Dorney Park August 1979

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Dorney Park August 1979

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Michael Bowman

Күн бұрын

Earliest known footage with original sound (and some after-the-fact narration)...

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@nancygulich3034 4 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much for this. I am 57 years old now, and we used to go to Dorney a lot when I was small. This brought tears to my eyes, such great memories. My parents are gone now, and this was so wonderful to remember our good times. Thanks again.

@stevemcclean5139 7 ай бұрын

Same here!! Tears to my eyes also and I am also 57!! Journey to center of the earth was my favorite ride. God bless you!!

@gentlehum1 9 жыл бұрын

Thank you thank you thank you! That's the Dorney I remember! Seeing the recent pictures just makes me heartsick for what was.

@stevemcclean5139 7 ай бұрын

Makes ya cry a little don't it?? It does me.

@theduchess4370 9 жыл бұрын

Wow, this brings back so many memories of Dad taking us to Dorney Park. Way before they put Wild Water Kingdom there. This is the real Dorney Park and the food was soooooo good!! Thanks so much for Posting it!!! All I can say is WOW!

@aaronmerkel5216 8 жыл бұрын

The iceberg was so fun. They should bring it back

@richfranck7620 Ай бұрын

Thanks so much for posting this! Brought back such great memories of visiting Dorney Park every summer in the 70s & early 80s for my father’s annual company picnic. Loved Dorney before Cedar Fair bought is and removed so many of the classic rides 😢.

@sayhola 6 жыл бұрын

I'll have to admit, I was looking for myself in the background! I'd have been THREE! This is a truly fantastic piece of history you have here; thank you SO much for sharing! Even down to the water fountain -- now that I see it in your video, I REMEMBER!!! Love this!

@rikpontician8499 2 жыл бұрын

Such great memories I have of Dorney. We lived there in the Summer of 79, 80 & 81. Thanks

@darrylgruber8843 4 жыл бұрын

I miss those days. Still glad they have the whip

@skidawg79 7 ай бұрын

I was born August 1979, grew up 10 min from Dorney. Cool to see what Dorney looked like the year i was born. So many rides in this video lost to fires over the years....

@TralfazConstruction 5 жыл бұрын

Too much. By that I mean I really appreciate this glimpse of your family enjoying Dorney Park as I remember it in that era. I have probably commented on every video that good folks have posted about Dorney Park over the years and I really like going down memory lane through another person's point of view. Well done.

@DZ10able 9 жыл бұрын

I was probably a ride operator that summer. I remember the smells, noise and sights. I enjoyed the visits by Alfundo and his tow helpers.

@nycnewzie 8 жыл бұрын

Great video -- a trip back in time for me to 1972 when I lived in Allentown. They used to have stock car races at nights and our babysitter would take my brother and I. And no better more exciting sight than that yellow rollercoaster. Thanks.

@jonathanlupo5333 7 жыл бұрын

Priceless footage!

@elsiegon7118 Ай бұрын

I love this video! Thank you so much for posting this! All these kiddie rides were my childhood rides!❤❤

@rwk2050 10 жыл бұрын

I was there back then so I remember how the park was. I started going in 1976 when I was 2. I was most definitely there in August 1979 and August 1980, the time period when these 2 videos were taken. I rode Bucket O' Blood, Le Grande Carrousel, Zephyr, most of the kiddie rides, Water Skooter, Sky Ride, Rockets, Iceberg, Miniature Coaster, Whale Boats, Show Boat, walked through Gold Mine, etc. I miss the tunnel on the Zephyr, and the crossings before and after the station with old fashioned bells

@ronbear01 9 жыл бұрын

Old "Family Friendly" Dorney Park, Allentown, PA........ I worked there as a ride operator that summer....I think I still have the yellow shirt....I operated the Bucket of Blood, Merry-go-round. Indy 500, the train, "Journey to the Center of the Earth", Roller Coaster....a few more.... Slave driving supervisors, but it was a lot of fun.

@PatrickWagz 7 жыл бұрын

very cool. Do you happen to know the name of the elevated ride at 3:00 time and again at 8:25 time. It has the three larger cars looking like some kinda futuristic space ship kinda thing. I would appreciate the name of this, if you can think of it. Thank You.

@SaraAB87 7 жыл бұрын

Can you possibly give me any details about the Indy 500 ride that you can, this ride was apparently sold to the Skylon Tower amusement park in Niagara Falls, Ontario after it was at Dorney, specifically when the ride was installed at Dorney and when it was removed. The ride was at the skylon during the 1990's.

@rosskennedy9481 10 жыл бұрын

Great video! I kept looking for myself as an 11 year old kid somewhere in it!

@zr24X4ROCKS 10 жыл бұрын

this is amazing . I remember all those rides , and the ox roast , the homemade ice cream , the comedy shows , the race track, omg. thank you for this flashback.!

