Found a great SDC coloring book from 1979 on ebay. I wish I had an ebay account, but I don't. This would have been an instant buy for me. Good luck, bidders! It features coloring pages of such "lost" attractions as the diving bell, boxing show, and I think the float trip. RUBE has one of these books, and colored in it as a kid. Maybe he can tell us about some of the other coloring pages. Check out the coloring book on my Flickr site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/juniordugan
They have several copies for sale! So I bought 1 for me, 1 for my kids, and 1 for you Junior. ;) I'll let you know when I get them so you can give me your shipping information.
Well disregard the message I sent you then Jr! I had gone ahead and bought one, maybe I'll just color it! Where else than SDCfans would people be offering to buy others items!
Sorry Rube, I didn't know.
Parson and Rube, thanks for thinking of me! Let me know the costs and I'll send along a check to cover things. Best to you both! -JUNIOR
I ordered one, too. Not gonna color in it, though; I just can't get myself to. Maybe I'll scan the pages and color it digitally... :-D
My original copy is colored, but by sister and I as small children when this was a new and hot off the presses. So many times I have wished I had not scribbled a few pages, but it makes for better memories than a preserved copy. I have another version that I think is from 1978, I'd have to check though . I plan on framing some of the pages someday.
It would be fun to xerox them and them be able to color guilt free! and if you wanted to be even nerdy-er you could xerox then get a picture book maker dealy and make your own color book with it!
Around 2001 in the carousel barn while the kid's fest was taking place, there were coloring stations set up with a few zeroxed pages ...needless to say we grabbed a few!
a few!!???
One of each of the drawings that were out (there were only 2-3 different pages). We figured that they were already copies...we would just make copies of the copies. After that trip I could not begin to tell you where they went! Must have gotten colored by my niece.
Look what came in the mail today!!
(http://i1189.photobucket.com/albums/z436/tiffanylynnt1/SDCFans/Picture0003.jpg)
YAY!! good for you,
whats all in it to color? any rides?
What fuuuuun!!!
Thanks for the reminder Tiff. I meant to get a couple of these but forgot until I saw this post again. Fortunately they still had some so I ordered 2. Junior if you still need one you're welcome to the extra or anyone else that doesn't have an ebay account let me know. Otherwise I might just color in it!
Thelarsonsix: Thanks for thinking about me, but I think Parson has got me covered there. He emailed a few days ago, and I sent him my address and one of those coloring books should be on the way! Thanks to my friends here at SDCFans for thinking about me regarding this! :)
Another ebay find: a 1950's photo booklet of Marvel Cave. Pete Herschend (looking very young) on the back of the photo of the cave train. Check it out: http://www.flickr.com/photos/juniordugan
Quote from: How-doFolks on January 07, 2012, 03:46:06 PM
whats all in it to color? any rides?
The only color is what you see in the picture I posted. I can tell you what is on each page.
1) same as the cover, only you can color it in
2) Sheriff welcoming you to SDC with the Pop. 28 sign behind him
3) The Undertaker and the Hanging Judge standing next to a tree with a noose on Main Street
4) Jim Owen's Float Trip
5) whirlpool that was part of the Float Trip, and is still part of AP
6) a hillbilly climbing a tree and a bear holding a moonshine jug
7) basketweaving
8- two prisoners standing in front of The Flooded Mine
9) the prisoner in the bucket at FM
10) a live canary in a cage (means there is no gas leak)
11) a prisoner in a cage that has a sign saying "Do Not Feed the Prisoner"
12) a prisoner holding a lantern to the birdcage with the dead canary
13) color by number of a hillbilly sitting against a stump holding a jug of moonshine
14) a baker making bread
15) Granny's Lye Soap
16) tour guide standing inside the cave
17) "find the hidden animal by coloring in the spaces with dots"
18) train conductor
19) the train
20) Hobo Junction
21) hillbilly taking a shower
22) train robbers
23) train robbers running from the conductor
24) The Rainmaker
25) lady covering two kids with an umbrella because of The Rainmaker
26) Rube Dugan
27) The Diving Bell
28) Rube with a lifesaver around his neck and a fish on his head
29) a lady with an autoharp, a guy with a banjo and a guy with a guitar.
