Universal of Yesteryear

[Squidgyness]

Do you have a date on this photo? One of my earliest memories as a kid is eating at a restaurant in and around universal that my family say was likely the hard rock cafe - I marvelled baskets of fries since you couldn't get those in the UK . I remember looking out onto construction, like that orange patterned fencing stuff. (I was only 6ish at the time) That field in the foreground looks oddly like my memories of that day. I thought for the longest time I imagined that memory. Perhaps I didn't.

 

[schumigirl]

Do you have a date on this photo? One of my earliest memories as a kid is eating at a restaurant in and around universal that my family say was likely the hard rock cafe - I marvelled baskets of fries since you couldn't get those in the UK . I remember looking out onto construction, like that orange patterned fencing stuff. (I was only 6ish at the time) That field in the foreground looks oddly like my memories of that day. I thought for the longest time I imagined that memory. Perhaps I didn't.

http://www.themeparkinsider.com/flume/201308/3609/

According to the link that picture was taken in 1990.......

There's a few similar images on other websites if you google them.........some of them are fascinating to see.......

 

[Squidgyness]

http://www.themeparkinsider.com/flume/201308/3609/

According to the link that picture was taken in 1990.......

There's a few similar images on other websites if you google them.........some of them are fascinating to see.......

A few years too early for my memory I think, but I do remember that building on the hill behind the HRC... Interesting. Thanks for the reply!

 

[wookiebeck]

A few years too early for my memory I think, but I do remember that building on the hill behind the HRC... Interesting. Thanks for the reply!

That is the Bate's main house from the Psycho movie. I remember walking up that lane to the HR cafe and thinking there was an attraction there. But no, just window dressing.

 

[Squidgyness]

That is the Bate's main house from the Psycho movie. I remember walking up that lane to the HR cafe and thinking there was an attraction there. But no, just window dressing.

Oh wow, never knew that one. Seems odd they'd put it there so prominently and not do anything with it. Guess it just makes for a cool view as you say.

 

[RAPstar]

Oh wow, never knew that one. Seems odd they'd put it there so prominently and not do anything with it. Guess it just makes for a cool view as you say.

I think that's part of why it was one of the first things to go when the park started expanding. Fievel opened right across from it, so I guess Curious George is where it used to be?

 

[DalGal]

Ahh, I see the Bates house! It was still there the first time I visited in the late 90s.