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Silver Dollar City & Celebration City Discussion => SDC Memories/ Park History => Topic started by: orient express on June 12, 2008, 03:12:32 PM

Title: question about old equipment
Post by: orient express on June 12, 2008, 03:12:32 PM
this is kind of a strange description but its all i can remember.i remember some play ground equipment near the old petting zoo( tom sawyers landing). you could climb through it and it was all inclosed. boxlike with small windows everyonce in a while. i remember kids would always get stuck in them and start crying. does anyone else remember this.  any pics, name or any further descriptions?
Title: Re: question about old equipment
Post by: betamike on June 12, 2008, 04:50:14 PM
Kind of...did the walls eventually get smaller until you couldn't fit through them?  I think this was version 1.0 of Tom Sawyer's Landing?
Title: Re: question about old equipment
Post by: orient express on June 12, 2008, 05:05:08 PM
i think you could get all the way through them.
Title: Re: question about old equipment
Post by: sdcforever on June 13, 2008, 08:42:15 AM
It sounds a lot like Shanty Town, which was by Tom Sawyer's Landing where Gandy Dancer used to be.
Title: Re: question about old equipment
Post by: orient express on June 13, 2008, 01:18:36 PM
i thought shanty town was over by lake silver?
Title: Re: question about old equipment
Post by: Old Guy on June 13, 2008, 02:55:16 PM
Shanty town was just to the right of where the entrance to the lost river sits now. The water maze was just a small rope and platform area that jutted out over the water. There are a few pictures of it on the forums somewhere. The peanut track for the gandy dancer was next door but was removed when the basket shop (now the Toy shop) wes built. Gready brothers went in next to the shanty town for one seASON THEN WENT AWAY WHEN LOST RIVER WAS BUILT. (darn that caps lock!)
Title: Re: question about old equipment
Post by: betamike on June 13, 2008, 04:27:58 PM
^ Caps gets you every time!  ;D

Thanks for clarifying.  I now remember the water maze over by Shanty Town.  Man, that was one of those places that you just kind of forget about as it lived in the shadows of TSL.  Sort of like the playground that was part of the Lost River of the Ozarks queue.  It's been so long since I waited in that queue line that I am not sure that it is even still there.
Title: Re: question about old equipment
Post by: orient express on June 13, 2008, 07:59:50 PM
that playground by thelost river was awesome! i loved that place
Title: Re: question about old equipment
Post by: Old Guy on June 14, 2008, 01:07:18 PM
that playground was built as part of Rube's. Its really the only surviving part that I can recall. It sat between the entrance and the exit cave.
Title: Re: question about old equipment
Post by: sdcforever on June 14, 2008, 03:40:02 PM
I remember the playground in the Lost River queue!  It's been so long since I've had to wait in that line.  Is it gone?  (It really has been so long that I don't know if it's gone or not).
Title: Re: question about old equipment
Post by: orient express on June 14, 2008, 06:19:09 PM
i had to wait in that line either last year or the year before that. as of that time the playground was still there but it was all closed off  LAME!
Title: Re: question about old equipment
Post by: haytater on June 15, 2008, 11:42:02 AM
I went last fall and did not see the structure anywhere. I was looking to the left of Geyser Gulch. Right place, yes? I ran around in Shanty Town forever. I think I even made a friend there.