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Junior

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Re: The Wayback Machine
« Reply #405 on: January 20, 2011, 06:46:48 PM »
Looks like a Gandy Dancer cart, dosen't it?
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Re: The Wayback Machine
« Reply #406 on: January 20, 2011, 06:46:49 PM »
It really does resemble the Gandy Dancer...
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Re: The Wayback Machine
« Reply #407 on: January 20, 2011, 06:48:33 PM »
That little kid in the cart is all grown up now and teaching school in the St. Louis vicinity! 1984 was HOW MANY YEARS AGO? ;)
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Re: The Wayback Machine
« Reply #408 on: January 20, 2011, 06:51:54 PM »
I remember that ride like it was 3-4 yrs ago. Yeah, teaching for 8 years now! Regardless of how long ago it was (27 yrs) I know that I get that same smile on my face every time I walk in the park.
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Re: The Wayback Machine
« Reply #409 on: January 20, 2011, 07:26:00 PM »
It's amazing how vivid my memory of the Gandy Dancer is as well.  Wow!!!  Something so short lived has impacted so many of us.  I also support bringing back something kid powered.  With the obesity rates of children in this country, a little "exercise" would be a positive statement to make.

One last thing for those of you that remember riding the Gandy Dancer:  Do any of you also remember pushing and pulling so hard that you smacked yourself in the face with the handle?!  I do! :'(
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« Reply #410 on: January 20, 2011, 07:33:28 PM »
I was a little guy (as illustrated by the photo) and I just remember having to get it started and feeling like I was having to pull what felt like hundreds of pounds to get moving. I felt so proud once I get going though. Remember vividly smacking myself in the face several times While Dad was yelling "Push-Pull-Push-Pull"!
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Re: The Wayback Machine
« Reply #411 on: January 20, 2011, 07:45:46 PM »
The lawyers will never let that return......................
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Re: The Wayback Machine
« Reply #412 on: January 20, 2011, 08:57:11 PM »
What lawyers?  I don't see any lawyers.

Hey, do you suppose that ride is why there are so many dentists in town?
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Re: The Wayback Machine
« Reply #413 on: January 21, 2011, 10:52:29 AM »
"thats not funny"  ;D
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Re: The Wayback Machine
« Reply #414 on: January 21, 2011, 10:53:44 AM »
(I do not believe I have posted this one yet) Not alot to see from this angle, just a lost view from behind the waterfall. You can see the rear of the Lumbercamp, and my Dad with the video camera.


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« Reply #415 on: January 21, 2011, 11:50:24 AM »
That was awesome. Really good pictures. I think it was still open to the public til at least 1997 wasn't it ?
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Re: The Wayback Machine
« Reply #416 on: January 21, 2011, 01:55:42 PM »
It was open in the summer of... oh, god... 2003?
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« Reply #417 on: January 21, 2011, 04:07:54 PM »
A picture behind the waterfall is truly a lost view.  It's one of those things at SDC that you don't miss until you can't do it anymore.  It was pretty neat walking behind it, but what I remember the most is how loud it was when you were behind it.
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Re: The Wayback Machine
« Reply #418 on: January 21, 2011, 07:15:57 PM »
i do remember that also..  another harmless "attraction" that we lost...
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« Reply #419 on: January 21, 2011, 07:22:19 PM »
I remember it being wet, and lod back there. My thoughts would be that it was either A.) not handicapped accessible , or B.) It was a liability being wet. Being that it is all concrete, I did not think that it would have been anything structural. It used to lead up to the "Land of Forgotten Crafts" up a few switchbacks of mulch. I cannot exactly remember a date when the falls closed to be honest.
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