BINGO!
OZARKS GAL.....5
Betamike..........2
Trams..............1
The Paid Games area included the games "ball and jack," "jacob's ladder," and the remote controlled boats in the lake. Guests paid a small amount for playing games, and if they won they got a prize, something small, like a SDC mug, or something of that nature. Later, paid games were made "free" and the attendants challenged people to climb jacob's ladder. Greedy Bros. Excursion was part of the Shantytown addition by the lake, and appeared for the first time in 1984. The Paid Games area was removed in '83 or '84. According to what others posted here, some of the paid games were brought back a few years later, in the later '80s or in the '90s at some point, and included other games, too. Rube has posted scans of ribbons he won playing games at the second incarnation of the paid games, which I think was located in the area about where the pathway winds up from Geyser Gulch up past the pottery shop to the railroad tracks, but, you will have to get someone else to verify that as it was after my time on park.
Mystery Photo #8: The man pictured in 1980, along with a partner, had a special entertainment function on park for most of the season. What was the function/show(s) he and his partner were involved in, and where was the photo taken on park? You will see to the left of the shot the blurry leg of his partner, who is sitting on the balcony of the building across from the tower.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/juniordugan
