Remember when there were only TWO Parks..( a Nostalgia Thread)

Nemo14

Nemo14

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I won this during that promotion - I believe it was 1987....
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Rabflmom

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Dragonrider1227 said:
TWO parks? My parents can remember when there was only one! :p
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So can I. :cry: You make me feel soooo old. Did ya know back then you could just buy a ticket to get admitted into the park and ride nothing? Older people didn't want to ride the rides sometimes so they just walked around the parks etc.

My first pass was something like $7.99 for a day of riding A, B, C, D, E ticket rides and I have some of the tickets left in the booklet. I think I even ended up with 1 E ticket ride ticket left in the booklet. Even then during the summer there wasn't time to do it all. I think we took a lot more time to stop and smell the flowers and enjoy the ambiance back in 1971.

Then I have a pass for $13.95 that I saved from maybe 1975? I think my first MVMCP ticket was something like $15-$20 for the night(7PM-1 or 2AM and you got a 5x7 portrait of your family sent to you a week later)
 
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Rabflmom

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Just had a thought? How many of the regulars on here went to EPCOT for free with their class? I think it was 1988? Any teacher in Florida had to register her class and they could go in for free. EPCOT had a parking lot of buses the whole year. When I was there I heard several regular guests complaining about the school groups like we complain about the Brazilian groups.
Disney charged $4 for the kids to buy a macaroni and cheese lunch. Almost every class in my kid's school went to EPCOT that year. We were told by the school system that the one thing we couldn't take the kids to was the Michael Jackson 3D. It wasn't educational.:( Of course that is what every kid wanted to do. I think every group from my son's 6th grade class went to it anyway--- and loved it.

Each child was given a free ticket to come back at another time with their families, too.
 
MissM

MissM

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Rabflmom said:
Just had a thought? How many of the regulars on here went to EPCOT for free with their class? I think it was 1988? Any teacher in Florida had to register her class and they could go in for free. EPCOT had a parking lot of buses the whole year. When I was there I heard several regular guests complaining about the school groups like we complain about the Brazilian groups.
Disney charged $4 for the kids to buy a macaroni and cheese lunch. Almost every class in my kid's school went to EPCOT that year. We were told by the school system that the one thing we couldn't take the kids to was the Michael Jackson 3D. It wasn't educational.:( Of course that is what every kid wanted to do. I think every group from my son's 6th grade class went to it anyway--- and loved it.

Each child was given a free ticket to come back at another time with their families, too.
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Free? Not even close. But I did go twice to Epcot with school groups for like $50 including our charter bus from Tampa Bay Area and our admission. Once in 7th grade (1987/88), we went with our Gifted Class and once in 9th? 10th? grade our French class went. (And we had to stop into Canada and France and try and hold a conversation in French.)

I do remember there were a lot of buses out in the lot, all grouped together. Because the year we went with our Gifted class, my friend and I got separated from our group and wound up back up at the bus, late, trying to remember where to meet up and which bus it was. It was just bus after bus idling and stinking up the place.
 
Figments Friend

Figments Friend

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WDW1974 said:
What a great thread ... so many great memories. I think I have every printed item on here (and then quite a bit more as my visits go back to when WDW was three) ... I had most of those tees. I wish I had saved more of the old guidebooks from WDW and later the Opening Day Guidewheel at EC (I must have had 25 of them once).

And all that greeenery at WDW Village before they made it a giant Disney/anwhere mall ... WDW's Tencennial: A Year Long and A Smile Wide ... preopening monorial rides out to the EPCOT Center site and just looking up in awe at a completed SSE in an empty, unfinished park ... so much ... and it all seemed so much classier than what we have today.

Just a great thread, wish I had more time to comment or add to it right now ... but maybe later ...
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Glad you like it! :wave:

Yeah i clearly remember WDW Village. It was cozy. I remember my Mom took me to the character breakfast they had on the Empress Lilly there, and Pinnochio was angry with me because i would not smile for him. He stuck his fingers in one of the water glasses on our table and flicked water at me in disgust before he left..ha ha!

I was a really shy child, and even though i loved the characters i did'nt care for the immediate one-on-one attention ( much to my Mom's dismay!). It was SO darn rare to see characters in the Parks back then...

Which brings up another interesting aspect of the 'Two Park' Era - how little one saw the characters! Okay sure, they could be seen in the parades, but i don't recall there being meet n' greets to the extend they have today. I rememeber running into Donald cutting through Communicore once and being in shock. Nobody was with him..and he was heading over to Future World East. He looked great in his period EPCOT Space Suit ( 'Rainbow Brite' outfit as they are often lovingly referred to here...)

So yeah, Guests today have it east finding the characters. Back then however, it was another story. Very very rare. You literally had to be in the right place at the right time. In the late 80's that changed..
 
MissM

MissM

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Here's two character photos from probably 1986. (Yay for bad 80's fashion!)

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Looks weird because both seem so otherwise empty!



And just for scenery, here's me and my grandmother in front of Imagination from 1984:

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I also have pictures of Donald's 50th Birthday Party Parade from 1984 here: http://www.giveneyestosee.com/donald50/

:D
 
Cynderella

Cynderella

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Anyone remember when they used to put your actually picture on your park hopper? I have one and I think it is from the early 90's ( I think specifically 94) I still have mine put in a collage I have on the wall full of all keys to the world and guide maps and the fronts of the little notepads they would give you that we resort specific. Geez remember them too? I used to love being the one who was lucky enough to "call it" first. :lol:
 
diddy_mouse

diddy_mouse

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Rabflmom said:
Just had a thought? How many of the regulars on here went to EPCOT for free with their class? I think it was 1988? Any teacher in Florida had to register her class and they could go in for free. EPCOT had a parking lot of buses the whole year. When I was there I heard several regular guests complaining about the school groups like we complain about the Brazilian groups.
Disney charged $4 for the kids to buy a macaroni and cheese lunch. Almost every class in my kid's school went to EPCOT that year. We were told by the school system that the one thing we couldn't take the kids to was the Michael Jackson 3D. It wasn't educational.:( Of course that is what every kid wanted to do. I think every group from my son's 6th grade class went to it anyway--- and loved it.

Each child was given a free ticket to come back at another time with their families, too.
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You know, I was attending elementary school in Orlando back in '88. I'm pretty darn sure we took a field trip to EPCOT at least once during my three years there. Thanks for re-kindling this memory for me! :lol:
 
das texan

das texan

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Awesome thread. My first trip to Disney was I think 87. So I remember the two parks quite well.

Those old guide books also bring back memories, back when I was a youngster and didnt know where anything was.

How times have changed and I do still miss the old EPCOT so much.
 
Figments Friend

Figments Friend

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Awesome matchbooks man!

I have the MK one and always thought the artwork on it was nifty.

The EPCOT ones i have not seen until now...wow they look great!!

Thanks for sharing!

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