Disaster Transport was still a classic…even though it’s effects wore out quickly and the building it was enclosed in looked UGLY AF. Mean Streak I personally don’t miss for nearly breaking me and many other peoples backs. The funeral held for it was pretty fun though. And thankfully it was transformed by RMC into the masterpiece known as Steel Vengeance!
@@judiplaz hmm, I can't remember whether or not there was a slide at the end. I was so little at the time. The part I remember most is walking through a portion of it where it felt like the floor was moving. It was slanted but felt really weird! It was hard to walk on, but it had rails to hold onto.
@@melaniedaniels228 I loved Pirate Ride, the entire ride was leading to the guy being hung having his neck stretched. Growing as a child of the 70s, it was not possible to visit Cedar Point without going to Pirate Ride and Earthquake, cheesy but loved.
I can still remember parts of the ride, like where it looked like the ceiling was going to fall on you, and the scenes of Chinatown, and then the screams of people and the rumbling when the earthquake happened... it was pretty scary when I was a kid!
I probably rode Earthquake every year 1975-1984. It was jarring finding Berenstain Bears Country in it's place in 1985. Miss it badly, along with the Pirate Ride and Upside Down Funhouse.
It's become a place for young thrill seekers. They took out most of the slow family rides except the Sky Ride, Cadillac Cars, steam train, Antique Carousel, and Dodgem bumper cars. The consequence of removing rides is that future generations will never be able to experience them and might not even be aware they existed unless they learn about it somehow or someone tells them. How many people born mid-90's and up would be aware that Pirate Ride once existed in the building next to Blue Streak? It closed after 1996. There are some rides that only boomers will remember.
Loved the sky slide when I was little. Remember that some times the attendants would give you a piece of wax paper to put under the canvas sack to wax up the slide!
Yep! they were gasoline powered like "REAL" cars!, Kennywood Park in Pittsburgh also had the "Turnpike" and yep also with gasoline powered cars! In fact, Kennywood's had used and promoted "Gulf" gasoline. (Gulf Oil Company was a Pittsburgh based corporation at the time)
Avalanche Run was not bad. Later, they built a box around it to enclose it and renamed it Disaster Transport. It was dark inside and decorated to replicate outer space. It was quite an improvement from Avalanche Run, and while you waited in line (in the air conditioning!) you were entertained by robots and futuristic props. One of the robots is now stationed in a gift shop, as you exit one of the coasters, but I don't remember which one.
I didn't like it. It was more of a gravity coaster and I don't like coasters. Even mild ones. I rode kiddie coasters at Dorney Park as a kid though. I won't even ride Demon Drop now that it's at my hometown park I grew up with. I went to Cedar Point once in June 1995 and my brother and I got in with our Dorney Park season passes. We rode Pirate Ride several times, the car rides, steam train, sky ride. Now, you have to buy a higher priced pass to visit other Cedar Fair parks so we just get the Dorney only pass. Dorney Park once had a ride like Pirate Ride, it burned Sept. 28, 1983 and I rode it for a few years before the fire with my brother, and my late dad and mom who passed March 8, 1986 and June 14, 2022. It was called Bucket O' Blood, and was Pirate's Cove from 1962-1974 and Devil's Cave from the 30's to 1961.
MeanStreak was brutally uncomfortable to ride. Painful even. The redesign into Steel Vengeance is hands down one of the most intense coaster rides I've ever experienced and very smooth operating. I hope they find a way to redesign the Top Thrill Dragster and, of course, rename it (possibly to reflect the sensation of launching a fighter jet off of an aircraft carrier catapult). Because that ride is (was) the #1 most intense 20 seconds I've ever experienced! Most people concur!
TTD is being rebuilt as I write this. The old "bug" of a potential "roll back" is going to be a standard feature! (Not making that up!) I always WANTED a rollback, but never got one! Next year I will₁ YAY!
A rollercoaster has to be REALLY bad for me NOT to like it but MeanStreak certainly did all that it could to make me hate it. I remember thinking: please stop, please stop, please stop, please stop, please end this now, this is not fun. I rode it ONCE and that was quite enough.
I rode Earthquake and enjoyed Cedar Point's other two dark ride features, Pirate Ride and The Funhouse. Earthquake featured fake skyscrapers that tumbled toward the riders with barely-miss moments. The animatronics were wonderfully cheesy, including a line of rubber rats fleeing a giant sewer pipe! Very fond memories. Wish CP would build a new dark ride, something fun and retro. Enough with the 500 ft coasters, already!!!
I remember standing in line for an hour or more to ride Demon Drop, that and Geauga Lakes' Big Dipper will always stand as my favorite amusement rides.
Earthquake was a fun ride. You got into a car, that actually looked like an old model T. It was basically a fun house style ride. The Pirate Ride was similar, just themed differently, and you rode in a boat (on wheels). It lasted longer than Earthquake and you can still see some of the props during Halloweekends
@@jacksonpriestap3685 at the very end of the ride there was a 'plus sized' animatronic pirate, sitting between a couple wooden kegs., And he would lift the lids to reveal a couple heads as you would pass underneath him. Well that pirate was stationed at blood on the bayou last year. I did not go this year. So IDK if it was still there.
I can still hear the paper mache fella in the Earthquake ride shout "And stay out!" and slamming the door. And at another point, a concrete column breaks and looks like it is going to fall onto your car, but the fall is broken before it gets too close.
The paddle boat adventure ride is no longer at Cedar Point either. I'll miss that one, especially as it was an all ages kind of family ride. The captain always had corny jokes about the wooden native American and frontiersman manikins. They briefly ran one of the boats out of the Cedar Point Marina, and did tours on the Sandusky Bay. I think it was unde $10. Possibly closer to $5, for season pass holders. My girlfriend and I were the only 2 people on it, the only time I took the tour.
They put in a new boat ride a few years ago that went around the island, but it now closed, too. There are now no slow family friendly rides at the back of the park now with the Antique cars gone except the steam train which has a stop in Frontiertown. Not everybody likes extreme coasters that have G forces similar to a rocket blasting off into space.
The Old Mill Race aka The Log Ride! That was always an old favorite. If I recall correctly (I was very young) it used to be where the Raptor is. I just remember getting in that thing with my dad and uncle, on a hot day, and we'd all come off of it wet and cooled off, laughing like hell.
Witches Wheel and Demon Drop were my favorites as a child of the 80s growing up in NE Ohio. I also enjoyed the Turnpike Cars as being a child it was cool to be able to drive on my own! You did forget an iconic attraction of Cedar Point back from 1965 to 2012...the Space Spiral. It gave outstanding views of the park from 300 feet in the air. It was also demolished to make room for Gatekeeper.
@@aprilskutt974 the giant slide was the world's fastest potatoes sack race! I don't know how many times I burned myself on that thing. The surface would get really hot and the friction was intense
The Wild Cat was such a fun, nostalgic ride. Just like Wicked Twister (which is also gone now), wait times were never very long, the ride was thrilling and both took up very little real estate. They are the 2 rides that I miss more than any others. Demon drop also met those criteria, in it's later years. It scared the crap out of me when it first came out (I was 10) and the line was always hours long for the first several years. The Power Tower is a superior replacement and wait times are unbelievably short (probably because similar rides have injured and even killed rider's, at other parks). For awhile, both were in operation at the same park. Ahhh, the good old days.
The last year of its operation, I finally got up the nerve to go on Jumbo Jet. It was a cloudy day. As we got up to the station, it started to lightly sprinkle. The next train pulled in and we got loaded into it, but the ride operator said he would have to wait to get the go ahead phone call in order to release our train. We were safety belted in and waiting. The phone rang and he said he was told to close the ride. He said that after the rain stops, they then test the brakes, and this can take around 40 minutes to complete. We got out of the car and the weather did not cooperate the rest of the day. The next year the ride was gone. Can't believe I got that close, but no cigar!
I worked at Cedar Point summer of `78 and I never saw a Turnpike ride there! Seeing as how what you're showing here looks just the Kennywood ride, I would've not only remembered it being there,I would've ridden it a few times as it was always one of my fave Kennywood rides. I lived right outside the park so, I could've got in any time I wanted. No, I never got to ride Earthquake when I worked there in `78 because it didn't exist. I love dark rides and would've gone on that dozens of times! I went into The Fun House quite often and, even after the park closed for the night, I'd go in and walk through The Fun House in the dark and even climbed up the slide silos all the way to the very top. They actually go up about another 7 or 8 feet so, I'd go up and ride them from the very top. I don't think I ever rode Jumbo Jet. I might have but don't recall seeing that one there. Maybe they'd already replaced it before I got there in early July (the 5th). I'm pretty sure I rode Wild Cat. I remember that being there.
