My Dad has Alzheimer’s, and he worked here during this period. This was an excellent trip down memory lane for him, and we found a couple photos in the first third of the video with him in them! Thank you so much for this upload, really meant a lot to Dad.
I worked there for a short 2 years (1978 to 1980, the last roundup). Also, I helped out for part of the auctioning off of the park. I remember a lot of the people that had worked there a lot longer than me were really sad during that time. I'm glad that I got to experience the good times when it was open.
Hey! I have the same Robert's Prototype - Taylor NS-6 Nylon String, SN 20020115707 bought also in 2002 during NAMM, looks great and sounds like dream, wonderful guitar!
Thank you for this post. I remember this was one of the greatest places from my youth. Oh how I miss the play gun fights, riding horse, stagecoaches, canoes, and the train. I wish it never closed. Blessings to you and your family.
I was just a little boy with my mom and gramma from years 5 -10 years old. I remember the Ferris wheel and looking down at the mexican eatery nestled in the eucalyptus trees and the aroma of tacos and enchiladas. I miss this era so much, it makes me cry when I think of yall that made my childhood so much fun and how the only park now that pays human beings to entertain other human beings is so expensive that working class families afford. Marine world and Magic Mountain have been trampled on by greedy investors that have stripped them of thier legacy.........people that made other people happy...............thanks for everything I will never forget
I’m doing research on San Jose before the urban sprawl and I never knew that frontier village use to be where edenvale garden park is this truly is a surprise to me
I used to love going there...We went almost every weekend in the summer..never got tired of it..there and Santas Village in Santa Cruz... good times...
As a kid we went with my parents and the neighbors and their kids, we rode the burros and when our neighbors wife got off hers it crapped all over her leg! Good times! lol
I own the other guitar, serial number 20020123708 bought it at Lauzon Music in Ottawa, Canada, and yes it has both a killer sound and killer looks, did not know that it was a prototype
I took my children there then my grandchildren .We have so fond memories of Frontier Village ..it was a sad day when they closed down We still talk about it all the time ...
I have a 100 trans red that I had a set of Seymour Duncan Pearly Gates installed, huge difference indeed. Not very crazy about the noisy trem arm though. any similar complaints on the trem?
My family, Kathy Hayden Riffe, loved this park! My dad's company picnic was there. I always went to the spin art booth and to the candy shop for those candy dots. Great fun for all my family. Loved the train ride!
Thanks for putting this up! I didn't expect any results from the search! I spent SO many days there as a kid! I remember the scramble of kids that would swarm like piranha to pick up a blank shell when the "gunslinger" would dump them after a gunfight. What a great place it was for kids.
You did a fantastic job with this video, thank you all those employess for making it so real, as a kid it truly was like walking right into the history books into the wild west!
I remember all this public commotion since I am a native San Josean of almost 60 years. I can only wonder if those same residents later regretted their complaints when the amusement park closed down and the condos were built. And I will always wonder how many more years FV would have lasted if it had been allowed to expand. I especially miss the Frontier Drive-In Theater that I think was closed down before FV. It was one of my favorite drive-ins, even though the passing trains were noisy.
