I apologize for not scanning the tickets in this book. I don't really want to fold back the admission ticket and risk detaching it. I love this blog and all of my dear readers and fellow bloggers....but not that much.
Wednesday, January 30, 2008
1955 Complete Ticket Book
There's so much conflicting info flying around about the first Disneyland ticket books that I'm not sure that anyone has a true idea of which, if any, truly came first. There are the tickets (though not complete books) that Vintage Disneyland Tickets has posted and which sold for a truly unbelievable price on Ebay this week. Then there is a ticket book that exists where little mini-sketches of attractions appear next to their names on the tickets themselves. It's a stunning book and VERY rare. There's this one pictured here, which I always believed to be the first one since the tickets are labeled "ride" rather than "coupon". But then again, those Ebay ones don't have "ride" or "coupon." Does that make them older? And what about the Globe paper company? Were the first tickets printed on Globe paper or not? It'll make you nuts...
I apologize for not scanning the tickets in this book. I don't really want to fold back the admission ticket and risk detaching it. I love this blog and all of my dear readers and fellow bloggers....but not that much.
I apologize for not scanning the tickets in this book. I don't really want to fold back the admission ticket and risk detaching it. I love this blog and all of my dear readers and fellow bloggers....but not that much.
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So damn confusing.
I've been enjoying your blog a lot. I was never a big Disneyland guy until late. Keep up the great posts.
I'm sure jealous of this one...I have what I believe is a complete 1956 ticket book, but it's just not the same!
The ticket book was a courtesy (free) ticket book by the X in the serial number and the orange printing on the right hand side. At least that is what the Ticket Book King told me years ago! I believe this book would have been given to members of the press or other dignitaries and important visitors. And the incomplete ticket books selling for that amount of money was much higher than I expected to see....
The Ticket Book King! I guess if anybody would know, it would be him! I wonder if he still collects tickets, he had a pretty astonishing collection back in the day....
WOW, the “Mona Lisa” of ticket books. I completely understand your not wanting to fold back the Admission ticket to scan it. I have not taken the leap with my complete books either, and none of them is as rare as this one!
I agree with Matterhorn regarding these being for press or other dignitaries and important visitors.
As to which booklet came first, who the heck knows! I would say this is the first booklet designated as a “Courtesy” book. It’s the oldest one I’ve ever seen.
A booklet with “little mini-sketches” Please tell me more about this one, I have never even heard about that!
As to value, sky’s the limit if you apply the recent EBay auction of three partial book. Based on that, if you listed it on Ebay with a buy it now of $2500 if would sell, maybe not the first time, but I bet it would sell.
WHOA, who is the "ticket book king", where do I find him and does he sell his tickets!!!!!!
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