I asked my mom about it the other day and she couldn't remember either.
What did the maps/schedule look like before they newspaper style Pathfinder?
I remember them being different, but I can't remember exactly what they were like and I couldn't find any, even though I know I have some somewhere at my house.
Maybe someone could upload a scan of one, if possible.
They were brochures that opened to a full spread of the city.
They indeed folded open, and closed just like a roadmap. I still have one of that style from 2005.
Visit my Flickr site and see the "Silver Dollar City's Discovery Map" brochure handed out to all guests...including a city map with descriptions of rides, shows, attractions, crafts, restaurants...and that included the log rolling contests. Enjoy!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/juniordugan
thanks junior for posting that for Tiffany!
I knew you had pictures of old brochures, just could not remeber where,,??
Reviewing that brochure...it may be from 1980 rather than 1981 as I first posted on Flickr. My memory fades in and out here and there, now and then. That was over 35 years ago!
Here are a few scans of maps. My favorite is opened, it is only Main Street (since that is all that existed at the time!
(http://i649.photobucket.com/albums/uu218/rubedugans/brochure.jpg)
rube, when you get time would you post a close up of the brochure that show just main street.. would like to look at it closer... thanks
You never cease to impress Rube!
If you ever come across one of those rare days when it is raining outside, and you have nothing else planned, please take a scan of each of those maps, and brochures! :)
Did it about a two years ago. But now I have probably 5-10% more that needs scanning
Rube you need to make an SDC muesuem with all the awesome stuff you have!!!!
I've got a ton on my page as well
http://www.flickr.com/photos/skinnytie/sets/72157601729928940/
great set of photos there betamike
Quote from: rubedugans on October 18, 2011, 09:38:04 PM
They were brochures that opened to a full spread of the city.
Thank you!! That's what I thought, but I didn't want to convince myself I was right until I knew for sure!
Those are awesome maps betamike!
It's fun to see times when the Flooded Mine, and Fire in the Hole were the "back" of the park. ;D
It's interesting to me how the viewpoint of the maps change over time. Some are turned more to the left side of the park, others to the right. Some are an arial view, some are boxes, and some are renderings. I love all the different characteristis the maps take on over time.
Some of my maps have no dates, so it is fun looking at the features/ rides/ shop locations in order to figure out which year it would have been from.
I have one other one from the same time period (Still Marvel Cave Park) that isn't scanned yet. It was simply a placemat, but it gave a really good map!
(http://i649.photobucket.com/albums/uu218/rubedugans/firstpamphletback-1.jpg)
Very cool!
It's hard to imagine that in the beginning that was THE city! :o :)
It would be great to go back to that era of SDC and know what we know today. Of course be able to take our modern digital cameras so we can take all those great pictures ;).
If only we could get this thread up to 88 miles per hour! ;D
thats great rube, thanks!
88 miles an Hour!!!
(http://i649.photobucket.com/albums/uu218/rubedugans/doc-brown.jpg)
Hmm...where to park...where to park? Marvel Cave Park!!!
(http://i649.photobucket.com/albums/uu218/rubedugans/marvelcaveparkmap.jpg)
oh...my...gosh...
I have NEVER seen that image before! Thats great rube! What is that out of?
Let's see what was on there...
1 Hospitality House, starting point for Marvel Cave tours
2 Cave Railway arriving from deep beneath the Ozarks
3 Historic McHaffie Homestead built in 1843
4 Inspiring chapel of the Hills, the Wilderness Church
5 Uncle Jerry's Livery Stable
6 Man's Land Shop
7 Feed Store
8 1880 "supermarket." the General Store
9 Entrance to Old Miner's Shack
10 Courthouse
11 Bank of Silver Dollar City
12 Copper Kellte Candies
13 Stage Coach Inn
14 Shad's Blacksmith Shop
15 Mount Roark Spring House
16 Sullivan's Stone Burr Mill
17 Silver Dollar Gazette
18 Hester's Pitchur Gallery
19 Auction Barn
20 Ghost House
21 Main Depot, Frisco Silver Dollar Line
22 Last of America's steam-locomotive trains
23 Silver Dollar City's principal entrance and exit. the Swinging Bridge
24 East Depot, Frisco Silver Dollar Line
25 To Missouri Highway 76
rube-you make me so happy with all of your memorbillia, will you marry me!?
Funny! I am happily married to someone who puts up with (sometimes begrudgingly) my habits (SDC). I have lots of what amounts to a ig collection after 30+ yrs attending the park. This one was from a guidebook from early on at SDC (obviously!).
still a great collection and I love to view it! Thanks for sharing it with us!
I am flattered BTW! any admirer of my "stuff" is a friend in my book! I would want to marry me too If I met a lady with a collection the likes of mine! Since today has been a rather good day I think I will add another section of a map to the thread!
1972 had two different maps, This is the more analytical, left brained map. The best part of it is the ride that will be 40 next year....FITH
(http://i649.photobucket.com/albums/uu218/rubedugans/Copyof1972map1-1-1-1.jpg)
RUBE: Love the map that has the parking area where Flooded Mine is. That is the way the park first looked when my stepdad visited. Can you tell me what year that's from? I HAVE NEVER SEEN THAT IMAGE! I love it!
Wow, those are amazing! :o
It must have been something to park your car in what is now Town Square. My how the park has grown, and is still growing. I wonder what the park map of 2025 will look like. ;D
I go to flea markets to find things like this, and about 99% of the time come up empty! Curses! I do have a wall in the bedroom, yes my husband tolerates this, of a giant collage of pictures and pathfinders......I am nerdy I know.
Missing I like how our significant others "tolerate" our obsessions!
Junior I don't have a date saved on the image. I will have to dig it out and check the date.
