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Cool song!

Very interesting

My first trip was probably 72? I remember petticoat Junction, miracle strip. Back when you could actually smell the ocean. Five or 10 miles before you got there!! oh and my senior trip in 1985!! Fantastic memories 😎

The hang out was the mecca for teens as far away as Ohio and Michigan and every southern teen listened to what was on the juke boxes there for an entire decade of the 1960s. In 1971 a hurricane destroyed this place.

Seeing ghost town really brought back some fond memories. I'd give anything to go back to those days. Somehow pier park just dosent do anything for me

It will never be that great agen

My gosh. Burning your feet off because your flip flops broke, going to Alvins to buy a new float, bringing extra batteries for our boom boxes, the Miracle Strip Amusement Park, putt putt and go carts, and a refreshing dip in the pool at The Admiral Inn! We stayed there every Summer for YEARS! There was a Micky D's across the street. But my favorite place was on the beach. I've gotten so many sunburns but didn't care. We were kids/teens and nothing else mattered back then. Lord, let me remember those days of happiness. 💯🙏👍

My mother &i ran the lagoon motel on thomas drive by capt andersons restaurant, i was about 10 yrs old , my uncle's biz cottons country eggs ,delivered beach&downtown many yrs

A replica needs to be rebuilt.

Between the ages of about 3 and 8, 1969 through 1974, my family stayed at the Suntan Motel. My older brother and I enjoyed the pool and playing shuffle board. The motel was a block or two from the beach.

I was born and raised in Panama City. It would be easier to tell you where I DIDN'T live in Bay County. The footage of the entrance at night, with its glowing orbs. My parents would save up and take my sister and I once each summer. I still remember the absolute THRILL I would feel as I looked up at that sign while walking to the gates. The sound of the bumper cars to the left of the entrance. You could hear the bell of the High Striker game and, of course, the smell of cotton candy, Carmel and candy apples, burgers and fries. The sound of the carousel. Above it all, the click clack of the.roller coaster. The looper. We.called it the bullet, but my wife(from up north) calls it the salt and pepper shaker. Just as apt to make pee your pants as it was to make.you throw up. The Music Express, the Spider, the Log Flume, Wave Swinger, the Dungeon, the Abominable Snowman. All of these rides run by 16 year olds...lol Yes, as I got older, I was one of them. For 2 years, first year, when I worked the roller coaster, the "Beach Needle" was across the street. The next year, it was an empty space.

I went several times in the mid to late eighties with my buddies. Rudy a local there that worked on the beach renting chairs and taking people out on his sailboat for hire. He was cool enough and took me and my buddy out on his catamaran sailboat we had no money he just wanted to give us a little treat. Almost 40 years later and it is still the only time I have been on a sail boat. Thank Rudy, I wonder what ever happened to him. He was very tan with very blond hair. Does anyone know him? Also late at night we could see a boat anchored all the time way out offshore, me and 3 buddies hijacked one of those tricycle pedal boats and we pedaled all the way out there to that boat for some crazy reason we got kinda close and the man inside came out with a gun and threatened to shoot us we turned and pedaled back as fast as we could. On the way back in it was my turn to be in the water at the back kicking and pushing, because there was only room for 2 at a time. I was scared to death of a shark biting my legs off it was dark and quite a ways out. This was very close to the Top of the Guld and La Vela.

Chris is my cousin..

The announced sounds like TV announcer Charlie Tuna

Mmm sexy feet at 0:03

Wow! Thomas Donuts?! The Thomas in Thomas Donuts?! Glad he is alive and well!

The Backyard Burgers must not be there no more

Was that a Ruby Tuesday's I saw by Cypress Gardens?

Miracle Strip actually closed inb2005. Cypress Gardens' sister park Wild Adventures also got one of their roller coasters

She is an American hero.

My cousin , love her.

