pianojohn Posted March 5, 2009 Posted March 5, 2009 I found this great guide book from 1969 on Ebay. I managed to scan every page for your enjoyment!
Erik Johnson Posted March 5, 2009 Posted March 5, 2009 Very cool. Thanks for spending the time and posting this.
montezooma Posted March 5, 2009 Posted March 5, 2009 WOW! You are really giving me a run for my money! What a GREAT find! I am going to need to sneak an hour away from work today and read every bit of that thing. GREAT POST!
OldJJman Posted March 5, 2009 Posted March 5, 2009 Very nice find John! Out of curiosity, how much did you fork over for that?? JJ
Maverickrocks Posted March 5, 2009 Posted March 5, 2009 Wow what an awesome find! Some really great stuff in there! The parts about the park dining I find really interesting. I always wondered why the Corral/ Pizza Patio building on the Main Midway looked like somthing that should be in Frontiertown or why the Chick-Fil-A looked somewhat like a plantation house. And it sure is amazing how bad the food is nowdays compared to what's talked about in it. The quality used to be so much better.
themeparkman25 Posted March 5, 2009 Posted March 5, 2009 As if I haven't had enough learning for a regular day, this was a great find and really enjoyable to glance over! I can't wait to read it all later! It is crazy how things have changed with time, and yet how the midway still feels similar today. Great find again!
griffon Posted March 5, 2009 Posted March 5, 2009 That's awesome, I bet there aren't many of these still lying around. Thanks for taking the time to scan and post the whole thing!
Speeddeamon128 Posted March 6, 2009 Posted March 6, 2009 Awesome post! CP is my favorite amusement park. That year you had a choice to ride Blue Streak, Scamper (closed that year), & the new coaster for that year the Cedar Creek Mine Ride. Oh how much the skyline of CP has changed. P.S. Let me no if there were anymore coasters I used RCDB.
Nrthwnd Posted March 6, 2009 Posted March 6, 2009 I thought that the photos of the guy in "period drag" on the Entertainment page, and of the women in their "show costumes" on the Hippodrome page looked freakishly fascinating in a park's souvenir book, for that time period. Great find, John!
coasterguy4 Posted March 6, 2009 Posted March 6, 2009 That was very cool! The ride selection has certainly changed over the years. Thanks for going through the trouble to scan and post this great find!
dandaman Posted March 6, 2009 Posted March 6, 2009 What I wouldn't give to see a honky-tonk piano/vaudeville act in an amusement park...
SharkTums Posted March 6, 2009 Posted March 6, 2009 Reading that is priceless! "Attractive young college women" LOL! Oh how the college program has changed! Thanks a lot for posting!
timberskara Posted March 6, 2009 Posted March 6, 2009 ^ I was about to say the same thing! If only the "Courtesy Corps" was still around... Seriously, thanks for sharing. As a past employee, I find this stuff uber interesting!
JamesMC Posted March 6, 2009 Posted March 6, 2009 Very very cool indeed. And that was the year that I was born. Interesting to see what the park was like when I was still an infant.
RCFreak Posted March 6, 2009 Posted March 6, 2009 ^ I was about to say the same thing! If only the "Courtesy Corps" was still around... Seriously, thanks for sharing. As a past employee, I find this stuff uber interesting! QFT! Thanks for posting this, it brought back some great memories of me spending way too much time in Town Hall in the back of the park looking at all the old stuff they had in there.
pianojohn Posted March 6, 2009 Author Posted March 6, 2009 What I wouldn't give to see a honky-tonk piano/vaudeville act in an amusement park... That was my 1st theme park job: playing honky-tonk/vaudeville piano at Cedar Point in 1986 at Lusty Lil's (now just called the Golden Palace)! The whole cast in front of the theatre 1986 That's me! Did 6 shows a day, 6 days a week....414 total over about 3 months! Yup, that's my back at the piano!
Philrad71 Posted March 6, 2009 Posted March 6, 2009 Thanks for posting, John! I love reading about and seeing historical amusement park pictures. I do remember a lot of the way it used to be - at least in the late seventies/early eighties. I still remember Mill Race, Earthquake, and of course...Jungle Larry's Safari!
dandaman Posted March 6, 2009 Posted March 6, 2009 ^^That is AWESOME. I love live music in non-rock/non-screaming venues. Does the Golden Palace still have a live player?
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