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Silver Dollar City & Celebration City Discussion => SDC Memories/ Park History => Topic started by: coalesce99 on September 30, 2010, 11:38:30 PM
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I am gonna be scanning over the next few days. From time to time I'll come back and post :)
Here's the start. Many more to come.
Me and my brother (the blond kid) circa late 80s I'm guessing?
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Never got to ride that coaster, but sure played with that pump alot when i was'a kid.
Just love them ol'school Nikes ya'r wearin'! ;D
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Keep them coming... should have kept better track of my pics through the years I guess.... Nice!
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From what I can see in the photos it appears they are from around 1985. Items floating in the waters of Lake Silver behind your ore-cart lead me to believe it's 1985 because it would have been part of the "course" in the lake left over from the Greedy Brothers Excursion paddleboat ride they had in 1984. The side of the ore-cart has the words "He's a Greedy" on it, which, I think also refers to the Greedy Brothers Excursion. A signpost in another shot has a directional sign pointing to the "Lost River." Which was new in '85. It alway's takes SDC a year or two to completely wipe out references to old attractions when they make a big change like they did in 84/85 when they got rid of the diving bell and put in Lost River. Other things I see in the photos lead me to believe they are from this time period, too. I was employed at the park just a year or so before your visit.
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I concur on the greedy Bros info. 1985 (seeing that , as you said, shanty town, and other greedy references are still there )As well as the arrow for Lost River...
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After looking at the pics again, and looking at me and my brother's ages...I think 1985 is a good guess. I was born in '75 and my brother in '79.
Haha -- these are just the appetizer. My other pics are even better I think.
Also -- my friend Tim has a SDC magazine that's from the 60s I think. It has Ellie Mae and Granny on it. Also I think the town blacksmith? It's in amazing shape. Worth anything?
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It is worth whatever somebody wants to pay! I have the same said magazine, and got it for between $5-$8, but I have seen them go for upwards of $20. The blacksmith is Lloyd "Shad" Heller.
We are pretty good about using the context clues in photos to date things around here. That, and I remember riding the Gandy Dancers as a child, which would have fallen in that same time frame.
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Awesome pics! Guess I need to go through Mom's old photo albums. Most of the newer ones I have include the ex wife. I got some new ones with my fiance, I hope to post them on here sometime week after next.
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Hang on to the magazine with Granny, Ellie Mae and Shad, it's from around 1970 or 1971, and, like Rube said, could be worth up to about $20. Now, if you are cleaning out your closets and are thinking about throwing it away...I'll be glad to take it off your hands. I got a copy in the mail after making a request for SDC info as a kids, and showed that magazine to my mom and dad, who in turn took my brother and I and our little sister on our first trip to SDC! So that magazine has strong childhood memories for me.
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I forgot about those cart being down near the lake. I thought they were
up near the Tom Sawyers Landing.
I also love the old pumps they had and things like that you would stop at and try your hand.
It took just a min and broke your stride, mission at hand and your day a little. It was like stopping to smell the roses.
Those things are gone now. Maybe people tear stuff like that up, I dont know but I miss them
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Here are more. I appear to be riding the flooded mine w/ strangers. I'm waving. The funny thing about that pic is my dad snapped it right when those people in the front are about to get blasted. No idea the years on these. Also notice on the Lost River I have no shirt. Haha.
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The funny thing about that pic is my dad snapped it right when those people in the front are about to get blasted. Haha.
Ha! Now that was a funny moment waiting to happen right there! I can only imagine the surprise they received from that blast. ;D
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These are great pictures coalesce99, thanks for sharing them with us! We're about the same age and I loved the Gandy Dancer as a kid. Isn't it funny how all photos from certain decades just have a feeling to them? Photos from the 60's you can spot right away and ones from my childhood in the 80's just have a certain feel to them.
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Those are VERY cool, indeed!
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more great pics.. thanks :)
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Awesome pics! ANY pics I can see like this really help take me back around that time as a kid (I went there in 1980) and lets me see SDC when I cant be there. Keeeeep em' comin'!
