There was a brief window, mostly the 1980s and 1990s, where we had the nicer things, but the prices hadn't really gone up yet. To use the Disneyland example, i

There was a brief window, mostly the 1980s and 1990s, where we had the nicer things, but the prices hadn't really gone up yet. To use the Disneyland example, in the late 1990s, Disneyland tickets could routinely be had off-season for $20 and annual passes were around $100. Adjust that for inflation, and you're still at 1/3 to 1/2 of today's prices. But most of Disneyland's expansion and most of the really groundbreaking things were already in place.