First ticket
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First ticket
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Dave MacPherson may have been the first paying guest at Di eyland when the theme park opened its gates 50 years ago, but he didn't even have time for one ride. In a hurry to get back to campus for a college cla , he i tead visited a restroom after ending hours in line and left without as much as a souvenir.
Still, the honor of being the first paid admi ion came with a ecial perk: a lifetime pa for four to Di eyland and other Di ey parks as they opened.
"I was the most popular guy at the college," said MacPherson, now 72, a retired journalist living in Monticello, Utah, about 240 miles southeast of Salt Lake City.
He's taken full advantage of it scores of times, e ecially when he lived in California. Usage dwindled after he moved to Ka as City, Mo., to work for new apers and radio.
But being closer to California has made it more useful, and he last made the trip a year ago with his wife, Wanda. He receives a VIP renewal every January.
In 1955, MacPherson was watching televised coverage of the opening of Di eyland for the media and invited guests on July 17, 1955, a day before the park opened to the public.
"I said, 'Boy, I sure would like to go out there,'" said MacPherson, who figured he might draw a prize for standing first in line.
He drove his Simplex motorbike to Anaheim, arriving shortly before 1 a.m. to take his place in line an hour before anyone else showed up.
The crowd steadily grew overnight to about 6,000 people, and MacPherson made sure no one got in front of him. When the admi ion booth opened, a photographer for the Long Beach Pre -Telegram captured him buying the first ticket.
Looking at the photo years later, he realized he had his own camera but didn't use it.
"Why didn't I shoot some pictures?" he wonders. "I even forgot to ask Walt (Di ey) for his autograph. I must have been balmy or something after staying up all night."
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First ticket
Zoned Jing
Dave MacPherson may have been the first paying guest at Di eyland when the theme park opened its gates 50 years ago, but he didn't even have time for one ride. In a hurry to get back to campus for a college cla , he i tead visited a restroom after ending hours in line and left without as much as a souvenir.
Still, the honor of being the first paid admi ion came with a ecial perk: a lifetime pa for four to Di eyland and other Di ey parks as they opened.
"I was the most popular guy at the college," said MacPherson, now 72, a retired journalist living in Monticello, Utah, about 240 miles southeast of Salt Lake City.
He's taken full advantage of it scores of times, e ecially when he lived in California. Usage dwindled after he moved to Ka as City, Mo., to work for new apers and radio.
But being closer to California has made it more useful, and he last made the trip a year ago with his wife, Wanda. He receives a VIP renewal every January.
In 1955, MacPherson was watching televised coverage of the opening of Di eyland for the media and invited guests on July 17, 1955, a day before the park opened to the public.
"I said, 'Boy, I sure would like to go out there,'" said MacPherson, who figured he might draw a prize for standing first in line.
He drove his Simplex motorbike to Anaheim, arriving shortly before 1 a.m. to take his place in line an hour before anyone else showed up.
The crowd steadily grew overnight to about 6,000 people, and MacPherson made sure no one got in front of him. When the admi ion booth opened, a photographer for the Long Beach Pre -Telegram captured him buying the first ticket.
Looking at the photo years later, he realized he had his own camera but didn't use it.
"Why didn't I shoot some pictures?" he wonders. "I even forgot to ask Walt (Di ey) for his autograph. I must have been balmy or something after staying up all night."
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