Geauga Lake Big Dipper roller coaster ran under several different names

Damn. Again I have the Starland Vocal Band's diddy going through my head.

The Advocate had another Dipper article today, but it's not really anything we didn't already know, and is mostly a catalog of memories from locals.
End of Dipper may be near, owner says

I didn't know the Big Dipper had a double dip until 1980. Was it on the first hill? And shouldn't the ride have been called the Big Double-Dipper :)

Geauga Lake Big Dipper roller coaster ran under several different names

One of which will not be released, because it wishes to remain anonymous.

^ROFL

Bwahahahaha!

TAER it down! This is equivalent to carting the dead pope's body around the planet for weeks and weeks of viewing...Call me impatient I guess.

Vater said:
Damn. Again I have the Starland Vocal Band's diddy going through my head.

Here they told us that song was about a sandwich, but it was about a roller coaster. This is for you, Vater.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYwEHLRmILY

Ron Burgundy told me it was a song about daytime lovemaking. The naughty type.

RPM said:
I didn't know the Big Dipper had a double dip until 1980. Was it on the first hill? And shouldn't the ride have been called the Big Double-Dipper :)

It was on the 4th hill, right before the turn-around. There are a couple good pictures in the Gary Kyrazi book from the 70's if anyone has a scan of it.

The hill, as it stand now (and since 1980 I guess) has a flat angled section where the double dip was. Leveled out similar to how Magic Mountains Colossus' double dip was leveled out.

CoasterDemon said:
It was on the 4th hill, right before the turn-around. There are a couple good pictures in the Gary Kyrazi book from the 70's if anyone has a scan of it.

That section of track always did seem out-of-place to me, compared to how the rest of the hills were shaped. Now it makes sense.

How do we know that this "anonymous" owner isn't a Coasterbuzz regular?

Oh the pressure is just too much... You've caught me... I bought it. ;)

And more importantly, do we care?

Geauga Lake Big Dipper roller coaster ran under several different names

Not to mention it's most recent name: Free Firewood.

Or perhaps since it comes from a former Cedar Fair park: Free Firewood-Bird.

The double dip was slammin'.

sws said:

Geauga Lake Big Dipper roller coaster ran under several different names

Not to mention it's most recent name: Free Firewood.

Or perhaps since it comes from a former Cedar Fair park: Free Firewood-Bird.

Kindling Force

sws said:
Or perhaps since it comes from a former Cedar Fair park: Free Firewood-Bird.

Nah, all relocated CF coasters have to have "hawk" in the name. How about... Firehawk? ;)

I visited Geauga Lake a couple times during the 70's, and I don't remember a double down on Blue Streak.

Then again, I doubt I knew what a 'double down' was back then.