Love Knotts!

We would put pennies on the train tracks and train would flattened them.

Oh yes...I certainly remember traveling from Santa Ana to Knotts on weekends as a boy. We would often eat at the chicken dinner restaurant, have a boysenberry ice cream the watch the evening musical show from a covered wagon or seats in the wagon camp. Those were the days!

Loved the video and the music 👍😘👍!!

Thank you.i lived in Buena Park for most of my life.and have great memories of Knotts berry farm.

Lets celebrate all the things that made Knott's so special! Great video!

My family first went to Knott’s Berry Farm in the mid 1950’s on vacation from Missouri. In 1992 I took my own family to Knott’s Berry Farm on vacation from Missouri. Though there were changes it was still very enjoyable and we stayed until it closed for the night.

My Brother is Eldon Eklund he was 17 when he started working at Knott’s.

Amazing documentary thank you

Thanks for sharing these delightful old home movies. I grew up with Knott's in the 1960s and I still live right down the street from it, visiting at least once a week, with a season pass.

Is that Dave the gunfighter ? My dad sang in the wagon masters around the campfire in the 60's and then his band "The Here And Now " was the first group to play at the John Wayne theater . I have many fond memories of going there when i was a kid

CLASSIC Video, Thank You.😎🎢👍

Today that dance is called the C walk

We have video of John Wayne at Knotts in late 60s. Not sure of the occasion. I am born in 67 and remember a monkey that took pennies lol.

I enjoyed that thoroughly. Especially around the 12:08 to 12:40 mark when my grandfathers knife shop was shown and in the background of the Chief Red Feather shots. Thank you Jay.

I love Knott’s Berry Farm! Does anyone know the know the name of the song in 5:33??? I’ve the heard it before but I can’t remember the name.

I wasn’t even born when this vid was out

The sad reality is that stagecoach rides like that (full of people on top, front and back) will never be allowed today, for the risk of injury when people fall off if the horses stampeded. But it's so nice to see a glimpse of a time gone by at Knott's Berry Farm. Even if I went back today, I'd probably weep at the alterations that have been made to satisfy modern tastes and regulations.

I was 13 and part of a square dancing group that did our thing there and filmed by KTLA. But before that age we spend so much time at Knott's. Haunted house, Chicken Dinner to die for. Went to school with one of the grand daughter--the chicken dinners were more fun!!!!!

wow ,my aunts worked there in the 1940, uncle was mayor there and parent squared danced , was a fun place and kids could run free and there was seal animals there and birds running free , now looks like hell came to Buena park , place is fence in and not as good but it still has its old charm now , with super scary rides now

My parents took me to Knott's a few times in the 80's. We would eat there and have brunch. I remember eating biscuits and this raspberry drink.

Bravo

Great grouping you put together Jay.

I heard Back when they first built ghost town they had an actual Operating Brothel!!!! Knott's! Come up and See us Sometime! is what the Lady would Say in the Radio Add!

Thanks for posting a big part of my childhood. My dad worked in the steak house from the late 40s to the mid 60s and my mom worked in the chicken dinner restaurant. I grew up on the farm with Folten Shaw Ken olliphant Ray Nelson Wayne Collins Chuck La hann Andy Anderson and many more of the nicest fun people that were very good to me.Tony The puppetier performed at many of my birthday parties and it was nice to see Chief Red Feather in your video who came to are house often. I also worked in the steakhouse and the silver dollar saloon as a teen meeting a hole new generation of Knotts people

i remember all of this and miss it so much. thanks 4 sharing your memories

My aunt Nita and uncle Red met at Knotts in the 60's or 70's, and were married for over 50 years until he passed from cancer a few years ago. It was awesome to hear first hand history on this awesome place!