@PatrickWagz 7 жыл бұрын

Such a great park. Do you happen to know the name of the elevated ride at 3:00 time and again at 8:25 time. It has the three larger cars looking like some kinda futuristic space ship kinda thing. I would appreciate the name of this, if you can think of it. Thank You.

@momster4362 2 жыл бұрын

I don’t know if they had an official name. We called them the rocket ships.

@stevemcclean5139 7 ай бұрын

Hi Michael, thank you so much for this video. This brings back so many great memories of my dad bringing me here for the first time in 1977. It brings tears to my eyes and made me feel so emotional. Journey to center of earth was my favorite. Hope little Michael and Mary are well!! God bless you all.

@70goldtop 10 жыл бұрын

Off to the beer garden….I remember the operator of that silver space ship ride on wires that went around in circles.Every year I'd go on it just to see that guy with one arm.My brother would always get me worked up and say "one of those cables ripped his arm off" to get me scared.

@ericstevens4563 5 жыл бұрын

I remember that guy too !

@paulm9706 6 жыл бұрын

Thank you. Brings back my childhood days!

@destruya 2 жыл бұрын

Great video thanks for sharing. Remember the remote control boats? I miss all of this.

@rwk360 10 жыл бұрын

The park is a cesspool now compared with back then. I know, I've been going to the park since 1976 when I was 2. The park gets insanely busy some days, 2 hour waits for water park attractions and other rides. It wasn't like that back then. Population wasn't as high then. Wildwater Kingdom opened 1985. Cedar Fair bought Dorney Park July, 1992.

@igvmyslf1000ptss 7 жыл бұрын

Wish I could have experienced Dorney back then. Must have been great. More family friendly.

@jeljelbean 9 жыл бұрын

Thank you for posting this old footage of Dorney Park. I really enjoyed watching, and it took me back to my childhood years. My children were surprised to see the difference in the way the park looked then as compared to now (much better back then in my opinion). Very nice, thanks!!

@Eleana1981 9 жыл бұрын

Thank you for posting this! It brings back a lot of wonderful memories for me.

@Zickcermacity 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for sharing with us your family memories. They are also an important documentation of the mostly original Dorney Park. I wonder what the Dorney guests of 1979-1980 would think of a roller coaster nearly three times as tall as the wooden Roller Coaster! 8:27 - It feels strange seeing the wooden Coaster dominating the Dorney backdrop by itself, with no Steel Force hyper in the background

@ElleCee62978 3 ай бұрын

I was born June 1978. I remember Dorney Park from like 1981 on. I remember Journey to the Center of the Earth, the Zephyr, the Iceberg, these umbrella rides, and the Bucket of Blood most. I remember being on the train and afraid of the tunnel

@maryc1447 10 жыл бұрын

Nice trip down memory lane. Haven't been to Dorney Park since purchase by the corporation, must be at least 30 years. Spent a lot of time there while growing up and on dates in my teens. Thanks for sharing.

@djavatar68 10 жыл бұрын

Wow! Some pretty cool dark rides they had.

@Zickcermacity 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for sharing with us your family memories. They are also an important documentation of the mostly original Dorney Park. I wonder what the Dorney guests of 1979-1980 would think of a roller coaster nearly three times as tall as the wooden Roller Coaster! It feels strange seeing the wooden Coaster dominating the Dorney backdrop by itself, with no Steel Force hyper in the background

@robkrasinski6217 9 ай бұрын

How about this, today's younger guests born mid-1990's and up have no idea what the old Dorney Park was like and what it was like without Steel Force. At least the park has historical signs along the Zephyr train route and elsewhere in the park showing long gone rides and things. But no sign for Bucket O' Blood or Iceberg, they had signs in 1984 and 2009 but they were taken down and stored again. Bucket was destroyed in the Sept. 28, 1983 fire that also destroyed the PTC Le Grande Carrousel. Iceberg survived the fire because it was mostly concrete on the outside.

@MrLyosea 21 күн бұрын

Oooooh dorney park footage from the 70's WITH SOUND! I was here in June 2008 (the 9th I think) on my 8th grade field trip with my mom. I remember they had yummy brownies there and my mom rode a boat ride with my friend Tammy that swung people back and forth.

@michaelbowman6462 10 жыл бұрын

Dave Smith, yeah, my dad added a narrated sound strip shortly after developing it, but when I had it converted to avi, it sped up the sound, hence the alien-sounding speech;)

@twighlightprincess3003 4 жыл бұрын

So past the little lazer there was a big area for kids. They had play things kinda set up like Mcyds would with ball pits. They had little scooters we could ride around to different pits... Am i crazy or do you remember any of this?