30) a boxing ref introducing a really muscular guy in one corner
31) a less muscular guy in jeans and suspenders standing in the ring
32) the littler guy running away from the muscular guy
33) connect the dots
34) a maze. Get the Far Chief to the bucket of water.
35) Baldknobbers with torches
36) Far Chief running with a bucket of water
37) Baldknobber with a bucket of water upside down on his head
38) connect the dots
39) crossword puzzle
40-41) a stubborn prospector pulling on a rope attached to a stubborn mule
42) two pigs getting into a keg of moonshine
43) Yodeling Gunsmith
44) a bartender pouring a drink and another one wiping something up off the bar, with peanuts on the floor
45) a saloon girl sitting on a piano, probably singing
46) Carrie Nation busting thru the doors
47) piano player and saloon girl running from Carrie Nation
48) a mule
49) blacksmith (best guess... Shad Heller)
50) woodcarver
51) woodcarving of a hillbilly
52) Wilderness Church
53) candy makers
54) you have to draw an umbrella in The Rainmaker's hands
55) Hatfields
56) The McCoys
57) Sheriff saying, "I'll have no feuding here!"
58) a gunfight has broken out
59) The sheriff standing, looking shocked. Someone shot his pants off.
60) Hatfields and McCoys in jail and the caption says, "The End!"
And the back cover looks the exact same as the front cover.
thanks tiff! appriciate the time ya put in to post all that on here. ;)
Hmmmmm I wonder if you could still get away with printing a few of those......they seem a little "risk-a"
I see they still have a few for sale. I really might have to jump on that before they are gone.
They had 3 left yesterday after I got my 2. It's probably been almost a month since the original discovery and I don't know how many they originally had but it doesn't seem they're moving real quick. I'd venture a guess that probably 95% of them were sold to members of SDCfans. ;D
WOW! Got a vintage 1979 Silver Dollar City Coloring Book in the Mail today! My SINCERE thanks. It looks like someone has taken good care of this item over the last 32 years. It brings back some fond memories. It will be kept in my collection of SDC material, and will be cherished for years to come. THANKS... ;D ;D ;D
Quote from: Junior on January 17, 2012, 06:21:34 PM
WOW! Got a vintage 1979 Silver Dollar City Coloring Book in the Mail today! My SINCERE thanks. It looks like someone has taken good care of this item over the last 32 years. It brings back some fond memories. It will be kept in my collection of SDC material, and will be cherished for years to come. THANKS... ;D ;D ;D
I was just gonna post I got mine today too! And yes they look brand new! The covers are still perfect and crisp, the pages aren't faded or flimsy, nothing torn, crinkled, bent or marked on. Someone must have kept these in a vacuum chamber. I bought 2 of them think I'm gonna let my 5 year old color in one them and keep the other pristine.
That is so awesom guys! Yay for you!!!!
I checked ebay for info about the SDC coloring book. It says that the coloring books are from the archive of Western Publishing/Golden Book. I typed Western Publishing into my search engine and discovered that Wiskur and Company of Harrison, AR artist Dennis Jones did the artwork, and apparently, the work was sent to Wisconsin to Western Publishing for printing. In the late '70's, Western was a major printer, employing over 2,500 people and printing all sorts of childrens books and specialty items like the SDC coloring book. Western was absorbed into Golden Books publishsers in the mid 1990s. Wiskur and Company, at least until recently, still existed in Harrison, apparently publishing and marketing were the specialities of the company. Just some useless info for all of you with an interest in the coloring book. Thanks to Parson for sending me a copy of it in the mail!
I just ordered my copy! Ironically, I had this very same coloring book as a kid (purchased at the City), but tore into it with a passion and it was probably disposed of during our move from Missouri to Arkansas many moons ago.
Just got my coloring book today!!! ;D ;D ;D <---- Wow, how old am I?
Just picked up a similar coloring book from ebay today.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&_trksid=p4340.l2557&item=221010385521&nma=true&rt=nc&si=9s0XVYvqDFbPVXvt50YP1Sf5UeE%253D&sspagename=STRK%3AMEWNX%3AIT&orig_cvip=true&rt=nc (http://www.ebay.com/itm/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&_trksid=p4340.l2557&item=221010385521&nma=true&rt=nc&si=9s0XVYvqDFbPVXvt50YP1Sf5UeE%253D&sspagename=STRK%3AMEWNX%3AIT&orig_cvip=true&rt=nc)
You should still be able to see it even though it's been sold.
