Wow, tons of comments! Quick FAQ: My Mom was 22, Dad 24 in this vid. Dad was really proud of that Mustang, and said most of the aftermarket parts he did himself and bought from the J.C.Whitney catalog if I remember his stories correctly. Edit 5/15/21: My Dad (driving the mustang) passed away in late January 2021 from complications of Alzheimer's disease & COVID-19. Mom passed away suddenly a few months later. My brother and I are sure it was from a broken heart. She enjoyed your comments and was happy her home movie brought back memories. RIP Mom & Dad, I love you.
Thank you for posting this video I recently lost my father in this pandemic as well and the times we spent at cedar point were some of the best times I spent with him so looking back at the footage of an era where all his stories come from is really nice thank you 🙏😊🎢
Crazy they just took this for family and friends with no idea in the future anyone in the world could see this. Bravo. So nice someone took the time and effort to capture this.
I love how this video paints a story of their day, from arrival to departure and the road trip home. The sunset was beautiful! This brought back so many early memories and my first visit to CP in 1968. I was only 4 years old, but remember not being able to sleep the night before because I was so excited. When we parked the car and started walking across that huge lot, I loved seeing the big coasters and ferris wheel in the distance...it was mind boggling. The haunted house gave me nightmares for years, especially the creepy upside down granny in the rocking chair and her cat with the back-and-forth eyes in sync with the tail. Loved seeing the fun everyone was having and all the great experiences. The boat ride made me laugh with all of those dramatic Wild West scenes. Really opened up some long hidden memories. Thank you for sharing this!
i said to myself "i'll watch a minute or two just to see how the park was different back then", but then i watched the whole thing because it was strangely haunting. great footage
@@chrisb3976 I obviously can't answer for the original commenter, but each family is so different. For me, these are nostalgic to the point of being very difficult. I'm the only one of my family still alive, no kids or nieces/nephews. Cedar Point and the islands were a huge part of my life. I also worked there in the 80s. It's hard to have nobody left who knew me or was there as a kid and teen.
What an absolutely great home movie. In 1968 our family had a boat in the marina at cedar point. Pier 3, then pier 9. I was in the park Friday night, sat and Sunday every weekend. I was 8 years old. I knew almost every college kid in the park. Got to go on Blue Streak test rides before the park opened. Walked the tracks from Frontier town to mainland. Talked on ride microphones to riders. My heart is there. I feel asleep on the boat hearing the screams on the Blue Streak. Back then they did fireworks every Saturday night. Again thank you
This was around the first time I went as a teenager , a few years later with my Girl friend. Than years later with my wife and my son! Than many years after that, I brought my wife, son and my grandchildren across Lake Erie on my boat and stayed the night! What great memories!
Wow…what a great video, that was amazing! The double ferris wheel, paddle wheel boat ride, the old needle that us kids would always impatiently look for driving in along the lake on Cedar Point Road. This was 5 years before I was even born. I don’t remember the alligators, zebras, or tigers…what a magical place. Really appreciate the upload and sorry it didn’t show up on my recommendations sooner. Bless your beautiful parents 🙏🏻
Well that brought back a flood of memories! The Fun House, the Mill Race, the River Boats and those amazing French fries. Such a simpler and happy time. Thank you so much for sharing!
First year I went was 1971 at age 11. First roller coaster was the Blue Streak. That Mine Ride was fun but it would jolt the crap out of you! Been there many times over the years since. This was a fabulous look back. Thank you!
Some of my fondest memories as a kid were the family trips to Cedar Point. No matter what was going on with my life a day here was (and is) a great escape from it all. Thank you for posting this snapshot of Americana
I remember those days. It was quick to get in and out of a ride. No two-hour waits. No long winding queues to make it look like the lines are short. You had a choice of either buying ticket books, or paying the all-day fare for which you'd get a string wrapped around your wrist and a stamp on the back of your hand. Besides the Blue Streak, there was the Wild Mouse at the far end of the midway and the Fun House where you exited via the spiral slide. And you could actually run your way through the Fun House, you didn't stand there with a crowd of people all hot and sweaty and jammed together.
