This includes photos, which are not obviously retro and portraits of famous young women doing nothing but posing. Please add the info in the comments.ĥ: All reposts less than six months old and all reposts less than a year old from Top 100 will be removed.ħ: We reserve the right to remove any post that doesn't showcase historical coolness. Nobody cares about your sexual impulses, least of all the OP.Ĥ: All posts highlighting, in the title, that someone has recently passed away or titles trying to evoke sympathy upvotes will be deleted. Offensive comments include anything about pimping, about people's moms and scoring women. If you've found a photo, video, or photo essay of people from the past looking fantastic, here's the place to share it.ġ: Photos and videos must be over 25 years old.Ģ: Please put the year or decade in title, otherwise your post will be removed.ģ: Spam, racist, homophobic, sexist and offensive comments, as well as brigading, consistent reposting and shitposting, will result in a lifetime ban. The biggest threat to Lake George is stormwater runoff. Either way, take this 7-minute journey through the old Lake George.A pictorial and video celebration of history's coolest kids, everything from beatniks to bikers, mods to rude boys, hippies to ravers. Where once the Gaslight Village Amusement Park stood, there will be an exciting new environmental park. Either I was too young to remember that or somehow after watching Blackfish I decided to mentally suppress any and all feelings about intelligent aquatic life held in captivity for our amusement. Storytown USA used to have trained dolphins in the old high-dive pool. Something else I seem to have missed from childhood: Dolphins! Gaslight Village is no longer in existence, and Storytown USA became the Great Escape in 1983. I really didn't have too many memories of Gaslight Village or Storytown USA before it became the Great Escape but after watching this video, many things came back to life for me and some things really stood out. I was born in 1973, believed to be around the time this video was taken. We played video games in the arcades, watched the Minne Ha Ha out on the lake, and took in an ice cream cone (with sprinkles) while we window shopped the souvenir stores near Frankenstein's Wax Museum. would open Gaslight Village in late afternoon to capture the attention of families leaving Storytown. The property was located at the foot of Lake. Construction on the site began in the late 1950’s and the village opened for the 1959 tourist season. Sometimes we did the theme parks, but most times we skipped the parks entirely and just strolled leisurely around Lake George Village. Gaslight Village opened in 1959 along Route 9 in Lake George, New York Owner Charles R. Lake George businessman Charles R Wood created the Gaslight Village amusement park at Lake George, New York after his success with Storytown USA. I remember my sister and me hoping in the back of dad's old Buick Regal and heading up to Lake George on a warm, sunny Saturday morning to have a little family fun. With that being said, it was nice to check out this rare home video of some pretty cool Lake George attractions that no longer exist and some that still do, all captured with vintage 70s charm. I'm all for whatever the public demands (and business owners decide to build) so I personally have zero problems with what has transformed over the last 40 years or so in Lake George. These were the days of bumper stickers, Jungleland, Ferris wheels, and tilt-a-whirls.
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