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Jon Revelle wrote: I always thought all of ToC was white & silver. Never knew about the red corkscrew.
I believe that might be a picture from the Santa Clara theme park.
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No its not, did you ever notice before SFGAm got the new paint job on the demon there was chipped red paint. Also the bottom of the page said Gurnee, Illinois
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by Mr. D.T. on October 28th, 2004, 9:08 am
Good photos. It's too bad there are no sound effects or videos except the commercials.
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Jon Revelle wrote: I didn't know Orbit went totally vertical in the old days. Why did they stop?
It does go vertical.
I never knew it had a red corkscrew but it didnt originally. Look at some pictures of it and the corkscrews are all white.
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^- Look at that same picture of the red corkscrew. In the background, the ramp leading up into the MCBR is still silver. I think that just the corkscrews were red, unless they were in the process of repainting the entire thing when that picture was taken.
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No the entire ride was red.
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The site in updated with pictures of Fiddlers Fling
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by SFGA 11 on December 12th, 2004, 12:31 pm
The site has updated again with a cool video commercial for a 1982 season pass. The price was 40$ back then. Man its doubled since then...
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by Galvan on December 12th, 2004, 8:59 pm
SFGA 11 wrote: The site has updated again with a cool video commercial for a 1982 season pass. The price was 40$ back then. Man its doubled since then...
Yeah, but the overall greatness of the park has probably tripled since then
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I love that web site. I think it's cool to see how much the park has evolved.
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Today the Yukon Yahoo(Delta Flyer) has been added.
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Just remember that they RENAMED this ride the Delta Flyer after the real Delta Flyer (skyride) was removed.
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Was this ride ever in County Fair at SFGAm under the name of Industrial Revolution, or was that a different flat ride? Great America Parks doesn't mention it if it was.
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by Mr. D.T. on December 18th, 2004, 1:45 pm
SFGAmfreak4life wrote: Today the Yukon Yahoo(Delta Flyer) has been added.
Just out of curiosity, does anyone know the exact spots in Yukon and Orleans where this ride stood?
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Yukon Yahoo was about where the entrance to Looney Tunes Nat. Park. is now, and then when it moved to Orleans Place it was where Condor is now.
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by Mr. D.T. on December 19th, 2004, 3:05 pm
Mr. SFGAm wrote: Yukon Yahoo was about where the entrance to Looney Tunes Nat. Park. is now, and then when it moved to Orleans Place it was where Condor is now.
Thanks.
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greatamerica2003 wrote: Just remember that they RENAMED this ride the Delta Flyer after the real Delta Flyer (skyride) was removed.
I know but I felt like putting Delta Flyer so people could have a better idea of what I was talking about.
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I have to say though those videos on the site were so much fun to watch. It was great to see what SFGAM was like way before I was born. I showed my mom the one from 1978 and she actually remembered it.
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SammyTheSparerib wrote: Was this ride ever in County Fair at SFGAm under the name of Industrial Revolution, or was that a different flat ride? Great America Parks doesn't mention it if it was.
As you can see on
this map guide from 1984 , they were different rides.
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by w00dland on January 27th, 2005, 9:06 pm
I declare today official bringing back really old topics day.
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If you look at the picture of the midway, it seems 3 times as crowded as it usually is these days.
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Well, back in the day SFGAm (MGA actually), got about 33% more people annually then they get today (with far fewer rides, must have been hell)
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In case any of you are interested the site was updated yesterday with Columbia Carousel.
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sixflagsguy5 wrote: If you look at the picture of the midway, it seems 3 times as crowded as it usually is these days.
Yeah, it does look that way. It must have been crazy since they didn't have as many rides as they do now.
The pictures of Columbia Carousel look really neat. I especially like the ones with the fireworks.
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