Here's a 1978 map of the Cedar Point where Turnpike Cars is clearly visible beside Marina Gate, and the front of the Earthquake ride is visible in front of the first aid point on the midway: www.rollercoasterfreak.com/CP_Brochures/1978_pg_inside.jpg
@@ThemeSeekers Thanks but, that's not a very good map (too blurry) and it's not completely accurate, either. Where number 11 is, that's where the Fun House was. I remember seeing The Wild Cat through the slightly open door in the tilted room and it was a couple feet away from that door. There was no steakhouse there. Right there and all the way to the road to the left of it was a 2-story house where most of the employees (myself included) lived in mostly tiny rooms. Mine was on the 2nd floor near the back of the building and my window, right next to my bed, was a few feet away from the lake and I heard sea gulls quite often. Any time I went into the park it was through what this map calls, The Marina Gate. Just inside to my left was the brand new Omnimax (or Imax) theatre. (I also worked at the Carnegie Science Center and we had one of those, too and one was called, Imax, the other was, Omnimax, I'm just not sure which was which). Where 14 is, that building MIGHT'VE been there, I never used it so, I'm not sure but, it was either there or a building to the left of it where we employees would go once or twice a week to see movies I saw, "All The King's Men" (and slept through most of it) and, "Sleuth". I don't recall any others but I know it was right across the way from those sliding boards. As much as I wanted to, I don't think I ever rode those. I worked at the games along the midway. The first one I worked in was the Panther Pitch way up near the top of the L. I think it was the 2nd or 3rd game down. It was my fave because there was this really cute girl, Cheryl Hubbard, working there and I had a heavy crush on her! The lead at that game was a Hawaiian guy named, Joel. I can't recall his last name but he also had 3 of his sisters working there. Janis and Ioana (everyone called her, Joanna) worked at the Panther Pitch and Joel's other sister was the lead of the game at the top of the L. I don't think I ever worked her game. I don't recall seeing that spire there at all or any of that other stuff in that area. I never even went in that area. Right next to that red dot where it says, Games, is where the milk bottle game was. It was run by a black guy named, Charlie Brown. I only worked there 3 or 4 times. One of those time, I was leaving through the back door to go to lunch and the door (spring-loaded) slammed shut on my hand just as I was pulling it out of the way and the door ripped a wart out of my knuckle and I had to go across the midway to the medical area to get it taken care of. In as such, from what I recall, that merry-go-round was NOT there! I don't know what the question mark is for but, right at the bottom of it was another game called, Bear Hoopla and it was run by another very sweet girl named, Jennifer. Turns out, she's from my area! Another girl from my area worked at the place at the end of the L (near the front gate) where I'd go every day to buy French Fries from her. She always knew my order so, when she saw me coming, she'd get them ready for me! In the crotch of the L is where we'd always eat lunch at a series of picnic tables. Backgammon was really huge there, back then so, everybody played it any time they got the chance and they even had a tourney. Up to that point, I had no idea how to play it! Along the bottom of the L were most of the shitty games, Pick-a-Duck, Bust a Dish, The Cat Rack and I think one of those squirt gun games. There was another inside that hospital building. Somewhere near where that steakhouse is, there was a tiny office building. I had to go in there to get my ID picture taken. And, right beside that was a sort of gang plank where you'd get onto the ferry boat that'd take you across the lake to Sandusky. Not too far away, was the Sandusky Mall, where I bought several new albums (the first 3 by Synergy, "Bullets Through The Barrier" by The Movies and possibly, "Who Are You?" by The Who. It was right after Keith died. Oh! and the picture disc edition of Sgt. Pepper which skipped all over the place so, I took it back.) and my first stereo cassette recorder. Well, those are the anomalies that I can pick out. By the way, I don't see Earthquake on the map.
Earthquake was the best! we actually rode it when I was 11 right before we moved to CA. It was so realistic that I was terrified when we experienced our first real earthquake. I still have vivid memories of it today. You could not only see the damage but they added smells to the sounds around you. Just awesome.
There was another ride that was where jumbo jet was and that was Disaster Transport, which was another dark ride. It was remove in 2012 along with space spiral to make room for gatekeeper.
Gatekeeper killed the last air conditioned indoor ride in the park. The dark rides were all off the main midway, the back of the park never had any but there are some indoor haunt mazes in the back which only open in Sept. and October.
My dad’s company picnic was always there on Labor Day Weekend, so I went at least once a year from about 1964- 1978 ( sometimes 2 times) so I went on ALL these rides..when I was small, the line for the Blue Streak went all the way to the midway!! When you had the nerve to ride it, you didn’t have to hang out with mom anymore! So I was there for all the “ firsts”…Corkscrew,Raptor,Mantis,Magnum etc… loved the little rides too, the Scrambler,Matterhorn etc. Rode the big slide the first year it opened & my sack had a hole in it & my tennis shoes stopped me dead & I rolled down it. Ended up with burns down my arm & leg. Today I would be rich!!
I rode Earthquake in 1979 and I don't remember too many specifics, it was a good ride. I do remember buildings falling down and maybe even a "fire" or explosion and a lot of being in the dark. I enjoyed it.
I have a story about Witches’ Wheel, which is the attraction I miss the most. When it was in its last year of operation, I went to Cedar Point. I was pretty young, so I got height measured and I was pretty much exactly 54” tall. However I got the wristband and was cleared to ride all height-restricted rides. I wasn’t super into coasters back then, so I immediately wanted to ride Witches’ Wheel. I rode it twice in the morning then went to ride other rides in the park. I would have ridden it more then since I honestly loved it, but the line was getting long. I went back in the afternoon when the line was shorter. There were different ride attendants there and even though I had the 54” wristband for being able to ride they still insisted on measuring me THREE times and had three different attendants look at it. Even so, they said I was JUST not tall enough to ride. Even though I rode it earlier in the morning. Being a younger kid I walked out of the line on the verge of crying. I wasn’t able to return to CP that summer so even though I was a pass holder I couldn’t ride it again before it closed. It still kinda pisses me off to this day and I still half-suspect it was a load of BS that I wasn’t tall enough.
Lol. We stuck wads of napkins in my nephew's shoes so that he could ride everything. The witches wheel was definitely cool. Once they would start the ride, there was a moment where you couldn't see the operator and they couldn't see you. So I used to turn around to face backwards at that point. Almost every time, the operator would eventually see me and start repeating through the loud speaker to please not do that. But once the ride is going, it kept going, and you couldn't really hear them.
The rules are meant to keep you safe. The park has security and they can call security on you if you break rules while riding. Even arguing over the height limit can get you a visit from security.
Adding on to rides already mentioned let me add the following significant defunct rides: Starting with my 1st trip to CP the biggest rides included the Mill Race which I believe was the 2nd ever flume ride built in the USA by Arrow. The Monorail and Double Ferris Wheel. The 1st ride ever built in Frontier Town was a flume ride called Shoot the Rapids which was replaced by White Water Landing. A 2nd Shoot the Rapids was built along Frontier Trail and its splash pool is now used as part of Forbidden Frontier. There was a 2nd Sky Lift which ran from the main-midway to Frontier Town and finally one of my childhood favorites The Western Cruise.
When I was a kid Earthquake was my favorite, followed by the fun house across the walkway. Maybe with flat and dark rides becoming more popular, especially that they can make it more 3D like they did with Spiderman in Universal Orlando, they will bring it back.
Earthquake was my favorite ride growing up. It was the first and last ride every trip to the park. I remember going to CP the day after prom in 85, and was sad to see it was replaced with a Bernstein Bears shop. Another favorite was the Jumbo Jet coaster about where Gatekeepers entrance is now. I was finally tall enough to ride it. Rode once and the next year it was gone. The other and most missed ride was, Bayern Kurve. That's actually my vanity plate on my car.
I rode Mean Streak before its closure and can tell you, they really gave it an appropriate name. That thing would rattle you around and you'd be feeling it for a while.
The last few years it got really rough. hurt my friends and I and we were athletic teenagers. my best friend ended up getting to help rebuild it into Steel Vengeance.