I remember the frontier lift crossed the lagoon and over the trees in the 70s. As a tiny kid back then I remember looking down on those tall trees and seeing those massive spider webs in the canopy.
Very cool footage. A lot of interesting scenes, like the Frontier Lift, bits of the Scamper, the original Shoot the Chutes, etc. Crazy to think that Cedar Point only had two coasters at this time (Blue Streak and Scamper) and that Cedar Creek Mine Ride would be brand new the following year.
This looks exactly like our old home movies of Cedar Point back from 1968. It was such a special time for the family to get together ❤ My mom used to go there by boat in the 1930's and 1940's with her family. When I grew up, the tradition continued on that my own children have enjoyed Cedar Point. Now that they're grown up the tradition shall continue. Great memories 🥰
It's crazy to think that the Blue Streak was the biggest thrill ride there at that time, compared to the crazy roller coasters we find at Cedar Point today!
That's what I was saying. I remember being about 12 or 13 our first trip ever from middle Michigan we drive down. And I mean we thought that Blue Streak was some kind of a monster we were going to die on that thing. But you look at this video and people were grabbing on for dear life on those rail cars😅😅 and now you look at the stuff they have it looks like a little baby kids coaster. I think it's actually been removed and made room for some other type of raptor or something. But I'll never forget it was far less crowded and it was basically the only real roller coaster on the whole park? I think the next real roller coaster they got was the corkscrew? And people literally had to wait in line for 2 or 3 hours to ride that thing when it first opened. I'll never forget it. But it seemed worth it! LOL you were going upside down in a big loop and then screwing around like a cork, and directly down through the Steam and the water pond. It was nuts
@@billyidol2115blue streak and mine ride are still there. Railroad still running, but last year was the final year of the paddle wheel boat ride (I'm glad I got to go on it one last time, I'd forgotten that I had been on it 40 years earlier)
Oh man, brings back memories of my first vist as a young kid. We ran from each ride to the next because we wanted to make sure we got on every ride! We didnt bvb want to stop riding, but faithfully met our moms for food and drink breaks. I remember they played fascination most of the day, and took in the shows. What great times!
Felice Graziano Why am I laughing so hard at your comment!! So way off the subject of the video just cracks me up. Almost reminds me, like we’re all at a bar listening to them talking about back in the day at Cedar Point we’re all buzzed then the awkward moment, that comment, followed by crickets! Funny as hell!! 👍🍺
I grew up going to the parks and now can say i have worked there for their 150th anniversary. I never really appreciate the history until i stumbled across this video. So thank you for sharing
My buddies and I went a year before this in 1967, so this was basically the same park we experienced. I'd forgotten how much fun the boat ride used to be. As great as Cedar Point is today, I miss the more laid-back atmosphere it had back then.
This is SUCH a fascinating time capsule of the Cedar Point of my youth. I enjoyed watching this so very much. Thank you for sharing it! I first visited the park around '71 or '72. And then I spent the summer working there in 1979. I loved seeing all of these old scenes.
I was 12 in 1968 and I know we visited Cedar Point that summer. I recall all those rides. It was the first time I’d ever been to a place like that and thought everything was magical.
Thank you for sharing your family's memories with us - I'm sorry for the loss of your parents. Great Cedar Point footage! I started visiting in 1980, and it was fun to see what all I remembered... my 10 year old brain misses the double Ferris Wheel, the log ride, and of course, the Rotor..... #rideon
@@Bojangles5-2 Hey man I just can't complain about Cedar Point. Gotta say that Kennywood has what you're looking for though, it's a classic park that feels like it never changes even with additions like Steel Curtain, Black Widow, and Skyrocket in recent years. Cedar Point feels so drastically different, even from when I first went 15 years ago.
My dad worked at General Mills in Toledo. Each year they would have the company picnic there in one of the pavilions just after you enter the park. All day passes, fun with the other kids, not super crowded, great times. We love Cedar Point!!
Your parent's had a great ride! Also then for posting. My parents met here on the beach in the summer of 1944. We went every summer. If I remember correctly, 1968 was the first year that Frontier Town was open.