@markstrausser4443 7 жыл бұрын

brings back memories

@serf3469 10 жыл бұрын

Journey to the Center of the Earth

@stevemcclean5139 7 ай бұрын

My favorite!!

@CoasterCollege 2 жыл бұрын

Hello, may I use the section of this video that shows "iceberg" in a video I am making on that ride? I will credit you!

@michaelbowman6462 2 жыл бұрын

Sure!

@yellowrainyday 8 жыл бұрын

I used to work here for two summers as a ride operator! Even back that time in 1979 i wasn't born yet, I would watonna try the cable car and the old zephyr too! And look at thunder hawk! It was once young and standing tall. =)

@RB01.10 8 жыл бұрын

Yeah. It's a shame that Thunderhawk has lasted over four times as long as Hercules did.

@RB01.10 8 жыл бұрын

+Ryan Blanche Which at one point was the tallest woodie in the world, but the roughness killed it :(

@PaOsfan 10 жыл бұрын

What great old footage! It brought back a lot of memories. I was working there at the time but there is no footage of my Scrambler.

@PatrickWagz 7 жыл бұрын

Hello, he has a few other videos like this one the following few years. Search KZfaq for....."Dorney Park August 1980 with sound" title. The scrambler is shown around time of 6:55

@pumpedupone 10 жыл бұрын

Cool video! This is the real dorney park with all the cool rides before someone had a stupid idea to take them out!

@danieldobrosky8378 2 жыл бұрын

The WHIP classic ride

@RyanKCR 10 жыл бұрын

rwk2050 I think that was the park I uploaded. I've since updated and redid it. I have not uploaded it. I've been focusing on my own parks and doing other coasters, real and my own design. I've uploaded videos of some of them to youtube.

@RyanKCR 10 жыл бұрын

Ah, the Dorney when I was a child. Do you have any footage of the kiddie roller coaster of the time. When I was a kid I loved it. As I got older the "Yellow Roller Coaster" was my first big coaster and I also loved the Flying Dutchman. I've recreated Dorney Park of this era in Roller Coaster Tycoon 3. I uploaded the Coaster to youtube.

@Eagles.Fan.Since.Super.Bowl.52 6 жыл бұрын

Purposely searched for old footage trying to find Bucket o Blood. Bamn! @0:40 I remember it in the early 80's before it burned down. I was probably 6yo. If my memory is correct it also was called Pirates Cove and Devil's Cave.

@Koide9 10 жыл бұрын

I don't think i've ever seen a "Paratrooper" ride go quite so fast........or at such an angle!

@RB01.10 8 жыл бұрын

The Paratrooper I remember was right next to the Ferris Wheel. It was removed after the 2000 season most likely due to high maintenance, and low ridership.

@rwk360 10 жыл бұрын

This song played at the Iceberg a lot I remember, Michael Jackson Off the Wall.

@serf3469 10 жыл бұрын

cool video

@rwk360 10 жыл бұрын

Well, Le Grande Carrousel and Bucket O' Blood burned in the Sept. 28, 1983 fire. Iceberg was renamed Metoerite around 1990 and removed after 1993 for Patio Pizza. Journey to the Center of the Earth was removed after 1992. Robert F. Ott owned the park at this time, since 1967 when his wife's brother Steve Plarr passed he became chairman of the board in 1980 and his son Bob became president. They sold the park to Harris Weinstein who took over 1985. Weinstein sold to Cedar Fair, L. P. July, 1992.

@noname-jh3bd 3 жыл бұрын

I don't know if this is a good question to ask, but could you send this footage to Cedar Fair, to let them know how much of the Parks Heritage they ruined? I have not been there in almost 13 years... God bless you for posting this though... This is the Dorney Park I remember

@anth9998 10 жыл бұрын

Crowd looks a little different if you know what I mean.....

@rwk2050 10 жыл бұрын

Was that your park? The one titled 1970? It just looked out of proportion. I would probably make a lot of changes to it to make it look more like how the park was. I understand there's nothing in RCT3 that is like the rocket ride, Traver Circle Swing, that runs counter clockwise. Not even in CFR's (custom flat rides). So, the airplane ride is the next best thing but it runs clockwise. For the Iceberg you could use the teacups or even the Hershey cups ride and hide the center with a round pole.

@rwk2050 10 жыл бұрын

Where is your park, Ryan? I downloaded one from an RCT site that was titled 1970 or something and it was supposed to be the old Dorney Park but it was all wrong. Rides missing, landscape (hills) not correct, Journey to the Center of the Earth half-a**, etc. I am working on a current version of the park with the newest rides. I also was going to do an old version as well, pre-fire, meaning before the Sept. 28, 1983 fire when Le Grande Carrousel and Bucket O' Blood were there, and Flying Bobs, etc

@rwk2050 10 жыл бұрын

Oh, I'm the same person as rwk360, I must have had two youtubes.