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We still have a pile of ticket books with A tickets in them, and one with a few E tickets. I note that, insanely, the E ticket included admission to the Country Bear Jamboree and the Enchanted Tiki Room, both of which were a mistake one only made once. America Sings was another choice, and I never even found out what that was. More on the old Disneyland ticket system here .

Just inside, we bought film for the camera, which for a long time was a Kodak Instamatic that took film in a plastic canister that looked a little like the canisters for an old-timey machine gun. And then we divided: as we kids passed a certain age (nine or ten), we got turned loose on the understanding that we would be at the park bench between the Matterhorn and the Submarine Ride lagoon at two o’clock (about exactly where the photograph above was taken). We walked through Main Street, which was interesting to me only because I had learned, from an old National Geographic, that Walt Disney had a secret apartment behind the second story window above the firehouse. More on that next time.

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