Guntown Mountain Reborn
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- Опубліковано 16 жов 2024
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I live in Louisville Ky, and I wanted to thank you for explaining the situation with Mr. Russell in a polite and tactful manner.
What a sad place, I can't believe they are open like that.
I rode that chairlift in the 80s and again in the 90s
Hope they get things cleaned up and looking like an attraction again
Well they just opened not long ago, it will take some time. As for me we will not be riding the chairlift.
Seems like they should have waited until they had a bit more to offer people. IMO
I feel sorry for the cast members on that stage, selling those creepy garter belts. They’re trying to earn a living. :p
I sure hope this one is able to make it and keep it operational!
Nope
I think you should have a meetup here! I know you've been covering this attraction for years and I can remember when you and Anna went in that haunted hotel. You'd definitely boost their business.
I'd totally attend, I need an excuse to travel for a weekend and go camping.
I love this idea
Boy that garter sale was awkward!
Great vlog. The spook house was fun but them trying to sell garters for $5 was cringe worthy and awkward. They just stood up there trying to guilt people out of $5. Surprised they didn’t have their hands out too. It was just awkward.
HorrorQueen yea I know it I say it was prob close to a million to get this up and running again, but with cave city becoming wet with beer and liquor and people visiting cave city should be like it was again in the 1980’s
First, I saw the creepy abandoned video. Second, I enjoyed your video of visiting with your daughter before Funtown closed. How wonderful to end with it working again.
The drone shots are super.
We used to have a place like this in Western Kentucky called Kain-Tuck Territory. There were rides and gun fights. Famous people came and had outdoor concerts. Loretta Lynn, Johnny Cash and a bunch of those kinds of bands came. It closed down a long time ago.
I hope this place goes bonkers and gets some good thrill rides or something, I'm all for the nostalgia factor, but I wonder if the spirit of the land could use some excitement. The talent is great! The music made my day just now.
Wow, this whole guntown mountain saga has been a wild ride.
Very true to the memories of the original. Glad to see it back - hope it gets the attention and visits it deserves. Good job Jacob!
I was at the original Guntown MTN as a kid in the early 70s . Then in the late 90s I took my wife and kids . Back then I was told that it had just been rebuilt do to a large fire . Really enjoyed this video . Plan to visit again with the grandkids after watching your video .
Thanks so much for the nostalgia, Jacob! Back in 1991 this was my families “go to” for Summer fun! We’d just got our first camcorder and we’d stay at Yogi Bear campground and come up the mountain by chairlift and watch the old can-can shows and gunfights. My father filmed it and you can hear me crying above the entire crowd when gunfire went off (I was two, lol)! I came back with my ex right before Guntown Mtn went under so it’s been a long time for me. This just brings back memories! It’s a shame some of the negative comments I’m seeing on here, people are missing out! Cave City has a bunch to do!
They should change it to Buntown and sell hot dogs.
AWESOMENESS! This was always one of my favorite videos to watch. I’m glad someone took the time and money to restore this place to its former glory. Great video as always Jacob.
:)
Is it reopened?
lol so much cheese!!🤣i wonder if this area is like the "poor man's" Pigeon Forge or Wisconsin Dells!!
and the Hummer really? they just replaced the ski lift with a cab!!🥴
so sad to see this place so dead. It must've been quite the spot in its heyday. Thanks for sharing Jacob!
Hi Jacob , thanks for taking us on the progression of this attraction , You can not make this stuff up and you have taken us along on every step of the way. Fantastic. I remember when possum 1 flew over the barren funtown mt. very interesting . Erick
Fun-/Guntown Mountain is what brought the heavenly guiding light of your Carpetbagging ways into my life so this should be a nice nostalgia trip! :)
That garter sale was a loooong couple of hours.
@droppedelbow It’s not a garter sale, it’s a farter sale. ;)
A Carpetbagger tradition! Guntown’s rebirth! I can wait to visit in person! Old-school attraction awesomeness! Great episode! Thank you,🤘🏼👍🏼
I remember that the fortune teller booth used to be a ticket booth. I was there in 1987 and the booth sold tickets to the plethora of amusement park rides that were situated at the bottom of the mountain. The rides were not included with your admission to Guntown Mountain and had to be purchased separately.
So nice to hear that someone has bought it and trying to bring it back to life! I was going here as a child in the late 80’s to early 90’s and I loved the gun fights and the comedy shows! Plus you have dinosaur world, gift shops, zip lines and put put golf. Right down the road in cave city you have shopping and diamond caverns and down the other direction in bowling green you have lots of to do and mammoth cave! Loys of neat stuff to explore! Hopefully they will bring it back and it will last!