Basically, it looks to be from the same artist as the yellow book a few of you have picked up. This one has a red cover and is titled "Silver Dollar City Activity Fun Coloring Book". Of the few pages that were pictured with the listing, they don't appear to be the same as what's in the yellow book (thanks to tiffany's list--I don't own the yellow one, yet). I'll let you all know when it gets here.
Quote from: Junior on December 09, 2011, 08:54:02 PM
Found a great SDC coloring book from 1979 on ebay. I wish I had an ebay account, but I don't. This would have been an instant buy for me. Good luck, bidders! It features coloring pages of such "lost" attractions as the diving bell, boxing show, and I think the float trip. RUBE has one of these books, and colored in it as a kid. Maybe he can tell us about some of the other coloring pages. Check out the coloring book on my Flickr site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/juniordugan
Thanks for the heads up, just orderd mine
I'm pretty sure I used to have that coloring book too.
I just found the game
http://www.ebay.com/itm/SILVER-DOLLAR-CITY-Board-Game-Complete-Mining-Adventure-/261015374864?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item3cc5ba8c10
(http://www.ebay.com/itm/SILVER-DOLLAR-CITY-Board-Game-Complete-Mining-Adventure-/261015374864?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item3cc5ba8c10)
I have both coloring books, the 1979 version I have one used from my sister and I as kids, one new.
The board game is great. The cards, and the game board are themed pretty well, I have yet to finish a game of it as no one wants to play it but me...but someday I will finish it! They are pretty rare, I think I have only come across 3 including this one.
Oh my gosh! Is anyone else planning on picking that up? If not, I will!
Buy it now $25...thats's a good deal seeing that I think it sold for 10-15 originally!
I think somebody should pick up one of those deputy sheriff badges they have up for sale. A starting price of $9.99 or buy it now for $19.99 - what a steal and I do mean steal. At those prices a person should pick up at least a couple.
:oWOW :o
That's a great deal!!??!!
(You have some sort of racket on these free pieces of tin?)
I wonder if anyone has actually purchased one of these?
I have the different badges from 1980 to present.
A generic sheriff badge with a cabin and people embossed design
The SDC Soldier pins...I could see upwards of $10-20$ for these
but not:
The Deputy Sherif Badge with Silver Dollar City in the center
The Deputy Sherif Badge with a star in the center
Rube, I'll play it with you once I reach the 1000 post club
That's a deal Okie!
Save me a turn!
2-6 players so that means we have room for 3 more!
Im IN!!!
Quote from: Pintrader on May 02, 2012, 11:19:42 AM
I think somebody should pick up one of those deputy sheriff badges they have up for sale. A starting price of $9.99 or buy it now for $19.99 - what a steal and I do mean steal. At those prices a person should pick up at least a couple.
I found one for $2.00 at a flea market! ;D
NO!!!! that's awesome emmabugsmama!
i have the board game as well. LOVE IT
Both my coloring book and board game came in the mail today!!! A fantastic way to brighten up a crummy day at work. The board game is in excellent shape. The silver dollars haven't even been punched out and the money is still in plastic. Box is a little bent, but it all looks good.
Here's a list of the coloring pages in the red Activity/Fun book:
0) Birds on a stump [title page]
1) One Blacksmith
2) Two mules
3) Three musicians
4) Four hound dogs
5) Five pumpkins
6) Six rag dolls
7) Seven pigs
8 ) Eight marbles
9) Nine birds
10) Ten hillbillies
11) Help the McCoys find the Hatfields [maze]
12) Unscramble these crafts
13) Float Trip
14) What's that smell? [skunk in a wagon]
15) Find the hidden message! Color the spaces with dots
16) Find the hidden words!
17) Fire in the Hole!
18) Working at the potter's wheel
19) Hillbilly faces
20) Draw six hillbilly faces
21) Animal crossword
22) Color by numbers [hillbilly playing a banjo]
23) Hannah's Ice Cream Parlor
24) Fun on the Swinging Bridge
25) Finger puppets
26) Connect the dots [a guitar]
27) Playing checkers
28) Let me out of here [Flooded Mine]
29) How to draw a mule
30) Draw your own mule
31) Zeke and Sarie Ellen
32) It's a Yo-Yo contest
33) A glassblower
34) How about a mule ride?
