I loved year round school growing up.
Yeah try going back a few pages
I must be doing it way wrong... I usually wear VansI be walking around Disneyland in air forces
Guess I been doing it wrong
I must be doing it way wrong... I usually wear Vans
imagine if that happened nowDisneyland’s very first guest visits every year with his lifetime pass
Purchase of the first ticket to Disneyland was made by Long Beach's Dave MacPherson, seen in this July 17, 1955, photo in Anaheim, Calif. In 1955, MacPherson was a 22-year-old student at Long Beach State College taking summer courses to complete an English degree. He was watching televised coverage of the opening of Disneyland for the media and invited guests on July 17, 1955, a day before the park opened to the public. He drove his Simplex motorbike to Anaheim, arriving shortly before 1a.m. to take his place in line an hour before anyone else showed up. (ASSOCIATED PRESS)
The very first guest to experience the magic of Disneyland still visits the happiest place on earth each year.
Now in his late 80s, Dave MacPherson, still uses the lifetime pass he received for being the Anaheim, Calif. theme park’s first customer when it opened in 1955, according to Inside the Magic this week.
Then a student at Long Beach State College, 22-year-old MacPherson ensured his spot by lining up at 2 a.m. on July 18, 1955 — opening day — and once the sun rose, bought the first ticket Disneyland sold to the general public, earning his lifetime pass in the process. More than 6,000 people waited in the very same line.
After catching the opening celebration on TV the day prior, MacPherson says he “decided I wanted to be the first in line. The first person to go into the park who wasn’t a relative of Walt’s or some celebrity. The first regular guy to go in through the front door.”
Walt Disney opened the gate of his beloved park to the public on that historic day, but MacPherson says many guests were upset when the Mickey Mouse creator was quickly out of sight.
“Back then, folks would pay for admission and then buy books of tickets for various attractions,” MacPherson explained. “I don’t know what happened to the admission ticket for which I paid a dollar.” With inflation, that $1 ticket in 1955 would go for $9.41 today, according to Saving.org.
MacPherson’s lifetime pass arrives in the form of a new ticket every January, he said, adding that the pass “is then good for another year at any Disney park.”
“At the beginning it was just a paper or cardboard pass and for years it was silver,” MacPherson said, noting he’s received the passes since 1955. “In recent years it has been red in color and is made like a credit card and says on the front ‘VIP MAIN ENTRANCE PASS.’ The reverse side has my name and says: Admit Passholder and 3 Guests.”
just renewed our passes including my 4 year old son. it was nice getting him for free by just putting him inside his stroller since he was 1
