Ah, when America dreamed for a tech future. Instead, the 80s happened & now it’s easier to do LBOs & gamble with Bitcoin than invent something
@michaelammerman914 күн бұрын
I grew up a couple of blocks away from knotts berry farm and have a lot of wonderful memories and stories . I never hear anything about the seals or the petting zoo or the flamingos . So much of this place seems to be forgotten.
@chromxrobinandcorrinxcamil90316 күн бұрын
*Sees title and how it tries to trash his beautiful concept like everyone tries to do* N o .
@matchakit8 күн бұрын
Interested on your opinion of the sight lines of epic universe. It’s kind of all over the place
@chromxrobinandcorrinxcamil903112 күн бұрын
Still a truly perfect vision.>:(
@Anna-ww9cl19 күн бұрын
Studio K and Cloud 9 was my hang out 🥰 then when videopolis opened up at Disneyland then we went there as well since we had our annual passes
@Sergio5432121 күн бұрын
You keep saying motels but you obviously mean hotels. Motels you drive your car up to and park right outside your room.
@ThemeParchive21 күн бұрын
No, I meant "motels", as you can clearly see in multiple places on the 1967 site plan at 2:52.
@DanaParker-f1i22 күн бұрын
Great video - thanks so much for making it! Walter Knott was always quick to point out that Ghost Town at Knott's Berry Farm is not a replica of Calico, California. It is a composite of various ghost towns in the West. He always referred to it as "Ghost Town," not "Calico."
@kirkmanning623223 күн бұрын
At its peak the restaurant had the largest dining room in the U.S. if not the world. It could seat over 400 at a time!
@MsDisneylandloverАй бұрын
Iam going to Disneyland Oct 5th ❤
@MsDisneylandloverАй бұрын
I feel that meeting Tiana every March 31st which is my birthday n meeting Tiana she is Tiana whoever that actress. N i am 40.
@MsDisneylandloverАй бұрын
Like guy push that ghost for touching his gf
@MsDisneylandloverАй бұрын
I love the cast members and speaking to do them. Smh. N i just love Tiana
@MsDisneylandloverАй бұрын
Ppl do 2 much smh
@MsDisneylandloverАй бұрын
I remember those headz lol noticez my z lol
@MsDisneylandloverАй бұрын
They need to bring back myself longue.
@MsDisneylandloverАй бұрын
I use to so afraid of that boomerang ride. I dont do roller coaster lol
@MsDisneylandloverАй бұрын
As kid i was afraid of Dinosaurs ride lol
@MsDisneylandloverАй бұрын
Love Janet Jackson ❤
@MsDisneylandloverАй бұрын
Franklin is my main man ❤
@MsDisneylandloverАй бұрын
Rip walt ❤
@MsDisneylandloverАй бұрын
Now i got beary tales puns. But i dont get the roller coaster.
@MsDisneylandloverАй бұрын
Rip rolly
@MsDisneylandloverАй бұрын
Wish they bring back Dinosaurs ride
@MsDisneylandloverАй бұрын
Rip both❤
@MsDisneylandloverАй бұрын
#DisneyDiva ❤
@MsDisneylandloverАй бұрын
Cool how both Walts were friends ❤
@MsDisneylandloverАй бұрын
Love stuff like this #DisneyDiva
@MsDisneylandloverАй бұрын
#DisneyDiva
@gamestuff8174Ай бұрын
This looks just like the plans they have for fortnite
@SLITHEROXАй бұрын
Yes! The series continues!!
@TheIntimacyGramАй бұрын
Disney was one of the original contenders in the sale of Knott's. They had eyes on turning the Farm into Disney America, the park that was planned for Manassass, VA. They would have used Independence Hall as the park's entrance. The Knott family felt Disney would change the park too much and that Cedar Fair would keep its legacy. The family was wrong. Knott's has slid into disrepair over the past few years; several ride closures, construction delays, and lack of cleanliness. I am hoping with the new merger between Six Flags and Cedar Fair that the park will be sold (to United Parks and Resorts, e.g. SeaWorld/Busch Gardens) or that the sale of others in the combined chain brings in the revenue to bring Knott's back to it's glory. If I could design the next phase of Knotts, I would redo the park entrance. The area to the left of the entrance with the very old rest rooms is a very conjested area and needs a redesign. With Ghost Roder as popular as it is, the park could benefit from another similar ride. Maybe a Giga, mabye not. I think an RMC similar to Zadra (a ground up coaster, not a conversion) would give guests more of what they like. Push the warehouses to the edge of Crescent Ave (a noise buffer) and expand the park's footprint into the aear made by moving the warehouses.
@TheIntimacyGramАй бұрын
There were 6 original Wind Seekers: Carowinds, Cedar Point, Kings Islands, Kings Dominion and Canada's Wonderland. Knott's was the only version painted differently than the other 5 due to placement in Fiesta Village.
@Adrn51502 ай бұрын
What ya didn’t say though was that The Haunted Shack was basically going to be condemned. When they removed the three thick cables help holding it in place it fell upon itself. Plus it wasn’t ADA friendly. The Sky Jump was going to take what I’ve heard a million dollars a parachute to fix a problem with the computer system and such so just too expensive to do that. Things that Cedar Fair wasn’t responsible for. Other stuff though yes they were
@ThemeParchive2 ай бұрын
Absolutely. I don't necessarily fault CF for not wanting to spend what it would've cost to renovate and restore those attractions. In the case of trying to tell the story of this period in the park's history, it was more about trying to convey how locals and longtime fans perceived these events as the new management not caring about the park's history. It's like them donating the historic materials to the OCA. I fully understand from both a business and practical side why they did that, I appreciate that it means those items are publicly available, and these videos directly benefitted from it. I would never want them But I also see where some fans viewed it as a company located 2,300 miles away just dumping off the park's history on locals to maintain, especially when you count all the other early decisions that ignored the park's history. Taken individually, many of those decisions make sense. Collectively, it wasn't great optics for a new company dealing with a customer base that had been visiting the park for literal generations.