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Here's me and my brother at the Shanty Town
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makes me wish I had cool pics of way back when, but alas I dont know what happened to all of them and my mommy isnt around anymore to ask her about them soooooo.........I wanna ride the Gandy Fun Deal!!! That looks like great fun!!! Thanks for posting those pics!
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Vintage 1984 or 1985? Fine years, indeed!
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neat picture
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Ha! I love those two pictures. Silver Dollar City used to be great with all of their jokes, and gags throughout the park. I wonder who thought all of them up? Silver Dollar City still has some of the classics, but so many of the gags are long gone.
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Of my collection...only 1 photo is from my childood oddly enough- me and my sister with Shad Heller. MY pops still has all of our hundreds of old photos that someday I will go through, along with countless hours of video from SDC. Someday I will make it a project and put it on my to do list...
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wow! that will be display/movie worth waiting for..
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It would be something to do right now since I have limited use of my right hand (ruptured ulnar ligament) for the next 4-6 weeks! Maybe I'll get going on that soon
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Okay, so I found a few more SDC pics.
There are a few of the outside of the Flooded Mine. Also one of a curvy mirror inside the old Treehouse (I think).
I'll try to get to them this week sometime.
Should this thread be moved to the "memories" board?
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If anyone is curious as to where this attraction was, it was on the water, at the seating area next to the Dockside Grill overlooking Lake Silver.
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Is any part of this building, or attraction still in existence today? Silver Dollar City sure invested a lot of energy into the Greedy Brothers just for them to swiftly disappear without a trace.
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nope. You walk to the ropes next to lake silver and there is nothing left of it except some murky water. The playground was in existance for much longer than the ride. It was removed in the late 80's, 1987 or 1988 I think.
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I think Rube is right. The playground was kept in place for several summers. Greedy Brothers disappeared after just the 1984 season. The playground and ore carts next to the lake was a prime example of how on a limited budget a kids play area could be erected and put into use. I still think they could put a small playground in the green space around the old treehouse. There probably is a small place for a small playground by the schoolhouse, too.
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how much fun would it be to have a may pole and old timey playground equipment! I know its prob just see saws and what not but hey still fun!
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The playground was kept in place for several summers. Greedy Brothers disappeared after just the 1984 season.
Actually it was removed several years later. Maybe early 90's? I remember playing on this as a kid. One of my favorite spots. Why did they get rid of the Greedy Brothers Shanty Town? It was a simple yet fun playground over the water.
Here is what's left of the old shanty town...
http://www.flickr.com/photos/30708145@N02/4197254401/in/photostream/
(the photo is property of tinmann620)
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Very interesting! This is another item to add to my scavenger hunt of historic relics at Silver Dollar City. :)
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Nice find with Tinmans photos. I had not seen that area with the water level as low as it was in 2009 OTC. I assumed there was something left down there, but the murky water didn't help last time I looked in the spring. I'll have to check on the early 90s photos in my items...I gotta have some somewhere!
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Yeah, I never had seen the lake water level so low, either. The park draws down the water level in winter, I guess to allow maintenance of the buildings and structures on the edge of the lake. With so much stuff in the lake, I suppose they really have to pull that level down now. Now here is a real triva question for you all...does anyone remember when there was NOTHING around or in the lake in the late 60's and early to mid 70's except for a dummy in a boat that was posed as if fishing? The conducter on the train would get all upset, seeing the guy in the boat, fire a shot at him because he was fishing in the conductors' boat, or using his fishing rod, or just on his lake, or something...and when the shot was fired, the guy in the boat would turn and shake his fist at the conductor. It always got a huge laugh from the folks riding the train! ;D
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That's classic comedy right there! :D
How did it operate Junior? Did the train conductor have some sort of remote control feature from the train?
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I don't know how it worked. I suppose there was a switch on the tracks or something of that nature. I know the guy in the boat was in place between 1970 and about 1976. That's a rough guess. I know the gag was not in place after Rube Dugan began his diving bell operations in 1977.
