First Name : Doug
URL or Email address :
Which park are you posting about? : Opryland USA
How many times did you visit the park : 8-9
Favorite Ride : Grizzly River Rampage
Comments(max 3 lines per box) : I was so upset when Opryland closed! Many visits with fellow Canadians on our
Thanksgiving...
Comments cont. : I came as a passenger, then tour guide, then as memberof the radio and print media!
First Name : Misty
URL or Email address : mktluke@yahoo.com
Which park are you posting about? : Opryland
How many times did you visit the park : At least 5
Favorite Ride : Rockin Roller Coaster
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First Name : Richard
URL or Email address : rfmelvin2@aol.com
Which park are you posting about? : Opryland USA
How many times did you visit the park : Too many to count, and also worked there for 5 seasons.
Favorite Ride : Screamin Delta Demon
Comments(max 3 lines per box) : I wish they hadnt closed the park! Not only was it a great place to visit,
Comments cont. : but it was also an awesome place for kids first jobs!
First Name : DONNA
URL or Email address : DONNAGADDIS41@YAHOO.COM
Which park are you posting about? : OPRYLAND USA
How many times did you visit the park : @LEAST 3 TIMES A WEEK FOR 20 YRS OR BETTER
Favorite Ride : WABASH, CANT PICK JUST 1
Comments(max 3 lines per box) : I WAS 5 YRS OLD WHEN OPRYLAND OPENED, I GREW UP @ THE PARK , THEN
RAISED MY KIDS @ THE PARK, I CRIED LIKE A BABY THE DAY THEY CLOSED I WAS THERE WITH MY KIDSTHE
LAST DAY.
Comments cont. : WHEN I 1ST GOT ON THIS PAGE, I FELT ALL THE OLD PAINFUL FEELINGS OF THE CLOSING
RIGHT BACK UP, THEY SHOULDNT HAVE TAKEN THISFROM US , FOR ANOTHER MALL,I DONOT SHOP THERE,
THAT PLACE STOLE MY CHILDHOOD,
First Name : Shane
URL or Email address : shane.renner@genmills.com
Which park are you posting about? : Opryland, USA
How many times did you visit the park : I lived 30 miles away...went way to many times to count!
Favorite Ride : Never really had a fav, but The Old Mill Scream was great in late July/early August when the Tennessee
sun was beating you down!
Comments(max 3 lines per box) : I really hate that it was taken out...and for a shopping mall, no less!!!What a waste!!!
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First Name : Donita
URL or Email address :
Which park are you posting about? : Opryland Usa
How many times did you visit the park : Had season passes every year from 90-97
Favorite Ride : Screamin Delta Demon
Comments(max 3 lines per box) : What a waste to open a mall for a wonderful park
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First Name : Aimee
URL or Email address : aroos70@bellsouth.net
Which park are you posting about? : Opryland
How many times did you visit the park : 8-10 times
Favorite Ride : Screamin Delta Demon
Comments(max 3 lines per box) : This was my families (from Indiana) summer vacation spot just about every year when
I was younger. I am very sentimental about this park.
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First Name : Tammy
URL or Email address : tammyhusari@yahoo.com
Which park are you posting about? : Opryland
How many times did you visit the park : over 200
Favorite Ride : Old Mill Scream
Comments(max 3 lines per box) : I miss this park. I worked there two summers. Now that my children are looking for
summer jobs, I tell them how much fun I had working in the heat!
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First Name : Dianne
URL or Email address : eeden@comcast.net
Which park are you posting about? : Opryland USA!!
How many times did you visit the park : Had Season Pass! too many to count
Favorite Ride : was there for the music Bluegrass Country Show with Mack Magaha and Dean Dillon, Larry More! They
were the bomb....
Comments(max 3 lines per box) : Mack passed away a couple years ago evenif there is another OLUSA he could not
be there will miss him.
Comments cont. : Do think Gaylor made mistake taking away Opryland wish there was another one to be opened...
First Name : Joey & Evelyn Totty
URL or Email address : joeytotty@bellsouth.net
Which park are you posting about? : Opryland Themepark
How many times did you visit the park : 3 times a year, and at Christmas Time. We visited the park the last Christmas
DEcember 1997.
