It has been, or at least is being, replaced by the e-ticket conveniently mailed to your inbox (a state of affairs that curiously doesn’t seem to have negated the need for a handling charge), or the QR code, swiftly scanned on your phone. (The Guardian)
Something will be lost when physical tickets vanish, at least for the people who kept them as reminders: a small, flimsy portal into the pleasurable past. A ticket doesn’t even have to stay intact to exude a nostalgic pull.
Steve Williams’s fateful unused ticket to see Nirvana, tells to The Guardian:
"I have kept a ticket of a Nirvana concert that was dated 6 April 1994, the day after Kurt Cobain took his own life. I was set to go with a group of mates and remember how excited we were. Some chose to return the tickets for a refund, but I couldn’t do that. I wanted to keep the ticket."
A Beatles superfan has donated a rare and treasured collection of band memorabilia to a museum in Dublin.. Belfasttelegraph.co.uk I am so happy that other people can see
it. But I miss it, it’s part of me and my fabric.
“I know it’s worth a fortune but I would never sell it. It’s my children’s legacy. I’ve been offered money so many times – over 1,000 euro for a poster.
“You cannot buy these. It’s invaluable.” 
At the age of 14, Ms Colman-Black’s love for John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr was compounded after she went to their first and only concert in Dublin in November 1963.
Among some of the items on display at the Irish Rock N Roll Museum Experience in Dublin are the ticket and programme from their Irish concert, a George Harrison model kit and Beatles magazines.
The mother-of-two said she started to buy the collectables as she wanted to surround herself with the Beatles.
“In those days you didn’t have a lot of money, people didn’t think about memorabilia,” she said.
“I started to buy things because I just wanted them around me, to stick up on the wall, to put in my bedroom. More and more things became available, I got as many pictures as I could get.
“I couldn’t afford everything so I looked after them and that’s why 50 years later I still have them because you weren’t going to get them twice.
“I joined the fan club in 1964 and that was like a wonderland because that brought you to a whole new level. I got autographs and constant communication about the band.
“The most important thing was that on Christmas Eve we got a record which had a recorded a message to their fans.”
