Busch Gardens Commercial (1998)
Nov 28, 2006Just checking in to let you guys know I haven’t forgotten about y’all. Hopefully everyone is having a good holiday season. I’m a little tied up now with everything going on so work on the site is moving slow at this point. However, what was once a nice little ‘neatening’ of the site seems to have turned in to the bi-annual redesign of the look of things. This will take longer, but will turn out for the better. I’ve started, but like I said the holidays tend to slow my time with coasterimage down a little. Still not sure if I’m going to put up new sections as I finish them and run with a hybrid new/old site for the winter until it’s finished or just wait until spring and unveil the new look all at once…we’ll see, I suppose.
I promised new updates throughout the winter and those are coming, but for right now I have a video you may or may not have seen here before. It’s a Busch Gardens Williamsburg commercial from 1998. Nothing fancy, just a direct link to the file. I figure it’s probably of interest to more than a few of this site’s visitors.
Enjoy the old commercial and keep checking back for more as the winter progresses and the site gets revamped. We’re still working on plans for 2007 and what seemed like a sure thing (the two-week trip to Orlando) now seems like a long shot for 2007. We’ll see what pans out and as soon as I have some solid travel plans for the season, I’ll pass the info along.
Cedar Point Pictures, Cedar Point Video
Nov 7, 2006So I finally got those Cedar Point photos online and ready to go. There’s 73 brand new photos added to the gallery and we’re serving up shots of Maverick construction, tons of Halloweekends shots (some of it quite good) and the usual smattering of shots rounding out the collection. The Cedar Point Photo Gallery is now far and away the biggest gallery on the site weighing in at just shy of 400 photos. Be sure to give it a look.
Don’t forget about that new Cedar Point Video either.
So where do we go from here? Well…everywhere. I’m going to start on a winter-long site maintenance thing. No plan in particular, but between now and the beginning of the 2007 season, every page on this site will have been looked at, corrected, fixed, updated and made current.
But at the same time I don’t want to leave y’all hanging for the entire winter. So, keep an eye out for some new things to pop up here and there over the next few months. I have some things I’ve been sitting on and never added to the site - a couple of videos, photos from our trip to Geauga Lake last fall, some other little things and a handful of new ideas I might fold into the mix. We’ll see where it all ends up, I guess. Keep an eye on the site, you never know what exactly will be showing up over the off-season.
And thanks to you guys for sticking with me and the site for all this time. Coaster sites come and go and it seems like enthusiasts and non-enthusiasts everywhere are uploading photos and videos wherever they can, but no matter how fragmented or widespread things get, coasterimage.com always seems to maintain a consistent audience and I really do appreciate that. This site doesn’t have forums, or public uploads or anything like that and those were never my intentions. I just wanted a place that was mine to share my photos with people who like looking at really great amusement park photography. So thanks to everyone who visits the site, thanks to everyone who passes the word along to someone else, thanks to everyone who takes a second to drop me a line - you guys have afforded me the opportunity to do a site like this…and again, thanks for that.
Ok. Ok…go check out the new Cedar Point pics already!
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