Favorite Ride : Evelyn T: Little Deuce Coupe Joey T: Train, & Grizzly River Rampage, Flume Zoom
Comments(max 3 lines per box) : We miss Opryland Themepark, wish it was still there. That is where we first met
Country singer Marty Stuart in June 1993.
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First Name : melanie
URL or Email address :
Which park are you posting about? : opryland
How many times did you visit the park : too many to count
Favorite Ride : oooh, thats a hard one! lets see flume zoom, grizzly, rockin roller
Comments(max 3 lines per box) : I have been tellng my husband about Opryland and all the good times, I was so
excited to see the
Comments cont. : NPT show @ it and this website! THANKS
First Name : Amanda
URL or Email address : amandaescott@yahoo.com
Which park are you posting about? : Opryland
How many times did you visit the park : At least once a week all summer for years!!
Favorite Ride : The Screamin Delta Demon
Comments(max 3 lines per box) : I miss Opryland sooo much. I wish my kids could experience a place as fun, safe and
clean as Opryland always was.
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First Name : Joe Morgan
URL or Email address : jemsmm@multipro.com
Which park are you posting about? : OPRYLAND USA
How many times did you visit the park : cannot count the times. worked there before concrete was poured in live
entertainment. Original cast of IHAS then Country Music for two years.
Favorite Ride : All the shows!!!!!
Comments(max 3 lines per box) : I loved working with such professionals. I remember Paul Crabtree the first year. It was
Comments cont. : such a shame to see the park closed. I miss it so much.
First Name : David
URL or Email address : davidacuster@gmail.com
Which park are you posting about? : opryland usa
How many times did you visit the park : Former employee 3rd shift washdown crew 1981-1983
Favorite Ride :
Comments(max 3 lines per box) : Biggest thrill sitting down with Roy Acuff at 3:00 in the morning in his dressing room.
Comments cont. : Having Roy talk endlessly about his life experiences and them giving me his autograph. Greatest
man I have ever known then and now.
First Name : steve
URL or Email address : mathenysteve@yahoo.com
Which park are you posting about? : opryland
How many times did you visit the park : to many to count,I lived in nashville all my life.they took the heart of nashville
away when they tore down opryland
Favorite Ride : wabash cannonball and chaos, sky ride, even the tin lizzies.
Comments(max 3 lines per box) : thanks for the memories,just saw the program on opryland on pbs. opryland will
always be the place!
Comments cont. : nashville WILL ALWAYS miss OPRYLAND U.S.A. a mistake was made when they closed the park.
First Name : michael
URL or Email address : mike.clinton@comcast.net
Which park are you posting about? : Opryland U.S.A
How many times did you visit the park : More than 100 times
Favorite Ride : Screaming Delta Demon
Comments(max 3 lines per box) : I worked there and think about the park often. It was a great place to work as a teen.
Comments cont. : I miss the park. It should have never been closed just to build ANOTHER mall.
First Name : Hugh
URL or Email address : hugh.howser@gmail.com
Which park are you posting about? : Opryland
How many times did you visit the park : countless
Favorite Ride : Floom Zoom
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First Name : Jody
URL or Email address : guilmain@comcast.net
Which park are you posting about? : Opryland
How many times did you visit the park : About a half a dozen
Favorite Ride : Chaos
Comments(max 3 lines per box) : My wife and I miss opryland!
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First Name : Kim
URL or Email address : kmanlove@bellsouth.net
Which park are you posting about? : Opryland USA
How many times did you visit the park : Too many to count. Went as a kid and worked there too.
Favorite Ride : Rockin Roller Coaster
Comments(max 3 lines per box) : Miss the park so bad.
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First Name : Roy
URL or Email address : roy.buchanan@cmcss.net
Which park are you posting about? : Opryland, USA
How many times did you visit the park : I worked in the park from 1974 - 1980, first in Food and Beverage as a cart
worker, then in Merchandising with the game Guess Your Age and Weight and finally in Live Ent. as a Costume
Character.
Favorite Ride : The Sky Ride
Comments(max 3 lines per box) : Working at Opryland, even in the heat and rain, was more fun than almost any other
job in town.
Comments cont. : One of my most vivid memories is how the death of Elvis impacted the park - from the quiet in the
Employee Cafeteria to the Elvis segment inserted in many shows.
