Cedar Point 1961 Part 1. HD. 8mm film Digitally Restored from my grandfather's archives.

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8mm footage from my grandfather's film archives of his visits to Cedar Point in 1961. Digitally restored in HD. Enjoy.
If you identify a ride that I have not mentioned below or if I misidentified a ride please let me know in the comment section.
Rides and park features in order of appearance:
the beach
the Bug
the Octopus
Merry-Go-Round
Wild Mouse
Turnpike Cruiser
An unknown ride
the Midway
Cadillac Cars
the pier
Twister
Night lights
Kiddieland
the Rotor
Himalaya
Miniature train
Fun House
Sky Wheel
Scrambler
Eden Musee
Cresso's Rocketcar (Daredevil)
the Monorail
Musical tracks provided by RU-vid include:
Heavenly
Beneath the moonlight
Round up on the prairie
Scott Joplin's "The Entertainer"
Rossini's "William Tell Overture"
Wagner's "Ride of the Valkyrie".

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@darbytat2 4 года назад

Your grandfather did a great job. Who could've predicted in 1961 that almost 60 years later, thousands of people would be enjoying your grandfather's home movie.

@stephenrae6207 4 года назад

Wonderful. Our simple world has changed. Every woman over 50 was wearing a dress. I saw a phone booth. Not one cell phones any anyone's imagination. My dad used to love the flowers at Cedar Point more than anything else. We are time traveling through these old videos.....I wish I was there.

@agoo7581 Месяц назад

You are experiencing what is called, "fauxstalgia". To give you an example, notice how everyone in the film is white? What do you think would happen if POC tried to enter the park?

@TDu9758893 4 года назад

My parents met at Cedar Point in 1963... Always pictured what that day might have looked. This video helps me paint that picture. Thank you for sharing!

@Basiliscx 3 года назад

This guy has footage from '63 on his channel as well if you did not know. Idk if you'll see this but hopefully!

@candysmith8724 4 месяца назад

My parents first date was at Euclid Beach, but they went to CP as teenagers often as well.

@Catharine58 3 года назад

some of the happiest moments in my life occurred at Cedar Point

@MeMyselfAndUs903 6 месяцев назад

I would do a “thumbs up” to infinity for my love of Cedar Point.

@user-qt5eh9wb7g 3 года назад

That was awesome. I remember as a kid in the early 80s running from ride to ride while holding my dad's hand. He died on the 4th of July and we buried him last Friday. Then yesterday I took my wife and 7 year old son, and did the same thing, but now I'm the dad. What a magical day. Thank you for posting, and thanks to cedar point and all their staff that make these things possible!

@fredhetler7148 4 года назад

I was there in June 1961 right after High School graduation & before entering USAF.

@jasonhann8527 3 года назад

thank you for your service

@Quit3Cut3 3 дня назад

So cool to see early times. I went to cedar point a lot as a kid in the 90’s. So many good memories!

@davidwright9979 5 месяцев назад

Thank you for sharing this. I was born in 1967, and it was cool seeing how much Cedar Point had changed before my first visit around 1971. The Rotor, the double Farris wheel, the Jet, and the Cadillac cars. However, by the time I rode those cars, they removed the guardrails and installed the centered rail. I wish Cedar Point had remained an amusement park and not became a thrill park. Oh well, we still have the memories.

@larrybloxham 3 года назад

Thanks for the memories. I was a ride operator in Kid-e-land in 1962.

@MeMyselfAndUs903 6 месяцев назад

Really? Tell us some stories from when you were an operator. I’m sure you have some great ones.

@larrybloxham 6 месяцев назад

@@MeMyselfAndUs903 No good stories. Little kids enjoyed the rides. I had to stand up my whole shift!

@tacobor Год назад

That was awesome beyond words. This was 5 years before my time. I love how it truly felt like a park. Not unlike Knobel's in PA does now. It's pretty sad knowing all the rides shown are gone.

@MeMyselfAndUs903 6 месяцев назад

knobel’s Gove in PA is so special to me because I have a photo from the early 1940’s of my Grandma with my 5?year-old mother and my grandma holding my aunt at about 2.

@johnfoltz8183 2 года назад

When Cedar Point was about to transition from a traditional amusement park into a regional theme park.

@sethman410 4 месяца назад

Dude, even back then Cedar Point still beats most county fairs today lol

@wendellellison3482 4 месяца назад

I love old films, and I love Cedar Point! Thanks Uncle Forrest!!!

@frogganna Год назад

Thank you to your grandfather for capturing a piece of our history. I live in Ohio and go to cedar point every year at least once. Loved this

@Historybluff1986 4 месяца назад

Just wearing my suit to the park today nothin to see here. What a time to be alive.

