Before Paramount

[Ben]

Interesting set of videos here.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VqvEDdYGP44

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vE-GIsHxih8&feature=relmfu

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXyujxNL7K8&feature=relmfu

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1wnGXmWldBk&feature=relmfu


Kind of reminds me of what BGW used to be like(Even though I wasn't alive)

 

[I305Evan]

I stumbled across over 200 photos of Kings Dominion from 1975-2004 and I'm surely amazed on how much the park has changed in some bad ways. I might share sometime later on.

 

[RocketChk]

OMG, the slogan they used for Anaconda was "It Beats Everything." LMAO. When I read that, I just hear a monster truck commercial announcer voice.

 

[Hawth]

Connor posted a video of old footage of BGW and I found this Kings Dominion footage from 1989 while browsing the uploader's other videos. The KD footage starts at 3:16 and continues to the end of the video.

 

[Mike541x]

^Awesome find. Candy Apple Grove looked a lot better back then.

 

[bryanstanard]

Cool

 

[halfabee]

Some serious old school delights in that vid! Too many to tap them all out on mobile.

But I do want to mention specifically that at about 7m:40s the camera man gets yelled at via PA system at Diamond Falls, because he has jumped the chain that serves as part of the pathway fencing and intruded into a guest-restricted area. No way he didn’t know what he was doing. As soon as he gets yelled at, he spins around for a hasty retreat back to the walking path. LOL. All for a not-much-better shot of a mediocre ride via murky 1980s-era camcorder.

Almost exactly 30 years ago. Very different times.