Little Cedar Point Facts/Info

^^So that was what happened to my pass. ;)

^^Yep, still have one. Randy, the CP & LE Superintendent had some leftover in storage and gave some to me for my son who is now an Engineer on the railroad.

cptedsdisciple2 said:

The old frontier lift used to go into the second story of the bathroom building behind mine ride before 1976 this was the only way to get from the back to the front of the park, as the fro tier trail and the Gemini midway hadn't opened yet.

The decorative train on the frontier trail is Albert, one of the original two engines. His "partner" was traded to walt Disney world, only to discover that the engine coming back from Florida didn't fit on the CP tracks.

The CP & LE Railroad (opened in 1963) and the Frontier Lift were the two ways to get back to Frontier Town. Albert's "partner" was the Maud L. - the original engine on the line. It was traded to Disneyland for a Davenport in 1999 which was too big for Disneyland and too small for Walt Disney World. It sat in the CP & LE RR Engine House for several years before it was shipped off to Knott's Berry Farm. In 2010, Cedar Point shipped Jennie K. out to Knott's for refurbishment and got the Davenport back for use on the line. It will probably be ready for use this summer. Maud L. is now the #5 Ward Kimball at Disneyland. For more info, check out www.cplerr.com.

I must be a CP nerd, because I knew most of the facts listed already except that Pagoda gift Shop was the Post Office. Anybody know what Post number it was?

^Nevermind, I had a brain-fart for a sec. I had my local eagles on my mind.

Lols...This is all actually pretty impressive stuff...It's kinda surprising to see all of this stuff...Cedar Point has changed much more than what I believed

Rapids 77-78 said:
Anyone out there still have one?

Although I did not actually receive it at the park, I do have one of those badges. It was given to me by my parents. I like riding the train at Knott's for the reason of the cowboys who board the train and walk around interacting with the guests.

99er, I think you may know who I'm talking about when I say there's an old geezer we know who happens to be one of the bandits out at knotts during the "off season" I assume you might have known that but I figured it was worth mentioning.

^Oh I know who you are talking about. And its fun to watch him on the train knowing what his other "job" is. :)

haha cant wait to go this year and see him

For a short few years, people were able to walk down the beach path and enter the back side of Bubbles Bar to order drinks. I thought this was pretty cool and gave the adults something interesting to do in the evening.

Of course, it's fenced-off now so that you can only enter through Soak City.

Corkscrew Headache said:
The queue for Mantis once required crossing the train tracks. I'm correct on that one, right? Some of you older fans back me us on this. I was only four years old. :p

Yeah, I remember that. Forget what year they made the change, but I remember crossing the train tracks to ride it for the first time.

I think the crossing was in between the old time photo, and the basketball game.

Yep! The entrance was to the right of the support for the dive loop! There's pictures of it somewhere but I forget where I saw them

The path is actually still there which you can see from the queue or by riding the train. The entrance was switched for the 2000 season.

Wildcat was originally located where Disaster Transport currently sits; it was relocated to make room for Avalanche Run.

Avalanche run was enclosed not only to alleviate water collecting in the ride trough but sand as well; employees would walk the trough to sweep away the sand as the abrasion would chew up the tires on the vehicles.

Magnum originally had laser lights in the tunnels along with the fog that exists today. Along with the lasers were 'laser' sound effects, which were your stereotypical 80s laser noises. Unfortunately, in order for the riders to be able to hear these sound effects over the roar of the train, they were incredibly loud; consequently if you stayed on the wrong side of Sandcastle Suites you were subjected to a sanity testing 'pew pew pew' throughout the night.

Notre Dame Quarterback Knut Rockne worked as a lifeguard at Cedar Point one summer where he developed the forward pass; up until that point football was entirely on the ground, similar to rugby. He later went on to coach Notre Dame to 5 national titles in the 1920s which, incidentally, was the last time Notre Dame football was relevant.

As others have mentioned, the Cedars dorms was originally the Cedars Hotel which opened in 1910; it included part of the older White House Hotel that opened in 1901.

The building that currently houses 'Boeckling's Eerie Estate' during Halloweekends was originally the administration building; the stately gentleman at the dining room table in the haunted house is George Boecking, the man who ran the park from 1897 until his death in 1931 and had an apartment on the building's 2nd floor.

Until 1914 the only way to access the peninsula was via. ferry. That year an auto road was built to allow automobile access. After a storm destroyed much of the road in 1917, the entrance to this road was moved farther west where it remains today as the Chausee. This road also doubles as the world's largest collection of stupid looking mailboxes.

One of the first recorded uses for what would become Cedar Point was during the civil war; the Union army placed a cannon battery at the tip of the peninsula.

During prohibition, both Al Capone as well as Detroit's Purple Rose Gang (who controlled much of the illicit liquor trade in the Midwest) ran boats from Canada directly into the Cedar Point lagoons, which were open to the lake at that time. There are rumors of a tunnel that took the hooch directly from docks in the lagoon to the basement of Hotel Breakers where an illegal casino helped the resort weather the depression, but no proof exists (over 75% of all outlawed booze that came into the US did so across Lake St. Clair, the Detroit River & Lake Erie…think 'Boardwalk Empire' without the creepy Steve Buschemi sex scenes). During construction of Millennium Force, many old prohibition-era bottles were discovered on what is now known as Millennium Island; some of these bottles can today be seen sitting on roofs & porches of the various buildings that make up Paddlewheel Excursions.

We-o-we-oooo said:
This road also doubles as the world's largest collection of stupid looking mailboxes.

Haha, I've always enjoyed looking at the mailboxes along that road.

TwistedWicker77 said:
Yep! The entrance was to the right of the support for the dive loop! There's pictures of it somewhere but I forget where I saw them

You can see glimpses of the entrance in this video that we shot during its opening year:

http://youtu.be/2I-T7vQRKT8

The Wildcat used to be located where the stadium is, the Jumbo Jets were located where Disaster Transport is currently located.

Rotunda_Chillin said:

TwistedWicker77 said:
Yep! The entrance was to the right of the support for the dive loop! There's pictures of it somewhere but I forget where I saw them

You can see glimpses of the entrance in this video that we shot during its opening year:

http://youtu.be/2I-T7vQRKT8

I commented on the video but I wanted to say here too...They dispatched trains like crazy. They would have one rolling out of the station approaching the lift hill, before the train on the course would reach the MCBR