I was searching the net and stumbled across a bunch of recent pictures of SFGA/HH during the winter, taken recently as they remove the midway. I have been looking for HH winter pictures for a long time. It also clears up my post about the palm trees. As one of the pictures shows a dead palm tree at Skull Island.

Link is below:

http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=4018...id=288984501355

Boy! I thought I'd really gotten a scoop! Pictures of the new construction and Dipper cars during winter, etc. But I guess everyone here has seen them already?

I never look at the pictures they post to FB. It's interesting to see them once in a while.

I never use Facebook (Don't even know how.) But I was just searching for SFGA stuff and there it was. It answered both a question and a quest for me. Are the palm trees at HH real? And getting pictures of HH during the winter.
Guess there's some good things about Facebook.

I have seen these pictures before on FB. I have a Facebook as well.

Sorry. I am about a decade behind everyone else in the technology department.

Oh my god... Little Dipper. =D I was so worried about what would happen to that when Kiddieland closed. That's so many kids' first coaster. I never really went to Kiddieland but my mom's work had their company picnics at a place that had a coaster that was a mirror image of Little Dipper. I am ecstatic to see it, there.

Anyone have any idea what they're doing by the county Fair games? Oh! And I'm probably way behind on this, but anyone know what's up with the "In Storage" standup coaster that's listed on RCDB?

http://rcdb.com/8932.htm

I'm semi-afraid of where they're going to put that. It looks huge. I'm afraid of what they're going to replace...

The place where your mom's company picnics are is most likely Hillcrest Park.

The In storage thing is Chang. Rumor is that it will be installed at the park for 2011, but there is no confirmation for that for now.

I somehow doubt they just shipped it over here for the heck of it.... but that doesn't change that its huge and they don't seem interested in expanding. Last few rides have meant replacing something else. I wonder what's on the chopping block, this time. Its... un-nerving.

I'm totally terrified of change. Can you tell?

I'm a bit miffed at how few pictures there are of the Little Dipper construction. D=

I want to see it.

I agree with luxornv and say it might be Hillcrest Park where you went as well. That said I'm interested in any photos of that place you or anyone might have. There's next to nothing as far as info goes about the park, and it's of interest to me because I live near where it used to operate.

It was most definitely Hillcrest Park.

We don't have any pictures and I was about five years old at the time. My mom is going to ask around her workplace, but she highly doubts that anyone has pictures. Its just one of many small parks that have disappeared, unfortunately.

My parents used to go to Playland Park, in Justice. There isn't much record left of that, either. Thank God for Facebook and digital photography. I doubt anything will be forgotten, now that virtually everyone is posting it all over the internet.

Hillcrest Park was just a picnic park with a few small rides and the roller coaster. Doubt there is much info on it other than on Negative-G.

http://negative-g.com/Hillcrest/Hillcrest1.html

Sorry to be a nudge, but........When referring to a vein of gold (or in this case a semi-interesting nugget of information? It is spelled Mother (Lode)

In geology, a lode is a deposit of metalliferous ore that fills or is embedded in a fissure (or crack) in a rock formation or a vein of ore that is deposited or embedded between layers of rock.

But on the otherhand, it is your site and I am just a guest so if you prefer load over lode, I have no complaints.

Was not aware of that, I've always spelled it "motherload".

It's all good. The biggest difference is that (in our sick society) when it's spelled "Motherload" it has a "not very nice" connotation.