@kathyrizzi8754 4 месяца назад

This video is amazing, I was 12 this year…1961. So nice to go back & see how my life looked like back then. Thank you for showing us your grandfather’s filming. 👍♥️

@lynndemartini9379 10 месяцев назад

OMG This is sooo special, interesting, fascinating!!! Look at all those trees and empty spaces!! The ballroom, the midway full of flowers...... What a treasure!!! Was born in '61 and am at CP as much as possible. Feel like I hit the lottery and Thank You, Thank You, Thank You for sharing this!!!!!!

@M4R1N4 4 года назад

That is special! Cedar Point is one of my favorite places on Earth.. but I didn't see it til the 80s. Thanks for sharing these videos!

@MeMyselfAndUs903 6 месяцев назад

My favorite place on earth too!

@jordanaire2004 4 месяца назад

My family used to go to Cedar Point several times a year when I was young. We loved the Blue Streak roller coaster the best. Great memories. Thanks for sharing!

@bruceferguson6637 4 месяца назад

Thanks for this! That’s how it was in my childhood.

@candysmith8724 4 месяца назад

I grew up going to CP in the 70s. The flowers were something I still remember...so pretty and fragrant. Watching this was so nice to see how civilized society used to be and everyone looked like me. The parking lot was fun to see with all the old-style cars. Nicely done!

@stormgirl09 10 дней назад

Now this is one of the best amusement parks in the world!😀

@SteveOostdyk 11 месяцев назад

Fascinating footage! I love CP and it's amazing to see this era in such clarity. Thanks for sharing.

@triciaschymanski9348 2 месяца назад

WOW!! That was a treat. Thank you .

@JMReid1220 5 месяцев назад

Outstanding! Thank you so very much for sharing this with the world. CP was our home park and our eldest even got a ride op job there 2 summers ago. the traditions continue.

@donnayoung2169 5 месяцев назад

Thank you for this! My family has been visiting Cedar Point for five generations - ever since they opened. This brought back lots of memories. Thanks for going to the trouble of having your granddad's movies digitized. I'm sure lots of folks will enjoy watching this!

@kenlasky3904 5 месяцев назад

Magnificent! My first trip to Cedar Point was in 1962, or maybe 1963. But, this is a visual album of how I remember the park on my first visit. On that first visit the sky ride was brand new. And must have been first of its kind in Ohio!

@SnoopyMan6000vids Год назад

Good footage of old wild mouse

@DankMaster1 4 года назад

Thank you for sharing this with us. Wonderful job remastering and your grandfather did a great job capturing the park.

@mikes9959 4 месяца назад

Reminds me of Huntington, WVa's Camden Park when I was there aged 7 or so. Those days were some easy living! I miss them so much. Cool video!

@robgrimm9004 5 месяцев назад

Oh how times have changed! Back then everyone wore a dress or button down shirts and even ties to go to the amusement park! Now they wear Slipknot t-shirts and cargo shorts and stare at their phones. Been going to Cedar Point since the early seventies. It's where everyone gets to be a kid for a day. Great memories.

@stevenbeall9637 4 месяца назад

And they now reek of an unbathed skunk's bumhole. At least the weed back then smelled good. 😉

@agoo7581 Месяц назад

Is there something wrong with wearing Slipknot t-shirts and cargo shorts? Also, is there something wrong with taking a quick break from a fun but intense day at a theme park to look at your phone?

@thxdts 3 года назад

Nice video! This was a few years before the Blue Streak was built.

@watchout361 4 года назад

VERY NEAT! HOW TIMES HAVE CHANGED. MY FIRST TIME THERE WAS THE SUMMER OF 1972 REAL FINE STONE PARKING LOT. GREAT FUN! WE RODE THE MINE RIDE OVER AND OVER. MY DADS FAVORITE WAS FRONTIER TOWN.

@tvcchuck 4 года назад

This is great.. THANKS for posting it... '61 was about the last of the Esmond Dairy Days... Back then, the Esmond milkman would leave a strip of tickets along with the home delivered milk and cream for a certain day at C.P... the tickets were for certain rides and attractions.. we were 11 then... someone's mom dropped us off for the day and Mr. Eshelman picked us up later.in his pickup truck. We rode back to PC in the back of the truck... How much of this is now illegal or impossible ??? The Esmond Dairy was at the east end of 4th St.. where Masonry Construction is now.

@JennieRose8 Год назад

I absolutely love this! Thank you for sharing. :)

@richardlee1092 3 года назад

Thanks for the memories in that film! I started going to Cedar Point every year with my parents in1958. I would have been 6. They had some of those rides and some that don’t appear. But it was a simpler time and you didn’t have to go 300 feet in the air to have a good time. I love C.P. But in has gotten to intense and crowded for someone my age. It has a young person vibe now. It was exciting seeing new rides going on. I remember when the cedar creek mine ride was being built, they boasted it would go 60 mph, my Dad said I’m not going on that thing. When it opened we all rode it 11 times in a row! You can’t do that anymore. Thanks again 🎡🎢

@richardlee1092 2 года назад

Happy Thanksgiving!!!