Always took the boat ride. It was so much fun back then. All the animals, jungle Larry, lion tamer. Alot of things to see and do. It has changed alot. Not a bad thing but different. Love both as a kid and now.
That water flume ride - we went to a park that had one and I remember that’s when my brother got his first look at a wet T shirt courtesy of the girl sitting in front. He’s never been the same since 😂😂😂
Wow. Fantastic video. Our family went every summer in those years. Fantastic variety and filming for that era with I guess 8 mm. Remember it all including the cedar point sign. Thanks.👍
Great old home movie of Cedar Point. Went there alot growing up. We went there that same year in 68. Loved the old skywheel missed it when they took it out. And other old rides like Earthquake and The Pirate Ride. Alot more they took out to make way for all the new coasters. Thanks for sharing the memories.
I absolutely Loved the home movie of Cedar Point in 1968 Wow! I was 4 years old that summer and 1st went to Cedar Point the next year in 1969 with my brother, sister and Mom...I think my grandma and Uncle came too...I still love Cedar Point and have my own home movies of Cedar Point from the 93 - 2013 on one 88mm cassette...I have to get transferred to dvd and upload. My God Bless you ❤
I went to cp in 1975 for my 11th birthday. It is great to be the same age as the blue streak . Lots of fun with my grandpa in the 70’s and going myself in 1990 up to 2012
I was one year from being born when this movie happened. Love seeing the way the park used to look, especially the old sign and the 2nd set of crossing cars that are long gone, not too mention, the double ferris wheel, which they should have kept!! The first time I was there was when I was around five, so much of this was still simular, but looking at it today, wow, it's still has some of those rides from then, but so many new ones, mostly coasters, but that's what makes it the BEST park!!!!
See to us old timers we think it was better back then at least I did with my first trip there in 76 just as you will think it was better in 2022 than it will be in the late 2060s !
@@douglaslett7504 It's still great, but it was better back in the day. I feel the park peaked in the late 70's. After that, great new attractions came with great sacrifice. Miss having at least 2 log flumes, two dark rides and an unexplored island in the middle of the park. Also miss how the park felt carved out of the wild -- Witches Wheel was at one time solo back in the woods at the end of a trail. Those were good times.
Great beautiful footage of a great time period! 55 years ago when i was born in 1968. The smiles on peoples faces are priceless. Cedar Point has changed a lot over the years but is still a great park even though its filled with mega coasters. Nice footage with beautiful parents having fun in their youth! Thanks for sharing beautiful memories and may your parents rest in peace!
Brings back some memories.... Our family spent a couple days up there each summer every year in the mid to late 60's.... Seeing those poor animals being cooped up in those small enclosures is so sad.....
Those are great 8mm videos. I had a Super 8mm but it was kind of expensive to develop a 50' reel so I took shorter clips and my shots were not so good. 1968 my wife and I graduated from Tiffin Columbian HS and then married in October. 1969 we went to Cedar Point while I was on leave from the USN. I went in my whites. I have photos of that. It is hard to believe that was 55 years ago.
I think it was 1972 when we first went there. I was 9 years old. The Fun House was my favorite. Loved the double ferris wheel. Thanks for sharing this great video!
Went to Cedar Point a couple of times in the mid-1980s (the beginning of the current park; not unlike what was happening to Knott's Berry Farm and Six Flags Magic Mountain). Even before the mega-coasters were even created, it was a great place to spend the day.
I thought by the mid-80s they had the corkscrew already going? I remember when they were just opening up we would go and we were like high school grads maybe into our early twenties which would be early 1980s
Great footage.....didn't know the next year ('69) I'd be working there as a ride operator on the Mill Race and Sky Wheel! Park looked empty in the video! I also noticed that to get on the rides, you had to have your hand stamped and a colored string worn on your wrist.
S Do you remember a women who used to work in the gift shop around that time? She hung clothes, sorted records - went to the parties 🤪 They called her Annie? Slender pretty lady?
Cedar point used to do either an all ride pass or pay per ride, we would go as a family, we would get the all ride pass with the hand stamp and wrist string, and my grandma would get the pay per ride, I remember her riding the carousel, but usually she held our stuff when we went on the rides. Great memories.