@Adrn5150Ай бұрын
@@ThemeParchive well I know when I worked there lots of people thought cedar fair was the wrong move but I knew if it didn’t happen Knotts would have eventually shut down. I can remember days where only 1000 people were in the park. But I do miss working there. If I got paid what I do at dland there at Knotts I wouldn’t have left lol.
@hollywilliams19572 ай бұрын
Guys we're watching this video and it's great. Hit that like button!!
@hollywilliams19572 ай бұрын
This was so interesting. It appears that the purchase by Cedar Fair not only saved Knotts but also almost destroyed it. The theme parks had no choice but to create changes after Disney and Universal entered the picture. But I'm excited to see what happened after Cedar Fair . Please please let us hear the continuing story as only you can tell it!!!!
@ThemeParchive2 ай бұрын
Cedar Fair still owns the park... sort of. They merged with Six Flags and adopted that branding going forward. But Matt Ouimet, who we talk about taking over as CEO at the end of the video, only left the company in September of last year. So the next (final) video will mostly be about Ouimet's time as CEO of Cedar Fair, and how the company's handling of Knott's changed under his management (spoilers, but you can guess from his background how it went).
@nexttime35402 ай бұрын
Keep going keep going keepgoing i grew up in orange county born in 85 u hit perfect on all my childhood memories i love lovelove your videos
@tel35012 ай бұрын
EPCOT was a front... Walt built a Stanford Torus!
@NortelGeek3 ай бұрын
I want Horizons and Delta Dreamflight back. Heck, if I were able to access a time machine, I would go back 1994 and visit Tomorrowland and EPCOT Center. I miss the "view of the future" from the perspective of the early to mid 1990s. They changed "The future we could have" to "The future that never was."
@lucapeyrefitte68993 ай бұрын
That was very informative, but it also makes the ghosts of ghost town seem a little more alive
@DisneyMaster23 ай бұрын
I for one would love to play a city simulation game based of the original E.P.C.O.T. concept and I bet a lot of other folks would feel the same.
@craignunnallypurcell3 ай бұрын
Looks too auto dependent
@ThemeParchive2 ай бұрын
To be fair to the designers, all we have are early concepts that didn't get much revision after Walt passed, but the concept was definitely more car-dependent than a lot of people imagine. Walt talks in the Florida Project film about residents only needing cars to travel outside of town, but I have a suspicion a lot of people in the "petal" suburbs would've used cars instead of dealing with tourists and city center foot traffic.
@TheHaloRed4 ай бұрын
I love how Knott's hired former Disney Imagineers/legends Rolly Crump, Eddie Sotto and Bob Gurr to design some of their most themed rides (Crump - Bear-y Tales, Sotto - Soap Box Racers, and Gurr - KOD after Bud Hurlbut had retired.
@ThemeParchive2 ай бұрын
The crossover of talent between Disney and Knott's, especially people who lived and worked in the Orange County area, is pretty significant. I think some locals like to imagine a rivalry between Knott's and "the park up the road", but behind the scenes, there's a ton of mutual respect. Check out artist Sam Carter. He does work for both companies, and his Knott's stuff in particular is very good.
@josephgalvan30454 ай бұрын
Amazing documentary! Thank you!
@lechatleblanc4 ай бұрын
I was born in '92... So I'm no boomer etc lol... But it does seem when women go to work, the whole world suffers more exponentially
@lechatleblanc4 ай бұрын
It seems the teenagers of the 1960s were the begining of the end of normal America... What a terrible cultural revolution ... Tbh my own mom was of that very generation and she was seriously messed up in almost every way ... The women of that era are Karen witches that think they own the world and their number knew goal in life is to emasculate every man they come into contact with. Lol
@ericl28514 ай бұрын
Perhaps the best thing to do is to add a few more rooms. Because I think the message of the original carousel of progress was the transformation from an agrarian society where everything was done using human or animal power to an industrialized society. I think the intention was to remind us how much easier our life is now compared to a few generations ago.. To start with the dawn of the computer age and the Internet, is like reading a book starting at the halfway point.
@tahjo75 ай бұрын
I love this, soo, soo very much. Thank you for doing these videos on Knotts Berry Farm and it's family. These videos encapsulates my love and affinity for EVERYTHING knott's related. I love the can do American spirit the family had. I along with Escape Designs on KZbin made a giga-coaster concept that heavily pays homage to the rich history of Knotts, as well as it's continued efforts to have impactful & unique attractions. Give it a look, I think you're gonna like it. KZbin channel Escape Designs Video Knotts giga-coaster concept and park improvements proposal. Its a 23 min video, with the most detailed designs you've Probably have ever seen for Knotts. Lmk what you thought!
@Gu3stish3r35 ай бұрын
0:28 that didn’t last forever, I guess (because KBF has Passes, which you now need to go into the park)
@Gu3stish3r35 ай бұрын
It’s kinda nice to see the Knott’s Berry Farm amusement park change over time in this video, I’ve seen a few of Knott’s lands change in a few ways, like how the ride Knott’s Beary Tales: Return to the Fair was a retrofit for the ocean themed ride, and seeing the new pizza place just across the street from the ride, and seeing the fiesta village change too.