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Steve DeGaetano · **Posted:** Wed Feb 29, 2012 3:35 pm

Lilly Belle Ticket

And we wonder how outrageous Disney myths get started. Honestly, I've never read a more fanciful or embelished history of the Lilly Belle than I have here. :roll:

Unfortunate Bystander · **Joined:** Thu Jul 26, 2007 11:47 pm **Posts:** 212

My Lilly Belle ticket must be even more valuable, it's number 1296. Must have been in the first morning of opening day! :lol:

Locoboy5150 · **Posted:** Thu Mar 01, 2012 2:37 pm

Wow, talk about laying it on thick.

Even the Walt Disney Company couldn't put a spin on reality like that!

Retlaw7 · **Posted:** Thu Mar 01, 2012 2:38 pm

Velly intelesting!

Steve DeGaetano · **Posted:** Thu Mar 01, 2012 3:07 pm

I sent him an e-mail yesterday that appears to have led to him to pull the auction. He said that he's a professional historian who looked at about 30 - 40 websites, and the one he grabbed this info from had "interviews with cast members."

Honestly, I've read a lot about the Lilly Belle on other sites; I don't ever recall reading the stuff he posted. Most sites are pretty accurate with their info. Of all the sites he could have gotten information from, I can't figure out why he chose the one with the history that is so vastly different from the story that most sites contain.

Oh yeah--maybe it's because one site connected the ticket with Walt Disney himself--that would increase the odds of a sale, right? :roll:

Some "historian."

He suggested that since I only had a couple hundred e-bay feedbacks and he has 8,000, that he should be skeptical of my knowledge on the subject.

Steve DeGaetano · **Posted:** Thu Mar 01, 2012 3:14 pm

Here's the e-bay description, preserved for posterity before the auction comes down (sadly, my posting it here will probably give it a life of its own: "But I read this on Burnsland, a well-known Disney train site, so it must be true!"):

Quote:

More special tickets to Disneyland from the collection we've be selling. We assume that most fans of Disney and Disneyland know the story of the presidential car that is part of the Disneyland Railroad, and brought out periodically to entertain celebrities and even ordinary folks.

The Lilly Belle of course is named for Mrs. Walt Disney, Lillian, Walt's wife. He had the fancy presidential car outfitted and named in her honor and he and she used to ride on the car whenever they were touring the Happiest Place on Earth. Walt had his chair designated, she had her favorite spot in a love seat directly across from him.

During their lifetimes the car hosted myriad celebrities Walt would take for a spin around his park. Over the years the car has remained for special uses and occasionally for use by ordinary guests like you and me. Unfortunately, guests cannot ride alone; they need a guide because several folks stole bits and pieces of memorabilia from the car. How un-Mickey-like.

How old is this ticket?

Our ticket is number 2004, just 2,000 riders back in the days when Walt was alive in the sixties and earlier. Just for a comparison, we recently saw a ticket someone said was from their 2010 ride on the Lilly Belle. Their ticket was the same only its number was 07041576. In other words, some time in the recent past the Lilly Belle hosted her 7 millionth rider--and our ticket is from just the 2,004th run of the train car. 7,041,576 vs 2,004 on our ticket.

This is your opportunity to purchase an original ticket easily from the first month or even week the Lilly Belle was running.

Thanks for looking. Sent properly padded, as always, and postpaid.

Steve · **Posted:** Thu Mar 01, 2012 3:14 pm

Steve DeGaetano wrote:

He suggested that since I only had a couple hundred e-bay feedbacks and he has 8,000, that he should be skeptical of my knowledge on the subject.

*snicker*

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