Enchanted Forest commercial, Porter Indiana

This is a very old commercial for a now defunct amusement Park I used to go to when I was very young. It was in Porter INdiana.

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Travel & Events

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• enchanted
• forest
• Indiana

[heine71]

Is this from around 1988-1989? And from West Michigan/Grand Rapids TV?

[mchelbert]

I don't know what year this was from. I'd have to dig the old VHS tape out and see what was on tv before and after it. Your guess is pretty right on because I know the teen wolf cartoon was on this tape and that ran from 1986 to 1989. Itw as CBS in Indiana. Channel 16. Hope that helps.

[knightni73]

The CBS affiliate you speak of is 22. NBC is 16.

[mchelbert]

Your exactly right. Its 22 CBS.

Thanx:)

[sonicwarrior]

Good place. We went there as well in the 60's 70's!

[fastfingers0]

YOU CANT SHAKE HANDS WITH A LION! I LION HAS PAWS!

[BarleyJack72]

we had our school picnic here every year in grade school....we use to ride the haunted house and jump off the cars inside in the dark LOL

[hoosierpunx70]

I used to love this place as a kid! My dad's company would have their picnick there every year, and I was always terrified of the giant indian guy at the entrance. I would hide in the back seat of my dad's care on the floor. He would have to coax me out until i would timidly inch toward him & realize he wasn't so bad. We went through this every year til I was older. Actually I know where the old guy is these days. He's in front of a shop in Toto, IN. with a fresh coat of paint. He looks great!

[SpringfieldGarand]

My grandparents were the original creators/owners of the Enchanted Forest and my parents ran the park through the 80's until its closing in 1990. I was born in 1980 and I'm the little boy seen in several places throughout the commercial: the front of the Mad Mouse car at 0:08, firing the cannon at 0:13, riding the tram at 0:17, and driving the red go-kart at 0:25. Seeing this ad brings back SO many fond memories of that time in my life. Thank you SO very much for posting this.

-Ted

[chseaston]

@anythingdammit

I remember the smell of raw sewage when the train went a long the back of the park by the fence. Anyone else remember that also?

[davejdog]

MadMouse is in Wisconsin, at Little AMerrickA theme park!

[DeFyAnTFoX]

Does anyone remember the skyliner.

[chicagodp]

I used to LOVE this place as a kid: Mad Mouse, Tobagan and the round up that was so scary because the boards in the middle used to bow depending on the wind.

Oddly, it turned into a water park and I worked there in college and didn't realize until mid-way through the summer that it used to be Enchanted Forest. So wild!

[MrTabby5000]

I loved those go carts.