My parents were on their honey moon in March 1978 when Jim (King) Barnett broke the Guinness book of records for riding a roller coaster the most consecutive times. He rode the Starliner for an entire week. They sat behind him at some point when he was doing this. They told me he had a pillow and a blanket with him and slept on it lol. He later returned in 1980 and rode it 15 consecutive days.

Chris Noel is an angel. I support her veteran's home in Florida.

The year of my birth.

You can't make the video picture size larger, can you?

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Thanks for sharing my family from GA went every year in the 70's and 80's. My dad hitch hiked there with a friend with only $20, he was 18 years old in 62. A man let them sleep for a couple of nights on a motel roof. It was the first time he ever saw the beach. We always dreamed of someday moving there, but its so different now,,

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Excellent documentary

I rode that ride plenty of times. Great memories. Thanks

I remember it being next to Goofy Golf and watching the people ride it. The hang out and the little places along Thomas drive. Nothing stays the same long. After that it's all changed so much, Petticoat Junction amusement park, then the Miracle Strip amusement park, now the water park. It's not the same an that's a shame. Mexico beach is nice now, like pc beach was, nice and quiet. 😅😊

I grew up in PC in the 70s! What a wonderful time and place to grow up!

Thank you for sharing this video! With the information you provided I took a little mental trip back in time and realized that I may have been one of the last people to see the sky-buckets strung up on the cables in their original form before they were damaged by the hurricane. One of my first vivid memories of Panama City Beach was when I was seven years old. I had been picked up early from school in Central Alabama on the Friday before Labor Day in 1975 and we headed to PCB. We got there about an hour or so before sunset and I will never forget riding along highway 98 and passing hundreds of billboards, Miracle Strip, Goofy Golf and the old Genie with the sky ride behind, still standing and the buckets strung off into the distance. It was a beautiful sunset with the clouds off toward the north which appeared black as they were rain clouds and the backdrop of the colorful buckets against that dark grey sky is something that I will never forget. We stayed for labor day weekend at the Trade Winds Motel just a few steps from all of this and walked past the sky ride several times on our way to and from the attractions. I do not remember if the ride was functioning then or not but it seems like every time I saw them they were not moving but I do seem to remember my brother and sister wanting to ride in them and being told that they couldn’t for some reason or another so they may have still been in operation. We left on the Labor Day Monday to return home and Hurricane Eloise would come through a few weeks after that. Although at the age of seven I did not keep up with any news or events I did remember the hurricane and the aftermath all the way up into Alabama and heard on the news that it was bad in PCB and hearing my dad wonder what all it had done to the things that we saw just a few weeks back. I never saw the Sky-ride standing again on any other trips (and there were many) but do remember the roller poles that held up the cables but no buckets in sight on my next trip there which was in '76. Fond memories and again, thanks for the video and glad to see that there are still some remnants of the ride if one knows where to look.

Was so much better back then.

I lived in PC at that time. Thanks!

Sad

The good ol days

Thanks for sharing- appreciated by those like myself that grew up in bay county in the 60’s and 70’s

I love your videos. I played on that when I was a kid back in the 80s.

Thanks for another great video!

Kenny, another amazing video. I love to see relics from Panama City's past.

Kenny, great video!! Is several years ago, I watched a video on TH-cam about this and. The next ti'm. I went the beach. I took a trek through the woods and found the tensioning station. It was truly like stepping back in time. I look forward to watching your videos about OPCB. Thanks again

I remember my mom telling me about the sky ride.was gone before my time.thanks for sharing.

Thanks for sharing and keeping memories of the old LBR alive

Thanks for sharing - very educational

Thanks for sharing- great memories

Thanks for capturing the PC beaches era in the 50’s and 60’s. Imo, the beginning of the end to Long Beach Resort was the demolition of the Hangout. Great memories in this video

😎😛 We loved miracle strip. Moved to PC in 1976 left in 2001. That was my daughter's first job she loved it. Lots of fun memories. Shipwreck too. We went to both as often as possible.

how i wish i could go back in time and see miracle strip again

Just came back yesterday. Goofy golf and Funland are all that's left of great childhood memories of PCB.