In our recent visit to the park this past Saturday, we walked through Flashback's former plaza and noticed what looks like it could've been an old entrance to something. Judging from the stanchion holes left in the ground creating a path-like formation to a fence bordering Hurricane Harbor, this used to be a gateway to either a former park attraction or a Hurricane Harbor entrance of some sort. The fence looks as if it's a permanent establishment, which leads us to think it had something to do before Hurricane Harbor was there, possibly for the Dolphin & Sea Lion Show that once played in a man-made lake in Hurricane Harbor's area before it was built.
An abandoned turnstile station next to the Will Call office inside the park also caught our eye. Rusted, bent, and forgotten, these turnstiles most likely were used at some point for an entrance or 'gateway'. If you notice in the picture below, the fence (or gate) behind them appears to be open-able, but is padlocked shut. Being right next to Ticket Will Call outside the park and a gate that was built to open certainly give way to several questions on what this was used for. Of course, this is never used now, seeing that it has permanent railings on top and the condition of the turnstiles.
What Do You Think? Do you know what they were for?
I going this is an old entrance to Mystic Lake the other being behind Roadrunner express. Not sure though, thinking historically, that was the onlything back there before HH. Before Mystic Lake, that was parking lot.
The Dolphin and Sea Lion shows were at The Batman Theatre(or whatever it is at moment). That was all pool before they concreted it in. There was alot of water in that area, like, some fountains and El Bumpo. It wasn't the chaos you see today.
The turnstiles you see are from the old entrance to the park, before they built the new, larger entrance used today. The will-call booth was the old ticket booth.
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Francoise
5/18/2011 05:21:39 am
It was for Mountain Express. It was a small looking but kinda tall roller coaster. Looked like little cars.. looked like you were gonna fall off the edge and then the cars suddenly turned. I used to love it. It looked innocent, till you rode it.
After going through some old stuff. I figure this must be an old Twicket or VIP/ special event entrance. The front gate has never moved. They only moved the ticket booths to the outside, where they are now and the turnstiles to the front gate. You used to go in the front gate, buy your ticket and enter the turnstile to the left or right. The main turnstiles were located where the candy store is and stretched to where the ice cream shop is. The area between the front gate and the entrance was called the Garden.