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The playground was kept in place for several summers. Greedy Brothers disappeared after just the 1984 season.
Actually it was removed several years later. Maybe early 90's? I remember playing on this as a kid. One of my favorite spots. Why did they get rid of the Greedy Brothers Shanty Town? It was a simple yet fun playground over the water.
Here is what's left of the old shanty town...
http://www.flickr.com/photos/30708145@N02/4197254401/in/photostream/
(the photo is property of tinmann620)
Yes, It was removed sometime in the 90's. I use to play in Shanty Town as a kid in the early 90's. I really enjoyed playing in there and being above the water like that was fun! My mom & dad would always share a pretzel at one of those tables and watch me as I played in Shanty Town. After that, it was time to go play in the ball pit, and climb the ropes course; which I was always scared my feet would go through! Good times!
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I've got a pic of my sis and I at the Shanty Town in '94, so it was there at least through that year.
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Please post your photo! I love seeing those old shots.
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Can someone tell me how to insert a picture? I have a good photo of Tom Sawyers Landing from 2005, showing the ropes course, tunnel slides and part of the balloon ride.
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DCB: Best way to do it is to get a Photobucket account (it's free) and upload it to there. Then copy/paste the URL of the photo into a message here on the board.
Junior: Here's the link to me in Shanty Town; it's a picture of a picture. Haven't gotten around to scanning my pics yet.
((click on the thumbnails to see the full size pics)
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While I'm at it, here's a pic of the waterfall and its path back in '94:
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A pic of me and Terry Sanders squaredancing in 1995 with my grandparents:
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And Buzz Aldrin giving a speech on opening day in 1997 (back when the first day of World Fest was the first day of the season):
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It's hard to think back and realize that the newest of those pictures is 13 years old! I may only be 25, but boy, sometimes I feel so old! LOL
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Nice shots...thanks for posting.
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more great pictures.. thanks
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Those are some awesome pictures Tina! ;D
The one with you in Shanty Town is a riot!
I miss being able to walk behind the waterfall in the second picture. However, I never remembered the dock being there before. What was it used for?
Seeing Terry, your grandparents, and yourself square dancing is a hoot! Everyone looked like they were having a great time.
Nice catch with Buzz Aldrin! Although, an astronaut in the 1880's seems a little out of place. :D
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There was a period for about two or three years in the early/mid 80's that the pond at the waterfall was used to stage very popular lumberjack log rolling contests. Aunt Judy's (the storyteller) husband, Richard Young, a fine SDC entertainer, emceed the log rolling contests. The dock at the pond was used by Richard and it was a place the log rollers got on and off the logs.
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Also for one or two Christmas's they had "The Night Before Christmas" displayed in lights that were sequinized to music and a narrator. This was placed on a platform in front of the waterfall. It is now used as one of the props during the train ride, but just stays lit up.
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There was a period for about two or three years in the early/mid 80's that the pond at the waterfall was used to stage very popular lumberjack log rolling contests. Aunt Judy's (the storyteller) husband, Richard Young, a fine SDC entertainer, emceed the log rolling contests. The dock at the pond was used by Richard and it was a place the log rollers got on and off the logs.
Very interesting! I saw Aunt Judy during my last trip, and now I am going to have to catch her again on my next trip to ask her about her husband's log rolling adventures years ago! :)
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A few years ago when my wife and I visited the park, Richard was doing crowd control, that is, entertaining on the line...for the saloon. Don't know what he's doing nowadays. He and his wife are both retired educators, and they authored many, many books about storytellling and Ozarks folktales in the later 1980s and into the early to mid 1990s. They were published by August House of Little Rock, some are still in print, but many are not.
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My brother and I used to love the Shanty Town. Too bad it had to go when it did.
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While surfing the net for some history on Springfield, MO I came across a collection of 35mm pictures scanned into MSU's digital collection archive website. Mixed in with everything else are some SDC pics. I linked them all instead of just posting the pics here because I didn't want to rip them off. I respect this site and that they preserve these types of things.
