Add me to the list of those who enjoyed the nostalgia. I got deputized in the early 60's and remember Wild Windy McKay chatting to my parents and holding me for a photo. The memories of this surpass Disneyworld and imagination filled in the gaps of rough mechanics where automatronics have taken over.
thank you for the walk down memory lane! My dad was substitute pianist on Tuesdays at Ghost Town from the 1st yr until the mid 70s. My late husband was an original Sundance Sam(outlaw)that rode the horse up the back hill and was shot by all the deputies. Bob Hungerford was the painist there for many years and 16 yr. old Jim Robillard was the accordianist and we're still in touch!
Thank you so much for posting this. It's exactly how I remember it from when I was little. What a treat to see it all again. Thank you for the memories.
Awesome post...My family has been there many times... we would spend the day here having a blast...Nice that as the park expanded, they kept most of these attractions...The park got huge over time especially with the water park addition...The whole Lake George area is wonderful...Bonus, Saratoga track in summer!
Many attractions are still there today but it's also changed so much. Six Flags keeps whittling away at the nostalgic stuff and slowly much is getting replaced (unfort. not keeping with the "Storytown" theme).
Think about it: Not one person had a cellphone. Back then, people didn't think they were so important that they had to walk around with a cellphone all day. If people had to get in touch with you, they had to - GASP! - call your home or workplace and hope you were there. If you weren't? It wasn't the end of the world. Amazing!
Wow! Awesome video! They had the dragon train there until the mid-80s. I remember riding in that over by Ghost Town. Now, it's stashed behind the Desperado Plunge...tracks are still there. Most of the other attractions are also still there, but they don't do the big shoot-out stuff anymore for political reasons. Saw the original "Wild Bill" I think his name was, a few years ago, with his guitar and handing out anniversary badges. I'm only 32 but he was still hopping when I was a kid.
there is a youtube slide show of Pleasure Island photos posted by SweenyXskellington check it out if you haven't seen it already and thanks for confirming the name of the old theme park in Newbury-i was wracking my brain trying to remember it.
great clips! if you were from the northeast, you went to storytown, frontiertown, land of make believe and gaslight village. what great memories of fun summer vacations with no responsibilities until it was time to do the "back to school" shopping. kids today will never understand. it was so new and yet so simple.
Notice the one thing missing from the whole movie? Theres not one obese person in the film. Back then fast food was hardly heard of and people were skinnier!
SIX FLAGS SUX. see y'all in a few months. look for the BIG light-skinned guy with the t-shirt what says "SIX FLAGS SUX"!!!!! LAGE GEORGE FOREVER!!!!!!!!!!!
wow i worked there for 2 summers and my dad worked there when he was my age. there is sooo much stuff i recognize not only from the park but also from the beginning of the movie. its great to see it all and whats still there!
Since my birth, I've been going up to Lake George every summer, late in August. Where I and my family stayed at was Bayfront Motor Court, which is adjacent to Cresthaven Resort. Every time I was up there, we all went to The Great Escape. The last time I stayed up there was in 2004, after my grandmother passed away.
this was awesome!...im only 16 years old but i love looking into things like this.
the last time we went to the great escape which was last week, my mom was telling me about storytown and i never even knew about it. but then i came on here and searched videos to see how much it changed and stuff
its just amazing how much its changed yet some of the rides and attractions are still there.
Amazing film. Thank you VERY much for sharing it. Back in the early 80s up through the mid 90s we used to visit the Great Escape / Storytown every single summer. Looking at this video, it's AMAZING how little the park changed from 1966 to the mid 80s. Since the 80s, it's changed so much from then to the present.
So much nostalgia! I miss the "old" Storytown/Great Escape. So much of the charm and character has been lost - the Ghost Town train, the little purple trian, etc.
This is how the Sundowner motel looked back then in 1966.There were small cottages on the rt side of the pool(from the camera's view)The cottages were later replaced with a big motel building.The pool has been replaced with on of similar shape to the original in the same location.When the camera pans to the right away from the pool and a row of empty chairs are seen ahead-that's the lawn/beach of the next door motel-O'Sullivan's.On the other side of the fence to the left of the pool is Lake Ave.
this is fantastic! The original Storytown is nowhere near my age (im only 19) but I always wondered what it originally looked like as my father always explains how fun it was. Shame how most of the originality is dissapearing under Six Flags changes.