Quote from: rubedugans on October 22, 2011, 02:49:04 PM
Hmm...where to park...where to park? Marvel Cave Park!!!
(http://i649.photobucket.com/albums/uu218/rubedugans/marvelcaveparkmap.jpg)
Is that Indian Point road just behind (east) of the Blacksmith shop? If so, has the Blacksmith shop moved or been turned around? It just doesn't look quite right. The road between the hotel and Shad's has what looks like the bridge we now walk over, but shouldn't it be more to the east as well? Finally, does the north end of the swinging bridge just take you to the parking lot?
That is what we now would call Valley Road, which leads off of Main Street.
(http://i649.photobucket.com/albums/uu218/rubedugans/map.jpg)
its nice to see a reference, a good ole juxtapose from then and now..
If I am not mistaken...and we would have to check with a current citizen in the know...I think in the early days, late 50s/early 60s, Indian Point Road actually was re-routed to its present route. I believe years ago at SDC I heard an oldtimer back then say Indian Point Road essentially ran the route that Hill Street (Cardiac Hill) runs today.
Quote from: rubedugans on October 26, 2011, 02:42:33 PM
That is what we now would call Valley Road, which leads off of Main Street.
(http://i649.photobucket.com/albums/uu218/rubedugans/map.jpg)
I thought that might be it, but that leads to a couple more questions:
What was the bridge by the mill going over? Best I can recall there's just asphalt in that area now. Secondly, has the Blacksmith shop been rebuilt in a different spot, reconfigured so the entrance is on the main street side now or is that just the way the map was made? Seems like when I watched the Beverly Hillbillies the Blacksmith shop appeared to be oriented the same way it is now, but I could be wrong about that.
(http://i164.photobucket.com/albums/u36/larson_6/map.jpg)
Sorry about the shoddy photo editing, the best I could do on short notice. ;D
My photos from the very early days shows the shop in the same spot HOWEVER, My understanding is that the area facing the Hotel at one time was the demonstration area. This is the area that says Wilderness Road Blacksmith was the front. If you look at the early map, no one would have journeyed down what is now Valley Road since it only led to parking, so there was no need to demonstrate on that side. My earliest snapshot-photo of the blacksmith shop showed cars parked along Valley Road off of Main Street.
As for the bridge, there was a water feature (unsure if it was naturalor artificial) to "turn" the water wheel on the Mill(it does turn, but it powers nothing !) Below was where the run off ended up. I believe the bridge was just an observation area for the overshot water wheel while entering and leaving via the swinging bridge.
See if this helps...
Taken from the porch of the Hotel/ Ice cream shop
(http://i649.photobucket.com/albums/uu218/rubedugans/johnscabin089.jpg)
(http://i649.photobucket.com/albums/uu218/rubedugans/Blacksmith-Shoeing.jpg)
I know! Your Welcome!
Here's a couple of photos from the early to mid 1960's.
This first photo (that belongs to Rube Dugans) is looking down Valley Road. Where the people are standing is about where the blacksmith does demonstrations today. The cars are parked about where Brown's Candy is today.
(http://i884.photobucket.com/albums/ac45/tomncyndi/Yaallcomeback.jpg)
This second photo (that also belongs to Rube Dugans) looks like it was took about where the cars are parked in the first photo looking up Valley Road toward the blacksmith shop.
(http://i884.photobucket.com/albums/ac45/tomncyndi/blacksmith64.jpg)
Just wanted to add that these 2 photos were originally posted by Rube in an earlier thread. Did not want to infringe on Rube's Wayback Machine copyright :).
Thanks pintrader. I was getting a bit worried there wondering how tomncyndi had gotten ahold of them until I realized I posted them earlier! As long as no one tries to pass them off for themselves/ their own. I have often wondered how many times my photos and items have been saved onto peoples computers. My plan ultimately will include many of my not yet seen items, but that is still in the works (getting ever closer Junior!) so if you like them, just hold on and wait for the full versions, you'll be glad you did. I have a vast collection/ history of SDC, and what fun is it if it just sits there! The folks in the photo are on Valley Road leading towards the horse bridge/ Glass Blowers, and yes those are cars where Brown's now is. The other photo distinctly shows a car up almost on the Square/ Main Street.
Wow-zers! :o
I knew there was a time when you could park in Town Sqaure, but there was also a time when visitors could drive down Valley Road, and park?
That is amazing! I have learned something today. :)
well rube i hope that they would not pass your photos off as there own! i enjoy each and everyone you post. please keep them coming. i keep hoping i might be in the backgrown crowd photo, lol highly unlikely but you never know.
how much fun would a thesis paper be on SDC!!?? With all the information and wise fans on this site you could have one whipped out in no time!
thats true trams! with all the history contained on these pages and with all the people on this site,, You could easily compose any kind of paper you needed to.
Quote from: MissinTheGreenTrams on October 27, 2011, 10:24:37 AM
how much fun would a thesis paper be on SDC!!?? With all the information and wise fans on this site you could have one whipped out in no time!
In my hospitality and tourism class in high school, we had to write a paper on a popular tourist attraction, and I chose SDC. We had to have at least 3 pages, doubled spaced, front and back. I ended up with almost 8 pages ;) It was supposed to persuade people to go to the places we chose, almost like a magazine article, and I don't think I did any research on SDC at all for the paper because I could close my eyes and describe everything in near perfect detail! I guess it pays to be overly obsessed with something; saved me time on the paper!
Come to think of it, everything we had to do in that class that I wasn't assigned a certain topic, I always did the projects on SDC or Branson! :D
Stick with what you know, I guess! ;)
Exactally! Easy peasy!
In that class, when somebody was assigned Branson, SDC, or places around there, they would get most of their info from me. Made me feel smart!