I love the Racer POV on that video!

Wow, the park has changed SO MUCH since it's infancy. I remember some of those old rides, even though I didn't start going to the park until 1986. Great video!

What a trip down memory lane. I miss the sky cars (name?)-was a quick way to get from one end of the park to the other. The antique cars should have never been removed.

Does anyone remember the dolphin show? Iknow there were dolphins there. no one else seems to remember.

I also remember the ride where your spinning around and the floor dropped out.

I love you Reggie Zippo! Thanks for sharing that, I've been trying to see footage like that for YEARS! Thanks a million.

I remember the dolphin show as well as a bird show.

Yes, kim, that was the Rotor. Great fun!

Oh Yes i remember the dolphin show, and i remember the area before they installed The Vortex and i remember the Hanna-Barbarra Land (before Nick took it over) good times,.... if only life had a rewind button...

The old dutch shoes ride from Oktoberfest area, original to the park, is now in Louisville at Six Flags Kentucky Kingdom. I now ride it with my kids, always thinking about when I first rode it as a kid at King's Island!

Thanks for the memories! I grew up in Mason, remember ALL of the old rides and the dolphin show and the dutch shoes---too cool! Taking my kids there now, some of them have never been.

I do remember the dolphin show. It was on the on the other side of the tower just past the big clock on the right as your going to the beast .

I do remember the dolphin show. It was on the on the other side of the tower just past the big clock on the right as your going to the beast .

Man it brings back so many good memories!

bring back the animals! (and the smurf ride)

Thank you so much for posting this video. IT IS AMAZING!!! It is so great to see the park the way I remember it from when I was a kid. I didn't know something so simple, ordinary, could bring me such joy. Thanks so much.

Kim,
The name of the dolphin show which did have some seals if memory serves me correct was Saltwater Circus

Oh this is so wonderful. This video is so clear. Was that an 8mm camera?
Thanks for being a shutter bug!
Beautiful job!

There's about 15 minutes of video I downloaded off of you tube from the 70's that includes everything in the park including a ride through the enchanted voyage! I wish they'd bring that back. No matter how old you were that was always fun to ride though

This was Kings Islands golden era, when it had lots of character and some heart. It was like entering a magical fantasy world when you walked through those gates, and spent an entire day having fun.
The park was full of of flowers and wonderfully landscaped, with little areas to sit down and cool off. I especially liked the long tunnel of greenery that was lined with benches, and lit with tiny lights at night.
Unfortunately most of the "quaint" aspects of KI were gutted by Paramount

I worked there the first 4 years it was open. The Scooby Doo (now the Beastie) roller coaster had no riders on the first pre-season weekend (1972). It was so cold --- really freezing --- that the three of us in the station pulled out the tarpaulins and sat under them in the coaster cars. From such an unauspicious moment a major amusement park was born. . .