Another ok ride that Cedar Point managed to transform into something better is the Rugaroo. Formerly known as the Mantiss, it was very slow to load and offload rider's, do to the complexity of allowing them to remain securely standing as the train, sped, twisted, ascended, descended, looped and rolled upside down. It was a bit rough, especially as one's head would pinball between the shoulder bars. Plus, pulling G's while standing was a bit challenging, despite the awkward 'groin pad' that each rider straddled. But since adapting proper seating, it's transformed into a smooth, fun, easy-going ride with shorter wait times.
I grew up in NW Ohio, and went to CP every other summer or so between about 1975 and 1989. I remember the Pirate Ride, Earthquake (does anyone know if a ride-through of this is anywhere on UA-cam?), Bayern Kurve, Schwabinchen, Round Up, the Rotor (one of my very favorites), Wildcat, Blue Streak, the debuts of Corkscrew and Gemini, the Mine Ride, both of the flume rides, the Old West animatronic skeletons on part of the train trip…I haven’t been back since 1989. Feeling old…but kid me and teen me loved it.
Pirate ride and Earthquake were great and I remember as a kid riding those along with going into the funhouse. It was sad to see the indoor snoopy area and arcade take over that area. Cedar point just does not have enough room to keep everything sadly, but a dark ride would be nice.
Well, they could contract with Sally Corp. for a new one. They could have reused the Pirate building for a new one but it's now used as a walk-through Boo Hill fun house in the fall I believe.
Been there so many times. I hated mean streak it was so rough and I gave it so many Chances but it never delivered. I was so glad to see it go and am so happy that it got turned into A masterpiece
I rode Earthquake and the Pirate Ride many, many times! I think there is a place for air-conditioned dark rides still and I love a good dark ride. They were very fun!
Loved this ride (and its next-door neighbor, the Pirate Ride, another dark ride) and rode it multiple times on each visit to CP. On one trip, My Dad and I had barely started the ride when it stopped. We waited in the dark until, finally, the lights all came on and they said that we needed to get out of the car and make our way to the exit. The thing I remember, is how 'cheesy and flimsy' the ride was in the light. One particular sight was of a RECORD PLAYER which was used for some sound effect. the tonearm had a piece of string connected to it so the record would only play until the string made it lift off the record and being again. I miss that ride!
Every time our family went to CP we rode Earthquake! What I remember is that we always thought it was a little hokey, but we enjoyed none the less. We waited until later in the day to ride it because it was air conditioned inside and it gave us a reprieve from the hot weather. I never rode the jumbo jet, but I remember standing there watching it run and seeing this couple get off of it and apparently the woman had been so terrified that she clawed her husband. He had scratches on him. Im not a roller coaster fan and so I delight in the smaller rides. Some of my favorite rides were The Rotor and giant slide and Disaster Transport. I also still love the racing carousel, the matterhorn, the mine car ride coaster.
use to be a Haunted House, right on the main drag. all i remember of it was there was a room that was upside down. i remember it being hot and stuffy. It was there in the 70s.
As a kid growing up in the 70s, Earthquake was my favorite ride there as well as Bayern Kurve. It was the first and last ride of the day when we went. Was sad to see it replaced with the Barenstien Bears. I'm lucky to have a copy of the soundtrack the used. Jumbo Jet I only rode once. The year I was tall enough. The next year it was gone.
Alot of memories there with the attractions. I recall being able to enjoy them when I used to go every summer. sadly its been years since i was there last. they also forgot paddel wheel excursions that was there as well.
Cedar Point was like a second home for me. I'd been going since 1969!! Never missed a year in 20 years, going up to 4 times each summer. I miss the Earthquake ride, The Schwabinchen, The Trabant, the Bayern Curve, the Mine Ride, Calypso, Tiki Twirl, the Space Needle, the Frontier Skylift, and so many others that were a part of my childhood into adulthood. Cedar Point is an amazing place to be!! 🥰
NOOOOOOOOO! 😭😭😭😭 Did they get ride of The Mine Ride?!??! That was such an awesome little coaster. It wasn’t the biggest or fastest, but that 720° helix at the end was my favorite part!
@@HMFan2010 No worries. I believe the Cedar Creek Mine Ride is still in operation. 😊It's been such a long time since I've been back to CP and I miss tons of great rides and memories. The Mine Ride was one of my favorites!! 😄
@@VickiCampbell-1216 *PHEW!* I just checked the Cedar Point website and the Cedar Creek Mine Ride is still on the roster. I was panicking there for a minute...
Yes, I remember riding Earthquake. I believe it started with a fortune teller “predicting a disaster,” then proceeded through a couple of scenes of tourist-y San Francisco. I think it then traveled through a bar or saloon where a brawl took place and the bar owner yelled “...and stay out!” as the car was booted outside onto the street where chaos ensued as the quake hit (CoasterBob62 has an audio-only ride POV and in the 1977 recording you can clearly hear this). Tower of falling barrels? Building facades that tilted in toward you as you sped past? Simulated fire? I really can’t remember but I wish I could. It was such a fun ride. I believe there was also a Pirate dark ride towards the front entrance which would have been on the left as you entered the park... And while it was not a ride, you did not mention the fun house that had an upside-room with an old man snoozing in a rocking chair... on the ceiling! And then the grain silo spiral slides at the end. It was replaced with Disaster Transport, a bobsled ride similar in theming to Disneyland’s Space Mountain. And yes, I rode Jumbo Jet as well.
I can't believe Avalanche Run only got a passing mention. It was my absolute favorite. The que positively sucked when they enclosed it for Disaster Transport (though the A/C was oft appreciated), but the ride itself might have been even better.
I miss a lot of cedar point my family came to the park for years. I miss a little playground near the hotel breakers with a little swinging gate. I miss kiddie land I miss the fun house. Mom and dad missed the ballroom and the big bands. I miss frontier trail where I used to work and the Polynesian hut on the beach. The fun house and the train ride and the giant ferries wheel. I miss Christmas in July and I did ride the earthquake it was important because my father had lived in San Francisco. So we’d go together. I miss the ferry between Sandusky and cedar Point but it might still run I’m not there. I miss going to peli island pelican island? Near Sandusky there was a ferry you could take a ride bikes. I miss the black smith and the sheep which I fed and took care of. I miss all the flowers on the midway it was landscaped so beautiful. They had flowers and a lot of natural gardening.
I loved the Mean Streak. It was rough but it was a awesome wooden coaster. When I became tall enough to ride the rides I loved wildcat it was thrilling but not to scary for a little kid
Earthquake was a great dark ride. This was a go to attraction for my family. I wish Cedar Point would create more dark rides, the Pirate ride was another of my favorites.
They took out Disaster Transport, too so they really have no indoor air conditioned rides now. It's become a coaster park for young thrill seekers. But, if you like scary indoor haunted attractions, they have several during HalloWeekends in the fall and they change themes at times. Like Hexed near the front is now Midnight or something. Dorney Park near me has Haunt, with several indoor haunted attractions and outdoor scare zones. It was HalloWeekends from 1998-2007.
I rode EARTHQUAKE as a child and though it was the most fascinating experience of my life. Of course, I was 7 years old. I've been trying to find video of it for years.
I never got to ride it, but I rode Pirate Ride over and over during my only visit in June 1995. Earthquake closed after 1984 and Pirate after 1996. It's a Boo Hill fun house now in the fall.
Jumbo Jet and Wildcat were pretty cool, but Jumbo Jet would get stuck a lot. What I miss most are Earthquake and Pirate Ride. My first visit was around 1973? I could only ride the "kiddie" rides. This year I've got the season pass, meal pass and drink pass. I'm planning on 15 to 20 visits, so I'll get waaaay more than my money's worth in the passes, no doubt. If you're going to visit at least two or more times, the passes are worth it, because of the new admission rates, food and drink rates, and parking. Parking is $20 a pop, and you get free parking every visit with the season pass.
Pirate Ride - it was one of the only things to do in doors when it rained Oceana - not a ride but an attraction was a great way to sit and relax and watch a show Avalanche run - was better than disaster transport but I feel the track was the same Space Needle - at 1 time was one of the highest rides. We would always look for our car in the parking lot
SkyScraper was part of Cedar Points Challenge Park. It, and every other 'challenge' in the park charged a separate 'fair' to ride, and were overpriced. I never rode skyscraper because it was expensive and just looked like it was gonna fall over some day.