Nice movie,it brought back some wonderful memories.We used to vacation in Bolton Landing in the late fifties, early sixties.A stop off in Storytown was always part of it.I still remember the cardboard sign of Storytown we would attach to our car bumper.What great times they were.
Great Video! I grew up in Lake George so Storytown holds a very special place in my heart. I love seeing old movies, postcards, and memorabilia of Storytown. My family still owns motels in the area. Do you happen to remember the name of the motel that is shown in the video?
My mother used to take one of my older cousins there back in the early-to-mid 70s. We as a family used to make it a tradition to go up every summer when we were little in the very early 90's after it became a theme park. I swear that the alligators and hippos popping out of the water kept me from entering the jungle. Anyway, it is a bit of a downer that areas has been paved over for a Looney Tunes attraction. Guess I can never conquer that fear. I really miss Lake George's unique charm.
Thanks for sharing this. Wild Windy Bill Mckay is a very close family friend.I grew up down the road from him in Lake George. He deputized me as a baby 40 years ago. You'll be glad to know that Uncle Bill is 87 yrs. old and still playing cowboy. He just celebrated his 50th year in Ghosttown. I'll be telling him of you video. He really charishes these memories and the fact that he has touched so many people.FYI... How many people know he performed with Roy Rogers?
Great Memories! Thanks, Now what would be really appropriate is the original theme sone from the park! Happiness is Children and Storytown U.S.A, Which I still just happen to have the original 45 of!
Great Video!!! The music goes along perfect with the old footage, amazing to see the old Storytown the way it looked before I was born (now Great Escape 6 flags) Amazing how much has changed...while some of the rides are still there...as well as the same Sheriff in ghost town!!
Add me to the list of those who enjoyed the nostalgia. I got deputized in the early 60's and remember Wild Windy McKay chatting to my parents and holding me for a photo. The memories of this surpass Disneyworld and imagination filled in the gaps of rough mechanics where automatronics have taken over.
JerNewton93 1 month ago
My dad was so ... Young
RaNdOmHaLoFaN525 3 months ago
Storytown is where Great Escape is now right?
bigkevcxza 6 months ago
thank you for the walk down memory lane! My dad was substitute pianist on Tuesdays at Ghost Town from the 1st yr until the mid 70s. My late husband was an original Sundance Sam(outlaw)that rode the horse up the back hill and was shot by all the deputies. Bob Hungerford was the painist there for many years and 16 yr. old Jim Robillard was the accordianist and we're still in touch!
1025Robbi 7 months ago
7:12
ssjwes 7 months ago
RIP Marshal Wild Windy Bill McKay
ssjwes 7 months ago
Thank you so much for posting this. It's exactly how I remember it from when I was little. What a treat to see it all again. Thank you for the memories.
taradigan 7 months ago
Awesome post...My family has been there many times... we would spend the day here having a blast...Nice that as the park expanded, they kept most of these attractions...The park got huge over time especially with the water park addition...The whole Lake George area is wonderful...Bonus, Saratoga track in summer!
stonedcommander 7 months ago
Nobody looking at some stupid electronic device while they're out with the family.
And not one fat kid in the video.
muddywood 7 months ago
Many attractions are still there today but it's also changed so much. Six Flags keeps whittling away at the nostalgic stuff and slowly much is getting replaced (unfort. not keeping with the "Storytown" theme).
lisamariechar 8 months ago
thank you!!! brings back and makes me think of years past! I have deep roots in this area.
skierbud305 8 months ago
Thanks for this video, I grew up near Lake George and your video brought back many memories of our annual family trip to Storytown.
kwroger616 10 months ago
This is beautiful. Thank you for sharing it... such a shame they've let the original charm fall into disrepair.
tweezers 10 months ago
Think about it: Not one person had a cellphone. Back then, people didn't think they were so important that they had to walk around with a cellphone all day. If people had to get in touch with you, they had to - GASP! - call your home or workplace and hope you were there. If you weren't? It wasn't the end of the world. Amazing!
