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Originally Posted by CityBoyDoug
When Walt Disney was first planning Disneyland Anaheim he offered to the City Council of Los Angeles, to build a monorail line from LAX, via Downtown to Disneyland.
The deal was, he would build it if LA would operate it. The Council refused, they figured that Disneyland would never amount to anything, would eventually be a flop and probably have to close down.
The rest is history.
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Today, more than 50 years later, Disneyland is jammed with crowds everyday....even when it rains. BTW, its around $100 per adult person to enter.
1955
General Admission Ticket
~ Adult ~ $1.00
~ Junior 12-17 ~ unknown
~ Child 3-11 ~ .50ยข
Rides were extra.
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The business model when it opened was low admission to the park; then there were "classes" of rides with higher prices for the better rides. I went the first summer it was open. In those days, amusement parks were often free admission/ten cents a ride. Disneyland came as a big shock. It was also way the hell out in the country, surrounded by fields and orange groves. There was no place to stay, either, until he opened the Disneyland Hotel a few years later.