We would go there on family vacations in the Buick station wagon like the Griswalds that was early eighties almost twenty yers after this video but it immediately took me back.
The Crown motel at the beginning of the movie was on Rt. 250, between Milan and the turnpike. The building still exists and is called the Colonial Inn South.
I was 8 in 68. Mom and Grandma got lost going there !! I remember the double ferris wheel being by the entrance ?? And the funhouse with the slides to exit ! Don't remember the zoo animals. The log ride was brand new to the world. And the cable cars in the air was something !! We stayed in a Holiday Inn right by railroad tracks.
That’s so cool. I was 6 in 1968. My daughter and I have been going to CP since 2009. It started our quest to see how many different coasters we could ride together. At 129 now. Plan to ride our 150th in 2020 at the 150th anniversary....assuming they have a new coaster....fingers crossed! Heading to Canada’s Wonderland in May.
Wow, tons of comments! Quick FAQ:
My Mom was 22, Dad 24 in this vid.
Dad was really proud of that Mustang, and said most of the aftermarket parts he did himself and bought from the J.C.Whitney catalog if I remember his stories correctly.
Edit 5/15/21: My Dad (driving the mustang) passed away in late January 2021 from complications of Alzheimer's disease & COVID-19. Mom passed away suddenly a few months later. My brother and I are sure it was from a broken heart. She enjoyed your comments and was happy her home movie brought back memories.
RIP Mom & Dad, I love you.
Thank you for posting this video I recently lost my father in this pandemic as well and the times we spent at cedar point were some of the best times I spent with him so looking back at the footage of an era where all his stories come from is really nice thank you 🙏😊🎢
you need to buy a brink at the park
Rest In Peace to them💜
So sorry to hear about the loss of your parents. I really enjoyed watching this video! Thanks for sharing with us.
R.I.P.
Crazy they just took this for family and friends with no idea in the future anyone in the world could see this. Bravo. So nice someone took the time and effort to capture this.
I remember those days. Back when the Blue Streak was the big thing at Cedar Point!
I love how this video paints a story of their day, from arrival to departure and the road trip home. The sunset was beautiful! This brought back so many early memories and my first visit to CP in 1968. I was only 4 years old, but remember not being able to sleep the night before because I was so excited. When we parked the car and started walking across that huge lot, I loved seeing the big coasters and ferris wheel in the distance...it was mind boggling. The haunted house gave me nightmares for years, especially the creepy upside down granny in the rocking chair and her cat with the back-and-forth eyes in sync with the tail. Loved seeing the fun everyone was having and all the great experiences. The boat ride made me laugh with all of those dramatic Wild West scenes. Really opened up some long hidden memories. Thank you for sharing this!
i said to myself "i'll watch a minute or two just to see how the park was different back then", but then i watched the whole thing because it was strangely haunting. great footage
Fr tho
Nostalgic, not haunting.
How was it haunting?
@@chrisb3976 I obviously can't answer for the original commenter, but each family is so different. For me, these are nostalgic to the point of being very difficult. I'm the only one of my family still alive, no kids or nieces/nephews. Cedar Point and the islands were a huge part of my life. I also worked there in the 80s. It's hard to have nobody left who knew me or was there as a kid and teen.
What an absolutely great home movie. In 1968 our family had a boat in the marina at cedar point. Pier 3, then pier 9. I was in the park Friday night, sat and Sunday every weekend. I was 8 years old.
I knew almost every college kid in the park.
Got to go on Blue Streak test rides before the park opened. Walked the tracks from Frontier town to mainland.
Talked on ride microphones to riders.
My heart is there. I feel asleep on the boat hearing the screams on the Blue Streak.
Back then they did fireworks every Saturday night.
Again thank you
This was around the first time I went as a teenager , a few years later with my Girl friend. Than years later with my wife and my son! Than many years after that, I brought my wife, son and my grandchildren across Lake Erie on my boat and stayed the night! What great memories!
