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| The San Francisco Earthquake Ride, new at Cedar Point in 1965 |
Today's post features a full page of photos from the Journal's great photographer Norm Bergsma that ran in the paper on June 12, 1965.
The year 1965 was a big one for Cedar Point, with many of its most iconic rides opening that year, including the San Francisco Earthquake ride, Turnpike Cars, Jungle Larry's Safari Island and the Space Spiral.
Although the Cedar Point of our youth is long gone, you can revisit it at the great Cedar Point Historical Museum in Downtown Sandusky. It’s located right inside the Sandusky Merry-Go-Round Museum in the former 1927 Sandusky Post Office – so you get to visit two great museums for one low price!
The Cedar Point Historical Museum has been open since December 2024. It’s an incredible collection of artifacts, photographs, posters, pennants, postcards, souvenirs and other memorabilia, all related to the park. It’s organized chronologically in display cases so that when you view the collection, it’s like visiting the park in a time machine, stopping at each of its eras.
We visited C.P. a few times, though it was a bit a haul from PAtucky. Dad could never get over how clean everything was. But parks were pretty much wasted on me since I get motion-sick in elevators. We took our own kids a few times - I was always "the coat carrier" since all I did was sit on benches. Though, last time I was there, I had two different people tell me they "enjoyed my movies." I wasn't smart enough to ask which ones, so I don't know who they thought I was.
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