35) Making brooms
36) Showdown at the saloon [Carrie Nation]
37) Find the things that start with P
38) Finish the picture [hillbilly with a jug of moonshine] {one of the few pages with any coloring}
39) Firing the cannon
40) Grandfather's Mansion [mirror hallway]
41) How to draw a hillbilly
42) Draw the hillbilly
43) Dipping candles
44) Draw the piglets' mommie
45) At the spinning wheel
46) Rube Dugan's Diving Bell (http://sdcfans.com/forums/index.php?topic=550.msg9458#msg9458)
47) Find these hidden words!
48) [crossword puzzle] {#10 down, 5 letters (second letter is "e"): "people hate to _____ Silver Dollar City}
49) Say "Cheese"!
50) Can you find the mistakes?
51) Unscramble the foods
52) Find the things that start with D {one of the few pages with any coloring}
53) The boxing show (http://sdcfans.com/forums/index.php?topic=751.msg14237#msg14237)
54) Finish the picture [a sorry-looking cow]
55) Find Pudgy's Moonshine [Float Trip]
56) What's Granny got cookin' in her pot? Color in the spaces with dots above and see!
57) Help me sheriff!
58) The Undertaker
59) Ya' all come back [hillbilly and a happy fish]
Am so jealous of your game!! good find!! I got my coloring book and cup today!
O Gal: Could you take pictures of that there board game? I would like to see it. And then pull out my fake millions and purchase it ;) ;)
#13, #46, #55 I'd love to see you scan these pages from the activity book and post them. (2 float trip and one diving bell.)
Trams, Junior, will do! I'll try to get them up in the next couple days. Any other requests? :D
Aha! So you are the person who outbid me! ;D
I'm just teasing. It sounds like you got some good goodies there. I love finding unique Silver Dollar City gems on eBay too. Every now, and then something will pop up that is really fascinating.
I have photos of all the board, and most of the coloring book if you'd rather me post them than for you to be troubled with the scanning, I can do it Ozark Gal
Here is the link to the board game I posted last year...
http://sdcfans.com/forums/index.php?topic=1342.new;topicseen#new (http://sdcfans.com/forums/index.php?topic=1342.new;topicseen#new)
Trams, here are some pictures of my board game and coloring book:
(http://i247.photobucket.com/albums/gg156/thebrains07/Silver%20Dollar%20City/100_0894.jpg)
(http://i247.photobucket.com/albums/gg156/thebrains07/Silver%20Dollar%20City/100_0896.jpg)
(http://i247.photobucket.com/albums/gg156/thebrains07/Silver%20Dollar%20City/100_0899.jpg)
I'm attempting to link to the album where there are a couple more pictures. http://s247.photobucket.com/albums/gg156/thebrains07/Silver%20Dollar%20City/ (http://s247.photobucket.com/albums/gg156/thebrains07/Silver%20Dollar%20City/) I'm trying to make a higher quality picture so you can actually read the board (it's pretty cute), but my camera was not cooperating this morning. Check back later.
Junior, if you would be willing to send me your email address I can send you the scans you requested later today.
I like this coloring book, but the yellow covered one is the one from my youth. I have 2 orange ones-new, and 2 yellow ones -one used one new. You better believe my daughter will be coloring copies of these images as soon as she can hold crayons! I think I might be coloring them along with her also!
I am not ashamed to admit that I have already copied a few pages from my book and started coloring them yesterday afternoon. Although it will be a while until I have kids (fingers crossed!), you can bet my kids will be coloring copies from these books, too! I can't wait to tell them stories about SDC when Mommy was a kid, and hopefully stories from Grandma and Grandpa, too.
Now I've got the coloring books and the board game. Has anyone ever come across the card game (produced by the same people as the coloring books, circa 1977)?
(http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5138/5548374481_cf71b2fe39.jpg)
I have a set of these as well. I picked it up for about $3-4 a few years back. The illustrations are good, and many of the scenes/ areas for the park are illustrated in there. I know there had to have been SOO many of these out there, but I have only seen a few. Did you have a set as well?
I don't have a set. I had never seen them until I stumbled upon the website for the company that did the artwork for the coloring books and the ABC Words & Rhymes book. They are now on my list of To-Find SDC items.
