Okay, I learned the term 'switchbacks' in this thread. Not bad for 8:30 in the morning. I love seeing these old photos! Look at all those trees!

Shooting off fireworks at Christmas time just doesn't seem to fit...the same as putting up a Christmas tree on the 4th Of July.

I have always held that places like KI & Disney etc...have ruined the "thrill" of seeing fireworks on the 4th because of them shooting them off year 'round. (Kinda like how the family would all gather around the TV to see a holiday special...now they can watch it over and over and over on video/DVD or on demand.)

But seeing the nightly fireworks at Kings Island is just not the same as seeing the fireworks from say Coney`s July 3rd Balloon glow celebration or the Cincinnati Bell WEBN Fireworks. Those are in a class of their own.

I had went to the prior 4 years of WEBN fireworks down on the river. This year we didn't make it, and decided to watch it on FOX... totally killed the whole experience, I will definitely be down on the river again this year.

Wait a second. Aren't the shelves in the bottom-left picture props for Cut-Throat Cove now?

(Great pictures, by the way! I didn't realize International Street actually had people in different outfits for different parts of the world, too. Where's the middle one on the top located?)

The building in the middle on top is currently home to I-Street Larosas.

It looks like a publicity photo of sorts...is the lady someone I should know?

(Sits here wondering what kind of response I might get from The Interpreter. )

That looks a lot like actress Ann B. Davis, better known as Alice from The Brady Bunch.

I had went to the prior 4 years of WEBN fireworks down on the river. This year we didn't make it, and decided to watch it on FOX... totally killed the whole experience, I will definitely be down on the river again this year.

You couldn't see it very well from the riverfront either. The smoke was hanging low over the river, so you couldn't see a whole lot. I've heard that the TV production was exceptionally bad this year (I never got around to watching it), but I do agree that there's nothing like watching it from the riverfront.

...except watching from atop one of the Queen City's skyscrapers.

Terp, who knows this.

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I really like this picture. It is odd not seeing GWL and it's always nice to see pictures of King Cobra.

I still prefer Delirium to King Cobra...but I like how green the area looks with King Cobra there.

Cool picture! It seems like it's relatively difficult to find pictures online of SoB and KC together, and, when I've been able to find them, they're not that great in quality. At least with KC and Shockwave, Paramount must've had a thing for multi-colored track rails on their Togo stand-ups.

Great photos, I am still waiting on a photo of the KC queue line.

Cool picture! It seems like it's relatively difficult to find pictures online of SoB and KC together, and, when I've been able to find them, they're not that great in quality. At least with KC and Shockwave, Paramount must've had a thing for multi-colored track rails on their Togo stand-ups.

King Cobra was put in before Paramount owned the park. The colors mimic those of the coaster's namesake:

^He's a little lopsided isn't he? or all cobras like that?

They're all like that. They "stand up" like that mostly when confronted.

Cool picture! It seems like it's relatively difficult to find pictures online of SoB and KC together, and, when I've been able to find them, they're not that great in quality. At least with KC and Shockwave, Paramount must've had a thing for multi-colored track rails on their Togo stand-ups.

King Cobra was put in before Paramount owned the park. The colors mimic those of the coaster's namesake:

However Paramount was the one who repainted King Cobra, and Shockwave. So Paramount is the one who had a thing for different colored rails. King Cobra's orginal colors was Yellow Rails, with Green supports and spine!

And very shortly after King Cobra was last repainted, it was gone. As for Shockwave's hideous paint jobs over the years, please don't get me started.

I really liked KC and hated to see it go. It was one of those rides that made Kings Island Kings Island, if you know what I mean.

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I wonder where that sign is...still in the park...somebody's home...hopefully not rotting away in a landfill.

Thanks again for the photos!

Wow, probably one of my favorites. Going in line, to hangar 18, boarding the ride into the alien planet. All clear, goodbye l!

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Enjoying the pics Topgun! Thanks for sharing this awesome collection of pics you have.

Dinah Shore was at the park...I never would have guessed.

Apparently that happened in 1977. A Google search for more info turned up this blog post about it from 2006: http://booksteveslibrary.blogspot.com/2006/01/dinah-at-kings-island.html

Apparently that happened in 1977. A Google search for more info turned up this blog post about it from 2006: http://booksteveslib...ngs-island.html

Well, Dinah would have been at the park on my first birthday. Too bad I was too young to know what Kings Island was. I did get a Yogi Bear cake for my first birthday party, so that was kind of a link to KI.

I used to watch The Dinah Show after school. She had a great talk show with many big name star guests.

Photo #35... Vortex is 25 this year too

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Look at that beautiful watermark

I can't believe that Diamondback is almost as old as Vortex was when I first rode it!

All things considered...that is really an ugly/boring postcard, I wonder if it sold well?

I like the classic sketching style of at postcard, kind of like from the opening year's guide...would be neat to see new attractions sketched like that.