70's CP pictures for your pleasure

I have posted a series of images I scanned from 35mm slides. These are all pictures I took in the late 1970's, a couple from the 80's. I love my ScanJet! Add them to your collection, play, enjoy. If you use them on a web site, a tip of the hat is always nice. The pictures are here: http://ourworld.cs.com/bretzfamily/page1.htm

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Tim Bretz
The Alamo. The Maine. Pearl Harbor. The Trades.

Great Pics Tim!!..I grew up in the 70's at CP with parents that were coaster nuts (which obviously rubbed off) and seeing your pics really brought back a flood of childhood memories!! Thanks for sharing :)

I need to get over to Ma and Pa's now and dif through old photo albums now..hehe

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http://www.msu.edu/~armbrus9/cp.html
Fear the Mullet!

Tim: If you would like those included in the gallery update this spring (along with many other GTTP contributors), I'd love to use the Giant Wheel and causeway photos.

By the way, I think, but am not positive, your train photo is backward.

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Jeff
Webmaster/GTTP, Sillynonsense.com
"As far as I can tell it doesn't matter who you are. If you can believe, there's something worth fighting for..." - Garbage, "Parade"

Awesome. I like the flower power design on the giant wheel.

Unless they changed it, the water towers are both on the left side of the track. That pic has it on the right. It might be a mirror image.

Jeff - you are more than welcome to place them in the gallery. I would be honored! You're right, I flopped the slide when I scanned the train picture. Guess I'll go to Photoshop and flop the .TIF and make a new .JPG. Glad everyone has enjoyed seeing the pictures.

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Tim Bretz
The Alamo. The Maine. Pearl Harbor. The Trades.

If you can zip a TIF and e-mail it to me, that would be best. Uncompressed and giant is the key to nice stuff!

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Jeff
Webmaster/GTTP, Sillynonsense.com
"As far as I can tell it doesn't matter who you are. If you can believe, there's something worth fighting for..." - Garbage, "Parade"

Great Pictures!

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"This movie spent way to much money on special effects, look they couldnt even buy those little dudes shoes!"

The pics and the page seem to have vanished into the fog that is the WWW, aka The page cannot be found. I would like to see the pics and others might as well. Can you give us another address for them?

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Great pix! I also grew up at the Point in the 70's, and they brought back alot of memories. Thanks Tim!

Old Timer Tim may be able to verify for me here, but I believe the picture of the Western Cruise is also flipped (depending on when the photo was taken).

If I remember, the tableaux of the folks saluting the flag was on the right side of the boat (across from Power Tower now), as the sternwheeler was just about to make the sharp turn back west and to the dock (where the Iron Dragon presently sits).

Great photos! Thanks!

You are correct...The photo of the Western Cruise is also flipped. The area in the photo was on the island across from the Corkscrew midway (roughly across from the Power Tower of today)...This was the "Flag Raising Ceremony" where the solider ALWAYS poked himself in the eye.

Yep. If you look closer, that's the Black Channel, or rather the "lennahC kcalB" :)

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Scott W. Short, Rail Junkie
mailto:scott@midwestcoastercentral.com
http://www.midwestcoastercentral.com

Do they still light up scwhabinchen at night like that?

Hard to believe how much the park has changed since that time.

Many changes have been for the good.

The three that really make me sad are the loss of my beloved Western Cruise, the Frontier Lift, and the loss of trees and quiet spots in the park. But that's a topic for another (or long-dead) thread.

Have to love the big M. Force, though. Thanks again for the pictures: I hope others who find historical pictures are willing to contribute them to the historical section here in Jeff's site.