Branson in 1977! (photos)

[Junior]

My sister purchased at auction a lot of old brochures, postcards, and so on, featuring Branson in 1977. She knew of my love for all things related to SDC, Branson, and the Ozarks, and sent the material to me. So now I am sharing it. Remember the Foggy River Boys Theater? How about Plummer Family Theater? What about Sammy Lane Pirate Cruise? SDC added a major addition to the park in 1977, the "Deepwoods" area that added 25% to the park, and featured something called the diving bell. See it all at:     http://www.flickr.com/photos/juniordugan           

[DollarCityBoy]

I love how the Baldknobbers and the Presley's Jubilee brochures are advertised as "west of Branson", course, back in that day, it really was "west."
That sure was nice of your sister to find those for you! Thanks for passing them along for us to view!

[rubedugans]

I love the insert from the SDC brochure! I have the 1970 pirate cruise brochure I'll have to post that one on the wayback machine.

[Gilligan]

Wow! There are more crafters gone than I realized! 

[MissinTheGreenTrams]

That is some score you got you lucky duck!! 

[rubedugans]

Here is the link  (not to hijack the thread) posted onto my wayback machine of my 1970 sammy lane brochure.

http://sdcfans.com/forums/index.php?topic=522.600

[Junior]

I still am looking through the big pile of stuff my sister sent. I probably will do a separate thread on Eureka Springs from the same period, and I found one Silver Dollar City, Tennessee brochure in the stack from 1982 that everyone will enjoy, so I'll post that soon.

[KBCraig]

I love how the Baldknobbers and the Presley's Jubilee brochures are advertised as "west of Branson", course, back in that day, it really was "west."

Yes, and there was even a good stretch of undeveloped Hwy 76 between Presley's and "Branson".

[Junior]

My first visit to Branson was in 1970. Coming up the hill from downtown on your right is McDonalds. There used to be a mom and pop drive in restaurant there. That is about where Branson "ended" at the time. I remember Little Bo Peep Gift Shop, Jesse James Motel & Confusion Hill, Presley's and Baldknobber's Theaters, Shepherd of the Hills Court, and that's about it until Shepherd of the Hills Farm, Shepherd of the Hills Bookstore, and then SDC. The rest was woods and pasture.

[KBCraig]

I think the best thing SDC and SOTH ever did was to buy up all the land between them, and agree to not develop it. (Or, at least that's the explanation I've always heard about why there was never anything on all that prime real estate except the Old Shepherd Bookstore.)

Passing through the undeveloped countryside really does add an immeasurable  value to the experience of both places. If the only "wilderness" was the land immediately occupied by both attractions, they wouldn't be nearly as attractive. Driving those curves and hills through the woods is all part of the mindset of passing back into the 1880s.

You could plop SDC (the entire thing, hills and all) down onto any Six Flags property, and it wouldn't be worth a bucket of warm spit.

[Junior]

With the coming of July, it means mid-season "purging" of my Flickr site. Please take another look at these images before they disappear in a few days.