A Brief History of Miracle Strip Amusement Park
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 16 ก.พ. 2019
- Miracle Strip Amusement Park was the most popular attraction on old Panama City Beach. For decades it was in the top ten most attended tourist attractions in Florida. This amazing accomplishment was due primarily to the high quality of the park atmosphere. The ambiance was as good as you would find at parks like Disney World...just on a much smaller scale. Read more about old Panama City Beach here:www.oldpanamacitybeach.com/
Wow!! I remember everything in this video. I was born in 1963. My Father was stationed at Tyndall. This brought back wonderful memories!!! I was able to take my children to Mirical Strip only one time before it was torn down. The Starliner was old and I felt it shaking so bad I thought it was going to fall apart before the ride was over!!🤣🤣🤣 Wish it was still there so I could take my Grandchildren to enjoy all the fun I had there as a child. My, my, my. How time does fly!!! RIP Miracle Strip. I cried when they tore you down........... Along with the "Jolly Green Giant"!!! Wish I could turn back time.......Those were very happy days!😊😊😊
I miss it too!!
My mother took me and my brother to PCB for the first time back in 1974. We stayed in the Casa Loma hotel on the strip and would frequent the amusement park. The videos you have provided brought back all those feelings of joy I had as a child and the good times I had with my family. Thank you!
Im currently off at college and getting to gushing watching my hometown grow makes me so happy
I remember staying at the campground to the right of the park. Buying the wrist bands and keeping them on the whole vacation so we could go again when the color was right
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.
This is an incredible trip down Memory Lane, thank you. My first job was as a ride operator at Miracle Strip in the mid-80's. So many wonderful memories. Also...first time I ever has a Sunkist Float...so good.
Which ride?
@@donnatew9216 I started on the Starliner roller coaster and the Old House but was trained throughout the year on almost every ride in the park so I could be a break-operator. My second year I was almost exclusively on the train since I was the only operator in like 10 years who had never derailed it. My 3rd year I was the Asst Manager of Rides & knew how to run them all.
@@louiebishop5963 I miss those days terribly!! Not
Fond of roller coasters!
Wonder what happened to the star liner??
@@donnatew9216 Cypress Gardens had it operating at their park until Lego bought it and turned it into an overpriced kiddie park.
Thanks for the videos. I moved here in 75 two weeks before eloise. I was 4. I still remember that. I miss the old strip.
Thanks for commenting, Troy. Old Miracle Strip Amusement Park on FB has more cool stuff...
Love to ride the Starliner! I get off walk down the ramp , jump over the handrail ride it again. Met this cute blonde from Texas in 74. We rode the spook house over and over to get some smooch time in so her Dad wouldn't catch us!! Oh man, good times! Thanks for the videos! Don't forget the frozen chocolate covered bananas!! lol.
For teenagers MSAP was a great place to meet and get to know new friends. Thanks for posting your comment.
@@oldpanamacitybeach Tks, for posting the videos! Like I said , brings back cool memories!
Miss it soo much the spot still open they need to start rebuilding it there again would be awesome
Agree
I miss Miracle Strip amusement park!!
😎😛 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.
THANK YOU poster! It brings tears to my eyes seeing this video. So many memories at MSAP...I told my first girlfriend (we were 10) that I loved her on the roller coaster there. I had a season pass for years and went all the time. Its SUCH a shame they took it down. I bet if it was resurrected today it would be packed! Thank you MSAP for all the great memories! I think growing up in the 70s 80s and 90s was much better than kids have it today.
That is awesome!
I lived in that place Summer of 68-71! My aunt owned a house on the beach a mile away, so I walked up there all the time! My first job was across the street at the helicopter pad.
Great memories
Thank you so much! I was too afraid to board the Starliner until I was about 10... and then I finally went into the "Old House".... this is the best retrospective on the park I've ever seen!
I'm glad you liked the video, Timothy. Old Miracle Strip Amusement Park on FB has more MSAP stuff...
@@oldpanamacitybeach Cool I need to check it out! Thank you!
Great memories!!
What memories! Thanks so much!
I remember getting on the Starliner in the early 70’s as a young kid with an arm I’d broken a month earlier. I had promised my mom that I wouldn’t ride the coaster but did it anyways. She wasn’t happy about taking me back to Bay Memorial the next day to have my arm re-set. I can honestly say the Starliner broke my arm-LOL
Oh what a memory!!
Wow. I enjoyed that video. I went there a few times as a teenager in the mid 1980's. Panama City was our standard summer vacation, camping for 2 weeks at a time at St. Andrews State Park. We had to get out once each summer and go to the Miracle Strip and also get a fresh air brush tshirt at one of the gift shops on the strip.
Loved this place!!
The best!
Thanks. So many great family vacations there in the 60’s and 70’s.
The Old House was pretty cool. You had to find the secret passages to get through it. I've never seen another haunted house attraction quite like it.
Always loved Dante’s inferno and the snowman. I did like the dungeon and the old house too
The log ride was awesome!
I miss those days terribly
The Dungeon had a Tilt-A-Whirl in it.
@@jbw9999 yes it did
Same here! Man. I want to go back to those days! 😁
This was the place to hook up with girls when I was a teenager on vacation at Panama City.
Such awesome memories. 👌 video was awesome too
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 to most of those rides i remember a radio DJ trying to set a record on the starliner and you could ride with him on his trek,,, i took the one ride and i went down in history with Jim as many others did on his quest for the record.
Jim rock-n-roll King! I was a bag boy at Pantry Pride in the late 70’s and used to see him regularly.
@@paulwhitley5515 yes now it comes back thanks for bringing it back to me
I remember this place when I was a kid. Got my first bottle soda from there. And puked all over the place ,🤣😂😭😁🥴all on the back of people heads after getting of the ride hahahaha💩 it was the funniest thing ever.
So, you're THAT kid, huh? Just like on The Sandlot. "Yer killing me, Smalls!"😂
I worked there from 77 to 78. There was more weed being dealt from that park than you can imagine. They would go into the Abominable Snowman ride before the park opened and would split up pounds to be distributed by certain people in the park. One of the owner's sons was the big dealer. Untouchable by the beach police. Just telling it like it was.
Aww. Too bad it's gone. I wanted to go soooooooooo bad. But I was born after the closed, so that's a bummer.
Anyone remember the “hurricane house”? It was in the park when I visited there many times in the late 60’s
I'm only 22 but I remember distinctly my parents taking me when I couldn't have been much more than 2 years old. It's very strange seeing all of these colors/objects that feel so familiar. What I want to know is why did MS get torn down? Why did the Jungle place get painted over?
I think there were many reasons. The primary reason in 2004 was the endless offers of more money than the owners could refuse. A condo developer finally convinced the family to sell. The developer went bankrupt before any condo construction began and the case has been tied up in litigation ever since. Thanks for commenting.
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