Demon Drop is at Dorney Park near me now. Near Allentown, PA a few hundred miles from Sandusky, OH. It's a smaller park but now resembles a mini-Cedar Point. Cedar Fair did a top to bottom renovation and removed old rides and built new ones. Steel Force is like Magnum. Talon is like Raptor. White Water Landing is like Snake River Falls. Both parks have a Thunder Canyon. Cedar Fair bought Dorney Park & Wildwater Kingdom in July 1992. It was family run before, and some former heads of the park have passed away, including the man who sold the park to Cedar Fair and had run the park since 1985. He was an in-law, married to one of the Plarr daughters, but his name was Harris Weinstein. He moved to Florida after 1992 season. The Plarrs bought the park from founder Solomon Dorney in the early 1900's. The park is on a hill, so the paths are very hilly in the middle section. It gets mobbed on nice days especially on weekends and holiday weekends because the northeast is very populated and people travel miles to the park. They still have a few old rides like the Zephyr train, the Whip, and Thunderhawk wooden coaster and an antique carousel from Cedar Point which opened in 1995 at the new main entrance at the top of the park. There used to be two public entrances, and the bottom entrance by Thunderhawk is now employee only.
I'm pretty sure I rode Earthquake at one of my visits to the park, but I can't recall much about it or if it was any good. I do miss the Wild Mouse coaster, but they now have a new one that I need to still expeerience.
I don't remember what it was called, but they had a giant sliding board, about 8 lanes wide, and you went down it in a potato sack! Lol. It burned like hell if you tried using your hands for brakes or accidentally rubbed them on it. My dad would take me down it and I felt like we were going 50 mph, and it was kinda like a staircase. So there were a couple G outs.
Maybe I misunderstood what you were trying to say about Jumbo Jet with it replacing Wildcat. But there were a few years where both were operating. Wildcat was at where Wicked Twister eventually went. And Jumbo Jet was where Gatekeeper is now.
Ok, if you never got to ride the “skyscraper”, you missed out big time lol. That was without a doubt one of the MOST intense rides I’ve ever ridden, more so than the millennium or dragster, and I would compare its thrill level to “the ripcord”.
Demon Drop I'm not that sad to see go, after getting stuck on a ride for almost an hour, I wasn't the happiest, however getting to skip the line for other rides that day made up for it. Getting to ride Maverick it's first year without a wait was nice.
I've been to Cedar Point probably a couple hundred times now and aside from maybe a 3 minute pause on the skyride, I have only been stuck on a ride once. The Mine Ride, for about 15 minutes. They offered a reride without wait, but I declined.
You can still ride Demon Drop if you travel to Dorney Park near Allentown, PA about several hundred miles east of Sandusky, OH. I live near Dorney Park & Wildwater Kingdom.
Bit of a correction, Turnpike Cars was closed due to Valravn being built, not because of Raptor. It was open with Raptor. Only Cadillac Cars remain of the car rides.
Is the Baby (Jr.) Gemini still there??? It was directly across the way of the Big Gemini?? I haven’t been there in some years… I remember the summer when Magnum XL 200 first open…. I didn’t stand a chance of getting on that coaster.. because the line was entirely too long😂😂😂😂plus as a kid… I was way too scared😂
It's hard to imagine Cedar Point without new rides like Maverick and Gate Keeper? What? Jumbo Jet was removed because the new Cork Screw and Gemini were light years better. But it is still beloved with good memories.
Just a little FYI, Turnpike didn’t have electronic cars, as stated, they were powered by gasoline engines. I rode Earthquake many times. It wasn’t the best ride, but would be fun to have around today for nostalgia’s sake. Same with Pirate Ride.
Actually I just remembered, you missed another defunct ride. Disaster transport. It was at one time called avalanche run but was turned into disaster transport. I rode it once and thought it was ok but it was very short in terms of ride time.
I remember when I was 6 I was sad I couldn't ride the demon drop because I wasn't tall enough yet. My mom said, "When we come back next year, you'll be tall enough and we'll ride it." Next year comes and they took it down and I never got to ride it
Which of these Cedar Point rides do you miss most?
I know where the remains of some of these are. They are still on the islands but not used
Maybe they will be used as props in the future? 😀
Miss challenge park the most the skyscraper was my favorite ride outside of the normal park
Earthquake was a blast as well as the other dark ride ,the pirate ride
Disaster Transport was still a classic…even though it’s effects wore out quickly and the building it was enclosed in looked UGLY AF.
Mean Streak I personally don’t miss for nearly breaking me and many other peoples backs. The funeral held for it was pretty fun though. And thankfully it was transformed by RMC into the masterpiece known as Steel Vengeance!
It wasn't a ride, but I miss the upside down funhouse. It was so much fun to walk through!
Is that the one where you come out of the bldg on a slide? I was very young but I remember a fun house with a slide.
@@judiplaz hmm, I can't remember whether or not there was a slide at the end. I was so little at the time. The part I remember most is walking through a portion of it where it felt like the floor was moving. It was slanted but felt really weird! It was hard to walk on, but it had rails to hold onto.
@@judiplaz yes there were spiral slides at the end
Wasn't only part of it upside down? I remember part of it having a hall of mirrors!
@QueridaWendy yes and yes, there was a hall of mirrors
You missed the Pirate Ride- similar to Earthquake. Loved all the old rides!
We might just have to make a part 2! 😂
I was going to comment on this too! Pirate Ride was one of my favorites--it's scared the crap out of me when I was little!
When he was talking about Earthquake, the Pirate Ride immediately came to mind.
@@melaniedaniels228 I loved Pirate Ride, the entire ride was leading to the guy being hung having his neck stretched. Growing as a child of the 70s, it was not possible to visit Cedar Point without going to Pirate Ride and Earthquake, cheesy but loved.
Pirate Ride was a better dark ride than Earthquake but I miss them both. Probably miss the Fun House even more…..
They also had a Pirate dark ride, the Riverboat ride and two log flume rides, Shoot the Rapids and the Mill Race!
I found this video after searching for whatever happened to Earthquake. That was a wonderful ride! One of my childhood favorites.
Thanks for watching! 😃
I can still remember parts of the ride, like where it looked like the ceiling was going to fall on you, and the scenes of Chinatown, and then the screams of people and the rumbling when the earthquake happened... it was pretty scary when I was a kid!
Me too! I was searching for San Francisco earthquake ride 😀
I loved this ride as a kid, it was scary for me as little kid, but it was fun at the same time.
I probably rode Earthquake every year 1975-1984. It was jarring finding Berenstain Bears Country in it's place in 1985. Miss it badly, along with the Pirate Ride and Upside Down Funhouse.
Loved the Upside down & the rotor room!I hate how CP is getting to be less of an family place every year
It's become a place for young thrill seekers. They took out most of the slow family rides except the Sky Ride, Cadillac Cars, steam train, Antique Carousel, and Dodgem bumper cars. The consequence of removing rides is that future generations will never be able to experience them and might not even be aware they existed unless they learn about it somehow or someone tells them. How many people born mid-90's and up would be aware that Pirate Ride once existed in the building next to Blue Streak? It closed after 1996. There are some rides that only boomers will remember.
Does anyone remember Bernstein Bears and the Potato Sack Slide? They were both awesome when I was a kid.
I do. I remember the spooky tree and all that as well!
@Bethlehem Eisenhour the rotor. It always made me queazy
I remember bear country…. I specifically remember playing in the pool of balls and was scared that I got stuck😂😂
Loved the sky slide when I was little. Remember that some times the attendants would give you a piece of wax paper to put under the canvas sack to wax up the slide!
I got a pretty bad 'rub burn' from my hand making contact with the slide. It felt I was going so fast!
This brought back some great memories - thank you! I’ve ridden most of these. Small point - the turnpike cars weren’t electric, they were gasoline.
Thanks for watching 🙂
Yep! they were gasoline powered like "REAL" cars!, Kennywood Park in Pittsburgh also had the "Turnpike" and yep also with gasoline powered cars! In fact, Kennywood's had used and promoted "Gulf" gasoline. (Gulf Oil Company was a Pittsburgh based corporation at the time)
Avalanche Run was not bad. Later, they built a box around it to enclose it and renamed it Disaster Transport. It was dark inside and decorated to replicate outer space. It was quite an improvement from Avalanche Run, and while you waited in line (in the air conditioning!) you were entertained by robots and futuristic props. One of the robots is now stationed in a gift shop, as you exit one of the coasters, but I don't remember which one.
