1975 - Wisconsin Dells Storybook Gardens

A Story Land walk-through Park no longer open. From a 1975 home movie Super-8 film

[@omarsoliman2355]

This is Fantastic!!! I was just telling my co-workers how fondly I remember seeing Storybook Gardens when I was a little kid. I remembered more miniature buildings that you saw from that train/tram. But I did not remember any of the live animals, people in costumes, nor the puppet show. Thank you so much for posting this film. Might be the only way we ever get to see it again. I always wanted to revisit it. But never got to.

[@76marajade]

Thank you so much for this!

[@musicfanhawk4523]

Very clear footage. Someone back then really captured the full storybook gardens experience.

[@christinasandstrom8880]

thank you for saving and sharing this wonderful part of America that have been forgotten but remembered by few

[@SusanCatherine]

I'm pretty sure we went somewhere around 1970-ish when I was about 5 years old. My recollections are not vivid but I do recall pining for Storybook Gardens long after our visit. This was such a great video to watch. I remember Humpty Dumpty, the Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe, Little Bo Peep, Three Men in a Tub, the train and, in general, the gardens and ponds. Thank you for posting this video.

[@johnsperling1302]

Thank You. I was 11 in 1975 and I always remember that big clown with his head that would spin around. Just very neat things to see at every turn. Pretty enchanting. Seeing it from this perspective I kind of believe that even the adults were enjoying everything! Once again, Thank You for sharing, this was an important happy memory from my past. : )

[@bigbub5219]

Was super. My granddaughters loved it. To bad its gone.

[@Neverhome365]

My family always ended up skipping this attraction when we went to the dells. So I'm glad to be able to see what was behind that wall.

[@georgekinsey4132]

Thanks for posting! I'm from St. Louis. My family visited the Gardens when I was 3 (1969) and 9 (1975). We have photos yet it's nice to see the video with the characters actually moving!

[@bloodblues85]

I went there when I was little, but all the pictures must have gotten lost. It had to have been around 88 or 89 maybe. A lot of the figures were worn and I don't think any of the moving things moved at all. It closed not long after that. Watching this helped me remember being there with my mom, sister, and great-grandma. Thanks for uploading this!! :) Sweet memories.

[@jaymcdaniel7576]

I too was there in the late 60's. Thanks for the memories. Gave me a big smile remembering.

[@russells.soehnerii8308]

Thank you for posting this video. I went there as a boy in the 60’s with my family so your video helps me to remember.

[@kayleen9110]

Really clear video,I went there as a child with my mom and later took my sons there. Loved it.

[@coreycoyle9548]

I remember when I was Five Years old Visiting Storybook Gardens, Great Video.

[@celestiawinters667]

I miss Storybook Gardens. I went the last year it was open, and there was so much graffiti, lots of the paint was chipping. It was really sad seeing it in a state of disrepair after going for so many years.

[@billdargel1192]

Thanks for sharing. Great video. I remember going there back in the 60s when I was 5 or 6 years old. I also remember going to Fort Dells and riding the space needle.

[@georgemarkos1074]

Ahhh the beautiful memories! Thanks for that…

[@MAB1273]

I took my children 20 years ago. Sad it is gone now.

[@larrywakeman4371]

Lovely lady in this home movie- pure class, grace and elegance- and also the part -players , too----you don't sese that today in mose young women- ugh....

[@paullangsholt1418]

Great video. I was probably there that summer as we went every year! Where was the Uncle John's dont remember that :)

[@ekbalamgarcia2624]

This is a great video! I went to this place in the late 70’s, for a kid at the time, it was fun. I swear there was another “Story Book” place (smaller and not as flat) closer to the area with all the stores.

[@76TomD]

There was (at least in the 80's) a place between Xanadu and the bridge called the Enchanted Forest

[@ekbalamgarcia2624]

@@76TomD Thats the place I was thinking of!

[@76TomD]

@@ekbalamgarcia2624 there was also a prehistoric land there too

[@ekbalamgarcia2624]

Tom Driscoll I don’t remember if I ever went to the prehistoric place,but I did go to both storybook and the enchanted forest.

[@martinmulcahy1]

Thanks!

[@martinmulcahy1]

Thank you so much for sharing this. I am working on a short film about memories from the 1970s, and Storybook Gardens has been burned in my brain for 50 years! I had no photos to prove the existed. So amazed to see this footage. I wonder if licensing is needed to use a small snippet. Thank you

[@19king14]

@@martinmulcahy1 Yes, Please contact us via email at the end of this video. Thanks

[@starz2313]

I had seen the red shoe in the middle of now forest that is just siting there rotting away.

[@amandaw6951]

I do wonder what happened to storybook gardens the fome house and dells Cross roads? They were all really good places to visit that no longer exist. I also wonder what happened to riverview park and water world

[@MAB1273]

Storybook Gardens became an exotic animal park. It doesn't look impressive.

[@adidasgregory]

Old riverview is the exotic animal park. Storybook is now bigfoot zipline.

[@bigbub5219]

Story book gardens burned down

[@lostcrazedbeetlebeetle6198]

Mount Olympus bought it and most of hotels among other. Properties

[@tinamaass391]

Wasn't there a biblical gardens too?

[@carloshathcock5333]

The brunette in the white pant was very attractive l

[@tanyahanna6523]

1975 storybook Garden..Hanna family..family fun day.. prescription..the brothers Grimm..🧟‍♀️♂️..it!

[@larrywakeman4371]

LOVELY LOVELY!!! NO LONGER OPEN? OMG!!! :{ WHAT A SIN..... I hope it isn't there all growed up ruins :{ !!!!