Great footage of old Cedar Point!

Including footage of a newborn on Cedar Downs! LOL

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hoRmPyuU5oQ

Nice find!

Yeah, this is the way I remember the park growing up. Nice to see the old stuff on here that I dearly miss such as Mill Race, Sky (double ferris)wheel, Jumbo Jets and Earthquake. The Frontier Sky Ride Lift was like traveling to another time! I hope the few remaining remnants that are left such as the CP/LE train, Blue Streak, Mine Ride, and Cedar Downs stay for a while longer...

Thanks for posting. That was fun to watch. Only was able to ride the Jumbo Jet once. And for whatever reason, although I will go on any and every ride now and would back then, the double ferris wheel always freaked me out. I can still hear my cousin laughing at me as I white knuckled it. Good times.

Awesome video. Great camera for that era too.
I don't want to be one of the ones who complains about progress and change...
... but I DO miss the relative abundance of trees from that era, or even my childhood in the 80s. It used to be cool whipping by the trees on the Blue Streak.

Although we did get Raptor out of their removal.

That video should be removed from the internet (or at least censored/edited), as it contains sections that were clearly shot while riding an attraction.

At a time when doing so may have been OK?

I guess we've determined that SteveH can't just make a cute and obvious joke without you pouncing on him like a literal jackal huh?

I'm used to it by now.

Fanboys just can't handle any sort of negativity.

I thought it was ironic that the camera policy thread was right next to a topic praising such footage.

Seeing that video really makes you realize how hard CP and the State of Ohio have tried to ruin attractions. Take the antique cars for example. It looks like there's twice as many cars running, and at double the speed that they currently do.

I miss the days of less safety theater. No gates on the platforms. No kiddie buckles with the special ride operator key release. For many rides, it is getting difficult to enjoy them for all the unnecessary nonsense one must put up with.

Sorry, I'm just still bitter and full of shock about the installation of seatbelts on Diamondback. Talk about ruining a ride...

I noticed in the video that the antique cars were running in the other direction also. I wonder why the change.

And yeah, the trees around Blue Streak were beautiful to see.

Scottyf said:
...you pouncing on him like a literal jackal huh?

That's a bit of a dramatic response to my missing the joke, don't you think?

Though to be honest, I don't know how a literal jackal pounces. Actually, I don't even know what a literal jackal is. So maybe you're assessment is accurate.

;)

Scottyf said:
I guess we've determined that SteveH can't just make a cute and obvious joke without you pouncing on him like a literal jackal huh?

I didn't read it as obvious joke. In fact, given his posting pattern, I assumed he was being serious. It's obviously hard to read tone on a message board, but a colon and a parenthesis help. :) And, really, djDaemon's response was quite benign.

That said, I was curious if there were defined rules against on-ride photography back then. The first time it is specifically mentioned in the park guide was 1988. That doesn't necessarily mean it wasn't a rule before then, but circa 1988 seems to ring a bell with my limited memory.

SteveH said:
Fanboys just can't handle any sort of negativity.

Are you confusing fans and fanboys? There’s a huge difference. Actual pollyannaish fanboys do exist, but they are very much in the minority. The Iron Dragon rider height change thread is a great example of criticism from people who are big fans.

Or maybe you’re just making an intellectually weak generalization.

I worked at CP in the mid 1970's, and to my recollection there was no written policy concerning photography of any kind. There were no home camcorders yet, and Super 8 film cameras were fairly small then, being able to hold one easily in one hand.

Boy that film brings back memories. I have been back to CP in season only once since the last time I worked there. The only ride in the film that wasn't there when I was is the Corkscrew. I've been back there several times in the off season for industry seminars.

This video was sure fun to watch. The Jumbo Jet was before I moved here. What happened to it?

According to Wikipedia:

"Although Jumbo Jet was only at Cedar Point for a total of 6 years, the coaster subsequently moved to a large number of different amusement parks, including Palace Playland in Old Orchard Beach, Maine; Malmö Folkets Park in Malmö, Skåne, Sweden; Beoland in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia; and finally Dreamland in Minsk, Belarus."

I went to Six Flags over Georgia the year the Mind Bender opened. It must have been media day of some sort. My dad had a 8mm movie camera with him. All day long, the ride ops waived us to the front row to take movies of the ride. We had no media credentials. They just assumed because of the camera we were with the media.

There were no special mounts in the trains/seats. My dad just held the camera against his chest facing forward. He found that if he tried to hold the camera up to his eye that the picture was too herky jerky (blue streak footage in this thread reminded me of it).

There was not a policy at that time.

I have many pictures and Super 8 films taken back then by my parents.

And they would have never broken the rules.

Thanks Orlanod Mike - I thoroughly enjoyed that video. Kudos to the camera operator by the way, whoever he/she was.

You can poke fun of us older folks all you want. Cedar Point will never be the park it once was. You had the great woods from the midway back. You had the train that took you to another time, not past buildings and rides. You had the river boats that were truly magical. You rode into the woods and it was wonderful. You had a great selection of rides, not just coaster after coaster. It was a wonderful park for all ages back then. You younger people don't know what has been lost forever.