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« Reply #1 on: February 13, 2015, 05:25:44 EST » |
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I'll be darn....I never heard of it.
When I was a young we went to something similar in Maggie Valley NC. You would ride chair lifts up a mountain and there was a western ghost town up there where they had gunfights, saloons etc...
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« Reply #2 on: February 13, 2015, 05:38:47 EST » |
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phil, that was Ghostown in the Sky! The Land of Oz was created by the same guys who owned Tweetsie Railroad. http://www.ghostowninthesky.com |
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« Reply #3 on: February 13, 2015, 06:32:32 EST » |
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I went to Ghostown as a kid and loved it. The working gal from the saloon came and sat on my knee. It was the most awesome thing ever.  |
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« Reply #4 on: February 13, 2015, 06:59:40 EST » |
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Had no idea it was open....I knew it had closed years back but didn't know it had re-opened. IIRC it was 1963 when I first went there....I was about 10 years old I remember. Went back again in the late 60's too. Thanks for sharing that site!! |
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« Reply #5 on: February 13, 2015, 08:56:37 EST » |
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Oh Man! I remember going to Grandfather Mt. That swinging bridge scared the s#$t out of me when I was about 8 years old. Tweetsie RR and Land of Oz were also very cool.
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« Reply #6 on: February 13, 2015, 10:41:37 EST » |
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When I went to UT, I knew a girl that played the Wicked Witch part one summer. I cannot remember her name, but I remember she had the voice for the Wicked Witch.
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« Reply #7 on: February 14, 2015, 12:55:05 EST » |
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I never went to that one, but couple parks that I did grow up with are no more: Opryland in Nashville, and Six Gun Territory in Ocala, Fl. My grandparents lived there, and we'd go to visit them at least twice a year. A trip to SGT and/or Silver Springs was a must while we were there. http://lostparks.com/sixgtown.htmlAlso, went to Silver Dollar City in Pigeon Forge quite often. It's now a little place called Dollywood.  |
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« Reply #8 on: February 14, 2015, 02:56:43 EST » |
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I never got to go to Ghostown either but I would see this commercial as a kid and really want to go. <![CDATA[<a href="https://www.youtube.com/v/rK73nSobvJ4" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/v/rK73nSobvJ4</a>]]>Other attractions back in the 80's and 90's but are now long gone were Magic World and Ogle's Water Park in Pigeon Forge. |
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« Reply #10 on: February 14, 2015, 03:44:46 EST » |
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I remember that World's Fair, but I had forgotten that commercial. I think the inspiration for that commercial was Les Nessman's intro on WKRP, in a booming, reverb voice... "London, Moscow, Paris, Berlin... Cincinnati!"  |
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« Reply #11 on: February 14, 2015, 03:46:39 EST » |
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I never went to that one, but couple parks that I did grow up with are no more: Opryland in Nashville, and Six Gun Territory in Ocala, Fl. My grandparents lived there, and we'd go to visit them at least twice a year. A trip to SGT and/or Silver Springs was a must while we were there. http://lostparks.com/sixgtown.htmlAlso, went to Silver Dollar City in Pigeon Forge quite often. It's now a little place called Dollywood. That's one neat site! At my age I so remember those roadside attractions before interstates. I didn't know that weeki wachee mermaid park was still open. I went there back in the early 70's. |
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« Reply #12 on: February 14, 2015, 04:06:11 EST » |
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I never went to that one, but couple parks that I did grow up with are no more: Opryland in Nashville, and Six Gun Territory in Ocala, Fl. My grandparents lived there, and we'd go to visit them at least twice a year. A trip to SGT and/or Silver Springs was a must while we were there. http://lostparks.com/sixgtown.htmlAlso, went to Silver Dollar City in Pigeon Forge quite often. It's now a little place called Dollywood. This was awesome, thank you!!! I so enjoyed looking at all those places! I miss the days when we had these smaller, local "adventure" places. It was a much more innocent time and we seemed to be able to enjoy life without everything having to be the ultimate greatest anywhere. We enjoyed stuff just for what it was. |
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