Here's the link to all pictures in the collection - http://digitalcollections.missouristate.edu/cdm4/browse.php?CISOROOT=/Rafferty&CISOSTART=1,1
Here's the American Plunge, 1983 - http://digitalcollections.missouristate.edu/cdm4/item_viewer.php?CISOROOT=/Rafferty&CISOPTR=172&CISOBOX=1&REC=14
Swinging Bridge, 1983 - http://digitalcollections.missouristate.edu/cdm4/item_viewer.php?CISOROOT=/Rafferty&CISOPTR=168&CISOBOX=1&REC=10
Crowd on square, 1975 - http://digitalcollections.missouristate.edu/cdm4/item_viewer.php?CISOROOT=/Rafferty&CISOPTR=171&CISOBOX=1&REC=19
Echo Hollow, 1983 - http://digitalcollections.missouristate.edu/cdm4/item_viewer.php?CISOROOT=/Rafferty&CISOPTR=179&CISOBOX=1&REC=7
Employees, 1983 - http://digitalcollections.missouristate.edu/cdm4/item_viewer.php?CISOROOT=/Rafferty&CISOPTR=182&CISOBOX=1&REC=12
Fruit Stand, 1983 - http://digitalcollections.missouristate.edu/cdm4/item_viewer.php?CISOROOT=/Rafferty&CISOPTR=260&CISOBOX=1&REC=11
Gazebo, 1983 - http://digitalcollections.missouristate.edu/cdm4/item_viewer.php?CISOROOT=/Rafferty&CISOPTR=183&CISOBOX=1&REC=12
Lucky Silver Mine Restaurant, 1966 - http://digitalcollections.missouristate.edu/cdm4/item_viewer.php?CISOROOT=/Rafferty&CISOPTR=184&CISOBOX=1&REC=4
Musicians, 1983 - http://digitalcollections.missouristate.edu/cdm4/item_viewer.php?CISOROOT=/Rafferty&CISOPTR=175&CISOBOX=1&REC=2
Riverfront Meeting Hall, 1983 - http://digitalcollections.missouristate.edu/cdm4/item_viewer.php?CISOROOT=/Rafferty&CISOPTR=177&CISOBOX=1&REC=15
Saloon line, 1983 - http://digitalcollections.missouristate.edu/cdm4/item_viewer.php?CISOROOT=/Rafferty&CISOPTR=258&CISOBOX=1&REC=1
Stage Coach Ride, 1967 - http://digitalcollections.missouristate.edu/cdm4/item_viewer.php?CISOROOT=/Rafferty&CISOPTR=180&CISOBOX=1&REC=9
Horse & Wagon, 1983 - http://digitalcollections.missouristate.edu/cdm4/item_viewer.php?CISOROOT=/Rafferty&CISOPTR=173&CISOBOX=1&REC=6
White River Shipping Country, 1983 - http://digitalcollections.missouristate.edu/cdm4/item_viewer.php?CISOROOT=/Rafferty&CISOPTR=176&CISOBOX=1&REC=13
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Awesome find!
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The White River Shipping Company photo is a view of the diving bell in 1983. I wish he would have taken a picture of the front of the building and of some of us Juniors entertaining the crowd. That would have been a cool picture to see.
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Wow, those are awesome pictures slow_walker! ;D
Looking at those pictures of Silver Dollar City is like looking at a photo of your grandparents when they were in their twenties. It looks like Silver Dollar City, but so many things are different.
After looking at the Lucky Silver Mine Restaurant photo, I never realized how much of the front square still looked like a parking lot in 1966.
Thanks for the nice contribution! :)
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great pics! I like the way the bridge and saloon line still look the same today!
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Great pictures! Wow....that is one seriously overloaded Stagecoach!!! :o
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Did you notice the loading stairs the city built to get everyone up on the top of that stagecoach? Man, you could not get away with putting folks on top of a coach like that now!