Odds are if it exists, I probably have seen it, or am privelidged enough to have stumbled across it in a dark corner of a flea market or garage sale...I will post some photos in a bit of the cards that I have scanned. Anything else on your list of things to find?
Thanks for sharing your collection! It means a lot to me. My to-find list currently consists of 4 books (Zeke Hatfield, the Toys, Littlest Mule, and ABC rhymes) and now the card game. I see the books pop up on eBay pretty frequently. I'm sure if I hunted in some flea markets around here I could find them, too.
If you are searching for the stuff mentioned in the above post, check out ebay and amazon.com and keep looking through the flea markets and yard sales.
From your list I have all 3 of those, but my mule book s in rough shape.
The cards were a great piece with, as I said, some good illustrations...this makes me want to fire up the old wayback machine and move about for a while this summer through my collection...Maybe I'll take it for a quick spin today?? ;)??
(http://sdcfans.com/forums/index.php?topic=522.600)
If anyone out there hasn't gotten a coloring book yet and is interested, the eBay seller only has 3 available (http://www.ebay.com/itm/SILVER-DOLLAR-CITY-COLORING-BOOK-1979-UNUSED-/120826466475?pt=Antiquarian_Collectible&hash=item1c21d190ab), but the price has dropped to $1.99 + $2 shipping.
This came in the mail a few days ago :)
I've already watched it 8 or 9 times.
(http://i1189.photobucket.com/albums/z436/tiffanylynnt1/americanspirit.jpg)
I went through the Pizazz Card Game and took stock of the cards...here is what is there:
52 cards numbered 0-10 (2 of #0, 5 of all other # 1-10) +1 title card, + 1 rules card
Title Card-intro to game
Rules Card- front and back
0= swinging bridge, old John's still
1= pretty girls, marshal, woodcarver, capt. dugans diving bell, FITH
2= candy factory, mountain music, rainmaker, mule swing, float trip
3= glass engraver, loom weaving, quilting, potter, sullivan's mill
4= blacksmith, glass blower, fine dining, basket weaving, ice cream cone
5= popcorn wagon, silver smith, mule driver, doll shop, mary's pie
6= cave, soap making, flooded mine, post office, broom maker
7= shingle saw, sweet ole mule, medicine show, steam powered duplicating lathe, cabin raising
8= candle shop, hatfield and mccoys, wagon works, tintyper, gun smith
9= panning for silver, bakery, print shop, steam train, school house
10= general store, steam engine, cannon and retreat, bolin boys, wilderness church
At some point I will scan them all, and occasionally post them ont eh Wayback Machine...so stay tuned!
I cant wait to see em! Thanks for sharing.
Tiff-I bet you got yourself a winner!!! :D
Thanks for the effort, Rube.
rube, thank you so much for sharing!
Found a way cool vintage SDC bumper sticker from the early 70's on ebay. Check it out: http://www.flickr.com/photos/juniordugan
Went for $5.00 on eBay. I wonder if that would have counted for me to be a citizen (worker)
Found another cool ebay find, a Powderkeg press pass from 2005: http://www.flickr.com/photos/juniordugan
That's a pretty cool piece tofind.. Hard for me to believe it has been 7 years already.
The SDC Board game (http://www.ebay.com/itm/SILVER-DOLLAR-CITY-Board-Game-GUC-WOW-Take-A-Fun-Trip-Though-Time-100-complet-/320954875422?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item4aba66be1e) has popped up on eBay once again. Right now it's at $15 with no bids -- pretty good deal! Somebody better snatch this one up. ;)
Ends about 6:30 Central time tomorrow evening...it is at $15.50 right now...While I wait to see what it goes for (yes I am nosey), I am gonna go play mine!
Wow, it sold for over $60! Okay, so who was the person on this forum who won it? ;D
ozark, I can tell you who DID NOT win it!!! :D :D :D
I watched it until it was over...$68! that's about the price of 2 tickets to SDC right now!
Wow! Somebody got into quite the bidding war for that game! :o
Wasnt me this time!!! :o That is a huge chunk of my SP savings.....
I hate eBay! I just watched an item, and got outbit at the last 5 seconds! >:(
I keep hoping something really unique would pop up like an old sign, or decoration piece from the city. But, I am sure Silver Dollar City either hangs on to their old stuff, or it is collected by employees. :)
MOST of the float trip and diving bell went into the dumpster. My guess is, so does just about everything else. Sad, but true.
