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re: Which of You Ol' Timer Otr's Have Visited Dogpatch USA?

Posted on 11/19/21 at 8:05 am to
Posted by REB BEER
Laffy Yet
Member since Dec 2010
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Posted on 11/19/21 at 8:05 am to
We went as kids. A few times if I remember correctly.

This could have been my brother and me in the Gravitron.

Posted by Shexter
Prairieville
Member since Feb 2014
14183 posts
Posted on 11/19/21 at 8:29 am to
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The frick kinda place is this


I rode that one several times. You'd start out standing on the floor, then the ride would start spinning. Next, the floor would drop about six feet.
Posted by MasonTiger
Mason, Ohio
Member since Jan 2005
16301 posts
Posted on 11/19/21 at 8:35 am to
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I rode that one several times. You'd start out standing on the floor, then the ride would start spinning. Next, the floor would drop about six feet.

And if one person got sick and barfed everyone in there had it on their clothes, especially if you were the poor bastard on their downspin side. Fun times.
This post was edited on 11/19/21 at 8:37 am
Posted by thekid
Anna, Tx
Member since May 2006
3942 posts
Posted on 11/19/21 at 8:36 am to
Yes we went growing up…I agree with the earlier poster, Silver dollar city was better
Posted by Sao
East Texas Piney Woods
Member since Jun 2009
66208 posts
Posted on 11/19/21 at 8:39 am to

Oh man. I remember going around 78 or 79. Been to all of those parks up there like SDC and Magic Springs.
Posted by YumYum Sauce
Arkansas
Member since Nov 2010
8343 posts
Posted on 11/19/21 at 8:45 am to
Morris will make this place a freaking palace. obviously it won't be a theme park, but everything he does is done right. Looks like he wants to make it a nature preserve of some sort with restaurants, fishing, etc.

Posted by Sao
East Texas Piney Woods
Member since Jun 2009
66208 posts
Posted on 11/19/21 at 8:48 am to

That would be very cool.
Posted by YumYum Sauce
Arkansas
Member since Nov 2010
8343 posts
Posted on 11/19/21 at 8:49 am to
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That would be very cool.


here's article about his plans
LINK
Posted by Sao
East Texas Piney Woods
Member since Jun 2009
66208 posts
Posted on 11/19/21 at 9:08 am to

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They had a huge trout hatchery there, and that’s probably one of our first goals is to reactivate that hatchery and develop the creek that runs through there. 


Kudos to him. Very good idea.
Posted by Twenty 49
Shreveport
Member since Jun 2014
18912 posts
Posted on 11/19/21 at 9:46 am to
Went there in about 1980, near the end of the season. The local kids were back in school, and the park was empty. We got on rides and, when they stopped, the college kids running them would ask if we wanted to go again. Sure. We rode a roller coaster three times in a row because no one else was in line.

Back in 2005, an ATV rider hit a tension wire run between two trees on the property, which has changed hands a few times among dreamers who never made anything happen. He sued the owners, won, they could not pay, and he ended up as the proud owner of the park.

There are some good pics of the abandoned site, which you can easily see from the road if you are passing through after a tour of nearby Mystic Caverns.







Posted by Pfft
Member since Jul 2014
3802 posts
Posted on 11/19/21 at 10:41 am to
Six Flags is only white suburban trashy, Dog Patch was white rural trashy.
Like 4 trailers and 8 broken down cars in the yard trashy.
Posted by dgnx6
Baton Rouge
Member since Feb 2006
69447 posts
Posted on 11/19/21 at 10:50 am to
this is way too white for me. Im triggered.
Posted by LaLadyinTx
Cypress, TX
Member since Nov 2018
6141 posts
Posted on 11/19/21 at 11:33 am to
I think we went in 1973 or 1974 when I was 12 or 13. But been to Booger Hollow lots of times in the 70's. It was one of the main places to stop on the way to the Ozarks. Arkansas was kind of the standard vacation for us. My parents loved the mountains. I wanted the beach. Our church was always taking trips there as well.

I did much prefer Silver Dollar City. Been to Silver Dollar City, Booger Hollow, Shepherd of the Hills, play and the Passion Play more times than I can count.

The other church/school that was a constant was Six Flags in Arlington. I grew up in the country near Shreveport.
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