Cedar Classic Mini Golf

Anyone remember playing golf on this course? I played once. It was kind of fun. I liked it when they themed some of the holes to park rides such as the Corkscrew and Space Spiral. The courses in Challenge Park are fun but really is a diffenrent experience.

I played that course years ago. Wasn't it behind Berenstein Bear Country and next to the big slide?

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It became BBC if I remember.

If you walk aroudn Peanuts Playground and look around you can still find a few of the hole #'s.

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June 11th, 2001 - Gemini 100
VertiGo Rides - 82

STOP THE INSANITY...PLEASE, I don't need any more reminders I am OLD:)

Every Tuesday Night would be Employee Night at the Golf Course. We would meet at the Rec Center (site of the Hotel Breakers EAST today) drink a few libations, (aka BEER)...and then Putt the night away.

One of my favorite holes was the "Blue Streak"..The hole had a minature replica of the top of the Blue Streak...I wonder who has that today?

This was an "add on cost" so I never did play Putt Putt when I was a guest. But those Tuesday Nights...talk about some hot times in the Old Park;)

OTT

I remember it, especially the Corkscrew hole. In fact, to this day, whenever I see a loop at a mini-golf course I think back to the one at CP back in the day.

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Jeff - Webmaster - GTTP - My Blog
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What time does the water show start?

but Tim.. when you played "club" had a different meaning... ;)

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June 11th, 2001 - Gemini 100
VertiGo Rides - 82

Speaking of old, does anyone remember the mini-golf before Cedar Classic? This was located on the opposite side of the Coliseum, the side by the park operations office. The location is approximately where the kiddie truck ride is now. It wasn't themed after rides, but it had a cool hole that had an extremely wide gap that the ball had to cross. There was about a 20 foot high fence at the end of the hole to protect people on the midway from flying golf balls!

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I'd rather be in my boat with a drink on the rocks,
than in the drink with a boat on the rocks.

I never played it but I remember watching it while in line for the Giant Slide. I got a nice aerial view from up there! I always thought the Demon Drop replica was cool.

I remember there being a lot of shade in that area too. Oh well.

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Pete, now you are making me look old. I don't remember this at all. Cedar Classic was the only one I remember.

Does anyone have pictures of the old mini-golf Pete is speaking of? Maybe it will jog my memory.
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I've still got the scorecard from the last time that I played Cedar Classic. I looked forward to it every year and the Demon Drop hole was my absolute favorite.

I have looked around for pictures of the Cedar Classic golf course, but I don't see that they are hosted anywhere. Does walt have any tucked away on his site? I would love to see any pictures of it again if someone has them.

I don't remember a course on the other side of the Coliseum, but I was born in '76 so that may have been there before I was born.

Wow, I didn't remember this until I read this thread. Unfortunately, I just barely remember it. I do remember a Blue Streak hole and a Corkscrew hole, though. But... that's about it.

I think I may have convinced my parents to let me play *maybe* once. And even then I couldn't have been older than six.

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- John
I Snap Flyers

Travis, this isn't a picture, but Walt has a 1964 park map in the history section of Virtual Midway that shows the mini-golf I'm talking about. You can find the map here
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I'd rather be in my boat with a drink on the rocks,
than in the drink with a boat on the rocks.

Wow! I never realized that the Monorail went into the Mill Race's and Blue Streak's ride zones. Does anyone know if it went over or through these rides? I'm guessing over some low spots.

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From what I remember, the Monorail went over the Mill Race flume, but through the lift hill. I think it also went through a high part of the Blue Streak rather then over the track. Though it may have gone over the return track and through the out-going track. It could be that the part of the Blue Streak that has the service road going through it is actually the old Monorail course. My memory is a little hazy as I was a very young kid when I rode the Monorail.

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I'd rather be in my boat with a drink on the rocks,
than in the drink with a boat on the rocks.

Wan't it an inverted monorail? If so, that service pass under Blue Streak would've been tall enough I think. I seem to recall seeing photos that didn't put it that high off the ground.

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Jeff - Webmaster - GTTP - My Blog
Blogs, photo albums - CampusFish
What time does the water show start?

Yes, it was an inverted Monorail, and it was not very high off the ground. Parts of it were very close to the ground, that is why I was thinking of the Blue Streak service pass being the Monorail path. Not sure though, I'll have to go through my collection of 1960's pictures, maybe I can find something to clarify this.

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I'd rather be in my boat with a drink on the rocks,
than in the drink with a boat on the rocks.

What the hell...I never knew that the railraod originally stretched all the way back to the Sky Ride. When did they move the station to its current position and fill in that small stretch of the lagoon to accommodate the new midway?

It's crazy to think how much the park's landscape has changed in 40 years...not to mention its skyline in the past 15.

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If I'm not mistaken (and I may be), isn't the building/canopy that covers the entrance to Peanuts Playground (at the point where you cross the little railroad tracks) in that same spot for the golf course? I believe that it was the cashier's/putter/ball return station.

The railroad station was moved for the 1970 season, when they built the Million Dollar Midway. Western Cruiser is right, the Peanuts Playground entry building was the cashier building for the Cedar Classic course.

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I'd rather be in my boat with a drink on the rocks,
than in the drink with a boat on the rocks.