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Re: The Wayback Machine
« Reply #15 on: July 16, 2009, 01:41:33 AM »
#3 might just be Jeff Foxworthy's grandpa.
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Re: The Wayback Machine
« Reply #16 on: September 03, 2009, 11:42:30 AM »
Wayback machine set for the 1979! Get your Blondie and Pink Floyd LP's Out, and get ready to journey back 30 years! Here are a few images scanned from 35mm photos. The quality of the scans are not the greatest I just need to go back to the old scanner...







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Re: The Wayback Machine
« Reply #17 on: September 03, 2009, 02:25:06 PM »
Wonderful, as always, Rube! :)

Especially enjoy seeing the Rainmaker, The Vineyard, and the entrance.

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Re: The Wayback Machine
« Reply #18 on: September 03, 2009, 05:25:49 PM »
Interesting. Where was Welch's Vineyard?

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Re: The Wayback Machine
« Reply #19 on: September 03, 2009, 07:46:12 PM »
If I can commandeer a better scanner I will get some more on here. I just wanna put them all on! They are great to look at! I have a few large format ones to share soon...Stay Tuned!

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Re: The Wayback Machine
« Reply #20 on: September 03, 2009, 08:06:10 PM »
Interesting. Where was Welch's Vineyard?

Old Guy has all of the answers!  Here's his explanation from an earlier post.  A corporate sponsorship was forged with Welch's in the early 70's, and they opened the Vineyard Restaurant, which also featured a puppet show.
SDC's first puppet show was in the early 70's in what was then the Vineyard Restrant on the corner of Main and Hill street. A corprate sponsership was forged with Welch's Grape Juice to launch there new white and red grape juices. They wanted entertainment with a plug for them, so was born the "Wally Welch Revew", featuring an all grape cast of singing and talking grape puppets. The show went away with the sponsership  around 1978 or so the story says.....but after all the years the gristly truth can be told. One day while dining there I accidentally sat on Wally Welch and mashed him flat. He said nothing from that day forward...but he did let out a little wine. (Pause 2,3......)

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Re: The Wayback Machine
« Reply #21 on: September 03, 2009, 09:44:40 PM »
Nice!!! The Vineyard is now the Wagon Works Grill.

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Re: The Wayback Machine
« Reply #22 on: September 04, 2009, 08:46:30 PM »
Thanks for the photos!

I miss the shot tower and the rainmaker.

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Re: The Wayback Machine
« Reply #23 on: September 05, 2009, 06:45:54 AM »
There is a Shot tower at the entrance to Powder Keg...   My kids love to watch the bb's fall.
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Re: The Wayback Machine
« Reply #24 on: September 05, 2009, 10:13:32 PM »
The puppet show at The Vineyard is one of my most vivid memories as a kid, coming to SDC. 
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Re: The Wayback Machine
« Reply #25 on: September 13, 2009, 09:42:49 PM »
okay.. so that picture is really really not me.. lol
but there is a resemblance  i didn't think so at first.. but the longer i stared at it the more i thought that it looked like me.  haha fun...
wasn't the guy in Back to the Future named doc? lol hahhaha

love the old pics by the way i could look at old pics like these all day
it's one of my favorite flickr searches
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Re: The Wayback Machine
« Reply #26 on: September 14, 2009, 10:38:22 AM »
Honestly I spend so much time just remeniscing, and looking at childhood pictures, and I love looking for the older ones from pre-me times. Just to see the growth, and evolution of SDC is great in most cases, and in others it is a bit sad to miss the old attractions, or to have missed them altogether!

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Re: The Wayback Machine
« Reply #27 on: September 15, 2009, 01:27:17 PM »
Old Polaroids. Taken with a 1967-1969 Polaroid Land Camera



Damaged polaroid (overexposed) of the SDC Jail
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Re: The Wayback Machine
« Reply #28 on: September 15, 2009, 07:03:48 PM »
^Thanks for the pics!  It's nice to see a pic of the Wilderness Church actually in the wilderness! :)

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Re: The Wayback Machine
« Reply #29 on: September 15, 2009, 09:18:55 PM »
Wow I had forgotten that it was once in the trees.  I do remember the view from the picture window being really special.