Storytown Time Capsule

From being family owned to corporate, this is Storytown. From the beginning in 1954, Charles Wood created a small theme park in Lake George to it becoming a giant amusement park. It has lost the innocence and charm of a Nursery Rhyme Park to Six Flags The Great Escape. You can see how it started in the video from park's beginning to what it has become. Time marches on so people and places change but a lot remember what it used to be. Charles Wood was the grandfather of the amusement park. He opened before Disneyland.
I tried to show the park in various stages using commercials of the park to show how it changed.

[@Automedon2]

When I was 17, I left home to be a groom for the horses in that circus riding act shown briefly at the beginning. It was Tommy Hanneford's riding act and I believe the white horse's name was Prince.

[@01surge24]

They used to come out after you parked your car and attach a Story Town card board sign with wires on your bumper..My dad would freak...than years later that turned into a bumper sticker..can still remember walking down Main Street with the Sheriff using your finger to shoot the bad guys..hard to believe that was over 50 years ago...time never stops.

[@chasbodaniels1744]

We visited in 1958, and you reminded me of those wired cardboard signs on our bumper! Man, that was a lifetime ago.

[@user-ci6by1ky6e]

I'm 69 we went her 60 years what good memories

[@jamesstark8316]

I still have my deputy's badge somewhere - pinned on by Windy Bill McKay circa 1956. Good memories. Thanks.

[@greggrimaldi6788]

I have my badge too. So many great memories of time spent at Storytown. Awesome video.

[@bobmagicvent]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@goingnova]

Thank you so very much for this video. It brings back so many memories.

[@GrymsArchive]

gods... I'm old.

[@vernfrederick5025]

Thank you for this brings back wonderful memories for. me going there ,as a kid with my family

[@TheMsottaviano]

Thank you **Happy Tears**

[@vernfrederick5025]

Would love to see videos of Animal land another place that I loved and miss very much

[@user-zr8jv3lz7r]

Creepy looking place.

[@eddieflori4336]

choking up!

[@hobbygamer6220]

can ANYONE tell me ALL or at least SOME, hopefully sufficient information to find, that...childs initiation into the army theyd hold here b4 frontier town closed, and then they obviously kept that act together and indeed took it on the road, as shown on "Americas funniest home videos", where they would tell, indeed little 6 yo boys "and you're not going to see your parents again for a long time", whole bunch of little, I dare state VARIOUS ages, children gathered together to "join" the army, with this guy in the frontier version of American general costume, DOING the initiation. anyone remember this/maybe experienced it somewhat recently ? I'm looking for where they took this program after frontier town closed down, where they're doing this now ? any information would be appreciated

[@thetrumpnewsnetwork7503]

I went to school with Charlene Wood the owners daughter.

[@vernfrederick5025]

I don’t like the way the park is now ,they should have left it the it was