The old Shoot the Rapids. THAT was a GREAT RIDE
Wow…what a great video, that was amazing! The double ferris wheel, paddle wheel boat ride, the old needle that us kids would always impatiently look for driving in along the lake on Cedar Point Road. This was 5 years before I was even born. I don’t remember the alligators, zebras, or tigers…what a magical place. Really appreciate the upload and sorry it didn’t show up on my recommendations sooner. Bless your beautiful parents 🙏🏻
Well that brought back a flood of memories! The Fun House, the Mill Race, the River Boats and those amazing French fries. Such a simpler and happy time. Thank you so much for sharing!
I wasn't born until 1980 but I did get to enjoy the mill race at least a few times in the 80's.
OMG… the French fries!. I completely forgot. Berrardies Fries?
It's astounding how much has changed...and how much hasn't.
First year I went was 1971 at age 11. First roller coaster was the Blue Streak. That Mine Ride was fun but it would jolt the crap out of you! Been there many times over the years since. This was a fabulous look back. Thank you!
Amazing how much this park has changed 50 years later!
What a wonderful trip back in time! Ty.
Some of my fondest memories as a kid were the family trips to Cedar Point. No matter what was going on with my life a day here was (and is) a great escape from it all. Thank you for posting this snapshot of Americana
I remember those days. It was quick to get in and out of a ride. No two-hour waits. No long winding queues to make it look like the lines are short. You had a choice of either buying ticket books, or paying the all-day fare for which you'd get a string wrapped around your wrist and a stamp on the back of your hand. Besides the Blue Streak, there was the Wild Mouse at the far end of the midway and the Fun House where you exited via the spiral slide. And you could actually run your way through the Fun House, you didn't stand there with a crowd of people all hot and sweaty and jammed together.
I remember the frontier lift crossed the lagoon and over the trees in the 70s. As a tiny kid back then I remember looking down on those tall trees and seeing those massive spider webs in the canopy.
Very cool footage. A lot of interesting scenes, like the Frontier Lift, bits of the Scamper, the original Shoot the Chutes, etc. Crazy to think that Cedar Point only had two coasters at this time (Blue Streak and Scamper) and that Cedar Creek Mine Ride would be brand new the following year.
This looks exactly like our old home movies of Cedar Point back from 1968. It was such a special time for the family to get together ❤ My mom used to go there by boat in the 1930's and 1940's with her family. When I grew up, the tradition continued on that my own children have enjoyed Cedar Point. Now that they're grown up the tradition shall continue. Great memories 🥰
Thank you for posting this wonderful footage! Brings back lots of memories of the park when I was a kid.
It's crazy to think that the Blue Streak was the biggest thrill ride there at that time, compared to the crazy roller coasters we find at Cedar Point today!
That's what I was saying. I remember being about 12 or 13 our first trip ever from middle Michigan we drive down. And I mean we thought that Blue Streak was some kind of a monster we were going to die on that thing. But you look at this video and people were grabbing on for dear life on those rail cars😅😅 and now you look at the stuff they have it looks like a little baby kids coaster. I think it's actually been removed and made room for some other type of raptor or something. But I'll never forget it was far less crowded and it was basically the only real roller coaster on the whole park? I think the next real roller coaster they got was the corkscrew? And people literally had to wait in line for 2 or 3 hours to ride that thing when it first opened. I'll never forget it. But it seemed worth it! LOL you were going upside down in a big loop and then screwing around like a cork, and directly down through the Steam and the water pond. It was nuts
@@billyidol2115blue streak and mine ride are still there. Railroad still running, but last year was the final year of the paddle wheel boat ride (I'm glad I got to go on it one last time, I'd forgotten that I had been on it 40 years earlier)
That is fantastic footage for 1968! Thanks for posting.
Enjoyed that blast from the past. The best of times. Thank you for sharing. Excellent job of capturing a magical place. Sometimes less is more.
This is awesome as a theme park vlogger seeing cedar point look so different back then to now is amazing
First year I went and they couldn't get me on the Blue Streak, 😂 still to this day they have the best French Fries ever!
Wonderful movie!!!!!! Thank you!!!!
Oh man, brings back memories of my first vist as a young kid. We ran from each ride to the next because we wanted to make sure we got on every ride! We didnt bvb want to stop riding, but faithfully met our moms for food and drink breaks. I remember they played fascination most of the day, and took in the shows. What great times!
