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SDC Memories/ Park History / The Swinging Bridge
October 04, 2015, 10:01:24 AM
I just found this pic from the early 80s of my mom and me on the bridge. 
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SDC Memories/ Park History / My SDC Coloring Book
September 18, 2015, 07:33:53 PM
I loved this when I was a child and I love it today. The characters are so lifelike and playful. My best friend had a similar coloring book. The cover of hers was orange, I think. In my mind's eye, the art was very similar, but I could be wrong. That was about 30 years ago!
Link to a few of my favorite pictures: https://plus.google.com/112067062385768558463/posts/PDi21eE9jxZ
Link to a few of my favorite pictures: https://plus.google.com/112067062385768558463/posts/PDi21eE9jxZ
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SDC Memories/ Park History / Re: My SDC pictures, c. 1983
September 18, 2015, 07:29:40 PM
Thank you, History Buff.
Ah...perhaps Marcel Proust said it best. "Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were."
Ah...perhaps Marcel Proust said it best. "Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were."
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SDC Memories/ Park History / Re: Pennyfarthing ("Big Wheel") bicycles
September 18, 2015, 04:04:10 PM
Here's me by one of the pennyfarthings, c. 1983.
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SDC Memories/ Park History / My SDC pictures, c. 1983
September 18, 2015, 03:36:43 PM
New to this forum. Hi!
These are only some of the photos that I once had. They're a bit faded.
https://plus.google.com/112067062385768558463/posts/9EPUBFKHdJt
Oh, how I used to love this place! I was always interested in the past (especially the past of the Ozark region I grew up in) even as a child, so visiting this place was like going back in time for me.
I've been in more recent years (2010 was the last time) and it just wasn't the same. I was almost crushed to see a goofy animatronic grandfather in Grandfather's Mansion, my favorite park attraction. A prop which in my day was used to much spookier effect was the rocking chair in the parlor rocking with no one in it. In the next room you'd peep into was the bedroom and the shadow of grandfather in the shower, singing an an old-timey song in a baritone. Grandfather was best when left to the imagination, and the guy sitting in the chair isn't even dressed like anyone who lives in a "mansion."
In my honest opinion, the park was better when it didn't dumb everything down for the very young and it offered souvenirs actually made in the region as opposed to all the "Hecho en China" stuff of today. But what do I know! I might be a relic of the past.
These are only some of the photos that I once had. They're a bit faded.
https://plus.google.com/112067062385768558463/posts/9EPUBFKHdJt
Oh, how I used to love this place! I was always interested in the past (especially the past of the Ozark region I grew up in) even as a child, so visiting this place was like going back in time for me.
I've been in more recent years (2010 was the last time) and it just wasn't the same. I was almost crushed to see a goofy animatronic grandfather in Grandfather's Mansion, my favorite park attraction. A prop which in my day was used to much spookier effect was the rocking chair in the parlor rocking with no one in it. In the next room you'd peep into was the bedroom and the shadow of grandfather in the shower, singing an an old-timey song in a baritone. Grandfather was best when left to the imagination, and the guy sitting in the chair isn't even dressed like anyone who lives in a "mansion."
In my honest opinion, the park was better when it didn't dumb everything down for the very young and it offered souvenirs actually made in the region as opposed to all the "Hecho en China" stuff of today. But what do I know! I might be a relic of the past.
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