Gate keeper... right after the picture area
I didn't like it. It was more of a gravity coaster and I don't like coasters. Even mild ones. I rode kiddie coasters at Dorney Park as a kid though. I won't even ride Demon Drop now that it's at my hometown park I grew up with. I went to Cedar Point once in June 1995 and my brother and I got in with our Dorney Park season passes. We rode Pirate Ride several times, the car rides, steam train, sky ride. Now, you have to buy a higher priced pass to visit other Cedar Fair parks so we just get the Dorney only pass. Dorney Park once had a ride like Pirate Ride, it burned Sept. 28, 1983 and I rode it for a few years before the fire with my brother, and my late dad and mom who passed March 8, 1986 and June 14, 2022. It was called Bucket O' Blood, and was Pirate's Cove from 1962-1974 and Devil's Cave from the 30's to 1961.
MeanStreak was brutally uncomfortable to ride. Painful even. The redesign into Steel Vengeance is hands down one of the most intense coaster rides I've ever experienced and very smooth operating. I hope they find a way to redesign the Top Thrill Dragster and, of course, rename it (possibly to reflect the sensation of launching a fighter jet off of an aircraft carrier catapult). Because that ride is (was) the #1 most intense 20 seconds I've ever experienced! Most people concur!
Very uncomfortable ride. One of my friends said that he could feel his insides moving around
TTD is being rebuilt as I write this. The old "bug" of a potential "roll back" is going to be a standard feature! (Not making that up!) I always WANTED a rollback, but never got one! Next year I will₁ YAY!
A rollercoaster has to be REALLY bad for me NOT to like it but MeanStreak certainly did all that it could to make me hate it. I remember thinking: please stop, please stop, please stop, please stop, please end this now, this is not fun. I rode it ONCE and that was quite enough.
Yeah. How many of the Mean Streak souvenir ride photos are of people grimacing in pain? 🙋♂️
I rode Earthquake and enjoyed Cedar Point's other two dark ride features, Pirate Ride and The Funhouse. Earthquake featured fake skyscrapers that tumbled toward the riders with barely-miss moments. The animatronics were wonderfully cheesy, including a line of rubber rats fleeing a giant sewer pipe! Very fond memories. Wish CP would build a new dark ride, something fun and retro. Enough with the 500 ft coasters, already!!!
I remember standing in line for an hour or more to ride Demon Drop, that and Geauga Lakes' Big Dipper will always stand as my favorite amusement rides.
Earthquake was a fun ride. You got into a car, that actually looked like an old model T. It was basically a fun house style ride. The Pirate Ride was similar, just themed differently, and you rode in a boat (on wheels). It lasted longer than Earthquake and you can still see some of the props during Halloweekends
Any props from Pirate Ride in particular that they use? All I could find was the ship.
@@jacksonpriestap3685 at the very end of the ride there was a 'plus sized' animatronic pirate, sitting between a couple wooden kegs., And he would lift the lids to reveal a couple heads as you would pass underneath him. Well that pirate was stationed at blood on the bayou last year. I did not go this year. So IDK if it was still there.
There was also a mannequin fisherman that used to sit on the banks of the old river boat ride.
I can still hear the paper mache fella in the Earthquake ride shout "And stay out!" and slamming the door. And at another point, a concrete column breaks and looks like it is going to fall onto your car, but the fall is broken before it gets too close.
The paddle boat adventure ride is no longer at Cedar Point either. I'll miss that one, especially as it was an all ages kind of family ride. The captain always had corny jokes about the wooden native American and frontiersman manikins. They briefly ran one of the boats out of the Cedar Point Marina, and did tours on the Sandusky Bay. I think it was unde $10. Possibly closer to $5, for season pass holders. My girlfriend and I were the only 2 people on it, the only time I took the tour.
They put in a new boat ride a few years ago that went around the island, but it now closed, too. There are now no slow family friendly rides at the back of the park now with the Antique cars gone except the steam train which has a stop in Frontiertown. Not everybody likes extreme coasters that have G forces similar to a rocket blasting off into space.
The Space Needle and the second stretch of sky ride that ended at the Mine Ride were 2 more cool rides that were low key.
I loved the Paddleboat. A friend was one of the captains and a few of his bothers did the same. 1980s.
The Old Mill Race aka The Log Ride! That was always an old favorite. If I recall correctly (I was very young) it used to be where the Raptor is. I just remember getting in that thing with my dad and uncle, on a hot day, and we'd all come off of it wet and cooled off, laughing like hell.
Witches Wheel and Demon Drop were my favorites as a child of the 80s growing up in NE Ohio. I also enjoyed the Turnpike Cars as being a child it was cool to be able to drive on my own! You did forget an iconic attraction of Cedar Point back from 1965 to 2012...the Space Spiral. It gave outstanding views of the park from 300 feet in the air. It was also demolished to make room for Gatekeeper.
I miss the old rides. That giant slide was fun. My sister and I rode it a lot.
I was soooo sad to see the space spiral go, it was great for pictures
Good call on the space spiral. I was born in 86 and remember it, mill race, demon drop, and the witches wheel vividly and fondly.
I wish they kept the space needle instead of wind seeker
@@aprilskutt974 the giant slide was the world's fastest potatoes sack race! I don't know how many times I burned myself on that thing. The surface would get really hot and the friction was intense
The Wild Cat was such a fun, nostalgic ride. Just like Wicked Twister (which is also gone now), wait times were never very long, the ride was thrilling and both took up very little real estate. They are the 2 rides that I miss more than any others. Demon drop also met those criteria, in it's later years. It scared the crap out of me when it first came out (I was 10) and the line was always hours long for the first several years. The Power Tower is a superior replacement and wait times are unbelievably short (probably because similar rides have injured and even killed rider's, at other parks). For awhile, both were in operation at the same park. Ahhh, the good old days.
I loved "Wicked Twister"! That thing was NUTS! 👍😊👍
The last year of its operation, I finally got up the nerve to go on Jumbo Jet. It was a cloudy day. As we got up to the station, it started to lightly sprinkle. The next train pulled in and we got loaded into it, but the ride operator said he would have to wait to get the go ahead phone call in order to release our train. We were safety belted in and waiting. The phone rang and he said he was told to close the ride. He said that after the rain stops, they then test the brakes, and this can take around 40 minutes to complete. We got out of the car and the weather did not cooperate the rest of the day. The next year the ride was gone. Can't believe I got that close, but no cigar!
I worked at Cedar Point summer of `78 and I never saw a Turnpike ride there! Seeing as how what you're showing here looks just the Kennywood ride, I would've not only remembered it being there,I would've ridden it a few times as it was always one of my fave Kennywood rides. I lived right outside the park so, I could've got in any time I wanted.
No, I never got to ride Earthquake when I worked there in `78 because it didn't exist. I love dark rides and would've gone on that dozens of times! I went into The Fun House quite often and, even after the park closed for the night, I'd go in and walk through The Fun House in the dark and even climbed up the slide silos all the way to the very top. They actually go up about another 7 or 8 feet so, I'd go up and ride them from the very top.
I don't think I ever rode Jumbo Jet. I might have but don't recall seeing that one there. Maybe they'd already replaced it before I got there in early July (the 5th).
I'm pretty sure I rode Wild Cat. I remember that being there.
Here's a 1978 map of the Cedar Point where Turnpike Cars is clearly visible beside Marina Gate, and the front of the Earthquake ride is visible in front of the first aid point on the midway:
www.rollercoasterfreak.com/CP_Brochures/1978_pg_inside.jpg
@@ThemeSeekers Thanks but, that's not a very good map (too blurry) and it's not completely accurate, either.
Where number 11 is, that's where the Fun House was. I remember seeing The Wild Cat through the slightly open door in the tilted room and it was a couple feet away from that door.
There was no steakhouse there. Right there and all the way to the road to the left of it was a 2-story house where most of the employees (myself included) lived in mostly tiny rooms. Mine was on the 2nd floor near the back of the building and my window, right next to my bed, was a few feet away from the lake and I heard sea gulls quite often. Any time I went into the park it was through what this map calls, The Marina Gate. Just inside to my left was the brand new Omnimax (or Imax) theatre. (I also worked at the Carnegie Science Center and we had one of those, too and one was called, Imax, the other was, Omnimax, I'm just not sure which was which).