@MeMyselfAndUs903 6 месяцев назад

Great memories. Let me share one with you…The Cedar Creek Mine Ride was a good ride for my 5-year-old niece who really liked it. The funny thing is Mine Ride meant to her as my ride. Mine/my. 😊

@MeMyselfAndUs903 6 месяцев назад

3:09 telephone booth in lower right. Lol

@MeMyselfAndUs903 6 месяцев назад

Imagine….What happened to all these rides or elements of them? Whether they are in operation, they still exist on some form and place.

@MeMyselfAndUs903 6 месяцев назад

Thank you for posting this. ❤

@glenn2226 4 года назад

Most excellent! I see we had real trees amount the rides then! I would have been 10 yrs old then.

@HonorinTreason 4 года назад

Awesome photage. Really enjoyed that.

@davidusndek6719 4 месяца назад

Thanks for posting. Some great flat rides and that wild mouse looks wicked. I think I loved Cedar point best in the early 70's when the blue streak was the coasterbthere and they still had the dark rides.

@robrozek9265 3 месяца назад

They should have refurbished a lot of the flat rides from the mid 1970 to 1981 l really miss the Berion cuve and earthquake and the pirate ride and calipso and the double faris wheel when l was l kid it was right before the park closed the ride got stuck at the top and we could not go on it my mom said that's ok will ride it next year over the winter they removed it I'm 55 years old and that ride is still in my bucket list to ride thanks for the memories a fellow Ohio in oi

@JohnKish 3 года назад

This was awesome! I had no idea some of the kiddie rides are that old! I remember some of those rides. The Jets were my favorite as a kid!

@MrKillerRC 4 года назад

Thank you for showing this.

@bourboncowboy7715 11 месяцев назад

Great job with the restoration, and thank you for sharing.

@zeekman7223 4 года назад

AMAZING! Thank you!

@lockergr 4 года назад

Masterfully done and excellent use of music!

@goofbaugh 4 года назад

Thank you.

@dannydaw59 5 месяцев назад

The main causeway didn't even have the landscaping done yet. That ride at the end wasn't there by the early 80s. Thanks for sharing.

@stevekov6740 3 месяца назад

Imagine this simple time but with let's say 5 modern coasters. Gimmie the Millenium Force (call it the Future Force), the Magnum, The Gemini (classic since day 1), The Steel Vengeance (call it the Fast Frontier), and the Corkscrew (good intro to upside down coasters). These plus the Wild Mouse turn the day into a thrill seeker's paradise, you still have lots of space and the classic rides & attractions, much of the attention is still towards the beach, and no cell phones.

@agoo7581 Месяц назад

Why are you and everyone in the comment section obsessed so much with cell phones? lol

@stevekov6740 Месяц назад

@@agoo7581 Because we come from a time in which they didn't exist and we were much happier in those days. Staring at those things all day and being chained to them messes up your dopamine levels. We simply long for more wholesome times while keeping some of the good that has evolved since then. We know it's impossible, but we can dream.

@kenny_dreadful Год назад

Thank you for uploading this! (And the music selection!)

@Aztec73 4 месяца назад

I'd like old videos. They're friends to watch.🇺🇸🙂 15:09

@JoeSemary Год назад

Actually a great eye for cinematography 😊

@Youlosewewin 4 месяца назад

Awesome

@shagrock7713 4 месяца назад

I love this video! ❤

@markcinco8405 5 месяцев назад

Outstanding!

@carolgarnermcadam610 3 года назад

what great memories!

@ally4049 2 года назад

I wonder if anyone sees videos like this and are like "Omg hey that's me!"

@palparknj 2 года назад

Excellent job of restoration!

@mikep6979 4 года назад

Not many people there. Thanks for posting.

@zeekman7223 4 года назад

This is before Vietnam. JFK assassination, hippies etc. last moments of innocence for a lot of people in this video

@agoo7581 Месяц назад

Correction: It was the last moments of innocence for white people.

@nv_spartan1771 3 года назад

This was cool. Thanks.

@BobHeffner-ne6pe 4 месяца назад

The 'unknown ride after the 'Turnpike Cruiser' is a Bubble Bounce built by Custer. I don't know if any are still in operation anywhere.

@ashpete21 5 месяцев назад

So, were you playing all the music while Grandpa recorded, or was Grandma helping out on the bass drum?

@watchout361 4 года назад

YOU NEED TO GET A HOLD OF THE OHIO HISTORICAL SOCIETY AND LET THEM KNOW WHAT YOU HAVE.

@agoo7581 Месяц назад

This is a good point, but you don't need to scream at him. I sure he will accommodate you if you use your inside voice.

