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The Green Trams (and other parking/entrance memories)

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History Buff:
I swiped these pictures (They're not mine.):

How-doFolks:
here is one i took back in 2006
sorry, pic dont look that great.  :D

rubedugans:
1979

History Buff:
I still wonder, why did someone choose that awful color of green?

Junior, too!:
There was a time up until the mid to late 80s when there were employees who worked on the SDC side of the grounds who were 1880s citizens, dressed in costume, and employees who worked in the cave and parking lot who were dressed in a uniform who worked in Marvel Cave Park. The uniformed employees had kind of a state park ranger look, and the cave waiting area and ticket booths, and the parking lot trams were part of this natural, state park type of thing they had going on. Why are the trams green, my guess is it was the closest thing to that state park look. The dividing line between SDC citizen and Marvel Cave Park was the Hospitality House. They offered guided tours for first time SDC visitors for a few years in the mid 70s to mid 80s, and they also wore the uniform. Very seldom during that period would you see a SDC citizen go past the little stage area on the Marvel Cave Park side of the Hospitality House. We worked a greeting line there in the mornings and afternoons. The PTB wanted that zone between the turnstyles and the HH entrance to be sort of a time tunnel passage to the 1880 SDC on the other side of the HH doors. In fact in that period the park won some kind of major theme park award for having a unique entry way to the park. Imagine how surprised and disappointed I was in the 1990s when I returned to the park after many years and discovered they built those little structures for selling Showboat and Grand Palace and Dixie Stampede tickets, and season passes...but the biggest let down was to see Eva and Delilahs bakery there. I wish all you younger folk could have seen that area before construction. I admit, everytime on park I stop for a big iced cinnamon roll and drink, but I miss that clear dividind line between SDC and Marvel Cave Park. I too miss the trams, but with all things, time marches on.

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