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I did! I vividly remember riding the hot cramped bumpy inside of the Butterfield, but I totally do not remember the makeshift stairs
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The stagecoach picture is great. I just hope those two animals didn’t get spooked, or that gentlemen in the plaid shirt would have walloped to the ground! ;D
Also, I just noticed those two horses in the picture as well! Besides the obvious reason of high cost, and up keep, I wonder why Silver Dollar City doesn’t have many horses now? A town in the 1880’s without horses? Say it isn’t so! ;)
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On a thread somewhere on this site somebody said the reason you don't see the horses and mules on the streets as in the old days is because it is cost prohibitive to insure the horses/mules. Something like a few thousand bucks a year per animal. Everybody is sue happy nowadays. Too bad, as I remember those days when mules pulled wagons around the park, the Rainmakers wagon, a delivery wagon, the one mule swing, and so on.
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oh yea! A horse drawn buggy/carriage/wagon around the outskirts of SDC. How cool would that be. ??? "over the hill and through the dale"...
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The offer horse/mule-drawn carriage rides around the square during OTC.
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Yeah, well somewhere near the Homestead Barn, and such they should have a fenced in area for some horses I think. :D
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The old stagecoach trail is now covered by Wildfire and Powderkeg. It once was the edge of town. That bridge you cross to go to Wildfire at the American Plunge channel is the former stagecoach trail bridge. The trail wound around in the woods, then came along the route that is the street from Powderkeg past FITH, Saloon, Tintype shop now.
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anyone seen this? this is the ol' program thingy my brother had that he sold on e-bay. my parents still have one but i dont know where its at..
i finally figured out how to do more than copy & paste! :D
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Yeah! I've got one that I bought on Ebay... I don't think it's that exact copy, 'cause mine doesn't have a torn upper corner. But yeah, I've got one; it's pretty awesome!
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yeah, my parents bought theirs during their honeymoon some 49 yrs ago. crazy..
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Could one of you scan the pages of the booklet and post here? I've never seen that piece before.
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i cant Junior, my brother sold his, & we still cant find my parents book. this was just a picture on my video camera from a couple years ago.
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I'm gonna be honest...I see no image, Am I crazy, or am I the only one that sees no brochure (because I really do wanna see it!)
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try again..
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nothin. it'll atleast be something I am looking forward to seeing sometime then!
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If I can find some time after finals before leaving town for the holidays, I'll see if I can get it scanned. I don't own a scanner, but the campus computer labs have them.
Meanwhile, here's the pic of the cover I took with my digital camera a few years ago. I bought the book on Ebay in 2006.
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update --- talk'd with my brother, he still has his. i will TRY to get to his crib this weekend & snap some shots of the pages & try to get'm up here. remember, i said try.... ::)
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rube, not sire why u cant see those photos.. I am able to see them.. it appears to be the same as tinas brochure.
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FINALLY SAW THE COVER!!! One sold on Ebay for upwards of $20 last week. I have a similar one from the following year, but not this one.
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Last batch (unless I dig something else up someday)
These should be circa 1985, I think.
Flooded Mine (of course -- like anyone here doesn't know that):
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I think this one is in the Treehouse?
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From what I see of your vacation photos, I'd say you are right, probably mid 1980s. The park looks very familiar to me at this point in time...I'd worked in the Riverfront at the diving bell and at Huck Finn's Hideaway just the previous summer in 1984!
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The classic years!
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sweet!!! thanks!
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Love the 80s velcro tenna-shoes.. ;)
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hey how-do!! ??? ??? easy on the velcroe shoes.. :o :o :o :o....!!! I wear them everyday! ;D ;D ::) ::)
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they are very comfortable. ;)
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The velcro shoes...ya STILL got 'em?? ;)
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Only Velcro shoes I had were my first few pairs of KangaRoos (the ones with the little zipper pouch on the side) before preschool and learning to tie. Then I graduated to Star Wars laced tennis shoes and haven't looked back.
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If anyone else has some old photos to post, I'm sure we would all love to see them. With the off season fast approaching, "photographs and memories" is about all we will have until March comes!
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yep.. after next week..memories and viscous rumors will have to get us by until mid march,,,,, :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'(