Hmmm, the poll option isn't enabled, at least at my membership level. :-\
So, we'll make this a poll by reply: What kind of fan are you?
Are you a "Nostalgia Fan", who comes for the memories?
Or, are you an "Adventure Fan", who comes for new rides and new sights?
I'm 100% nostalgia fan. If SDC was unchanged from 1975, I'd still want go and take my kids (and if they didn't want to go, I'd go by myself.)
The modern rides and exhibits are nice, but I still want to go for the blacksmith shop, swinging bridge, glassblowing, Marvel Cave, and the train ride. And the admittedly low-tech Fire In the Hoel. 8)
I am also 100% Nostalgia. Aren't most SDC fans? It's all about the family memories for me and remembering all the fun I had as a kid. Silver Dollar City is my Disney World.
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Ditto.
Quote from: KBCraig on October 20, 2008, 03:12:55 PM
I'm 100% nostalgia fan. If SDC was unchanged from 1975, I'd still want go and take my kids (and if they didn't want to go, I'd go by myself.)
The modern rides and exhibits are nice, but I still want to go for the blacksmith shop, swinging bridge, glassblowing, Marvel Cave, and the train ride. And the admittedly low-tech Fire In the Hoel. 8)
I couldn't have said it any better. Except that I would extend the time period through 1986 (give or take)
Quote from: sonthew on October 20, 2008, 03:47:03 PM
Silver Dollar City is my Disney World.
Hey! I resemble that remark! ;D
I'm a public relations fan - one who reports all the happenings on the park without taking a stance on how much it rocked or sucked.
I'm definitely a nostalgia fan. I grew up at SDC--the sights, sounds, and smells of the park hold a lot of memories for me.
I am...both! I love it all. I love the things that have been around for years, but I love the next new thing, too. I just love the park. My husband and I just came back from celebrating our anniversary last weekend. We were married in the Wilderness Church in Oct. of 2005. We celebrated with two other couples (and no kids!). In three weeks we'll be there for Christmas with our daughter. I love how I can have a great time there with just adults or my whole family. Heck, I've made two solo trips. . .I did look a little funny riding American Plunge all by myself, though.
I'm both. I enjoy all the memories I've made and the ones that are still being made each trip to the park. But, I like seeing new stuff also. The park will never grow or improve if they don't try new things. Some things fail, and some prosper but until they try, no one will ever know.
Definitely Nostalgia, with Adventure as the icing on the cake. :D
Joy
150% Nostalgia...I almost cried when they built splash harbor and gyser gulch...hmph. Just glad they keep the classics up and running, and even have been restoring them in recent months.
I am an all of the above fan. Of course I go for the memories of when I was a kid and my dad would take me. I have been to lots of other parks but SDC is where I take my kids a couple of times every year. And, I have to say, I love the rides as well. Even though I am MUCH older, I still love to go on those rides!
What kind of fan am I?
Why I am a big fan!
I'm 6-7, 310 pounds!
Why I'm so big I get to go down th' bogg'un by myself.
Just kidding.
Both- in today's market you need old fans and new fans to compete- having attended the city over the last 35 years I appreciate holding on to most things but acknowledge in this new market they need to keep adding. I wish when they expanded they added and did not take things out.
I am by far an old fan...if you count the 28 yrs of park visits- even though that is the same amount as my age... I grew up in a great time for the park, and that is a lot of what I remember
^Born in 1980? I was born in 1981 and my wife Dec 1980.
^Dec 26! Yes good old 1980. The eighties were great there. Buying crackers for the goats, the diving bell, hucks hideaway, pre-shootout flooded mine, gandy dancers, FITH, the Dillards, Shad, The Rainmaker, Tom sawyers landing, The swinging Bridge all hold great memories for me. I was on a year round school schedule-we would go 9 weeks-and then have a break for 3 weeks, etc etc. so every summer and fall we would come to SDC at a time when there was no one except a few tour busses. We would park in Lot A, and walk 100 yards and be in the park...LOT A!!!! No traffic, no rude people it was a great way to experience the park.
^ha. My wife is Dec 8th. ;D
Ditto! The eighties were an awesome time to grow up visiting the park. I was born in 81 and have been going a few times a year to the park ever since. I love an old tintype of me (where I might have been 2 or 3 years old) dressed like a prairie girl holding a Raggedy Ann Doll. I believe it was taken at the outdoor photo area they had by the train (that is now a smoking area). My parents always had them taken of us every year and were so adamant that we use the outdoor area and that we were not smiling so they looked more realistic. lol They could drop us at Tom Sawyers and let us play on the ropes for hours with the only worry that we would go to see the goats and they would eat our shoe strings. I can't imagine not having those memories! :D
^I have fond memories of the 80s at the park as well. We got tintypes done and in one of them, when I was about six years old, I'm holding a shotgun and I have the meanest look on my face! :D My parents would also drop my sister and I off at the Landing and let us play on the ropes and in the ball pit for hours; we would also visit the old petting zoo, where I would definitely get my shoe strings eaten. Every single time. Ah, I'm definitely a nostalgia fan, through and through. :)
1980'S were good. i too remember the crackers for the animals ect. cause one of my brothers wasn't paying attention when my dad handed him the cracker and it immediately went into his mouth of course my mother freaked out. my brother thought it was for him and of course couldn't understand why my mom was doing everything but the himelich manuver to get the cracker out of his mouth. once everything calmed down they discovered that it wouldn't hurt him but it sure made for a halarious scene. We too were lucky to have parents that gave us a time and a place to meet and let us run off on our own. oh the good times
The crackers were , or were very similar to Ry Krisp Crackers. They looked, smelled, and even tasted (don't ask) like the very bland fat free low cal crackers that I have in my pantry right now (and no I do not have any goats)