion (New Orleans Square)

Free Shows and Exhibits

• Walt Disney—A Legacy for the Future (Main Street)
• GAF Photo Salon (Main Street)
• INA’s Carefree Corner (Main Street)
• Frontierland Arcade Gun Collection (Frontierland)
• Pepsi Cola’s Golden Horseshoe Revue (Frontierland)
• Circle-Vision 360 presented by the Bell System (Tomorrowland)
• Carousel of Progress presented by General Electric (Tomorrowland)
• Adventure Thru Inner Space presented by Monsanto (Tomorrowland)

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Updated May 2, 2008.

Photograph of an A ticket sign: 1974 by Werner Weiss.
Photograph of a C ticket sign: 1975 by Dennis Caswell.