^ Nothing like throwing away history. :(
They should sell the old stuff or have raffle drawings or something. I'd kill for half of the stuff they've probably thrown away!!
Can you imagine if they had a public auction once a year to sell off "old" signage or materials....peopel would drive in from MILES away,....
Imagine the revenue it would generate! :) Not only in ticket sales but raffel tickets as well
Hm, sounds like a new idea for the Suggestion Box! Times are tough, and Silver Dollar City is trying to make margins where they can. They should totally have an auction, or better yet a yard sale of stuff they don't need/want at the park anymore. :)
Quote from: sanddunerider on August 08, 2012, 06:39:33 PM
Can you imagine if they had a public auction once a year to sell off "old" signage or materials....peopel would drive in from MILES away,....
I'd camp out for days just to get to the good stuff first!
HEY Tifff.... just so you know,....
camping" out for days, isnt how you get the "good" stuff....
to get the good stuff you have to be the last one to "raise your hand".... LOL>>>>>
Just funin ya...
If the Cardinals could have a yard sale and sell everything from the dirt to the urinals of Busch II and make tons of money, just think what SDC could do.
Quote from: sanddunerider on August 09, 2012, 06:12:57 PM
HEY Tifff.... just so you know,....
camping" out for days, isnt how you get the "good" stuff....
to get the good stuff you have to be the last one to "raise your hand".... LOL>>>>>
Just funin ya...
I would prefer a good old fashioned yard sale lol. Not that I could afford any of it anyway. :-\
Quote from: tiffanylynnt on August 09, 2012, 11:53:34 PM
I would prefer a good old fashioned yard sale lol. Not that I could afford any of it anyway. :-\
Doesn't stop a girl from dreaming though ;)
There IS an auction every year, where have you all been? It sells some costumes and stuff like that...I found out about it on here!
we need more info
Quote from: rubedugans on August 10, 2012, 11:12:10 AM
There IS an auction every year, where have you all been? It sells some costumes and stuff like that...I found out about it on here!
I knew about the costumes, but I didn't know they sold "artifacts".
No it is only costumes as far as I understand. Someone here went and saw a beaut of a sign that WAS NOT for sale. No matter how hard they tried.....
Yes just costumes.
I didn't find this on eBay, but I found it at Branson Mill Craft Village!
I think it was around $30-something
(http://i1189.photobucket.com/albums/z436/tiffanylynnt1/IMG_20130427_141400_zps0a0dbbfa.jpg) (http://s1189.photobucket.com/user/tiffanylynnt1/media/IMG_20130427_141400_zps0a0dbbfa.jpg.html)
(http://i1189.photobucket.com/albums/z436/tiffanylynnt1/IMG_20130427_141411_zps5f5965c6.jpg) (http://s1189.photobucket.com/user/tiffanylynnt1/media/IMG_20130427_141411_zps5f5965c6.jpg.html)
The Ruby glass was a mid-late 70s souvenir that included glasses candy jars (pictured here) and a few other items. I wouldn't pay $30 for it...maybe $15
Quote from: rubedugans on April 30, 2013, 10:35:13 AM
I wouldn't pay $30 for it...maybe $15
That's what I thought too, or else this would be on my dresser right now.
Tiff! My wife and I walked through Branson Mills last weekend and I saw this booth, too! Lots of nice Dogpatch stuff in the case as well. If you are a SDC or Dogpatch fan, gotta stop by there soon and take a look. Bring some cash, though. The items are nice, but pricey.
Oh I DO NOT need to go there....(If I keep repeating it...maybe it'll work) I haven't bought much lately though...that's the thing about being busy, I earn the money, and my wife spends it cause I am never home!
Rube: The booth had Dogpatch tickets, Lil Abner and Mammy Yoakam figures, some glass items, post cards, other cool stuff. Several SDC pieces. I wish I had more money.
this is not a e-bay find, but, while cleaning a car this week, look what flew out from underneath 1 of the seats!!
Looks cool but what exactly is it? ???
camoflage guitar pick
I love it!
