Your favorite place in Silver Dollar City???

littlefriend · July 19, 2010, 11:08:25 AM

Watching the veteran's parade and flag raising at the park opening and the homestead area. I love going and walking behind the cabins and seeing and petting the animals. I also love sitting on the front porch in a rocking chair on a nice cool day. Then in the winter the best place is inside the cabin warmed by the fireplace listening to the homestead pickers sing Christmas Carols drinking hot apple cider or hot chocolate!

cheesehead57 · July 20, 2010, 02:43:05 PM

Best place is sitting on the front porch of the cabin listening to THE PICKERS, AUNT JUDY and JACK and JOHN....then the back porch talking to any of them. We always bring Wisconsin Cheese to the Homestead when we get down there 2 or 3 times a year. Always like the Steam Train, Apple Turnovers (nice that they are so close to the cabin), Cedric and the Cajuns.

Andymeets1880s · July 25, 2010, 12:42:15 PM

Has anyone got a picture(s) of the waterfall at Grandfather's Mansion?? I COMPLETELY forgot about that. I have no recollection whatsoever of that! Anyone have views walking underneath it??

Throw me a bone here, LOL!

betamike · July 25, 2010, 02:13:58 PM

Junior has one on his Flickr page

http://www.flickr.com/photos/juniordugan/4312256463/

Junior · July 26, 2010, 08:03:44 AM

That waterfall was just perfect for that location, too. That picture you see on Flickr is from around 1978 or 1979.

TwinsVikingsWild · August 20, 2013, 01:34:20 PM

I LOVED Thunderation, but I was too chicken to go on anything bigger than that. Loved The Swinging Bridge, and Fire-in-the-Hole.

okiebluegrass · August 28, 2013, 03:40:45 PM

When I was a kid, the trainand the mine ride were the first thing we hit. Now I ususally go into the church (I usually go on Sunday) or check out whoever is playing on the gazebo

Ozark Outlaw · September 02, 2013, 10:53:42 AM

Holy old thread Batman! Okay, so my favorite place would probably be the train station. It makes for some great picture opportunities! On second thought, I also like the observation deck at Wildfire. Although, the town square is also a classic. Hm, I think my favorite is the area between Highway 76, and Indian Point.

Gilligan · September 04, 2013, 07:05:46 PM

Hands down, my favorite place is the Pickin Shed listening to the Homestead Pickers.

Junior · September 05, 2013, 09:47:37 AM

I have to take you with me in the time machine that is my memory. We are going back to late summer, 1979. We are at the Vineyard Restaurant (Wagonworks) and it is prior to rope drop, a cool morning. I'm cleaning the dining area, wiping down tables and emptying trash cans. Drifting out of the kitchen is the music playing on the FM Radio, Springfield station "Rock 99" is playing top 40 rock and roll. Every hour or so Gerry Rafferty's Baker Street plays, with that memorable sax solo, and Frankie Valle is up next singing the theme to "Grease." Out on the street, a fire made with hickory or oak wood is burning at a demonstration location, the smell of the smoke drifts through the dining area. I hear my coworkers all chattering about what they did last night after work, and about school coming up in a few weeks and how we are all going to be juniors and seniors. The last delivery carts are whisking away down the streets, and guests are gathering on Main Street so they can run down the hill to ride the float trip, FITH, the train, Flooded Mine, and diving bell. A charcoal fire is being stoked up on Main Street in front of the Vineyard at the Sorghum Shack, where chicken quarters and polish sausage are about to be thrown on the grill. Across Main Street near the Hospitality House exit, the girl at the sipper cart is packing the brightly colored plastic containers into ice, and already, kids are lining up to get some fruit juice. The Swing and Turn Jubilee (band) is playing traditional music in the gazebo. I'm 17 years old again. The world is all new, everything is in front of me. Gosh, in just a year I'll be going to college!
ZIIIIIIIPPPPPPPP! Back in 2013 again! Thanks for making the trip with me!

We'll have to take another trip back in time some other day.

DeweyBald · September 05, 2013, 10:21:41 AM

LOL....that's some good stuff Junior.

Gilligan · September 05, 2013, 03:58:40 PM

Junior, I was there, but it was in the Fall. The hubs and I just graduated from college and were on our honeymoon! I'd been coming to Branson for most of my life, but it was his first trip there. The smells hit you as soon as you walked through the gate - wood fires, roasting meat, funnel cakes, the smell of boiling sorghum...

My favorite time at the City will always be Fall. I'm always disappointed when I arrive in the Fall because it's not the way I remember (and want it to be). Remember when the sorghum maker was in the middle of Main Street, and you would see it as soon as you entered? Every rail fence was wrapped in fake leaf garlands. Crafters were lined up everywhere. It was an absolute Fall wonderland! It's still beautiful, but nothing compared to the way it was in 1979.

okiebluegrass · September 05, 2013, 04:11:04 PM

Love Branson in the fall. The music festival

that is no more, but at least we still have the craft festival

Pudgy Jones · September 06, 2013, 08:57:27 AM

We love the fall festival, too, but the cowboy stuff is getting to be a little much. Since when did our little Ozark city become a dude ranch?

Gilligan · September 06, 2013, 10:26:12 AM

Quote from: Pudgy Jones on September 06, 2013, 08:57:27 AM
We love the fall festival, too, but the cowboy stuff is getting to be a little much. Since when did our little Ozark city become a dude ranch?

Yeah, I agree with you. I don't get the cowboy connection either, but it seems quite a few others like it. I wish they would bring back the fall music festival.