Jeff98177 1 year ago
Classic. Great video and great music. Notwithstanding the ever-present threat of nuclear annihilation, the 60's were the best!
DiaryOfARat 1 year ago
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DiaryOfARat 1 year ago
This is great! I live in Lake George now, after having vacationed here in the 60's with my parents. GREAT vid!!!!
HeartInThe60s 1 year ago
The mid 60s a great time to be alive.
rascal211 1 year ago
Wow! Awesome video! They had the dragon train there until the mid-80s. I remember riding in that over by Ghost Town. Now, it's stashed behind the Desperado Plunge...tracks are still there. Most of the other attractions are also still there, but they don't do the big shoot-out stuff anymore for political reasons. Saw the original "Wild Bill" I think his name was, a few years ago, with his guitar and handing out anniversary badges. I'm only 32 but he was still hopping when I was a kid.
zippitydoowop 1 year ago
Wow, what a great video! Your video brings back many memories also, thanks for sharing, please check out mine to if you like to!
MNTGM1968 2 years ago
"welcome to my jungle"
peeptoe 2 years ago
This was such a wonderful video. We went in the 70's and 80's and saw the addition of the amusement park rides, the roller coaster and the log ride.
What great memories!!
HolyJuan0PaulHida 2 years ago
Thanks for the memories!
sbrooks101 2 years ago
anyone have any clips of pleasure island in wakefield ma. or adventureland in newbury ma.? if you do, please post!!!
sickkat44 2 years ago
@sickkat44
there is a youtube slide show of Pleasure Island photos posted by SweenyXskellington check it out if you haven't seen it already and thanks for confirming the name of the old theme park in Newbury-i was wracking my brain trying to remember it.
laverrier116 1 year ago
great clips! if you were from the northeast, you went to storytown, frontiertown, land of make believe and gaslight village. what great memories of fun summer vacations with no responsibilities until it was time to do the "back to school" shopping. kids today will never understand. it was so new and yet so simple.
sickkat44 2 years ago 2
Notice the one thing missing from the whole movie? Theres not one obese person in the film. Back then fast food was hardly heard of and people were skinnier!
mbrown001 2 years ago 4
Long live the memory of Charlie Woods!
Where'd you think I got my name from?
SIX FLAGS SUX. see y'all in a few months. look for the BIG light-skinned guy with the t-shirt what says "SIX FLAGS SUX"!!!!! LAGE GEORGE FOREVER!!!!!!!!!!!
LGofRPM 2 years ago
wow i worked there for 2 summers and my dad worked there when he was my age. there is sooo much stuff i recognize not only from the park but also from the beginning of the movie. its great to see it all and whats still there!
NPFH21 3 years ago
Wow...great film! I was there in the 1950s before the skyride & boats. They did have the little train. Like your choices in music too.
KKD1247 3 years ago
omg its amazing that that is the great escape, they still have the swan boats n the houses n car ride, AMAZING,sweet vid!!!! 5/5
soadfan2269 3 years ago
Since my birth, I've been going up to Lake George every summer, late in August. Where I and my family stayed at was Bayfront Motor Court, which is adjacent to Cresthaven Resort. Every time I was up there, we all went to The Great Escape. The last time I stayed up there was in 2004, after my grandmother passed away.
cbsfm101 3 years ago
this was awesome!...im only 16 years old but i love looking into things like this.
the last time we went to the great escape which was last week, my mom was telling me about storytown and i never even knew about it. but then i came on here and searched videos to see how much it changed and stuff
its just amazing how much its changed yet some of the rides and attractions are still there.
Thank you so much for sharing this video
lxrunwitscizzors 3 years ago
Fantastic! What great memories this brought back! Anybody remember Time Town, up in Bolton Landing??
Blammo66 3 years ago
Amazing film. Thank you VERY much for sharing it. Back in the early 80s up through the mid 90s we used to visit the Great Escape / Storytown every single summer. Looking at this video, it's AMAZING how little the park changed from 1966 to the mid 80s. Since the 80s, it's changed so much from then to the present.