Where 14 is, that building MIGHT'VE been there, I never used it so, I'm not sure but, it was either there or a building to the left of it where we employees would go once or twice a week to see movies I saw, "All The King's Men" (and slept through most of it) and, "Sleuth". I don't recall any others but I know it was right across the way from those sliding boards. As much as I wanted to, I don't think I ever rode those.
I worked at the games along the midway. The first one I worked in was the Panther Pitch way up near the top of the L. I think it was the 2nd or 3rd game down. It was my fave because there was this really cute girl, Cheryl Hubbard, working there and I had a heavy crush on her! The lead at that game was a Hawaiian guy named, Joel. I can't recall his last name but he also had 3 of his sisters working there. Janis and Ioana (everyone called her, Joanna) worked at the Panther Pitch and Joel's other sister was the lead of the game at the top of the L. I don't think I ever worked her game.
I don't recall seeing that spire there at all or any of that other stuff in that area. I never even went in that area.
Right next to that red dot where it says, Games, is where the milk bottle game was. It was run by a black guy named, Charlie Brown. I only worked there 3 or 4 times. One of those time, I was leaving through the back door to go to lunch and the door (spring-loaded) slammed shut on my hand just as I was pulling it out of the way and the door ripped a wart out of my knuckle and I had to go across the midway to the medical area to get it taken care of. In as such, from what I recall, that merry-go-round was NOT there!
I don't know what the question mark is for but, right at the bottom of it was another game called, Bear Hoopla and it was run by another very sweet girl named, Jennifer. Turns out, she's from my area! Another girl from my area worked at the place at the end of the L (near the front gate) where I'd go every day to buy French Fries from her. She always knew my order so, when she saw me coming, she'd get them ready for me!
In the crotch of the L is where we'd always eat lunch at a series of picnic tables. Backgammon was really huge there, back then so, everybody played it any time they got the chance and they even had a tourney. Up to that point, I had no idea how to play it!
Along the bottom of the L were most of the shitty games, Pick-a-Duck, Bust a Dish, The Cat Rack and I think one of those squirt gun games. There was another inside that hospital building.
Somewhere near where that steakhouse is, there was a tiny office building. I had to go in there to get my ID picture taken. And, right beside that was a sort of gang plank where you'd get onto the ferry boat that'd take you across the lake to Sandusky. Not too far away, was the Sandusky Mall, where I bought several new albums (the first 3 by Synergy, "Bullets Through The Barrier" by The Movies and possibly, "Who Are You?" by The Who. It was right after Keith died. Oh! and the picture disc edition of Sgt. Pepper which skipped all over the place so, I took it back.) and my first stereo cassette recorder.
Well, those are the anomalies that I can pick out.
By the way, I don't see Earthquake on the map.
Earthquake was the best! we actually rode it when I was 11 right before we moved to CA. It was so realistic that I was terrified when we experienced our first real earthquake. I still have vivid memories of it today. You could not only see the damage but they added smells to the sounds around you. Just awesome.
There was another ride that was where jumbo jet was and that was Disaster Transport, which was another dark ride. It was remove in 2012 along with space spiral to make room for gatekeeper.
Avalanche Run was also turned into Disaster Transport.
I was a test person on Disaster Transport and Magnum XL - wild times.
And you didn't tell them what an honest disaster it was?
Gatekeeper killed the last air conditioned indoor ride in the park. The dark rides were all off the main midway, the back of the park never had any but there are some indoor haunt mazes in the back which only open in Sept. and October.
My dad’s company picnic was always there on Labor Day Weekend, so I went at least once a year from about 1964- 1978 ( sometimes 2 times) so I went on ALL these rides..when I was small, the line for the Blue Streak went all the way to the midway!! When you had the nerve to ride it, you didn’t have to hang out with mom anymore! So I was there for all the “ firsts”…Corkscrew,Raptor,Mantis,Magnum etc… loved the little rides too, the Scrambler,Matterhorn etc. Rode the big slide the first year it opened & my sack had a hole in it & my tennis shoes stopped me dead & I rolled down it. Ended up with burns down my arm & leg. Today I would be rich!!
I rode Earthquake in 1979 and I don't remember too many specifics, it was a good ride. I do remember buildings falling down and maybe even a "fire" or explosion and a lot of being in the dark. I enjoyed it.
Thank you for doing Cedar Point!!! I live near there and just absolutely love the history of the place.
SkyHawk is such a sleeper! Never a long wait and always a good time!
I have a story about Witches’ Wheel, which is the attraction I miss the most. When it was in its last year of operation, I went to Cedar Point. I was pretty young, so I got height measured and I was pretty much exactly 54” tall. However I got the wristband and was cleared to ride all height-restricted rides. I wasn’t super into coasters back then, so I immediately wanted to ride Witches’ Wheel. I rode it twice in the morning then went to ride other rides in the park. I would have ridden it more then since I honestly loved it, but the line was getting long. I went back in the afternoon when the line was shorter. There were different ride attendants there and even though I had the 54” wristband for being able to ride they still insisted on measuring me THREE times and had three different attendants look at it. Even so, they said I was JUST not tall enough to ride. Even though I rode it earlier in the morning. Being a younger kid I walked out of the line on the verge of crying. I wasn’t able to return to CP that summer so even though I was a pass holder I couldn’t ride it again before it closed. It still kinda pisses me off to this day and I still half-suspect it was a load of BS that I wasn’t tall enough.
Lol. We stuck wads of napkins in my nephew's shoes so that he could ride everything. The witches wheel was definitely cool. Once they would start the ride, there was a moment where you couldn't see the operator and they couldn't see you. So I used to turn around to face backwards at that point. Almost every time, the operator would eventually see me and start repeating through the loud speaker to please not do that. But once the ride is going, it kept going, and you couldn't really hear them.
LOL. Stuffed shoes. I love it!
The rules are meant to keep you safe. The park has security and they can call security on you if you break rules while riding. Even arguing over the height limit can get you a visit from security.
Adding on to rides already mentioned let me add the following significant defunct rides: Starting with my 1st trip to CP the biggest rides included the Mill Race which I believe was the 2nd ever flume ride built in the USA by Arrow. The Monorail and Double Ferris Wheel. The 1st ride ever built in Frontier Town was a flume ride called Shoot the Rapids which was replaced by White Water Landing. A 2nd Shoot the Rapids was built along Frontier Trail and its splash pool is now used as part of Forbidden Frontier. There was a 2nd Sky Lift which ran from the main-midway to Frontier Town and finally one of my childhood favorites The Western Cruise.
Nobody ever remembers the 2nd sky ride to frontier town, when I mention it. I definitely miss that ride
When I was a kid Earthquake was my favorite, followed by the fun house across the walkway. Maybe with flat and dark rides becoming more popular, especially that they can make it more 3D like they did with Spiderman in Universal Orlando, they will bring it back.
Earthquake was my favorite ride growing up. It was the first and last ride every trip to the park. I remember going to CP the day after prom in 85, and was sad to see it was replaced with a Bernstein Bears shop. Another favorite was the Jumbo Jet coaster about where Gatekeepers entrance is now. I was finally tall enough to ride it. Rode once and the next year it was gone. The other and most missed ride was, Bayern Kurve. That's actually my vanity plate on my car.
Yes. I am an Earthquake alum. One of the fondest memories of my childhood.
I rode Mean Streak before its closure and can tell you, they really gave it an appropriate name. That thing would rattle you around and you'd be feeling it for a while.
😂
100% agree, I remember getting off the ride and staggering to the restroom to make sure all my body parts were still intact, dead serious
The last few years it got really rough. hurt my friends and I and we were athletic teenagers. my best friend ended up getting to help rebuild it into Steel Vengeance.
Totally
@@OhioBahn440 Your friend works for RMC? That’s awesome!
Another ok ride that Cedar Point managed to transform into something better is the Rugaroo. Formerly known as the Mantiss, it was very slow to load and offload rider's, do to the complexity of allowing them to remain securely standing as the train, sped, twisted, ascended, descended, looped and rolled upside down. It was a bit rough, especially as one's head would pinball between the shoulder bars. Plus, pulling G's while standing was a bit challenging, despite the awkward 'groin pad' that each rider straddled. But since adapting proper seating, it's transformed into a smooth, fun, easy-going ride with shorter wait times.
I grew up in NW Ohio, and went to CP every other summer or so between about 1975 and 1989. I remember the Pirate Ride, Earthquake (does anyone know if a ride-through of this is anywhere on UA-cam?), Bayern Kurve, Schwabinchen, Round Up, the Rotor (one of my very favorites), Wildcat, Blue Streak, the debuts of Corkscrew and Gemini, the Mine Ride, both of the flume rides, the Old West animatronic skeletons on part of the train trip…I haven’t been back since 1989. Feeling old…but kid me and teen me loved it.