First Name : Jenny
URL or Email address : jennyhowell@comcast.net
Which park are you posting about? : Opryland USA
How many times did you visit the park : Too many to count
Favorite Ride : The Grizzly
Comments(max 3 lines per box) : Someone please bring Nashville a theme park similar to Opryland. I have 4 kids and
none of them ever got to experience that great place.
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First Name : Todd and Melissa Greer
URL or Email address : greer.melissa@gmail.com
Which park are you posting about? : Opryland USA
How many times did you visit the park : How many times? How do you count? We had season passes!
Favorite Ride : Todds - Chaos Melissa - Grizzly River
Comments(max 3 lines per box) : We grew up with Opryland and are still very upset with Gaylord they took away our
park for yet another Mall....shame on them!
Comments cont. : Again shame on Gaylord!
First Name : Tonya
URL or Email address : liddlebit24@peoplepc.com
Which park are you posting about? : Opryland
How many times did you visit the park : so many I dont really know
Favorite Ride : how can you chose. Wabash Cannonball if I have to chose
Comments(max 3 lines per box) : The best park I have ever been to and I have been to many theme parks. I just wish
my son could
Comments cont. : have went. My daughter remembers Opryland. Sad day in Nashville when it closed. Who needs
another mall?
First Name : Penny
URL or Email address : penhalli@nctc.com
Which park are you posting about? : Opryland
How many times did you visit the park : Numerous times! Started going there on school trips as a child, then took my
daughter when she was just a baby! Loved everything about it!
Favorite Ride : Wabash Cannonball, Screamin Delta Demon, Flume Zoom, you name it, I loved it!
Comments(max 3 lines per box) : Sure hated when the park closed, and feel Nashville made a BIG mistake by choosing
to do so.
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First Name : David
URL or Email address : wright687@tds.net
Which park are you posting about? : Opryland USA
How many times did you visit the park : Dont really know. Worked Safety/Security there for several years in the mid
80s. We worked year round so we were there all of the time.
Favorite Ride : Had to be the trains. I was completely fascinated by them.
Comments(max 3 lines per box) : This park left me with personal contacts that I still see to this day. not a bad place to
work
Comments cont. : Hated to seee it go. Whenever i go to the mall that is there now I try to remember where things were
then.
First Name : Nehkeya
URL or Email address : nehkeya@yahoo.com
Which park are you posting about? : Opryland USA
How many times did you visit the park : Too many to count. I would guess twenty or more times. Sometimes more than
twice a summer.
Favorite Ride : The Grizzly River Rampage
Comments(max 3 lines per box) : My husband discuss all the time that we wish we could take our children to Opryland!
We miss it!
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First Name : Carl
URL or Email address : cthomason4101@charter.net
Which park are you posting about? : Opryland USA
How many times did you visit the park : I worked there as a guitarist and singer the very first year it was opened. We
played in front of the Old Aunt Mary calliope. I backed up the Dynamic Five. They were an RnB group like the
Temptations. They finally left and I remained with Johnny Jones and
Favorite Ride : Between sets I would ride the coasters. All of them.
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First Name : Michelle
URL or Email address :
Which park are you posting about? : Opryland Usa
How many times did you visit the park : Alot
Favorite Ride : I really liked the Skylift but they were all great.
Comments(max 3 lines per box) : I worked there for one year in 1975.It was such a great place to hang out after work
hopefully it will resurface one day.
Comments cont. : We went the last night it was open and they were already taking down the major rides it was such a
sad day when the park closed in 1997.
First Name : Taylor
URL or Email address : taylorpaulreed@hotmail.com
Which park are you posting about? : Opryland USA!
How many times did you visit the park : Twice
Favorite Ride : Chaos
Comments(max 3 lines per box) : Some of my favorite childhood memories are of Opryland! A mall is no replacement
for a theme
Comments cont. : park! Opryland will return someday. I know it will. Nashville tourism needs it.
First Name : Tanya
URL or Email address : eliki1978@yahoo.com
Which park are you posting about? : Opryland
How many times did you visit the park : My husband went two years in a row.
Favorite Ride : Hangman
Comments(max 3 lines per box) : My husband told me about this and wanted to take our faimly. Sorry to hear that it
closed. my husband was upset.
Comments cont. : This was the best most funnist park ever. i would like to know why they closed.
