Not trying to cause trouble...

Junior · September 27, 2013, 08:42:07 PM

HA!

thelarsonsix · October 08, 2013, 07:14:02 PM

Junior, I would love to read your article about the Diving Bell. I've really enjoyed your contributions here on the forum as well as the articles you've written for your local paper. PM sent.

psychosaw13 · November 23, 2013, 11:13:10 AM

I used to go back home after a day in early 80's SDC & play Diving bell in my bathtub. I used to turn the faucet on & off & pretend they were gauges & water was flooding in. I'm sure I even had all the lines memorized. I would throw myself around & pretend there was a rock crashing through the wall, Ah a 7 year old's imagination.
Its funny how a ride can impact a childhood. So many great memories.

I don't see why the guy starting this thread thinks he would cause trouble for not remembering a ride.
we are all here because we are obsessed with SDC & remember the good times we had there.

I don't remember Jim Owens float trip. American Plunge was brand new at the time. I'm obsessive about SDC I like to see the remains of where rides used to be. Maps & diagrams I wanna see the developments for the old rides. I love all that stuff!

sanddunerider · November 23, 2013, 11:27:44 AM

"""obsessed with SDC """...

??

YES WE ARE!!!!

Junior · November 23, 2013, 07:06:47 PM

I've got some old park maps going back as far as 1970 that I will have to post at sometime in the future that will give a good idea to those who don't remember or were way too little or not even born as to the footprint of some of the old rides and attractions. It is interesting to look at them and see how much the park has changed in over 50 years.

Preachin_Bill · November 24, 2013, 09:44:49 PM

psychosaw13: The reason for the title.....well I was stalking this board for awhile before joining, and I saw the high esteem those on this board had for the Diving Bell

, and was afraid that me not knowing what it was would be heresy and make me unworthy!

Junior · November 25, 2013, 05:26:28 AM

If you love SDC, you are worthy!

Gilligan · November 25, 2013, 12:21:54 PM

Yup, we deem you worthy!

thelarsonsix · November 25, 2013, 07:34:59 PM

Quote from: Preachin_Bill on November 24, 2013, 09:44:49 PM
psychosaw13: The reason for the title.....well I was stalking this board for awhile before joining, and I saw the high esteem those on this board had for the Diving Bell , and was afraid that me not knowing what it was would be heresy and make me unworthy!

I didn't know what it was or remember it either before I found this site. And I likely visited the park during the time it was there, might have even rode it but was too young to remember. The only ride that I remembered from the 70's until the next time I went with my own in kids in the early 2000's was Fire in the Hole. Oddly enough it was just as I remembered from being a 7 or 8 year old, even though it isn't the same.

Junior · November 25, 2013, 09:46:27 PM

I wish everyone on this site could have enjoyed the Jim Owen's Float Trip, the Diving Bell, the Butterfield Stagecoach Ride, Herman the Hermit's Tree Top House, and the good ole fashioned "citizens" of the 1970s and 1980's. It was a great time...ya had to be there, man!

Preachin_Bill · November 30, 2013, 12:21:46 PM

Glad to know I'm worthy, thanks!

I, too, wish I could have experienced the old times at SDC. Sometimes we see things at the park and Dad will say, "That's what SDC USED to be like." I wish I could have experienced the float trip especially, which just re-emphisizes the need to redo the American Plunge and improve the float trip part of the ride. While we probably can't bring back the float trip, we can at least give the entire ride some love because I believe it could pay dividends for the park.

As far as the diving bell ride, that's a big lake and a lot of space, you mean to tell me we can't put it back in there!? Hogwash!

Junior · November 30, 2013, 05:46:24 PM

When the float trip was in operation, the area around the channel was nothing but woods. (The Butterfield Stagecoach Line trail did cross over the old float trip and wound from behind it down to where Powderkeg is, back to the stage depot where Fried Fancies is, next to the furniture factory.) Currently the channel would be unconvincing for a float trip because of Wildfire and the American Plunge crisscrossing the channel. I do wish they would dress the AP up better, and do something with the concrete tunnel where the cave used to be. Put back in the barrel dump, some of the geysers that shot across the channel, maybe a few little scenes along the route. That would really make the ride more fun. Too bad they can't develop somewhere else around the perimeter of the park and put in another float trip...I really like the idea on one of the old threads here to do a bigfoot themed float trip called "The Creature on the Creek." Yes, I believe if they had the will and the money they could reintroduce a new diving bell with new effects that would be mind blowing, and totally revamp the tree house and open it again. I fellow can dream, can't he?

Preachin_Bill · November 30, 2013, 09:53:10 PM

While we're at it they need to re-do the end of the flooded mine, the outdoor scene. Also, I believe you can't go behind the waterfall and I'm sad to say I never did that and I'd like to. The american plunge just flat needs to be re-done. Everyone agrees with doing it, I don't see why they wouldn't. Does the staff have something against re-doing water theme rides? I would hope not as they get a lot of play in the summer. The American Plunge is always an attraction due to heat, but I think if they did it up nice they would get wild results in popularity. When I was a kid it was the biggest ride in the park. It could be again with some love, and I mean that whole-heardetly, especially in the July-August months.