Six Flags Over Texas Decade in Review | Grand Opening & the 1960s

I was used to the State Fair where you had to pay for each ride. The fact that you could ride everything, as many times as you wanted for a single price was the greatest thing ever!

Six Flags over Texas was the first amusement park I ever visited. My parents took me there in 1964 when I was four years old. I actually still remember some of the rides!! That was 60 years ago… I just turned 64 years old last month, and have been to hundreds of amusement parks since then.

My Dad was an editor at the Star Telegram. My first visit, at about four years old, was a press day just before the public grand opening. I still have a 45 RPM record with their theme that I got that day. Great times.

Our family went there so many times in the very late '60's and early to mid '70's when I was a child. I loved the sombrero ride, the log ride, spelunkers cave, the cars, tower slide, the tree slide, mini mine train and the Chevy show. Later on, they built a gnarly couple of roller coasters; The Shock Wave and the Judge Roy Scream. Great memories! 🙂👍🏻

Wonderful memories. My favorite ride of all time was LaSalle's Boat Ride. It was even better at night. The ride had a feel of mystery and great comedy. I remember it from the 1960's. And Skull Island was a very fond favorite.

I went to Six Flags every summer of my childhood from 10 to 18. What great memories I have!

I really miss the way this park used to be. Really great video.

Getting to go once a year to the real six flags it was impossible to sleep the night before. At one point my brother and i had free range, i did not need a map. Also the Pink things were awesome when it was a hot Texas summer .

For those that don’t know, The Krofft Brothers were Sid and Marty Krofft, of the HR Pufnstuf fame. They would have characters from the show within the park, and the Banana Splits Show intro and segments would be filmed there as well, in addition to the intro of Lidsville, who’s intro was filmed inside that theater. I use to tell people that the reason the theater was always closed was due to the mysterious disappearance of a boy in the 70s. They never found him. (Referring to what happened in the shows intro)

As a kid I went twice. 1964 and 1968. My favorite ride was La Salle’s River Adventure. The green water was creepy. Flash forward to 2008 with the grand kids and very disappointed to find it long gone! Other notables Casa Magnetica, (my grandmother had to be escorted out as she became so disorientated.), log ride, run away mine train, and spindle top. Loved the Southern Palace as it looked just like the mansion I got with my Civil War playset. The Spelunkers Cave was a must to escape to on a typical hot, humid summer day.

My folks took my sister and I to 6 Flags in 1961 and every year after that for probably 5 years. It was a blast!

I really enjoyed this! There’s always stuff about Disney parks but not much about Six Flags! I’m looking forward to further decades in review!

Thank you! I didn't make it to Six Flags that first decade, but I remember a few of these things from later visits. So many memories! And confirming a few I wasn't sure I really remembered....

This is a great video so great that I was in tears having wonderful memories of my mother who was single and took out all four of us every year she could from the beginning it opened until as long as I could remember. The original theme park was absolutely magical to all of us. ! this video brought back so many wonderful memories!! Thank you so much for posting this. I lived in Fort Worth on the west side… she was a realtor a broke one at that, and I have no idea how she managed to scrape up the money and take us to this magical kingdom! It really really really made me miss her. I will be 72 this summer.🎉

I worked there for two seasons in 1972 and 73 in the Food & Beverage. I worked across from the Hat, across from Southern Palace, across from the Indian Canoe ride , inside the Jersey Lily and inside the Crazy Horse Saloon. My fav was Crazy Horse. It was dark and cool inside, busy only just before the show and eventually learned all the words to the show from seeing it so much plus got to hang around some beautiful "older" females. I was in high school and they were in college. Heck with that I would have worked for free!

Senior trip 1969 was my first visit to Six Flags. Far less safety conscious in those days. I broke a tooth on the unpadded bar of the Runaway Mine Train.

I remember the guy dressed in a silver suit who would sit as a statue, then move when unsuspecting guest approached. He also walked around like a robot.

I was 10 years old when Six Flags over Texas opened. I went there every summer for the first 6 years.

MY favorite Six Flags memory was when my uncle took us there and it rained! Families fled like chickens in in hail storm and we stayed! Sure enough it stopped raining and we were able to ride the rides over and over again because the lines were so short!!! 😅

My first trip to Six Flags was in the early sixties then I worked there in the mid-70s it was a lot of fun great memories thank you