So much nostalgia! I miss the "old" Storytown/Great Escape. So much of the charm and character has been lost - the Ghost Town train, the little purple trian, etc.
bakntime 3 years ago 2
Wow 1966 I was born in 1966
I haven't been to Storytown in about 25 years
Its now a six flags park known as the Great Escape
I did reckognize the dragon ride and Ghost town and Jungle land
Wheeljack35 3 years ago
That motel pool is the Georgian! I go every summer! holla at the ORIGINAL L.G. what's my name?! L.G.!!!! ORIGINAL GASLIGHT VILLAGE REPRASENT!!!
LGofRPM 3 years ago
It not the Georgian - it's the Sundowner motel
dcbruen 3 years ago
This is how the Sundowner motel looked back then in 1966.There were small cottages on the rt side of the pool(from the camera's view)The cottages were later replaced with a big motel building.The pool has been replaced with on of similar shape to the original in the same location.When the camera pans to the right away from the pool and a row of empty chairs are seen ahead-that's the lawn/beach of the next door motel-O'Sullivan's.On the other side of the fence to the left of the pool is Lake Ave.
dcbruen 3 years ago
this is fantastic! The original Storytown is nowhere near my age (im only 19) but I always wondered what it originally looked like as my father always explains how fun it was. Shame how most of the originality is dissapearing under Six Flags changes.
SirRoxo 3 years ago 2
Nice movie,it brought back some wonderful memories.We used to vacation in Bolton Landing in the late fifties, early sixties.A stop off in Storytown was always part of it.I still remember the cardboard sign of Storytown we would attach to our car bumper.What great times they were.
hapkon 3 years ago
Great Video! I grew up in Lake George so Storytown holds a very special place in my heart. I love seeing old movies, postcards, and memorabilia of Storytown. My family still owns motels in the area. Do you happen to remember the name of the motel that is shown in the video?
DaviesAgent 4 years ago
Sorry to say that no one in the family knows which motel we stayed at. But I do remember it being a classic in mid-60's Motel design!
S991011 4 years ago
My mother used to take one of my older cousins there back in the early-to-mid 70s. We as a family used to make it a tradition to go up every summer when we were little in the very early 90's after it became a theme park. I swear that the alligators and hippos popping out of the water kept me from entering the jungle. Anyway, it is a bit of a downer that areas has been paved over for a Looney Tunes attraction. Guess I can never conquer that fear. I really miss Lake George's unique charm.
shroudie 4 years ago
Thanks for sharing this. Wild Windy Bill Mckay is a very close family friend.I grew up down the road from him in Lake George. He deputized me as a baby 40 years ago. You'll be glad to know that Uncle Bill is 87 yrs. old and still playing cowboy. He just celebrated his 50th year in Ghosttown. I'll be telling him of you video. He really charishes these memories and the fact that he has touched so many people.FYI... How many people know he performed with Roy Rogers?
DaniRSC 4 years ago
What a treat! I could watch this over and over!
mingjoslyn 4 years ago
Been there as a kid in 1963. Does this place still exist or has it been mowed down for houses and such?
Achpamsin 4 years ago
yes it's still there and many of the rides in this video still exist as well!
guss900 4 years ago
Thanks guss900! It would be neat to make a "road trip" back with my kids. A trip down memory lane.
Achpamsin 4 years ago
Great Memories! Thanks, Now what would be really appropriate is the original theme sone from the park! Happiness is Children and Storytown U.S.A, Which I still just happen to have the original 45 of!
sandbartndr 4 years ago
Thanks for the memories. I still have the sheriffs badge that the Marshall gave out!
22scholar 4 years ago
Fantastic trip down memory lane!! Thank you for sharing this!
Martin38 4 years ago
Thank you! This brought back so many fond memories of my childhood.
GoodShepherdAT 5 years ago
;D Awesome as always, sir!
Kyuketsuki 5 years ago
Great Video!!! The music goes along perfect with the old footage, amazing to see the old Storytown the way it looked before I was born (now Great Escape 6 flags) Amazing how much has changed...while some of the rides are still there...as well as the same Sheriff in ghost town!!
Thanks so much for sharing, great job!
wotgorila 5 years ago