Man, this was exactly the time I went with my friends as often as I could. I'm very close in age to the kids in the video. What a trip down memory lane.
Great America in the 80s and 90s was the absolute best. That was before all the gang kids starting coming there and really killing the experience for all the other families. It just went downhill from about 2001 on. The best most popular rides were the viper, the edge, and Top Gun was the best complete with the soundtrack from the movie and everything.
This was the time frame when my high school used to take annual trips here before school started each year. Good memories of how it looked. Go here a lot now with my kids to the water park but it just feels like a different park then back in the 90s.
This is some really great old footage of my favorite park! Reminds me of being a kid. Thank you! How did you manage not to drop the camera on the rides?
DUDE! The Skyhawk! That’s what I was looking for! I rode this once when I was about 11 or 12 with my cousin and I never forgot it because he spun the pod upside down and kept it there the whole time. He said the stick broke. Scared the S out of me. Still super fun in my memory though.
Wow. A blast from the past. The Edge, Vortex, Skyhawk, Revolution.....all gone. Yeah, Patriot uses the same tack as Vortex did, but it's a different ride.
@glenen grivas, when the algorithm kicks in, you will able to take care of your grandchildren for years to come. I went there every summer day from 1996 to 2000!
I remember going to great America when top gun first opened. Vortex was rad, man I miss those days. The Orleans orbit, the tidal wave, grizzly sucked tho.
Combing the background for 12year old me somewhere.
Miss the old school great America !
Man, this was exactly the time I went with my friends as often as I could. I'm very close in age to the kids in the video. What a trip down memory lane.
Great America in the 80s and 90s was the absolute best. That was before all the gang kids starting coming there and really killing the experience for all the other families. It just went downhill from about 2001 on. The best most popular rides were the viper, the edge, and Top Gun was the best complete with the soundtrack from the movie and everything.
Wow this brought back a ton of memories
Holy shit this park changed a lot
Demon the ride is the veteran
Great Memories! From PGA in 1993!
Long live GREAT AMERICA!
Nice editing!
So much nostalgia! Thanks for sharing!
Dear God I’m old! I remember all these riders
OMG the nostalgia. Thank you for sharing. It really brought me back to my summers there at Great America. 😁
This was the time frame when my high school used to take annual trips here before school started each year. Good memories of how it looked. Go here a lot now with my kids to the water park but it just feels like a different park then back in the 90s.
This is some really great old footage of my favorite park! Reminds me of being a kid. Thank you!
How did you manage not to drop the camera on the rides?
80s and 90s forever
DUDE! The Skyhawk! That’s what I was looking for! I rode this once when I was about 11 or 12 with my cousin and I never forgot it because he spun the pod upside down and kept it there the whole time. He said the stick broke. Scared the S out of me. Still super fun in my memory though.
Amazing I was a sophomore in high school
PLEASE....BRING THIS Great America back!!!!
Don't close it!!!
such great memories
Wow. A blast from the past. The Edge, Vortex, Skyhawk, Revolution.....all gone. Yeah, Patriot uses the same tack as Vortex did, but it's a different ride.
Great footage
Miss the rides they took out
Wow this is some awesome footage!
My family rode all of these rides in 2000
Wow! That camera must of been big! I am remember my dad camcorders!
This is incredible 🔥
Family 1992
Nice editing
Great childhood memories here. Too bad they're demolishing the entire park in 9 years.
Thank you for sharing!! 🎢🙌🏼🤗
I had to be like 8-10 yeard old.
Does anyone remember the Wizard?
@glenen grivas, when the algorithm kicks in, you will able to take care of your grandchildren for years to come. I went there every summer day from 1996 to 2000!
The Vortex was cool!
Definitely not the one in Illinois
Definitely not , no eagle, no shock wave, iron wolf etc. I had a season pass back in 92-93, this California one did have the demon though
I remember going to great America when top gun first opened. Vortex was rad, man I miss those days. The Orleans orbit, the tidal wave, grizzly sucked tho.
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