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| Pleasure Island was gated at night and you had to purchase a ticket to get onto the Island. There was a booth adjacent the bridge from Marketplace and what is now the ticket booth for the Aerophile balloon ride was previously the PI ticket booth from the West Side. But the way most people entered at night was via the No. 2 Bridge where two railroad car trailers greeted revelers! |
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| Even though the clubs had been shuttered, we always hoped Disney would come to their senses and reopen a couple of them. But in 2009 when the wires that connected those ticket booths with offices on the second floor of Mannequins, things did not look good for a revival! |
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| The two ticket booths were actually railroad cars that had operated elsewhere in Walt Disney World. As the PI parking lot was obliterated, the cars/booths stood idly by. |
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| And ignored behind construction walls. We don't really know what became of them; whether they were demolished or moved elsewhere on property. |
this is stir things! LOL the booth is still under things.......
ReplyDeleteI remember there being one at Typoon Lagoon for some time, though it may have been one of the original Fort Wilderness cars.
ReplyDeleteAs I was typing this response, I decided to do a little research. I found this link to Disney's website (https://disneyparks.disney.go.com/blog/2011/07/all-aboard-fort-wilderness-railroad-for-a-trip-down-memory-lane-at-walt-disney-world/) and it mentions this:
"Cars from the Fort Wilderness Railroad were later repainted and used as funky ticket counters at Downtown Disney. These cars were later sold at a private auction and one of the railroad’s locomotives was donated to a local Central Florida museum."
So...someone has a PI ticket counter in their backyard?
Anon at 12:13AM, speak English. I have no idea what you're saying.
ReplyDeleteTroy, thanks for researching that! The answer to everything is somewhere on the internet! Likely auctioned off at Disney Property Control.
sorry some how my message got messed up!
ReplyDeletethis is going to stir things up! the ticket booths are under things......