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Glad your enjoying these. It was sure cool to see these when I got all these film reels back in the mail yesterday after they had been digitized. I found another one last night I went ahead and edited this morning, this one is a real home movie, my folks shot, complete with bad focus, bad lighting and scenes running so quick you hardly get to see anything so... I slowed the film down by 50% to make it easier to watch, but it still has the bad focus, lighting etc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLF3TZzbqm8

Watching these old film reels sure makes you appreciate the technology we have now since I made this one from my phone this summer, even edited it on the phone and uploaded it without it even being on my computer. How times change, but not 'always' for the better.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-T6E0wxqACY

I was wondering if anyone else has run across these films, there may be more of them. I only know of these 2 I know of. Recently I was going through old photos etc and found a box of old silent 8MM home movie films, so I had them converted to digital format. What made me happy to see 2 films of SDC that my parents had bought me in the mid-70's cause I loved the park so much, I watched them over and over. One film is just the park showing various scenes. The other is based on the crafts festival. I thought it would be cool to share them for others to enjoy so here are the links to youtube.

SDC 8MM Silent Film
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYVheb3BRw8

SDC Crafts Festival 8MM Silent Film
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DC7jmxvh3VI

We used to take our little dog (Shih Tzu) when it was allowed, would never think of taking her on a ride though, she would have freaked. She loved and I mean LOVED walking the park with us though, it was funny one year we went to the Christmas Festival and stayed quite a while, she was alert, happy and just enjoying being there. When we got to the car and started to leave we realized she was literally 'dog tired' she was sitting between us and went right to sleep before we could even get out of the parking lot, I'll never forget that. One of those great memories.

It is great to see more music being brought in and I'm hope the Grand Palace can what it once was and more, first time I ever went there was in 96', my wife at the time wanted to see Vince Gill, I went for her, it was a great show, I left a fan and I'm not much for country. That seemed like a good year for music in Branson for me because that same year we saw Def Leppard at Lampe, MO A few years ago I went with friends to see Boston in concert at the Grand Palace, good show, I saw them in St Louis a couple weeks before that, the Grand Palace just wasn't big enough to hold the stage set up they were using, you could tell a lot of stuff was left off from the St Louis show for a lack of room on stage. Anyway, something I also miss there is a club thats had a few names, at one time it was called Planet Branson, before that I think it was called Guitars and Cadillacs. Saw a few good shows there, Sebastian Bach of Skid Row (the place was packed and even security seemed shell shocked from the crowd that turned out), saw Cinderella (remember them from the 80's hair metal days?) which was another good turn out. Vixen also played a show there but a terrible turn out. Branson needs something like this to fill in more tastes in music. Lot of great music from the 80's, 90's and today that could bring in people if done right.

74.  The citizen's start recognizing YOU

This one is good, actually happened to me. The second summer that Wildfire was open I was down there many many weekends riding over and over (usually on Fridays) it got to where one really sweet lady named Jackie working in the Wildfire gift shop got to where she knew me by name, she knew me every season after that and always by name, even when she went to other shops I'd still stop in and say hi and she would always remember me, I missed out getting to see her before she retired recently, in fact the last chance I would have seen her I was on my way there on my motorcycle and I got hit head on by a pickup that crossed into my lane. And so this leads into my top way you know you have been to SDC too much.

Just a few minutes before the pickup crashed into me I was thinking, well in 30 minutes I'll be in the park and can ride wildfire and then go have a piece of pie. I flew about 20 feet before bouncing off the pavement and sliding to a stop. I actually thought I was dead for a moment until I realized I was face down on the pavement. My injuries and concussion hadn't soaked in yet so I got up and started taking my gear off and see how bad I was hurt before I lost consciousness, when I came to the ambulance people said 'where do you want to go?" Not thinking clearly of course I looked up and said, well... I was on my way to Silver Dollar City.... I could tell they wanted to shake their heads and think geez, this one has lost it. They said, well we can take you to Branson Hospital or Springfield... about that time the concussion kicked in fully and I blacked out again, next thing I knew I was being loaded in the ambulance to head to Branson, thats as close as I got that day, by the time I got out of the hospital that evening it was closing time at SDC.

Its probably just me, (usually is), but did the SDC Times for this lastest issue seem more like a coupon clipper rather then a news letter? I love the offers and bring a friend coupons but seems like this one had very little to read about like they usually do.

After going to SDC for over 35 years now, it wasn't until a few years ago that I even thought of an amusement park serving alcohol. I just assumed it was a no-no. Then a friend and I went to an amusement park (can't even remember which one now) several years ago and she had a beer, I just couldn't believe it. Its not that I'm a non-drinker, I have one once in a while, but it amazes me how people behave at things like concerts, motorsports events etc. Another eye opener a while back was reading about a Chuckie Cheese pizza place that was going to stop serving beer cause of the trouble it caused, it blew me away they even served it. Funny though, Silver Dollar City has the Saloon but you never think of anything stronger then Root Beer being served lol

I got mine yesterday, I see not only are they for 15.00 but one is for 25.00

Thanks, glad you liked it, I thought I would do something from time to time with it when I go, wish I would have had something like this back on May 1st when I went. I was walking by the Mansion when I saw Grandfather peak out, I thought I gotta have that for part of the end of this. I wanted to include Thunderation but just couldn't think of a good spot to get any video from. Maybe next time, or when the leaves are gone this fall.

Its funny this being posted, I went to SDC on Thursday and was playing around taking videos with my iPhone and oddly enough I made Grandfather part of the closing of the video (its a bit over 5 minutes long) I posted it on youtube, it has clips of rides etc on it, was just playing around, first time I have ever edited video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-T6E0wxqACY