I have so many wonderful childhood memories of This place. ❤️❤️❤️❤️
I am glad to see this place reopen. I'm impressed with the commitment and I hope people continue visiting this wonderful old time attraction. I will have to see updates.
someone had a little kid watching the hanging show .. wow .. smh .. that crazy
13:22 Circus Circus
Now known as Chuck E. Cheese (chuck e cheese bought out Circus Circus).
The robot band at CC used to scare the crap outta me, especially the piano playing gorilla & cheer leader mouse!
Good times lol!
Juliana Cromey
Cheerleader mouse and piano-playing gorilla reminds me of another animatronic band! If I remember correctly, the Circus Jamboree band was two lions, a penguin, another animal that I forgot.
Garters, "Get'em while they last"...because there is just so many people lining up to get'em.. LOL
I’m so glad this is reopened like it was originally. I live about an hour from there and remember going as a kid. Hey Carpetbagger you should go down to Bowling Green KY and visit the Corvette Museum and Beech Bend amusement park, it’s an old park
Loved this video, even as sad as GM is lol! I was there 25 years ago, and I still have the video that my dad took of it; even when he almost dropped our huge camcorder off the chairlift. It seems that some of their dialogue hasn’t changed at all, nor has the can-can music. I want to take my son and torture him when he’s old enough:)
I’d love to see the video
I transferred them all the dvd some years ago, so I’ll have to look for it soon, I’d love to have a watch also:)
Looks like a lot of fun !! I loved it when you flew possum 2 up and showed us just how beautiful it is out there . Thanks Jacob for taking us along !! Cool place !!
IT LIVES!! after watching your old funtown mountain videos, I became obsessed with the place, now it lives again!
The new owners are relly nice for bring guntown back😀 or funtown Like if you agree
Its good to see the place up and running again. Let's hope it stays that way.
takes me back when i was 9 or 10🤧😪
Back in the early 80’s when I was young, I lost my cool during the gun battle and pinballed back and forth across the street begging them to “stop and get along”, I was such a spaz.
Glad to see this up and running again. Many fun memories of going to this place as a kid.
I remember that video Jacob! Worth watching again though. Was really one of my favorites!
It's fantastic that you got to return to Gun town mountain. I always thought that the Willie Russell story was a fascinating one. Those videos were my introduction to your channel. Anyway, all the best to you and your family and love what you do.
I remember going to the original in the 90s or so. I had a great time. Gunfights and magic shows. Super awesome
2 years ago, the first video I saw from you was the tour of the decrepit, post-looted Fun Time Mountain... With the trashed up store, hidden Rock-a-Fire animatronics and abandoned Western shops. I initially thought there was some kind of storm that hit the place, and you were surveying the aftermath.
Because of that video, I still follow through your adventures across America.
Any ways, it's pretty cool to come back a few years later and see the attraction back on it's feet. I honestly didn't think it would ever come back, after all that carnage and controversy behind it. But nice to be proven wrong.
It’s been really cool to see the evolution of this place over the years, from the highs and the lows.
You should link your previous two videos covering the history of this place in the info under the video. This is the park that made me discover your channel and I love those videos! The one with the bear from the Rockafire band thumbnail was the first carpetbagger video I saw.
I went there as a young, its nice to find out it back up and running!
In wish they would bring Ghost Town back like that!
pirategirl58 I know Ghost Town, but sadly, it was already closed long before my time.
I’m glad to see this place come back!
thank you i went here as a kid it is so great to see it back and running.
Greetings from Australia! That was a fun little e-adventure of a video :) thank you
I feel bad for the bunnies. They shouldn't be kept in wire bottom cages as it's horrible for their feet. Plus they are social animals and do like to interact with people.
Those "weird looking ducks" where Muscovies! They are sweet ducks, they don't quack ether! males hiss and females sorta chirp, they wag their tails like dogs when happy
I remember that I been there before I used to live in Kentucky it was beautiful.place to visit .
Glad to see the place up and running again!
The garter belt part was cringeworthy. Awesome this attraction is back open! #TcB
Agree! They need to be a little more creative with there attractions and souvenirs .
we wish them well! thank you, Jacob.
Up the road from where I’m from it’s never been much of a place to go but this was cool to see. Haven’t been since I was a kid, glad you went there!
