Geauga Lake last day ever. part 1

[MegaBeerwolf]

So many awesome memories.

[kingsislandforever]

I have never been Here I have always been to Kings Island It is bull that Cedar closed this place down I was going to go the 2008 season and then boom were closed son of a bi***!

[CuteCatFaith]

As a former employee here, I think I saw people at their lowest. The worst were husbands and fathers abusing their wives and kids. Battered mothers would bring their kids here to distract them and get their purses ripped off. It was a real low point in my employment. I became a sex industry worker in a near-bankrupt NYC later and that was a vast improvement. Getting hit on by my boss here was horrid. Lecoco was this dreadful, scary guy who ogled us females and demanded we buy new shoes.

[CuteCatFaith]

As a former employee here, I think I saw people at their lowest. The worst were husbands and fathers abusing their wives and kids. Battered mothers would bring their kids here to distract them and get their purses ripped off. It was a real low point in my employment. I became a sex industry worker in a near-bankrupt NYC later and that was a vast improvement. Getting hit on by my boss here was horrid. Lecoco was this dreadful, scary guy who ogled us females and demanded we buy new shoes.

[eileenabis]

they closed it all together? i thought it turned into six flags

[glfuntimes]

@eileenabis It was Six Flags from 2000-2004. In 2004 Cedar Fair purchased it and closed it in 2007.

[eileenabis]

@glfuntimes awww thats sad, i loved that place as a kid



[nJchapeK426]

1:33 best ride ev

[iMrMagnifesent]

Why did this place close? Also, why the hell did they not install a new coaster for that long period of time before closing, surely they couldve made enough revenue to build something new.

[FDFPi1]

I want.to buy that land and build a new amusment park.

[petepenguin]

Very sad. I've never been to Geauga Lake when it was open, but I have been to Six Flags when it was open there

[mommamissi31]

Gawd I miss this place....

[xJakex068]

It sucks this place closed.  It shit on cedar point.

[rcwarrior18]

why did they have to close the park! i miss geuga lake

[FIVEMILECRIB]

thanks unions

[flippingfabu]

I was there. Best day ever. But it was so sad

[robophreeq]

I urge anyone who loved this park as much as I did to NOT look at Geauga Lake in Google Earth... it will break your heart. Nothing left now but a few abandoned run-down buildings, a drained, wrecked Grizzly Run, and some concrete footers where a 119 year old park once stood.

Someone jumped the fence back in June 2010 and took pictures. The Wolf Bobs is in really bad shape, part of the lift hill is destroyed, and the station has been ripped apart.

The Dipper is all that remains.. and the magic.

[starfoxfxfreak]

@robophreeq When I looked at it I changed it to the back in time mode viewer on google eath. You can still see the park in satelite view, but it is still very sad...

[IsaacCovers8lD]

I never even got to go and I live like 1 hour away :C But if they closed down Cedar Point or Kings Island I'd never ride a ride again

[dirtshower250]

the water park its self is the size of ceader point.and im going there tommorow.but not the rollercoosterpark

[incrediblecheer2010]

@dirtshower250 wellk obviousley your not going to the roller coaster park.

[Meteor62x2]

Were the food vendors and gift shops still open?

[shutupdeck]

i was just there last week takin pics...big dipper is still up and most of raging wolf bobs...it's so sad to think i spent most of my childhood there and now it's just a wasteland of unused pepsi machines, cement ride stabalizers and abandoned buildings ='(

[ydinoh]

i feel for anybody who loses a theme park. r.i.p. americana

[familyrules90]

This is painful to watch. In all honesty and in my opinion this was a WAY better park the Cedar Point. They were both good but I just really hate Cedar Fair for closing it. I mean when I heard it was gone I felt another part of my childhood die.

RIP Geauga Lake Blackdragon52k i totaly agree wit u

[mrnoodle999]

0:35 did that one get moved to KD and now its dominator?

[Blackdragon52k]

This is painful to watch. In all honesty and in my opinion this was a WAY better park the Cedar Point. They were both good but I just really hate Cedar Fair for closing it. I mean when I heard it was gone I felt another part of my childhood die.

RIP Geauga Lake

[raptorjo]

I sooo miss this park!!!

[glfuntimes]

Yes, this is from closing day 2007.

[cpbowler4]

How come your "last day ever" weather looks different from all the other ones?

[glfuntimes]

Because it was cloudy in the morning when I took it. Plus it was taken with an old camera that I forgot to change the settings on.

[windhammites07]

@glfuntimes plus its ohio sometimes we have a bright sunny day and its 60 degrees then it rains/snows in the evening =P

[kaboda317]

is this really the last day ever?

[woodencoasterfan]

You also have to look at the area it was in. Cedar Point is in northwest Ohio, King's Island is in southwestern Ohio, Kennywood near Pittsburg, PA and there's the two smaller parks in northeastern PA called Conneaut Lake Park south of Erie and Waldameer Park in Erie. All that made for a pretty competitive market. Still sad to see GL go as it was on my list of parks to visit as I've never been there. I just hope they're able to save the Big Dipper and Raging Wolfbobs.

[coltarmadillo]

@woodencoasterfan thts funny because those r the only to coasters sitting on the other side of the park, i hope they r put to a good use someday :)

[lolzxmyxlife12]

i totally miss this park. why did it close? why did the X-Flight get taken down? does anyione know?

[deathmatter56]

i believe x-flights at kinngs island. you may know it as firehawk. but that what i hear

[lolzxmyxlife12]

nooooo.. that is soooo not the X-Flight. my guess is that it wasnt safe. when i went to GL one day, i was looking at them taking it down. that was about a year b4 the park itself closed. so sad that it hadta close. im alll cedar point now.

[cjwulf09]

yea x-flight went to kings island, and is now called the firehawk and its maroon now :)yay 4 kings island!!

[wildcat1171]

yeah its firehawk. i go to kings island 3 to 4 time a season

[DJicey100]

yah like deathmatter said I live fight by kings island in mason and they put it there painted it red and painted the cars new and turned it in to firehawk

[UncleGyro]

why did it close?

[Kapang7]

cedar fair didnt want competition with Cedar Point their main park

[UncleGyro]

why couldent of they sold the park to another company like six flags

[Kapang7]

because it still would of competed with cedar point

[eflynn22]

I wish I went here. I remember going to sea world a year or to before six flags bought sea world. I remember looking across the lake and wanting to go.

[e709e1]

Man I still really miss it.

[kewlkid182]

dang its sad that its not open any more.