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[rubedugans]

Here is the link to the old Depot on the Wayback Machine
http://sdcfans.com/forums/index.php?topic=522.60

[Ozark Outlaw]

Here is the link to the old Depot on the Wayback Machine
http://sdcfans.com/forums/index.php?topic=522.60

Unbelievable! Thanks rube! 

[Junior]

I went back to page one of the wayback machine and cruised through the whole thread. Sure did enjoy seeing all those great shots again. By the way, I searched through my material for a photo of the Butterfield Hotel and could  not find one. I really wish I did have one, because I remember it as one of those unusual things you'd never see at the run of the mill theme park. One of the things I used to enjoy doing in 79 and 80, in my early days as an attractions worker, is take the old, abandoned stagecoach trail from Fire in the Hole (Where the Opera House and Powderkeg are now) through the woods behind the lumbercamp and float trip all the way to the float trip dock (loading area for American Plunge, now) it was a quiet, peacful, and pretty walk that I would take occasionally while on break. The neat thing about it was that the old stagecoach props from the stagecoach ride were still back there. There was an old "ghost town" consisting of about four false fronts, and behind the River Gang Clubhouse on the float trip there was a little area where the stage would stop and the stagecoach drivers would get the kids off the stage and a prop stagecoach that had "eyes" on the side of it was used to tell kids a little story before they got back on the stage and completed their trip. Yeah, the prop stagecoach with eyes would blink and move and tell the story. Weird, but I do remember it.

[Junior]

When you check out my link to the old SDC map, look at the picture I've posted next to it...I found a shot of the "STAGECOACH WITH EYES" prop I was talking about in the previous posting. Photo from the "From SIlver Dollar City Wish You Were Here" booklet published in 1978.