One of the first videos I saw from you was when this place was abandoned. Glad to see it's cleaned up and open for buisness again.
It was scary just how dead it was , I don't know if it entertained me or made me sad, it did cause a reaction though
Them were the good old days going to guntown mountain!
I know some that went up their when it reopened said the tickets was expensive but repaying to build this place back up I can why, they didn’t get to put the chairlift back, but I always wondered when it was in its prime was their something deeper going on up their. Mabe it’s just me
Nice to see the park/mountain open again! Been watching the other videos about Gun/Fun town mountain you've recorded.
That place was awesome back in its day. I hope they fix the chair lift.
Yay! I like Girearms. I mean Firearms. I got my G and F mixed up.
Lol
17:39 That “weird duck” is a goose.
Hello Jacob. Great video! I grew up about 20 minutes from Guntown. I loved it!! Great to see it back up and running!
One dollar to lock somebody in jail for a minute? That's over half a million dollars a year!
I have an idea. You could make a playlist of all your videos covering the history of Guntown/Funtown. I just watched them all (I think) in order over the last couple of days and it was pretty interesting.
A lot of those animatronics in that haunted house was from Spirit Halloween.
So thankful for this video!
I'm so glad to see this! Ever since the Will Russell break down saga happened and the then the sale of the property, I was hoping they'd have it going again. I've never been there before but I'd love to see it some day
Wow! Looks like they are still working on it. Love the old time parks. Keep Safe ❤Keep Well ❤
GUN Town Mountain looks fun again.
Well, God bless those actors. That's commitment!
Spent so many awesome summers there!
As a punk band we fucking love the carpetbagger, good work
Very cool...reminds me of the old west town I went to as a kid.
Every jumpscare in the haunted hotel got me too!!!! I literally almost wet my pants after that...
Hi Jacob, pretty cool how they've brought it back to how it used to be. Thank you. x
I am glad it is open again. 12:32 you should have looked probably someone in there. 13:44 Can Can girls my favorite. 21:30 creepy dancing bear.
A little rough around the edges but I would still rather go there than Disney.
Well, let's compare. Here they try to con you out of five bucks for a cheap garter. At Disney they try to con you out of twenty bucks for a balloon. You might have something there.
I ADORE that ham design on their sign. Spread shirt that bad boy💲💳🛒
I WAS JUST THERE CAMPING AT MAMOTH CAVE AND WHEN I PASSED GUNTOWN I TOLD MY FRIENDS IN THE CAR ABOUT YOU
I LIKED THE GUYS WITH THE BEAR PART THAT WAS HILARIOUS :):):):):):)
Omg yes they're bringing it back! Welcome to Kentucky 😊
This place is still open I so want to come and visit this place if I go to America and they have garter actions it looks brilliant
I lost a DC Digest comic in the Haunted Hotel in 1979.
Charming Charles is back!!!!!
Cool. Hope they get enough traffic there to keep place open. Looks the same before it closed down before Will bought it. Hope they can rebuild ski left even though I understand it will cost a million dollars to rebuild it. That was what sent Will over the top. When he bought place, he was told lift was fine. It wasn't. The town now reminds me of my two favourite western theme parks, Kaintuck Territory and Gold Nugget Junction in Lake of the Ozarks.
That was an awesome movie carpetbagger. I'm down here around Kentucky Fried Chicken's original Restaurant Corbin. I did not know that was open yet, but that's awesome information. Appreciate that carpetbagger. Good day sir.
oh my goodness that poor kid was crying!!!!
Really awsome I must see it soon
Looks like they're off to a good start. Perhaps they will fix the lift if business picks up, but they would probably have to build in more safety features to reduce liability.
Since Jacob didn't go into the souvenir shop, I assume it was not open, that's a tourist attractions bread and butter, plus if they don't have dining up there, they should get some, that opera house would be a good location to do that for those who want a sit down meal, and maybe a Chuck Wagon stand for those who want a quick snack or a drink. I suppose if they just reopened they'll add some stuff as they go along.
It's opening back up July 15th!
Yep should have never been changed to funtown glad the local froggets put it back to guntown, this is the south. A lot of work has been put in this place even before. I’m from around this area but surprisingly I never got to go their but seen it active and chairlifts going up as a kid.
I remember going a few years before it originally closed down, I'd like to go again some day
He seems not to remember the people inside of the haunted hotel
I went there when I was little with my family
Check out Diamond Caverns, it’s in Cave City too. That haunted house was sad. Lol
Awesome video. Great story.