i thank you for the memories.from a native 75yrs Old thank you

What month in 1979? I ask because I was there in 1979.

I’d love to see a video like this of the dells in the 80’s and 90’s!

Yep this brings back many memories my Aunts and mom and several of my cousins worked at the Mayflower Motel, they were very close to the owners and were a lot of fun to work for. I still have a cousin or two that lives in the Dells/ Lake Delton area. We were always walking up to Noah’s Ark to just do something while our moms finished cleaning the motel rooms. It was a family affair for all of us. For 2 or 3 years I had three of my Aunts, my mom, my grandma(she did the laundry) at least 4 cousins who helped clean rooms. Some afternoons after all the cleaning was done we would all gather outside by the swimming pool and swim until 8 or 9 in the evening. Go home and do it all over again. It was fun I miss those days I was14 or 15 at the time. Family land Riverview Park, all were good memories for us. I probably have some Polaroid pictures in many photo Albumns. My mom has passed away, so has my dad and my older brother, I live in their house and I have tons of photos packed away. I work at Wally World in Wisconsin Dells, now. Times have changed and sometimes I wish I could turn back the clock, and have the old Dells back.

Awesome

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This is heartwarming! Especially when if you have lived here for all of these decades.

Loved it my mom move us here in feb 1978 awe years w4t my mom linda

Two friends and I went there as our high school graduation trip. Was memorable, and so much different than today - unrecognizable.

The music was perfect. Cal Tjader perhaps?

There was also a Black Bart thing there where kids got depute badges. Story book gardens when we were really little, the Indian trading post store. All the fudge stores. Slides you would go down using a “buckwheat” bath towel- before the water slides. Tommy Bartlett water shows.

I remember there used to be a disc that you would sit in and it would spin slowly as it went to the top of a high pole- it would seat about 30 people and you could see all around the dells. I remember the helicopter rides ands would always bug parents to go on but they were too expensive.

“The town will never be the same. After the Tangiers, the big corporations took it all over. Today it looks like Disneyland. And while the kids play cardboard pirates, Mommy and Daddy drop the house payments and Junior's college money on the poker slots. In the old days, dealers knew your name, what you drank, what you played. Today, it's like checking into an airport. And if you order room service, you're lucky if you get it by Thursday. Today, it's all gone. You get a whale show up with four million in a suitcase, and some 25 year old hotel school kid is gonna want his Social Security Number. After the Teamsters got knocked out of the box knocked out of the box, the corporations tore down practically every one of the old casinos. And where did the money come from... Junk Bonds”.

My last year of working I the Dells. 1973 to 1978. Man standing on street brandishing a pistol and no one is calling the cops....that being said,,,what was the guy's name that ran old time portraits and went to prison, if I remembered correctly, murdering his mother.

They all met their fate...when Controlled Demolition was called in...and the DUNES..was...and still IS ...the most spectacular implosion...EVER done.. as far as I know of.. WAY more incendiary explosives and such was used...than needed to blow the place down just to make it "very special" !!

So well done, thanksgiving!

This is when the dells was cool and fun

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A wonderful video! What a wonderful time that was. A beautiful farm in marvellous surronding and great machinery! Is this farm still in operation?

I've been going to the dells all my life, and I can tell you that the old dells lo g gone. It's sad, it's gotten to the point that we don't even go anymore.

Michael Bilandic was finishing Richard J Daleys term who died in December of 1976. Bilandic was mayor in 1978 until his defeat in the 1979 primary to Jane Bryne. Today we Brandon Johnson as Mayor of Chicago and he's much worse than Lori Lightfoot.

I miss those old casinos like The Sands and The Desert Inn. I stayed at The Sands on my first trip to Vegas.

Whoever put this video up thank you so much it was awesome to see how much Wisconsin progress throughout the years

I went with parents/grandparents in 1983... seems about right except for the Disco music 🤣

My parents were there that summer for their honeymoon.

Great 1979 Las Vegas home video!!

Excellent 1978 Wisconsin Dells home video!!

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Interest rates were through the roof last year the Carter Administration. Sex is easy to get no HIV, if only we knew what was coming.

I have actually been to Las Vegas before. Crazy seeing it here

I wuz there

Any one remember Stuart Brent's bookstore on Michigan Avenue a bit south of the Water Tower? Not sure if it was around as early as '78; may have opened up a few years later in the early 80's.

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Fun seeing all the old images Had to turn the volume all the way off because, oh my God no...

I was 25 from Kansas and a security guard at the Silver City Casino. Lot's of stories and Elvis impersonating in the lounge. Great times have wondered many times what happened to Barbara a Kept woman" busty blonde from Texas who hung out at the casino. You wonder how her life went she was around 27 and had the first sculpture nails I had ever seen. I'll tell you one night she was her sassy self and I'm working in the slot area she walks by I tell her Hi and she stops looks around back's up pulls her skirt up all at once and backs into me bumps me with her ass and says" Push push in the bush" laughs and walk away. Yes I'd like to talk to Barbara from Texas 1979

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I’ve seen film from the 30s and 40s that had better clarity than this 1978 footage. Still quite interesting.

Looks the same a tourist trap

Wonderful..thanks for sharing ! ❤

At the 2:18 mark it appears that a woman is driving the Sweetcorn picker. You didn't see much of that back then.

The twilight of pax Americana. The decline of the family farm mirrors the decline of America. Progress? I doubt it.

THX!

Thanks for the memories 😊

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I was 10 years old then helping on my parents dairy farm,now I run my own dairy farm with our grown children, awesome video thanks for sharing

Awesome video 👍

It was the GANGSTERS who originated CHEAP buffets! Think about it! They wanted a person GAMBLING! Pissing away their money on GAMBLING--NOT OVER-PRICED meals.

If you notice from the 'make' of the cars in this video, MOST of this footage is from the 60's. NOT 1979.