Heard they're landing a man on the moon next year
Felice Graziano Why am I laughing so hard at your comment!! So way off the subject of the video just cracks me up. Almost reminds me, like we’re all at a bar listening to them talking about back in the day at Cedar Point we’re all buzzed then the awkward moment, that comment, followed by crickets! Funny as hell!! 👍🍺
TaraRockRevival BeBe the Titanic sinks in 24 hours!
Felice Graziano The economy is still bad, motel six won’t leave the light on anymore.
The Newb Tube Why is it so important for me to remember that cows say, MOO
And maybe in a few years, computers could start to get smaller and more affordable for anyone to use.
I grew up going to the parks and now can say i have worked there for their 150th anniversary. I never really appreciate the history until i stumbled across this video. So thank you for sharing
Amazing to see how much has and hasn't changed over the years. Thanks for sharing
That's the way I remember Cedar Point when I was a kid! Thanks for posting!!
My buddies and I went a year before this in 1967, so this was basically the same park we experienced. I'd forgotten how much fun the boat ride used to be. As great as Cedar Point is today, I miss the more laid-back atmosphere it had back then.
Thank you for Memories. When I was little we went to Cedar point on a family outing with grandpa back. In 1968
Very cool! Surprised I never saw this. Good to see a lot of the Frontier Lift.
This is SUCH a fascinating time capsule of the Cedar Point of my youth. I enjoyed watching this so very much. Thank you for sharing it! I first visited the park around '71 or '72. And then I spent the summer working there in 1979. I loved seeing all of these old scenes.
My dad worked the blue streak probably around then! His name is David H.
Back then those guys on The Blue Streak HUSTLED!!!!
People looked so much happier back then!!
Yeah no DAMN CELL PHONES
@@timothykaczmarek5871 Take away peoples cell phones and they would be miserable.
What a dumb comment. So if you went to ceder point today you would see frowning faces?
@@Fizbin32111 You mean more miserable than they are already?!?!?
@@timothykaczmarek5871 Turn the power off.
Thank you for this. The quality is amazing!
I was 12 in 1968 and I know we visited Cedar Point that summer. I recall all those rides. It was the first time I’d ever been to a place like that and thought everything was magical.
Simpler times. Sometimes I wish we could go back. Love the matching shirts with the green bows on t(e girls 😂 thanks so much for sharing😀
Thanks for sharing this! Having grown up in Sandusky during that time ( I would have been 12 ) it brought back so many great memories!
I was 12 years-old as well when this was made. Brian how old were your parents when this was made?
Thank you for sharing your family's memories with us - I'm sorry for the loss of your parents. Great Cedar Point footage! I started visiting in 1980, and it was fun to see what all I remembered... my 10 year old brain misses the double Ferris Wheel, the log ride, and of course, the Rotor..... #rideon
Look at all those beautiful trees! It seems so much like a concrete pad these days.
I'll take it if it means better rides, if I wanted a nature walk I'd go to a park for free.
@@coments101 Smartie! 🤣🤣
@@Bojangles5-2 Hey man I just can't complain about Cedar Point. Gotta say that Kennywood has what you're looking for though, it's a classic park that feels like it never changes even with additions like Steel Curtain, Black Widow, and Skyrocket in recent years. Cedar Point feels so drastically different, even from when I first went 15 years ago.
@@coments101 cool, thanks!
I'm too young to have experienced CP like this, but it's fun to look back at this old footage and see what has changed since then.
OMG THAT's the Cedar Point I remember from my childhood. This brings back amazing memories.
My dad worked at General Mills in Toledo. Each year they would have the company picnic there in one of the pavilions just after you enter the park. All day passes, fun with the other kids, not super crowded, great times. We love Cedar Point!!
South ender here, when the all day pass was 5 bucks, and they tied a string around ur wrist. 😂
Your parent's had a great ride! Also then for posting. My parents met here on the beach in the summer of 1944. We went every summer. If I remember correctly, 1968 was the first year that Frontier Town was open.
I think it’s so good of people like you for taking the time for people, like me, to enjoy this film footage of a place dear to my heart. Thank you!
