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Title: Did any of y'all grow up going to this park? Post by: VOLveeta on February 13, 2015, 04:16:26 EST It's gotten a lot of play on the net lately as the "mysterious abandoned park"... but it was a huge part of my childhood. I dug up the old original postcards...
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10153115567949396.1073741852.613979395&type=1&l=81c1b17c61 (https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10153115567949396.1073741852.613979395&type=1&l=81c1b17c61) Title: Re: Did any of y'all grow up going to this park? Post by: Tnphil on February 13, 2015, 05:25:44 EST 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... Title: Re: Did any of y'all grow up going to this park? Post by: VOLveeta on February 13, 2015, 05:38:47 EST 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 (http://www.ghostowninthesky.com) Title: Re: Did any of y'all grow up going to this park? Post by: Creek Walker on February 13, 2015, 06:32:32 EST 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. :laugh:
Title: Re: Did any of y'all grow up going to this park? Post by: Tnphil on February 13, 2015, 06:59:40 EST 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 (http://www.ghostowninthesky.com) 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!! Title: Re: Did any of y'all grow up going to this park? Post by: volsboy on February 13, 2015, 08:56:37 EST 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.
Title: Re: Did any of y'all grow up going to this park? Post by: 73Volgrad on February 13, 2015, 10:41:37 EST 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.
Title: Re: Did any of y'all grow up going to this park? Post by: Black Diamond Vol on February 14, 2015, 12:55:05 EST 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.html Also, went to Silver Dollar City in Pigeon Forge quite often. It's now a little place called Dollywood. :dance: Title: Re: Did any of y'all grow up going to this park? Post by: VinnieVOL on February 14, 2015, 02:56:43 EST I never got to go to Ghostown either but I would see this commercial as a kid and really want to go.
https://www.youtube.com/v/rK73nSobvJ4 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. Title: Re: Did any of y'all grow up going to this park? Post by: VOLveeta on February 14, 2015, 03:14:12 EST Well.......... if you're gonna do that, check this out... :big grin:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=stNvaRunyuc (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=stNvaRunyuc) Title: Re: Did any of y'all grow up going to this park? Post by: CornFromAJar on February 14, 2015, 03:44:46 EST 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!" :biggrin:
Title: Re: Did any of y'all grow up going to this park? Post by: Tnphil on February 14, 2015, 03:46:39 EST 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.html Also, went to Silver Dollar City in Pigeon Forge quite often. It's now a little place called Dollywood. :dance: 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. Title: Re: Did any of y'all grow up going to this park? Post by: VOLveeta on February 14, 2015, 04:06:11 EST 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.html Also, went to Silver Dollar City in Pigeon Forge quite often. It's now a little place called Dollywood. :dance: 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. |