First Name : Randy
URL or Email address :
Which park are you posting about? : Opryland
How many times did you visit the park : Quite a lot; worked there for 15 years
Favorite Ride : Swings
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First Name : Forrest
URL or Email address :
Which park are you posting about? : Opryland
How many times did you visit the park : Unknown
Favorite Ride : Chaos, Rockin Rollercoaster (they were both realllly good)
Comments(max 3 lines per box) : Im glad to know that RR is still operating. Its a bummer about Chaos.
Comments cont. : BTW, that background sound of revolution was exactly as I remember Chaos
First Name : Gary
URL or Email address : gary.luttrell@att.net
Which park are you posting about? : Opryland
How many times did you visit the park : Several, in the early eighties when I worked there, then late eighties, early
nineties when we had small children.
Favorite Ride : The train. I could ride the thing all day. A pleasant pace to view all the enjoyment that passed by.
Comments(max 3 lines per box) : In 1980 I worked as seasonal security while attending grad school at Vandy. The
warm nights, the happy guests, smell of fried food.
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First Name : James
URL or Email address :
Which park are you posting about? : Opryland usa
How many times did you visit the park : many times My first time was as a young child in the 70ties
Favorite Ride : Screamin delta demon
Comments(max 3 lines per box) : I truly miss opryland. Wish it was still around. Im glad I went there the last year in 97.
Comments cont. : Glad Ive got the memories of going there.
First Name : Jeremy
URL or Email address : kotorajd@mail.lipscomb.edu
Which park are you posting about? : Opryland
How many times did you visit the park : hundreds
Favorite Ride : prolly Screamin Delta Demon
Comments(max 3 lines per box) : i would say more than half my childhood was at opryland and now locked away in
history. the place
Comments cont. : was magical. ill always remember going up every friday and riding my favorite rides with my parents.
First Name : Andy Clarke
URL or Email address : sargeclarke@yahoo.com
Which park are you posting about? : Opryland
How many times did you visit the park : I worked at the Flume Zoom from 1982-1984 while in college, also winter
weekends at the Opry.
Favorite Ride :
Comments(max 3 lines per box) : I have truly great memories of working there. Lots of parties and after work get
togethers. Still keep in touch witha number of friends 25 years later.
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First Name : Brian
URL or Email address : wa28redskins@bellsouth.net
Which park are you posting about? : Opryland USA
How many times did you visit the park : several
Favorite Ride : Tie between thw Wabash Cannonball and the Chaos
Comments(max 3 lines per box) : i remembered going there with my girlfriend in the mid 90s. just the memories of being
there and being young and in love brings back those feelings.
Comments cont. : It was a sad day to be a Tennessean on December 31, 1997. rumor is that they are going to build
another theme park in Nashville. i hope so.
First Name : Danny Knopp
URL or Email address : dknopp9762@charter.net
Which park are you posting about? : Opryland USA
How many times did you visit the park : Many times during the 1970s. I worked at the park as a entrance host from
1983 1986. I worked at the hotel from 1987 to 1993.
Favorite Ride : Flume Zoom was my favorite. I liked them all. My friends and I spent many hours after work riding them
all.
Comments(max 3 lines per box) : My first steady job. The best thing about Opryland was the many wonderful
friendships that were made each season.
Comments cont. : I regret that three of my four children never had a chance to visit the park. It was a great place to
grow up.
First Name : Mark
URL or Email address : Dragonlew@aol.com
Which park are you posting about? : Opryland
How many times did you visit the park : Once
Favorite Ride : Log Flume
Comments(max 3 lines per box) : I still have on audio cassette...two shows i taped from the early or mid 70s...one was
the puppet show that had a dog puppet lookin for his Musical Destiny...I dont know the actual name of the show. I got
most of it on audio tape. Ive got part of I Hear A
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First Name : janelle
URL or Email address : zettergren@bellsouth.net
Which park are you posting about? : opryland and libertyland
How many times did you visit the park : i grew up near memphis and my oldest brother lived in nashville-still does-we
used to visit opryland and libertyland every summer..
Favorite Ride : every year the new ride was fun..but the water rides were the best cause summers were so hot-it was
nice to get a bit wet and cool off.