You must go again if you haven't been since 1989!
Some of the rides you mentioned are retired now, Earthquake, Pirate, Round Up, Rotor, Wildcat.
Mean streak was an awesome ride and one of the greatest wooden coasters
Pirate ride and Earthquake were great and I remember as a kid riding those along with going into the funhouse. It was sad to see the indoor snoopy area and arcade take over that area. Cedar point just does not have enough room to keep everything sadly, but a dark ride would be nice.
Well, they could contract with Sally Corp. for a new one. They could have reused the Pirate building for a new one but it's now used as a walk-through Boo Hill fun house in the fall I believe.
Been there so many times. I hated mean streak it was so rough and I gave it so many Chances but it never delivered. I was so glad to see it go and am so happy that it got turned into A masterpiece
Can't argue with that, Steel Vengeance is possibly our all time favourite coaster! 🎢
My second favorite all time and first at cedar point
@@Thrill_King What's your first? 🤯
Zadra
Oh we can't wait to go on that! Energylandia is at the top of our list when we can get travel again
I remember most of these, grew up in Toledo, so Cedar Point was a yearly visit growing up.
I rode Earthquake and the Pirate Ride many, many times! I think there is a place for air-conditioned dark rides still and I love a good dark ride. They were very fun!
Loved this ride (and its next-door neighbor, the Pirate Ride, another dark ride) and rode it multiple times on each visit to CP. On one trip, My Dad and I had barely started the ride when it stopped. We waited in the dark until, finally, the lights all came on and they said that we needed to get out of the car and make our way to the exit. The thing I remember, is how 'cheesy and flimsy' the ride was in the light. One particular sight was of a RECORD PLAYER which was used for some sound effect. the tonearm had a piece of string connected to it so the record would only play until the string made it lift off the record and being again. I miss that ride!
Skyscraper was the only ride at Cedar Point that I really wish did not get removed. I absolutely loved it.
Every time our family went to CP we rode Earthquake! What I remember is that we always thought it was a little hokey, but we enjoyed none the less. We waited until later in the day to ride it because it was air conditioned inside and it gave us a reprieve from the hot weather. I never rode the jumbo jet, but I remember standing there watching it run and seeing this couple get off of it and apparently the woman had been so terrified that she clawed her husband. He had scratches on him. Im not a roller coaster fan and so I delight in the smaller rides. Some of my favorite rides were The Rotor and giant slide and Disaster Transport. I also still love the racing carousel, the matterhorn, the mine car ride coaster.
use to be a Haunted House, right on the main drag. all i remember of it was there was a room that was upside down. i remember it being hot and stuffy. It was there in the 70s.
Actually it was called The Fun House
Fun House was located near where Wicked Twister sat.
White water Landing. I think it opened the summer I worked there, 1982.
As a kid growing up in the 70s, Earthquake was my favorite ride there as well as Bayern Kurve. It was the first and last ride of the day when we went. Was sad to see it replaced with the Barenstien Bears. I'm lucky to have a copy of the soundtrack the used. Jumbo Jet I only rode once. The year I was tall enough. The next year it was gone.
Great video. Miss the Wildcat!
Alot of memories there with the attractions. I recall being able to enjoy them when I used to go every summer. sadly its been years since i was there last. they also forgot paddel wheel excursions that was there as well.
Cedar Point was like a second home for me. I'd been going since 1969!! Never missed a year in 20 years, going up to 4 times each summer. I miss the Earthquake ride, The Schwabinchen, The Trabant, the Bayern Curve, the Mine Ride, Calypso, Tiki Twirl, the Space Needle, the Frontier Skylift, and so many others that were a part of my childhood into adulthood. Cedar Point is an amazing place to be!! 🥰
NOOOOOOOOO! 😭😭😭😭 Did they get ride of The Mine Ride?!??! That was such an awesome little coaster. It wasn’t the biggest or fastest, but that 720° helix at the end was my favorite part!
@@HMFan2010 No worries. I believe the Cedar Creek Mine Ride is still in operation. 😊It's been such a long time since I've been back to CP and I miss tons of great rides and memories. The Mine Ride was one of my favorites!! 😄
@@VickiCampbell-1216 *PHEW!* I just checked the Cedar Point website and the Cedar Creek Mine Ride is still on the roster. I was panicking there for a minute...
@@HMFan2010 😊Haha!! Yay!! I'm glad it's still there. I'm relieved too. 😄
Yes, I remember riding Earthquake. I believe it started with a fortune teller “predicting a disaster,” then proceeded through a couple of scenes of tourist-y San Francisco. I think it then traveled through a bar or saloon where a brawl took place and the bar owner yelled “...and stay out!” as the car was booted outside onto the street where chaos ensued as the quake hit (CoasterBob62 has an audio-only ride POV and in the 1977 recording you can clearly hear this). Tower of falling barrels? Building facades that tilted in toward you as you sped past? Simulated fire? I really can’t remember but I wish I could. It was such a fun ride. I believe there was also a Pirate dark ride towards the front entrance which would have been on the left as you entered the park... And while it was not a ride, you did not mention the fun house that had an upside-room with an old man snoozing in a rocking chair... on the ceiling! And then the grain silo spiral slides at the end. It was replaced with Disaster Transport, a bobsled ride similar in theming to Disneyland’s Space Mountain. And yes, I rode Jumbo Jet as well.
I remember all of these. Some of which were additional cost rides or activities. Earthquake was awesome.
I can't believe Avalanche Run only got a passing mention. It was my absolute favorite. The que positively sucked when they enclosed it for Disaster Transport (though the A/C was oft appreciated), but the ride itself might have been even better.
As long as they NEVER EVER get rid of the Cedar Downs!!!!
Hands down best “racing carousel” 😂😂
That one is probably safe. There's one like it at Playland in Rye, NY.
What about the other Von Roll Skyride the Frontier Lift and Space spiral? Hard to believe u never mentioned those 2
I miss a lot of cedar point my family came to the park for years. I miss a little playground near the hotel breakers with a little swinging gate. I miss kiddie land I miss the fun house. Mom and dad missed the ballroom and the big bands. I miss frontier trail where I used to work and the Polynesian hut on the beach. The fun house and the train ride and the giant ferries wheel. I miss Christmas in July and I did ride the earthquake it was important because my father had lived in San Francisco. So we’d go together. I miss the ferry between Sandusky and cedar Point but it might still run I’m not there. I miss going to peli island pelican island? Near Sandusky there was a ferry you could take a ride bikes. I miss the black smith and the sheep which I fed and took care of. I miss all the flowers on the midway it was landscaped so beautiful. They had flowers and a lot of natural gardening.
I loved the Mean Streak. It was rough but it was a awesome wooden coaster. When I became tall enough to ride the rides I loved wildcat it was thrilling but not to scary for a little kid
I've never been there. But I love these videos of different types of amusement parks. Enjoyed it very much.
Thanks so much! 😀
@@ThemeSeekers you are very welcome. :-)
I’m with you in that Cedar Point desperately needs a good dark ride. They also had a Pirate themed dark ride near Blue Streak as well.
We spoke about Pirate Ride in part 2! ua-cam.com/video/nUfTzGCn4nY/v-deo.html
Earthquake was a great dark ride. This was a go to attraction for my family. I wish Cedar Point would create more dark rides, the Pirate ride was another of my favorites.
They took out Disaster Transport, too so they really have no indoor air conditioned rides now. It's become a coaster park for young thrill seekers. But, if you like scary indoor haunted attractions, they have several during HalloWeekends in the fall and they change themes at times. Like Hexed near the front is now Midnight or something. Dorney Park near me has Haunt, with several indoor haunted attractions and outdoor scare zones. It was HalloWeekends from 1998-2007.
@@robkrasinski6217 I've been to HalloWeekends. Those are a lot of fun!!
I was there for all those rides. Mean Streak was great up until the last few years. Maybe someday CP will get another Woodie!! I hope so
I also remeber these: fun house, Roter, Witches's wheel, IMAX theater, Bayern Kurve, Dodgem, Sky Wheel, Mill Race, Pirate Ride, Shoot the rapids, Sky Slide, Space Sprial, Tiki Twirl, Tarbant, & Kid Arthur's Court
Earthquake was originally at Freedomland USA in New York. It was purchased along with Pirate Ride after Freedomland went belly up in 1964.
