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[rubedugans]

I will have to pull my old photo of the print shop out, it is a post card, that only gives a view of the porch. I can't seem to find my scan of it anywhere!

[mhguy77]

I miss the old Print Shop.  I always enjoyed the old wanted posters with your name on the poster using the old press.
When did all that die? 

[coalesce99]

How about this one? [NEW] the caption is "CLEANING UP -- Workers are clearing the burned out site of structures at Silver Dollar City near Branson, Mo., lost in a $50,000 fire early yesterday." It ran on Oct. 1, 1968.

[Junior]

in the early days at SDC, a fire damaged the old, original part of town. I think two or three buildings were lost. I don't know if that is what is depicted in this photo, although it appears jack and pete are standing at the side, looking at the dozer work. This photo could also be of the expansion of the original buildings. Do the photos in the newspaper morgue/photo file have captions or descriptions of what was going on, and the dates and times of what was happening, and who is in the photo? And these are GREAT shots...please, MORE MORE MORE postings!

[Junior]

MOre details about the Marshall Hooker book...where did you find it? Is it still available? How much chatter is about SDC? THANKS!!!!!!!

[coalesce99]

I'll look on Monday. Some of them do have captions (or the actual physical newspaper clipping) on the back. I don't think that one w/ the dozers did, though.

I've got a few more ready to go. One depicts a train robbery w/ 1 of the robbers on TOP of the train.

[thelarsonsix]

More, more, more! Please! 

[rubedugans]

These sort of wonderful finds is why we come here. Thank you so very much. This is hope for the items that we still haven't seen yet, it really makes you wonder what still could be out there! We will find it! (on that note, I got 15 more post cards this week-6 of them were SDC, the rest SOTH, and branson) all CHEAP! I really have to fire up the Wayback Machine! Thanks Coalesce99!

[Duelist]

MOre details about the Marshall Hooker book...where did you find it? Is it still available? How much chatter is about SDC? THANKS!!!!!!!

I bought in in 1991 at the old bookstore/tintype shop.  Mr. Hooker talks some about being the Marshall at SDC but it's mainly about the walks/horseback rides he took on the Santa Fe and Western trails and the Cumberland trail.  He led a very interesting life and is inspirational.  I highly recommend it.  There are some copies available at amazon.com:

http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?field-keywords=ralph+l+hooker&url=search-alias%3Daps

[sanddunerider]

Keep em comin!  thanx!

[Ozark Outlaw]

Awesome pictures! They are so rare, and yet such a pleasure for the eyes. I'm learning more, and more about the rich history of Silver Dollar City each day.

I'd love to see the picture of the train robber on top of the train!

[eagle1]

This is just great! I have been trying when the time to get through old photos/clippings that G'ma & G'pa kept not only on SDC but the whole area. I can't wait to get back to it and hopefully share along with photos from SDC when I was a kid and Dog Patch. It will probably have to wait until we close for the season, but I will do my best as I know there is some cool things/stories to share! 

[Junior]

WOW...thanks for the info on the book, Duelist!

[Duelist]

WOW...thanks for the info on the book, Duelist!

You're welcome, Junior.  One of my favorite stories from the book is the one where Marshall Hooker said he was "patrolling" SDC when a guy with a new straw cowboy hat and a girl on each arm kept following him around and calling him Wyatt Earp and asking him how quick on the draw he was.  Finally the Marshall got fed up and told the guy to throw his hat in the air.  The guy did and Marshall Hooker drew and blew the top of the hat off with a blackpowder blank.  I can't imagine that happening now.  Ah, the good old days!

[coalesce99]

I'd love to see the picture of the train robber on top of the train!