I bought a red one to go with my 1970's Silver Dollar City guitar (YES, an acoustic guitar with the SDC logo produced and sold at the Park)
went to my wifes brothers house to drink afew beers, & look what he busted out for me!! he said it was mine, & he found it at our local antique store that is only afew blocks away. ;D
nice
:D :D
The glass mug pictured above dates from 1982 or 1983. I have one myself. I took it to the glass cutter and had my name engraved on the side. I used it from time to time while working at the diving bell. However I also purchased a small enamel mug at the general store and used it more often as it was light weight and could hold the contents of a small Coke cup!
Somebody is cleaning house! A few new posts on eBay of SDC and Dogpatch stuff.
This one seems really interesting:
Deed to the City (http://www.ebay.com/itm/RARE-Marvel-Cave-Park-deed-menu-Church-Postcard-And-Cave-Postcard-Folder-/271226034171?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item3f2654d7fb)
Might be worth it just for the menu. Do you think they'd let me get a portion of the park if I brought in the "deed"?!
Brochures (http://www.ebay.com/itm/22-Different-Silver-Dollar-City-Brochures-/271226035455?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item3f2654dcff)
Pathfinders (http://www.ebay.com/itm/Silver-Dollar-City-Pathfinders-10-/271226036177?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item3f2654dfd1)
Dogpatch (http://www.ebay.com/itm/Dogpatch-Arkansas-Items-/271226034751?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item3f2654da3f)
WOW!! deed to the cave,,
I wonder what it is like to own a hole in the ground>??? LOL
OK, seriously, this items are all in great condition!
InDEED it is !!!!! ( Sorry I couldn't pass that one up!)
Quote from: rubedugans on June 20, 2013, 06:54:54 AM
InDEED it is !!!!! ( Sorry I couldn't pass that one up!)
Hahahaha! But it is a pretty sweet item! :)
I wish I had the Deed to the City!!
I don't know about a Deed but I one day I hope to be a citizen ;D
On eBay right now somebody is selling some 70s SDC postcards. (http://www.ebay.com/itm/GLASS-BLOWER-LIGHTIN-CHAIR-SILVER-DOLLAR-CITY-LARGE-7X5-CIRCA-1970S-RARE-/161078902471?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item25810cfec7) The second is for the "Lightnin' Chair", which I've never seen before. Anybody know what it is?
The only Lightnin' Chair I remember was a prop electric chair used in the Courthouse Theater drama of Melvin the Chicken Thief back in the early, early 80s.
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Yup...I checked ebay and indeed the lightnin' chair postcard is of the famed Courthouse Theater drama where Melvin the Chicken thief takes a seat in the chair. It was a great show, and that fellow in the chair is Dan Embree, who some of you will remember as Mr. Potter in last Decembers "It's a Wonderful Life" which was performed at SDC. The woman next to him is Bonnie Arnold, formerly a Ma Hatfield, who was probably playing Ma in the Courthouse Theater production. Many of you younger folk will remember her as Miss Bonnie, the Schoolmarm at the school house. She has since retired and last I heard was in a nursing home with serious health complications. Other featured performers on that postcard are the famous Wayne Milnes as the Judge, and Marvin Themis as the lawyer, and Ray as the bailiff.
By the way, the Courthouse Theater is now known as the Riverfront Playhouse.
I gotta ol' hat if rube wants it.. I sent him a PM but no answer yet.. The bill is all messed up & flat, but..
Quote from: Junior on August 05, 2013, 04:44:02 PM
The only Lightnin' Chair I remember was a prop electric chair used in the Courthouse Theater drama of Melvin the Chicken Thief back in the early, early 80s.
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Yup...I checked ebay and indeed the lightnin' chair postcard is of the famed Courthouse Theater drama where Melvin the Chicken thief takes a seat in the chair. It was a great show, and that fellow in the chair is Dan Embree, who some of you will remember as Mr. Potter in last Decembers "It's a Wonderful Life" which was performed at SDC. The woman next to him is Bonnie Arnold, formerly a Ma Hatfield, who was probably playing Ma in the Courthouse Theater production. Many of you younger folk will remember her as Miss Bonnie, the Schoolmarm at the school house. She has since retired and last I heard was in a nursing home with serious health complications. Other featured performers on that postcard are the famous Wayne Milnes as the Judge, and Marvin Themis as the lawyer, and Ray as the bailiff.