Disaster transport was a much loved fav. And dear lord I miss Demon drop and hope to visit Dorney park…
I rode EARTHQUAKE as a child and though it was the most fascinating experience of my life. Of course, I was 7 years old. I've been trying to find video of it for years.
I was a ride hostess on Earthquake in 1976. So yes, I rode it daily.
I never got to ride it, but I rode Pirate Ride over and over during my only visit in June 1995. Earthquake closed after 1984 and Pirate after 1996. It's a Boo Hill fun house now in the fall.
As a small child I was TERRIFIED of Earthquake because there was an audio animatronic fortune teller at the beginning of the ride and I was a weirdo 😂
Jumbo Jet and Wildcat were pretty cool, but Jumbo Jet would get stuck a lot. What I miss most are Earthquake and Pirate Ride. My first visit was around 1973? I could only ride the "kiddie" rides. This year I've got the season pass, meal pass and drink pass. I'm planning on 15 to 20 visits, so I'll get waaaay more than my money's worth in the passes, no doubt. If you're going to visit at least two or more times, the passes are worth it, because of the new admission rates, food and drink rates, and parking. Parking is $20 a pop, and you get free parking every visit with the season pass.
I remember riding earthquake when I was little. It was a favorite. Remember doing the demon drop the year it opened. Wasn't a fan of it lol.
Pirate Ride - it was one of the only things to do in doors when it rained
Oceana - not a ride but an attraction was a great way to sit and relax and watch a show
Avalanche run - was better than disaster transport but I feel the track was the same
Space Needle - at 1 time was one of the highest rides. We would always look for our car in the parking lot
Who remembers Cedar Points roller coaster Jumbo Jet from the 1970’s?
That's a shame that some of the rides were removed. Turnpike cars were one of my favorite rides.
SkyScraper was part of Cedar Points Challenge Park. It, and every other 'challenge' in the park charged a separate 'fair' to ride, and were overpriced.
I never rode skyscraper because it was expensive and just looked like it was gonna fall over some day.
I loved Earthquake, Jumbo Jet and Demon Drop! I miss them all to this day!
Demon Drop is at Dorney Park near me now. Near Allentown, PA a few hundred miles from Sandusky, OH. It's a smaller park but now resembles a mini-Cedar Point. Cedar Fair did a top to bottom renovation and removed old rides and built new ones. Steel Force is like Magnum. Talon is like Raptor. White Water Landing is like Snake River Falls. Both parks have a Thunder Canyon. Cedar Fair bought Dorney Park & Wildwater Kingdom in July 1992. It was family run before, and some former heads of the park have passed away, including the man who sold the park to Cedar Fair and had run the park since 1985. He was an in-law, married to one of the Plarr daughters, but his name was Harris Weinstein. He moved to Florida after 1992 season. The Plarrs bought the park from founder Solomon Dorney in the early 1900's. The park is on a hill, so the paths are very hilly in the middle section. It gets mobbed on nice days especially on weekends and holiday weekends because the northeast is very populated and people travel miles to the park. They still have a few old rides like the Zephyr train, the Whip, and Thunderhawk wooden coaster and an antique carousel from Cedar Point which opened in 1995 at the new main entrance at the top of the park. There used to be two public entrances, and the bottom entrance by Thunderhawk is now employee only.
Wildcat is now located at Jim Miller Park in Marietta Georgia. It is permanent. And used During the North Georgia Fair
I rode Earthquake many times and loved it . I have the soundtrack they used for it on a cd.
Where did you find a soundtrack for it????
I think there is sound online from 1977 on a youtube video or something.
I also miss the ski lift.. I rode the Gemini it was my favorite coaster.
I'm pretty sure I rode Earthquake at one of my visits to the park, but I can't recall much about it or if it was any good. I do miss the Wild Mouse coaster, but they now have a new one that I need to still expeerience.
what about Pirate ride???? That and Earthquake were the best, i would run from one to the other
and across from thatwas the thing that spun you about and the floor dropped out LOVED that whole strip.
I don't remember what it was called, but they had a giant sliding board, about 8 lanes wide, and you went down it in a potato sack! Lol. It burned like hell if you tried using your hands for brakes or accidentally rubbed them on it. My dad would take me down it and I felt like we were going 50 mph, and it was kinda like a staircase. So there were a couple G outs.
The sky slide! I remember it vividly.
Maybe I misunderstood what you were trying to say about Jumbo Jet with it replacing Wildcat. But there were a few years where both were operating. Wildcat was at where Wicked Twister eventually went. And Jumbo Jet was where Gatekeeper is now.
Rode all of these. Really liked the jumbo jet.
Ok, if you never got to ride the “skyscraper”, you missed out big time lol. That was without a doubt one of the MOST intense rides I’ve ever ridden, more so than the millennium or dragster, and I would compare its thrill level to “the ripcord”.
I remember the Earthquake. Shaking simulation with scenes of the 06' SF Quake.
Demon Drop I'm not that sad to see go, after getting stuck on a ride for almost an hour, I wasn't the happiest, however getting to skip the line for other rides that day made up for it. Getting to ride Maverick it's first year without a wait was nice.
I've been to Cedar Point probably a couple hundred times now and aside from maybe a 3 minute pause on the skyride, I have only been stuck on a ride once. The Mine Ride, for about 15 minutes. They offered a reride without wait, but I declined.
You can still ride Demon Drop if you travel to Dorney Park near Allentown, PA about several hundred miles east of Sandusky, OH. I live near Dorney Park & Wildwater Kingdom.
I rode the Jumbo Jet. I thought that it was a fantastic ride and miss it still today.
If you missed Jumbo Jet, you can still go on it at Six Flags Great America: The Whizzer. Same model and layout.
Wow! It’s been 8 years and I had no clue challenge park was gone😂
Go-karts cost a lot of money to operate with the gas. They still have Cadillac Cars which take gas I believe.
Bit of a correction, Turnpike Cars was closed due to Valravn being built, not because of Raptor. It was open with Raptor. Only Cadillac Cars remain of the car rides.
Turnpike had two tracks originally and one was removed to build Raptor in 1994. Raptor took the place of Mill Race log flume which was razed.
Is the Baby (Jr.) Gemini still there???
It was directly across the way of the Big Gemini??
I haven’t been there in some years… I remember the summer when Magnum XL 200 first open…. I didn’t stand a chance of getting on that coaster.. because the line was entirely too long😂😂😂😂plus as a kid… I was way too scared😂
Jumbo Jet was a huge mistake in tearing it down. It is still running at a park in Denmark 🇩🇰 (I think 🤔)
I remember that it shut down a lot. Cars would always get stuck on one of the curves.
What about the funhouse with the slides to exit ??
It's hard to imagine Cedar Point without new rides like Maverick and Gate Keeper? What? Jumbo Jet was removed because the new Cork Screw and Gemini were light years better. But it is still beloved with good memories.
Just a little FYI, Turnpike didn’t have electronic cars, as stated, they were powered by gasoline engines.
I rode Earthquake many times. It wasn’t the best ride, but would be fun to have around today for nostalgia’s sake. Same with Pirate Ride.
I was hoping you would include Vertigo.
Based on all of these comments, we'll likely make a part 2 soon! We'll include Vertigo in that 😃
Turnpike Cars were awesome, and should still be in the park somewhere
Does anyone remember the rotor??
Did cedar point build upon same site where Euclid beach amusement park used to be?
No, Euclid beach was near Cleveland I believe.
@@robkrasinski6217 thanks Rob. ;)
Actually I just remembered, you missed another defunct ride. Disaster transport. It was at one time called avalanche run but was turned into disaster transport. I rode it once and thought it was ok but it was very short in terms of ride time.
Before White Water Landing there was Shoot the Rapids (the original) at that same park location.
I remember when I was 6 I was sad I couldn't ride the demon drop because I wasn't tall enough yet. My mom said, "When we come back next year, you'll be tall enough and we'll ride it." Next year comes and they took it down and I never got to ride it
That's tragic but also very funny 😂 there's still one in operation in Dorney Park in Pennsyvlania if you were still determined to try it!
My favorites thst have closed in order:
1 - Pirate Ride ( not listed in this video)
2 - Earthquake
3 - Wildcat
The Mean Streak always gave me a headache after riding it because it was so rough.