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Hey Mike, Do you remember that 'gamblers special' bus trip we took to Lake Tahoe? We lost all of our dough in about an hour and had to cash in our tickets for an earlier bus home, one that stopped at every cross road between South Shore and Sacramento. I think that was the trip that the waitress at ...

Hey hoop, It must be pretty cool to look out your window and see what is going on at the park. Just thinking about it, I can almost hear the clickity clack of he Demon going up the lift! It was great seeing some of the old gang. I think a summer BBQ at Vasona would be a lot of fun. I will try to get...

Hoop, I wasn't working on Clipper the day Craig announced the passing of the king. But you know how it was, if you wanted to get the word around, all you needed to do was tell someone in Ride Ops. Before long EVERYONE would know about it. And sometimes the story would grow as it got passed along! I ...

Mike, Good stuff on Paul, I can visualize that whole scene. I remember taking Paul out for his 21st. He ran out of gas at about the 5th bar. We tried to take him into another bar, and he grabbed on to a tree and wouldn't let go. We went in for a beer, and when we came out he had passed out, but was ...

Mike, Sounds good. I'll give you a heads up if I am heading that way, but only if you agree not to play Journey's "Lights". I heard enough of that song in 1978. Hoop and I met up for lunch the other day, we had a really good time talking about the good old days, we will definately getting ...

Mark, You know I am not one to kiss and tell! Maybe over lunch I might spill the beans on Peder's dunking in the lagoon. I will send you an email offline to confirm. I remember one time Peder wanted to pull the logs off the ride into the holding pond. As you recall, you had to put on these huge wade...

Si, Great to hear from you! I had forgotten about Hoop at Fargo's, lot's of good memories. BTW... the landlady's name was Roseanne. I think we got those spools from Melinda's dad or brother, I seem to remember he worked at an electric company. I just remember our neighbors hated us on Isengard. Hey ...

Mike, Now that is a blast from the past! GREAT to hear from you, I hope you are doing well. Yeah, those days were a lot of fun. Kevin lives over in the Brentwood area. I remember one time Kevin and I decided we would see just how loud Al's Bose 901 speakers would get, only to find out you had wired ...

Hi Scott, I worked on the Lobster in 1977, and it may have been different when you worked on it. However it has been 30 years, and my memory isn't what it used to be! I liked working the Lobster as you could control the length of the ride time, zero downtime, and crowd control was much easier to dea...

I seem remember there were three controls for the SC lobster... The main control lever caused all the arms to rotate. I believe it was called the Rotation. There was a lever that controlled the device at the top of the ride that rotated in the opposite direction of the ride itself. It was what cause...

Mark, Nice new photos! I don't recognize too many of the employees in the new ones. I think Tom Lahti worked on the Whizzer. Russ Salinas and I worked on TOC. And of course Marcy was an area supervisor. The night shots are really cool, and the Logger's walkaround reminds me of those long walks from ...

Jay, Great to hear from you! Those were great days weren't they? I remember you were with us on one of our pilgrimmages to Disneyland, etc. In fact, I think a bunch of slept at your folk's place. I don't remember why we stayed there, as the Marriott was pretty inexpensive. Maybe the house was closer...

Hooper... You are the man! What a ride down memory road this is. Some of the faces are really familiar, but I just can't put a name to them. I'll keep thinking about it... Here's the ones I can come up with. BarneyO01 - Hillary?, Paul Renstrom, ? BarneyO02 - ?, Hillary? BarneyO03 - Mike Fruge is in ...

I was reading about the recent accident at GA and I thought back to when I worked there. Although I heard of some accidents in the park, I only experienced two. On Logger's, a small girl got her arm caught in between the log and the turntable as it returned to the station. We knew we couldn't pull h...

Mark Hooper, the man, the myth, the legend! Thanks for the reply, GREAT to hear from you. We did have some good time didn't we? I posted a few photos to the photo gallery section. You probably will remember a few of the faces. I am still looking around for one of my Logger's crew pictures to post as...