By the way, the Courthouse Theater is now known as the Riverfront Playhouse.
One character had a girlfriend named Elvira, right? And when he sat in the chair, and it was activated, he would yell for his girl: "Elvira, Elvira, my heart's on fire for Elvira!" I was much younger, 40 years ago, but this I remember.
Quote from: History Buff on August 05, 2013, 10:48:44 PM
Quote from: Junior on August 05, 2013, 04:44:02 PM
The only Lightnin' Chair I remember was a prop electric chair used in the Courthouse Theater drama of Melvin the Chicken Thief back in the early, early 80s.
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Yup...I checked ebay and indeed the lightnin' chair postcard is of the famed Courthouse Theater drama where Melvin the Chicken thief takes a seat in the chair. It was a great show, and that fellow in the chair is Dan Embree, who some of you will remember as Mr. Potter in last Decembers "It's a Wonderful Life" which was performed at SDC. The woman next to him is Bonnie Arnold, formerly a Ma Hatfield, who was probably playing Ma in the Courthouse Theater production. Many of you younger folk will remember her as Miss Bonnie, the Schoolmarm at the school house. She has since retired and last I heard was in a nursing home with serious health complications. Other featured performers on that postcard are the famous Wayne Milnes as the Judge, and Marvin Themis as the lawyer, and Ray as the bailiff.
By the way, the Courthouse Theater is now known as the Riverfront Playhouse.
One character had a girlfriend named Elvira, right? And when he sat in the chair, and it was activated, he would yell for his girl: "Elvira, Elvira, my heart's on fire for Elvira!" I was much younger, 40 years ago, but this I remember.
Thanks! I knew I could count on folks here to know :)
The electric chair was the first show I remember in the courthouse. It was lots of fun. I used to enjoy this type of show at the park but I am afraid that audiences have grown impatient and if its not a 1:50 min long you tube video they cant keep interested. I am afraid we grew out of this type of offering, sadly.
Got the lightning chair card...I'll post a pic/ detail once I get a chance.
I found this unused (!) SDC ticket packet (http://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-Silver-Dollar-City-Marvel-Cave-Complete-Ticket-Book-Branson-Missouri-MO-/130965644986?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item1e7e2926ba) from the early days (1960s). I noticed the "Butterfield Stagecoach OR Miner's Pack Train".
(http://img.auctiva.com/imgdata/1/7/6/3/6/4/1/webimg/691223945_o.jpg?nc=301)
Rube has a post from a while back (http://sdcfans.com/forums/index.php?topic=1349.msg23561#msg23561) that I think is mentioning the same thing. So, history buffs, what can you tell me about the pack train?
I never heard of the miner's pack train. You learn something new everyday! :)
Wow! Priceless item there!
I have 2 of those, not sure where they are, as I am packed up and between 2 different houses...when I find it...I'll let you know if it is that exact one.
QuoteI never heard of the miner's pack train. You learn something new everyday!
Neither have I. Very interesting. Nothing about it on google either.
Those tickets are over 40 years old and look like they could have been printed yesterday :o
Fun SDC brochure from 1983 (http://www.ebay.com/itm/VINTAGE-EPHEMERA-xx12-BROCHURE-ECHO-HOLLOW-SILVER-DOLLAR-CITY-269A-/321550673988?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item4adde9e844) (I think), detailing "Evenings are really special at Silver Dollar City!". Highlights the Echo Hollow dinner show, and special craft demonstrations at the park from 5-8 pm.
(http://i.ebayimg.com/00/s/MTE2MlgxNjAw/z/8TUAAOSwcu5UO6Fj/$_57.JPG?rt=nc)
(http://i.ebayimg.com/00/s/MTI0NVgxNjAw/z/3fIAAOSwU9xUO6Fd/$_57.JPG)
That looks to be well before 1983. Echo Hollow hails from further back than '83 if I'm not mistaken, and to think the brochure wouldn't have any mention of rides in '83 - that couldn't be right could it? It seems they would be touting LR, AP, FM, and FitH at the very least. This would have been the time period for Tom Sawyer's Landing, or at least shortly before.
What do you guys think? I guess it does only refer to "after 3pm", so maybe this was something handed out at the City only after people were there.
i have the board game as well. LOVE IT
The brochure pictured above is from 1983. First year of Echo Hollow.