@erichbrandstadt8837 4 года назад

Does anyone know what the charge was back then? Appears to be a lot of people on the beach unlike today. I recall hearing that back then you paid for the rides, but you could walk around for free?

@goofbaugh 4 года назад

Yes, I believe it was free to enter, but each ride and attraction had a price.

@abinormal1410 3 года назад

Yes you could enter for free, but all rides required a ticket. Eventually it went from a ticket to a ticket booklet. Which I still have.

@billjensen5878 2 года назад

First Pay One Price was under $3.00 and you got a piece of colored string and a metal clasp as bracelet to show you did not need tickets. Colors changes each day. I still have a couple of the string bracelets. Best deal was to go on the New York Central Railroad employee picnic. For under $5.00 you got round trip train from Toledo, Chicago or Buffalo which stopped by the Prang Crayon factory with melted crayon aroma , school bus ride to park gates, a ticket for lunch, POP bracelet or full admission and a souvinier plate for Lake Shore Veterans Railroad. Last one of those by train was about 1970, then they went to Geauga Lake but you had to drive there.

@agoo7581 Месяц назад

@@goofbaugh I'm guessing pay for admission only wasn't a thing yet?

@catherinemcclelland7664 3 года назад

I worked at Cedar Point from 1988 to 1991.

@goofbaugh 3 года назад

Did you enjoy it? What did you do?

@catherinemcclelland7664 3 года назад

@@goofbaugh It was a challenging job. No overtime pay and I worked 50 to 60 hours a week.

@cutiecookiecreme 5 лет назад

9:38 You can see that most of the heads in the funhouse were missing? Are they burnt? Being repaired? Added later on?

@goofbaugh 4 года назад

I do not know. The funhouse I knew from the '70's was completely different. I will ask around.

@carolandcindyjamroz433 6 месяцев назад

It was originally on the midway but in bad repair. It was later moved and restored to where many of us remember it from, back off the midway, behind the Kiddie Land that once existed.

@claytonlammon6042 7 месяцев назад

Why does the Sky Wheel (double ferris wheel) not there in the beginning of the video, but it is toward the end? Something fishy here!!

@watchout361 4 года назад

THEY ALSO HAD A RIDE CALLED EARTHQUAKE YOU RIDE IN THESE LITTLE CARS INSIDE AND IT WAS LIKE A EARTHQUAKE WAS GOING ON.

@goofbaugh 4 года назад

As far as I'm concerned, they could have left that ride and The Pirates Ride stay in that area. They didn't take up much space and it was an indoor attraction. The only thing they replaced them with were more shops.

@billjensen5878 2 года назад

Both the San Francisco Earthquake and the Pirate ride came from Freedomland USA that operated only from 1960 to 1964 in the Bronx NYC. The Earhquake cars and track shook a lot and there were fairly good effects of buildings falling over. The part of the City burning had fabric flames blowing with colored lights and big electric heaters that made you feel like fire was radiating at your face and neck. It was built by Arrow Dynamics, also builder of Corkscrew, Magnum, Gemini coasters, etc. I can see why the ride wore out as it had more action than the Pirate Ride.

@agoo7581 Месяц назад

@@billjensen5878 Heh, the only time arrows ride was rough and bumpy by design, and not on accident :)

@charlesperez9976 Месяц назад

I have a zany cedar point story for you from about this time period,told to me by my now retired boss from work! Ok so you know the folks at cedar point who try to guess youage or weight or whatever? So my boss,when he was 10,he had the guy guess his weight. The guy was incorrect,and gave the kid his prize. Do you know what the prize was? A carton of cigarettes!!!!! True story!!! He gave the smokes to his mom🤣

@jacksonpriestap3685 Год назад

Before Blue Streak

@ottodetroit 7 месяцев назад

could you purchase a season pass in 61? 17:00 that event/ride would never exist today!

@agoo7581 Месяц назад

That was a stunt show.....unless you were being sarcastic, in which case, bravo. heh

@JonMacTavish Год назад

I love the video, but I believe you have the wrong year. The turnpike cars didn't open until 1965, so the film must have been made sometime after that. Thanks for sharing!!

@JonMacTavish Год назад

Also the Sky Wheel opened in 1962

@cdjeeyore Год назад

The turnpike cars ride opened 1959, the original double ferris wheel opened 1961. The sky ride isn't in this video it opened 1962.

@watchout361 4 года назад

MOST OF THESE RIDES ARE AT COUNTY FAIRS.

@Catharine58 3 года назад

the music switch in the middle is very off-putting. Sorry

@gregnold9190 3 года назад

Nice work and very interesting! No black families. We still have a long way to go but I'm glad the present age shows we've made progress along racial lines. 👍👍

@agoo7581 Месяц назад

I wish the commentors on this video who keep talking about how the 60s were better, would understand that.