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I miss the Yankee Harbor background music...I really wish I had it on CD. Its sad that I have been up for the last hour with the tunes in my head & I can't listen to them... We used to come up with all sorts of silly names for the songs too... Yankee Disco, Yankees on Ice, etc... When you spend ...

I remember Farrell's... Its the only time I ever saw my brother eat until he was stuffed & sick!

SC GA later had Carnation Ice Cream...

Thanks.

Too bad it doesn't have all the music.
I fear I actually LIKED my YH music.
It was one of the reasons I liked to stand at t Tidal Wave entrance during downtimes...You could hear the music better!

Does anyone have the old area music in a downloadable form???

I managed to get a YH cassette from a tech friend before I quit,
but after all these years the sound quality isn't what it was...

I went to SC GA about 6 years after my last season for the Duran Duran concert.
It hurt to see the place I loved to much changed.

When I saw that the Yankee Clipper was gone, I almost cried.
I had missed my beloved Clipper, the place I loved to be the most...
I still it.

I haven't been back since.

Skyhawk had mechanical issues & had a lot of Downtime (as did the Edge) After someone fell from a Skyhawk ride at a different park, the Santa Clara ride was shut down pending investigation. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/1999/08/23/MN106248.DTL&type=printable Look at the le...

[quote="MGA1] 3) I don't remember the Vanilla Ice concert in Santa Clara. But I do remember that in 1990, "New Kids on the Block" was a relatively unknown opening act for another group. By 1991, "New Kids on the Block" was so famous, that the park couldn't even afford to boo...

I was hired in SC for Smurf Woods/Yukon Rides in 1988 & went to Yankee Rides from '89 to '94. I absolutely loved working there until Paramount made it into a huge movie commercial. (Ever watch the movie "Fierce Creatures?" It felt like that...) I typically could be found at Clipper 2nd...

I remember a Yellow-tagger who worked the "ChickenHawk."
The ride came down & didn't stop spinning, so he tried to physically stop it.
We nicknamed him "Skid" after that...

Perhaps there's a reason to not have 15 year-old kids working rides?

RRRapids:
On my first day of ride training in '88m I was up on Loggers 2nd lift w/ my lead Matt Kees. RRR was drained. I asked why & he said it was because a raft flipped...

The question I heard the most while working Clipper Chute:
"Pardon me, do you have any Grey Poupon?"

Personally, I preferred 2nd lift.
Esp since my Husband-to-be would work at Chute!

The SC county fair grounds are in a sad state
The fairs are worse & shorter each year.
I think all they use with regularity is the race track...