Great nostalgic video! Thanks for sharing
Always took the boat ride. It was so much fun back then. All the animals, jungle Larry, lion tamer. Alot of things to see and do. It has changed alot. Not a bad thing but different. Love both as a kid and now.
That water flume ride - we went to a park that had one and I remember that’s when my brother got his first look at a wet T shirt courtesy of the girl sitting in front. He’s never been the same since 😂😂😂
Eeeww. Wet boobies😮
I love how your mom and aunt have matching oufits! It's the thing to do when you go to Cedar Point! Cool footage!
Thank you so much for this trip down memory lane, this is priceless
Thanks for sharing that. It brought back some great memories!
Wow. Fantastic video. Our family went every summer in those years. Fantastic variety and filming for that era with I guess 8 mm. Remember it all including the cedar point sign. Thanks.👍
Great old home movie of Cedar Point. Went there alot growing up. We went there that same year in 68. Loved the old skywheel missed it when they took it out. And other old rides like Earthquake and The Pirate Ride. Alot more they took out to make way for all the new coasters. Thanks for sharing the memories.
Thanks for sharing this with us! Your mom and dad seem like they were very sweet and fun people.
Notice the Brown Blue Streak? That was without all the seatbelts and stuff. Buzz bars and the old PTC trains. What a GREAT ride.😂
lol. You felt like you were going to fly out of the seat
@kenrafferty2347 That's why that ride was one of the most popular until they over safety overhaul on it. It ran without incidents just the way it was.
Absolutely
I remember the early 70s and the park looking like that. But with more attractions. Memories of childhood.
The park as I remember it. Thanks Brian. Glad you all enjoyed yourselves.
Awesome footage. Cool video!
I absolutely Loved the home movie of Cedar Point in 1968 Wow!
I was 4 years old that summer and 1st went to Cedar Point the next year in 1969 with my brother, sister and Mom...I think my grandma and Uncle came too...I still love Cedar Point and have my own home movies of Cedar Point from the 93 - 2013 on one 88mm cassette...I have to get transferred to dvd and upload.
My God Bless you ❤
Amazing..no one glued to their cell phones and guess what? They survived just fine! Wish we could go back to simpler times..
Of course, almost nobody would voluntarily give up modern convenience.
Well the concept of cell phones was barely even conceived back then, unless you count the video call device from the jetsons
LOVE this... brings me back to my childhood @ Cedar Point.
I went to cp in 1975 for my 11th birthday. It is great to be the same age as the blue streak . Lots of fun with my grandpa in the 70’s and going myself in 1990 up to 2012
I was one year from being born when this movie happened. Love seeing the way the park used to look, especially the old sign and the 2nd set of crossing cars that are long gone, not too mention, the double ferris wheel, which they should have kept!! The first time I was there was when I was around five, so much of this was still simular, but looking at it today, wow, it's still has some of those rides from then, but so many new ones, mostly coasters, but that's what makes it the BEST park!!!!
Wow, Cedar Point was so tame, it’s weird how much they’ve grown to the amazing park they are today.
See to us old timers we think it was better back then at least I did with my first trip there in 76 just as you will think it was better in 2022 than it will be in the late 2060s !
@@douglaslett7504 It's still great, but it was better back in the day. I feel the park peaked in the late 70's. After that, great new attractions came with great sacrifice. Miss having at least 2 log flumes, two dark rides and an unexplored island in the middle of the park. Also miss how the park felt carved out of the wild -- Witches Wheel was at one time solo back in the woods at the end of a trail. Those were good times.
Simplicity, not all that bad.
Was and still is 1000x better than Disney
One thing I like about the old Cedar Point was the amount of greenery they had. There's barely a tree to be found at Cedar Point anymore.
Great beautiful footage of a great time period! 55 years ago when i was born in 1968. The smiles on peoples faces are priceless. Cedar Point has changed a lot over the years but is still a great park even though its filled with mega coasters. Nice footage with beautiful parents having fun in their youth! Thanks for sharing beautiful memories and may your parents rest in peace!
I love this, this is so cool
Brings back some memories.... Our family spent a couple days up there each summer every year in the mid to late 60's.... Seeing those poor animals being cooped up in those small enclosures is so sad.....
