josephine's mom

Wow! Talk about old memories. I grew up litteraly down the street from this place. I lived on W. Yosemite Rd or hwy 120. We had summer passes and everything. During the school year my bus took me right by it every day to pick up and drop off kids that lived in turtle lake. I remember it used to flood all the time over there and half the time the bus couldn't drop kids off. I was so sad when it closed down. I loved the v max and just about every other slide there. I just remember every day on that bus seeing the water slides and counting down the days till summer when I could go ride again. So sad that operating costs were to high. They really could have raised the prices. I remember it only be like $20 to ride all day or something like $60 for a summer pass. For how many water slides they had it was a great value. Espcially for my working mom needing somewhere for me and my sister to go and not get into trouble. It's crazy to see how the waters took over again and how sad to see the rotting pieces of the slides. I still get that jingle stuck in my head from time to time. Manteca waterslides! I just loved that place and we had friends that lived in the mobile home park at turtle lake so we would get to watch the firework show put on for free and have a bbq. Those were the best summers of my young life. Well so sad I won't get to take my daughter there. It would have been cool to tell her how I used to pal around there as a kid. Loved seeing the old pictures and sad I don't have any of my own.