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Great footage of the park and its attractions in the early 90s….and a certain theme song near the end.
Old Footage Of The Park
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Great footage of the park and its attractions in the early 90s….and a certain theme song near the end.
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Great footage from 1976 of Le Scoot with the spillway drop in this video!
Wow! -- At 1:45 Le Scoot has the uphill section in it! I never knew it had that. The only ones I knew of were Great Adventure's original flume and Kennywood's. Kennywood had the only one that wasn't removed...
You know… maybe Star Spangled Nights wasn’t all that bad.
This half hour news report "The Invasion of 1975" talks about how the opening of Busch Gardens led to a record year for tourism in the Historic Triangle, and features great footage of the park from the opening season as well as other area attractions:
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Invasion of '75 (1975)
This report features rare archival footage from Busch Gardens The Old Country's opening year, as well as Colonial Williamsburg.
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Carowinds Powder Keg Flume originally had an upward spillway drop
I don't know if this has been posted yet, but this is some amazing footage of the park's opening day back in 1975. It's neat to see what the park looked like in its first year before the Oktoberfest hamlet and Nessie were built.
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My parents took us to BGW for the first time in July or August 1977. I remember the fence was up around Nessie as she was still being built.
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Great video taken probably during opening year, cool shots of loch ness area pre loch ness and new France
Anyone know when that path shown at 00:11 next to England Skyride was removed? Never knew there used to be a path there. Also it looks so odd to see the full Skyride stations without the trees around them. They look so naked
Pretty sure right around 2010. If I remember correctly England had the secondary path open past the opening of Forest of Fun.
I'm not talking about the path near the bathrooms/behind Squires, that ones still there and is just used as a back area. This video shows a path right next to England Skyride that I've never seen before that's definitely LONG gone now.
That path was also removed in 2010. The path behind used to be always open.
Both paths existed that long? I remember the other one, especially since (at least pre-Covid) it was open occasionally for very busy weekends. Google Earth shows the Skyride one gone at least in 2009 and it doesn't look to be there in the 07 imagery either although it's blurry and hard to tell, so I guess it was removed a bit before the other was closed off?
Yeah, something with forest of fun opening and drawing people back there
Growing up, that was the line for the skyride. I remember thinking it was weird when they took it out because FoF was open. Anyone else remember the petting zoo that pre-dated FoF?
You mean the petting zoo that was closed around the time of mad cow disease and hoof and mouth?
Also, I recall it was used as a HoS maze location for some time, though I recall it was more a general scare area than any particular maze.
Yes, I forgot it was a maze/area for a while. Petting zoos are a nightmare for bio-security. As a gentleman farmer now, I avoid them like the plague. Its a recipe for bringing something back and infecting my animals.
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The petting was zoo was somewhat of a dead zone. There was hardly anyone in it. It wasn't welcoming and it did really look run-down and sad. I felt bad for the animals because the enclosures were very small. There was very little shade. The only ones having a good time were the goats. Guests would flock to them to feed them.
This was posted recently, and this is something to behold! From 1978 (opening year of Loch Ness Monster), it shows the exterior of The Catapult back in its indoor Hastings location, a puppet show at the Magic Lantern Theater, the original A-B Clydesdales, and what "This is Oktoberfest!" was like during its younger years.
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