Those are great 8mm videos. I had a Super 8mm but it was kind of expensive to develop a 50' reel so I took shorter clips and my shots were not so good. 1968 my wife and I graduated from Tiffin Columbian HS and then married in October. 1969 we went to Cedar Point while I was on leave from the USN. I went in my whites. I have photos of that. It is hard to believe that was 55 years ago.
I think it was 1972 when we first went there. I was 9 years old. The Fun House was my favorite. Loved the double ferris wheel. Thanks for sharing this great video!
Went to Cedar Point a couple of times in the mid-1980s (the beginning of the current park; not unlike what was happening to Knott's Berry Farm and Six Flags Magic Mountain). Even before the mega-coasters were even created, it was a great place to spend the day.
I thought by the mid-80s they had the corkscrew already going? I remember when they were just opening up we would go and we were like high school grads maybe into our early twenties which would be early 1980s
Great footage! Thanks for sharing.
Oh wow what a gem of footage. Somebody better have a backup copy of this just in case
Great footage.....didn't know the next year ('69) I'd be working there as a ride operator on the Mill Race and Sky Wheel! Park looked empty in the video! I also noticed that to get on the rides, you had to have your hand stamped and a colored string worn on your wrist.
S Do you remember a women who used to work in the gift shop around that time? She hung clothes, sorted records - went to the parties 🤪 They called her Annie? Slender pretty lady?
Was it a pay per ride park at the time?
Cedar point used to do either an all ride pass or pay per ride, we would go as a family, we would get the all ride pass with the hand stamp and wrist string, and my grandma would get the pay per ride, I remember her riding the carousel, but usually she held our stuff when we went on the rides. Great memories.
Adding this video to a playlist on this channel.
What an amazing quality of video from that time. Ive seen videos from the 90's with far less quality.
Amazing footage thank you!!
Love the matching outfits. Cool video!
Even without all of the roller coasters, it still looks like a wholesome good time.
We would go there on family vacations in the Buick station wagon like the Griswalds that was early eighties almost twenty yers after this video but it immediately took me back.
This is absolutely outstanding!
The Crown motel at the beginning of the movie was on Rt. 250, between Milan and the turnpike. The building still exists and is called the Colonial Inn South.
Thanks for that information. My husband was born and raised in Sandusky and couldn’t remember where the Crown Motel was. 🥰
I was 8 in 68.
Mom and Grandma got lost going there !! I remember the double ferris wheel being by the entrance ?? And the funhouse with the slides to exit ! Don't remember the zoo animals. The log ride was brand new to the world. And the cable cars in the air was something !! We stayed in a Holiday Inn right by railroad tracks.
This is amazing. Thank you for sharing 🎢
Excellent! The year of my first visit and I wasn't even a month old. This so great thank you for posting it.
LOL thanks I was a baby when this was made lol I do remember the oldschool Cedar point it was fun to look back.
Great video. I was about 6 months old when this video came out.
I loved going to Cedar Point as I was born and raised in Ohio... funny part, I was born in late 1968... Thank you for sharing this video :)
Love the early Mustang with custom tail lights and chrome reverse rims!!
My dad had great taste in cars!
Amazing to see so much that has changed and so much that hasn't!
Amazing video. Thank you. Now I need to crack time travel...
Interesting video! There was more forest back then. I went there for the 1st time in 1984 and don't remember the river boats.
I road Steel Vengeance for the first time at the age 0f 50.. and OMG!
You got to put that coaster on you bucket list!
Outstanding footage. That’s how the park would have looked when I started going back in the early 70s. Thank you!
That’s so cool. I was 6 in 1968. My daughter and I have been going to CP since 2009. It started our quest to see how many different coasters we could ride together. At 129 now. Plan to ride our 150th in 2020 at the 150th anniversary....assuming they have a new coaster....fingers crossed! Heading to Canada’s Wonderland in May.
Great video. Looks like the Blue Streak was the big thrill ride in '68! Too bad there is no audio but thanks for not ruining it with music.🎢
Great video!
Omg wow! So different back then
First went in the mid to late 70s, I can almost taste the fries! great memories.