PHOTO TR: Cleaning out my closet. Lot's of old pictures

[thrillrider]

Comming up next, a look at six flags and the mean streak s.o.p manual.

[montezooma]

Yea....That's odd.

 

That's not odd...that's stupid. Talk about devaluing your product

[thrillrider]

Perhaps "odd" was the wrong word to use.

[coaster-crazy]

Fantastic update. I have a TON of NAPHA magazines - they are great stuff. I need to make a topic of my amusement park goodies ... Hmmm....

 

~Nicholas

[thrillrider]

Stay tuned as I have a ton more stuff to dig out of my closet.

[montezooma]

I am glad you guys are starting to share this. It is really cool to see and after four years of cleaning my attic and sharing it here, I am almost out of stuff.

[thrillrider]

It's great to have a place like this to share all this stuff I have collected over the years.

[thrillrider]

Today, I have a mega six flags update!!!

 

First up are a bunch of old six flags booklets from several different six flags parks. There are booklets from six flags darien lake in 1999, six flags over georgia in 1994, six flags hurricane harbor in 1997 plus the hurricane harbor annoucement for it's opening year, six flags magic mountain in 2000, six flags astroworld in 1996, and six flags great adventure from 2004.

 

Then I have added some six flags pin sets that I have had. These are limited edition pin sets, and only 2500 were ever made.

 

Comming up soon I will have the mean streak s.o.p, and the demon drop press relese.

Remember six flags darien lake?

Back of booklet.

Six flags over Georgia.

1994 Hours of operation.

Six flags hurricane harbor at magic mountain.

Not sure of what year the park opend, but I believe it was 1996?

All kinds of cool looking slides.

Hurricane harbor annoucement.

Six flags magic mountain 2000.

Back side.

New for 2000....goliath.

Everytime I look at this, I get depressed.

Back of booklet. I never made it to this park, and I am still bummed about it.

Inside. The new loony tunes kids area.

Six flags great adventure 2004. This was the first time I went to this park.

This park has really changed over the years.

This is the first of 2 six flags pin sets that I have.

Limited edition set.

This is the other set.

[thrillrider]

I have a few more six flags related items that I will try to post tonight.

[beatle11]

Very nice. The pins might actually be worth something.

[thrillrider]

They might be, but I woulden't even know where to look to find out if they are.

[netdvn]

These are amazing... I'm so jealous of your collection

 

I'm actually glad to see a couple brochures that I actually have in this thread (although they're buried somewhere). I don't seem to remember Hurricane Harbor having a separate brochure from MM though. I always recalled MM and HH sharing the same brochure and then they had a coupon brochure to go with it.

[thrillrider]

I think that was from eather the year it opend, or the next year.

[thrillrider]

I have a small update today as I feel like crap again(sinus infection that refuses to go away).

 

This is a behind the lines employee magazine from cedarpoint in aug of 2002.

The front cover

Local fairs and discounted employee tickets.

Local companies have all kinds of deals for cedarpoint employees.

Employee steak night

Anybody hungry? Then check out the employee cafateria.

Did you know?

Back page.

[thrillrider]

I just found yet another box of crap, and I found the operating manual for space mountain. I will post that, along with the mean streak sop manual soon.

[thrillrider]

Today I am posting some pages from the mean streak operations manual.

 

I posted what I thought was interesting, but if there is something that you want to see, just let me know and I will post it. As you know, the mean streak is getting a lot of track work this off season, so I hope it does the ride some good. One of the pages I thought were interesting, was the trim brake page. I will try and add more pages tommarow.

 

I also added the employee ride night poster as well.....enjoy.

The cover of the book.

The basics about the ride.

Ridership numbers.

Stats. I wonder if the weight of the train with riders, was with or without ace members?

Station layout.

Track diagram

How long is the wait?

Hand signals

Seat belts. I hate them. Do we realy need them on this ride?

Control panal.

About the control panal.

The c.r.t screen.

The dredded trims.

Breaker box.

I have only seen them run 2 trains this past summer.

Guest situations.

Weather

Train rotation log.

Mean streak ride night.

[thrillrider]

A few more pages......

The "welcome back" speil.

Instructions for riders. Try saying this over and over again all day.

Lift remote control station. When they start the lift in the morning, someone has to push this button the same time as someone in the controle booth for the lift to start.

[beatle11]

Very nice indeed.

[thrillrider]

Thank you.

 

There are about 100 more pages, so if there is anything that anyone want's to see, just let me know.

[SenseOFone]

About two hours of reading this thread from front back. And an awesome read it was!Some great pics and interesting history. I went to Geauga Lake in 2007, and could definitely see why it was dying So sad.

 

I especially love seeing the employee newsletters and SOPs. Knott's doesn't come anywhere close to either of those things, it's crazy

 

Just keep the pics and other goodies coming!

[thrillrider]

Thank you.

 

If you like the s.o.p books, stay tuned because I have the space mountain s.o.p comming soon.

[thrillrider]

Here are some old booklets from cedar point in 1983.

 

This is the year that demon drop was built. I will have the demon drop press release comming up real soon as well.

 

Here are the booklets from cedar point, hotel breakers, the marina, and camper village.

Cedar point 1983.

Back of booklet.

Mill race, kid arthers court, gemini and more...

Part of the inside

The other side. If you unfold the booklet, there is a huge demon drop poster. It was too big to scan.

Hotel breakers

Back of booklet.

Inside

More inside...

Funny thing about this picture, is that the rooms still look the same after all these years. Only they cost about 10X as much today.

The marina.

Backside

Inside

Camper village.

Backside.

Inside.

More inside.

Hope you enjoyed this update. I will have the demon drop press relese comming up next.

[braztaz]

Always love old CP stuff.

[thrillrider]

Then I think your going to love the next update.

[Philrad71]

Awesome update - thanks for sharing as always!

 

I know I probably have that same 1983 brochure tucked somewhere in my Dad's attic as well as others. I loved the Demon Drop poster in the middle - I actually had it hanging on the back of my bathroom door and my friend wanted to fight me for it one night when we had a sleepover!

 

I remember being so terrified to ride DD when it first opened I literally thought I was going to pee myself when we were in line. Definitely the most terrifying ride for me that CP had ever installed to date - although Gemini's first hill always used to get to me too. Remember when they had those maroon red trains like the one's shown in the photo? 1983 may have even been the first year they changed the red trains to the candy apple red they are today because I remember the difference in color when I visited.

 

Lot's of good memories here...I was a little too big for Kid Arthur's Court when it opened, but remember being disappointed the year they announced that was going to be new the attraction.

 

I guess once an enthusiast whiner, always an enthusiast whiner!