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It has always been a great ride.  It is to bad they don't make it what it was.  I would really like to show my kids what it was like.

I think the whirlpool was part of the old river ride.  The plunge you take is one of the best around.  I think it is a great ride just as it is. 

I do not remember the brooom but I remember the water running up hill.  I know that on my first visit Grandfathers was there.  I remember the slide.  It was rough and I did not like it.  Didn't they add a room with a bunch of little lights at one time?  That was really a weird room.  It was very dark and it seem like it went on forever.

I grew up going to Branson at least twice a summer with my family.  We loved the couple of days a summer we would get to spend at Silver Dollar City.  I grew up wanting to live in the town.  Now coming back with my kids and  my grandkids is like coming home.  It is the most relaxing vacation we take.  (We love going to Disney World and Sarasoto but it is not the same for me.)  I have now made plans for my retirement, even if it is several years away).  When I get to the point where I can retire I plan to try out for train conductor.  I would love to have that job. 

I do remember the pay by the ride system.  My father told me that at one time they gave Silver Dollars as change.  I was to young to remember this.  Does anyone remember the big horse that the woodcarver made?  It used to be in the wood carver barn it had a big crack in it as the wood dried it pulled apart I guess.  I wonder whatever happened to that horse?

Wow what a great site.  My first visit to SDC was back in 1967.  I was four years old.  At that time the only thing on the mountain was SDC and a place to buy cememt animals.  I remember that we had tickets that got punched at every ride.  I remember the stage coach ride, the mine ride(that was really scary, and there was a drop), the lost river, going down all those stairs into the cave, the train robbers, buying lye soap, grandpa man, the tree house, and so much more.  I remember watching the glass blowers and the candy makers, the wood carvers and the the battle between the blue and the gray.  We used to come to Branson two or three times a year.  We stayed in Springfield that first year because there were no motels that my mother would stay in in Branson.  Do you remember how long the ride was from Branson to SDC, it seemed like it took for hours.  I now have pictures of me at a very young age looking in the holes, pictures of my kids looking in the holes.  I have been to SDC with my grandfather (he grew up in the 1880's) my kids have been with there grandfathers, and I have been with my grandkids.  I have smelled the wood and had the thoughts of SDC return.  I have watched it change and grow for over 40 years, some good and some not so good.  I do not like the cutting into the woods for the big coasters.  Do you remember the sub ride?  I remember when Fire in the Hole opened I was still young enough to be scared out of my mind.  Do you remember the little gift shop at the top of the tram ride out of the cave.  I could not believe it when we came back one year and they had built this huge(I was still a kid) store.  I remember watching as a kid the Beverly Hillbilly's go to SDC.  I could not understand how they could spend the night in the city hotel but we could not.  One last thought did they change the way the Lucky Mine Restaurant looked inside?  It seemed that the last time we ate there it looked different.  I love reading all of the stories from SDC.

I was eight years old the first time I rode Fire in the Hole.  The approach to the train was a great deal longer and really made you feel you were about to be run over by a train.  The ride has made several changes over the years as has the park.