Carowinds - Pineville area 1986

Carowinds as it looked in 1986, along with Pineville and south Charlotte along Park Road.

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[llnesinthesand]

I love the 69 cent gas!

[reillync]

I think Gulf called their premium brand "No Nox" back then...for only about 10 or 15 cents more!

[montakor39]

Wow....25 years ago .....things sure did change.. Even CMC Pineville wasn't built yet. It was like a "country" in Pineville in some parts. And Carowinds, omg....they have definitely made the skyline look interesting nowadays compared to back then. .....

[ncmattj]

This is really cool. I grew up behind Carmel Commons in the 80's so I remember all of this. Wow. Neat to see stuff as it was when I was 10.

[DinoNardelli]

Cool vid. Thanks again

[nwogiant33]

Thanks for putting this up, it's amazing for as much has changed, how much alot has stayed the same. I was 6 years old back then, wow.

[bigrigdriver1221]

no intimidator OMG lol jk looks blank

[maxti6]

@bigjr872 Nothing's wrong with it now. It's much better since Cedar Parks took over because I didn't care for what Paramount was doing with it.

We went in mid may 2010 and it was a great day! It made me feel I had stepped back into the park I had once known, not the commercialized mess of what Paramount had pushed it into. When Wayne's World was new it was cool. Some 12 years later things started to look overbloated and it was a messy theme ridden park. 2005 was the last year I was there.

[maxti6]

From 3:20 on you should have left this whole section in. No one would even recognize it!

[maxti6]

@1:50 this is the Carowinds I remember!

[hotttarheeldude]

yeah charlotte didnt have nearly the amount of traffic volume in 86' as it does today. that would have been a disaster lol.

[indyfeed]

lol what a nightmare that would be today