Bonesville Photo History

After searching this forum and the web in general, it's very disappointing to find few if any organized collections of Bonesville character names, photos, and history. Can anyone point me in the right direction or, if it doesn't exist, have interest in beginning to develop one in the forum, on wikipedia, or hosted on their site?

NickO said:
After searching this forum and the web in general, it's very disappointing to find few if any organized collections of Bonesville character names, photos, and history. Can anyone point me in the right direction or, if it doesn't exist, have interest in beginning to develop one in the forum, on wikipedia, or hosted on their site?

You mean boneville. The skeletons On the railroad.

Seems like everyone calls it Bonesville. I did because that's what my dad called it when I was a kid--- until I actually read the sign.

Here is A website you might enjoy.

http://www.cplerr.com/boneville.html

Thanks for the link, CP&LE RR Fan. It looks promising but when clicking on the photo gallery link it only displays "Notice: Undefined offset: 8192 in /home/www/cplerr.com/cpg143/include/debugger.inc.php on line 112 Coppermine critical error: Unable to connect to database !/ MySQL said: Access denied for user 'cplerr'@'localhost' to database 'cplerrcpg'"

Yep its been doing that to me to. I contacted the webmaster about a month ago and he never responded. They had many photos of Boneville on their.

Google search Boneville cedar point and some photos will pop up.

I'm actually working on this and am glad to see there's interest. Yep, if you google "boneville cedar point" and then click images, instead of web, you'll see lots of pics. Anyhow, in 1963 there was the Ghost Town, Elopement scene, and Music Hall. Other things would follow such as a funeral parlor,etc. This link should help you if you're interesting in getting any older pics of the area:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-8-x-10-Photo-Cedar-Point-Amusement-...2c69699a45
Good luck!!

Remember when the skeleton with the top hat was straddling the wood fence in the elopement scene instead of the one with the kisses on his skull attempting to to climb it?

NickO said:
Thanks for the link, CP&LE RR Fan. It looks promising but when clicking on the photo gallery link it only displays "Notice: Undefined offset: 8192 in /home/www/cplerr.com/cpg143/include/debugger.inc.php on line 112 Coppermine critical error: Unable to connect to database !/ MySQL said: Access denied for user 'cplerr'@'localhost' to database 'cplerrcpg'"

Yea it does that I tried contacting the webmaster and he never responded. Here is a video showing Some clips of boneville From 1967

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJxOiC2ghpY

Thanks all. There's no shortage of random Boneville pics around the web but was looking for something more historically complete and detailed like the roller coasters listing on the Cedar Point wiki page (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cedar_Point). As CPfan1976 suggests, there's plenty of history about how some figures and structures have been moved, removed, or replaced over the years, not to mention details about their creators, individual designs, and names.

The Paddlewheel Excursions photo essay at http://bit.ly/13t2byi and YouTube video at http://bit.ly/17tc2EC are good examples of what I was thinking could be done to document Boneville, although both could be better with a bit more historical images and copy.

NickO said:
The Paddlewheel Excursions photo essay at http://bit.ly/13t2byi and YouTube video at http://bit.ly/17tc2EC are good examples of what I was thinking could be done to document Boneville, although both could be better with a bit more historical images and copy.

So lets me get this straight, Your doing a Wikipedia page or website or just for fun?

Heres more I found on flicker

http://www.flickr.com/photos/andrewb94/4799148325/

Just to let you know Boneville is only the skeleton's on the train ride. The ones on paddle wheel excursions have no town name.

Also, remember the singing/fishing skeleton with water coming out of his eyes?

I think he is used during Halloweekends, in SRF's splashdown area.

^ thanks for the info.

CP&LE RR Fan said:
Yep its been doing that to me to. I contacted the webmaster about a month ago and he never responded. They had many photos of Boneville on their.

That's because he is busy dragging his train around Huck and taking care of two kids!

As far as I know all the skeletons were made on point by staff from various departments. They don't have official names but some do have names that I'm not listing here!

CP&LE RR Fan said:
Just to let you know Boneville is only the skeleton's on the train ride. The ones on paddle wheel excursions have no town name.

Well, there weren't any skeletons on Paddlewheel Excursions. But the town did indeed have the name of "Seville". The name of the people who lived here?... "Sevillians". Get it?...civilians

Also, you can access cplerr.com's photo galleries via the WayBack Machine...

http://web.archive.org/web/20070617173139/http://www.cplerr.com/cpg...hp?album=6