I was in contact with Billy Beeman before he passed. When I was a child we went to KBF regularly, when it was free. We went to listen to The Wagon Masters all the time. Billy sent me a book about the Wagon Masters and I bought some CD's from him. I have a few of their records and some that are signed. I used to love the gumball machines, the baker that, when you put a penny in, the baker would reach into the cupboard and a gum ball would drop in, and he would spin and drop the gumball in the chute. Even as a kid my favorite things were the Music Box House and the Nickelodeon that payed with the Carousel, and the girls that hit the bells. Oh, also the bottle house and bummpity cars. Thank you for this, it is wonderful.

this is the reason why I want a time machine. I love to see all the great history of Knott's Berry farm in person. lived across the street from Knott's from 93'-08'

What a great place thanks for the movies... Lived in Buena Park in the early 50s. Went to church with the Knots & had a great time each time we went to the Farm. My Mother worked in the Chicken House when She was a young girl. Great movies

Wonderful! Thanks for posting.

BRING BACK WHAT KNOTTS USE TO BE!!!

when i was a kid in the 50s and early 60s we would ride our bikes to knots at that time it was free to get in you paid for the rides like 50 cents I will always remember those days

Used to walk there in the 60's was free , was 15 in 72 , worked the steakhouse

Thanks for the memories. I loved that place but would probably be disappointed if I went back.

Sad to hear that dave Bourne past away on January 30.2015

Thanks for the mention of my dad, Viking Knight. He was also Abraham Lincoln in that old commercial where he and George Washington, played by then owner of the Birdcage Theater George Stuart, advertised the park on the Corkscrew. The commercial is on youtube but their voices have been dubbed by someone else until the very end. He also built the very first maze for Knotts Scary Farm and was their first monster (a ghoul) and years later was the judge that started to hang Freddy Krueger just before Freddy pushed an actress playing Zsa Zsa Gabor off a building.

Why did they change so much? What happened to all the pictures at the Birdcage Theater going back to the 1950s? My father made a lot of paintings for the Birdcage like the villain at the entrance. Did they just throw them out? Do they ever put on actual melodramas anymore or just weird musicals?

Aunt Nellie!!!!

Thank you so much for posting this! You made my evening. At 10:20 that is my Aunt Rachel and Uncle Bill on stage at the Wagon Camp with the rest of the Wagonmasters! You've given me something precious!

Thanks for the memories. I'll just hang onto the memories of the many times we were taken to Knott's and Disneyland during the 60s. I probably will be disappointed if I returned.

Great video! Been going there since I was a kid in the 60's. My parents met in the Wagon Camp. Does anyone remember the seal pool? It was in the Fiesta Village area. How about the Carousel that was on the other side of HWY 39 (Beach blvd). They even had those gas powered model T's cruising around the perimeter. Man, the memories.

Wasn't there an alligator farm at Knotts or was that further down the road near Movie land wax museum? ( RIP )

What happened to the little devil who would turn the little crank and make the mini volcano erupt?? Used to love that back in the mid 1970's as a little kid!

Having lived in La Mirada, I grew up going to KBF and since I was too young to know about corporate business but not about the hippies that were reportedly sleeping in the park, I was a little confused when they decided to put a wall up around it and charge admission. That was the end of an era. I went in 2013 and in spite of so many changes I had a great time screaming on the roller coasters; then I realized all the stuff I loved I had to go to make room for the scream machines. So glad they are celebrating the boysenberry again--it is absolutely necessary to go back to where it began. I still want some boysenberry syrup. No one makes it. Thank you for posting this...

I wonder what happened to the bronze saint Bernard dog out side the court yard of the gift shop ...we use to get the bosenyberry punch in a glass bottle wrapped in white paper then take lunch to the wagon train sit inside the Conestoga wagon to eat. Also remember the glass windows with the models and story of the family crossing the desert with the little girl asking for water and her mom giving her a stone to suck on!

Sure fun seeing my life as a child & I know I met some of those people. I talked to the Chef many times.. Glad I was a kid that got to enjoy the simple life & it was

This is where i grew up. Most of all these folks are gone now. very few left. I really enjoyed this era of knowing this place. so many good memory's That fried chicken will never change either.

I miss the old cable cars in the parking lot, and the old self-drive model-Ts out in the corner of the property. How long ago did those go away?

This is so unspeakably awesome. These could be my own home movies. I am totally reliving and re-feeling the Knotts that I knew so well and loved so much. Thank you. Kudos to the editor of the film, was it you, Jay? Music pics are great.