Comments(max 3 lines per box) : i can still remember when opryland just opened the first season and watching the
glass blowers make things and i remember the crooked house..it was much more then the rides and the shows..there
was always something going on every way you turned. i can rem
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First Name : Mike
URL or Email address : mikeandbj1@cox.net
Which park are you posting about? : Opryland USA
How many times did you visit the park : As many times as I could.
Favorite Ride : The music, of course.
Comments(max 3 lines per box) : What can we do to have another Opryland? Its time for a rebirth! PLEASE, PLEASE,
PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!!!
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First Name : Mike
URL or Email address : mikeandbj1@cox.net
Which park are you posting about? : Opryland USA!
How many times did you visit the park : As often as I possibly could.
Favorite Ride : I enjoyed the music and the rides
Comments(max 3 lines per box) : I still have an upright bass guitar that I purchased from Becky and Russ Jeffers
sometime around 1978.
Comments cont. : I dont know what they are doing now but I really miss going to the park and listen to good,
wholesome music that was always sung from the heart.
First Name : courtney
URL or Email address : 77stevens@comcast.net
Which park are you posting about? : Opryland
How many times did you visit the park : Over 20
Favorite Ride : Wabash cannonball
Comments(max 3 lines per box) : Thanks for your site! I used to visit Opryland when I was a little girl, we had a season
pass, so I felt like it was my 2nd home. Sometimes
Comments cont. : my family would go just to walk around and not ride anything, it was really beautiful back in the early
80s. Sad its gone, really neat place.
First Name : Wendy
URL or Email address : wendy.grant@comcast.net
Which park are you posting about? : Opryland
How many times did you visit the park : Everysummer has season passes from the age of 8 until I was 28
Favorite Ride : Old Mill Scream, and The Tin Lizzy
Comments(max 3 lines per box) : I miss opryland. I will never step foot in the mall that they put in place of Opryland!!!
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First Name : chuck
URL or Email address :
Which park are you posting about? : opryland
How many times did you visit the park : to many to count
Favorite Ride : the costers
Comments(max 3 lines per box) : we live in lawrenceburg & this was the place we would take our friends & family from
out of state for fun
Comments cont. : lots of great meniories those old pics of the 70,s are fun to look at time & again
First Name : Robert
URL or Email address : missimitch@hotmail.com
Which park are you posting about? : opryland
How many times did you visit the park : to many to count,I lived less than a mile away (Westland DR.) I was there when
it opened and till it closed.
Favorite Ride : walbash cannon ball & the floom Zoom, but I loved them all.
Comments(max 3 lines per box) : my parents took us kids to the grand opening and we were hooked. hangman sign is
on Murfreesboro Rd
Comments cont. : My kids want get to enjoy what I had when I was young, Thanks Gaylord !! Theres always DISNEY
First Name : Mark
URL or Email address : feathersax@yahoo.com
Which park are you posting about? : Opryland USA
How many times did you visit the park : Hundreds from 1973-1992...plus I was a musician in I Hear America Singing.
Favorite Ride : Wabash Cannonball
Comments(max 3 lines per box) : Opryland was a great place to work & bring my family. When it became Shop-ryland I
vowed never to return to Gaylord property.
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First Name : Malissa
URL or Email address : rarestdays@yahoo.com
Which park are you posting about? : Opryland
How many times did you visit the park : My family and I had season passes for many years. We were there every
weekend and some inbetween for the most part.
Favorite Ride : I didnt have a favorite ride. Instead, a favorite show....And The Winner Is. I had it memorized word for
word through many seasons.
Comments(max 3 lines per box) : I was practically raised at Opryland from a young supervised kid to a teenager on my
own.
Comments cont. : As a mom now, I sure do wish the place was still here to make those memories with my own kids.
First Name : Glynda Sawyer
URL or Email address :
Which park are you posting about? : Opryland in Nashville,TN
How many times did you visit the park : I`m not sure.But seems like I went about every year.
Favorite Ride : Didn`t really have a favorite.Loved riding just about all of them.
Comments(max 3 lines per box) : Seen the special on the tv.Bring`s back so many fun memories of the park..I just
loved going there.
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First Name : Phillip
URL or Email address :
Which park are you posting about? : Opryland
How many times did you visit the park : Lots, I worked there from 1988 to 1993.
Favorite Ride : all of them...
Comments(max 3 lines per box) : Wish it were still open. Best job I have ever had. Thank you Opryland for the
memories!