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RollerCoaster! 1979 - 1987


RollerCoaster!
1979 - 1987

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Issue #1, Winter 1979 (Vol. 1, No. 1)
  • Welcome to Coaster World
  • Coaster Prospects for 1979
  • Coaster Ratings
  • Coasters of Iowa
  • Construction of the Beast
  • Crystal Beach Comet

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Issue #2, Spring 1979 (Vol. 1, No. 2)
  • The Beast: Two views
  • Glossary of coaster terms
  • California Coastin’
  • Kennywood Park
  • Unforgettable Salisbury

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Issue #3, Summer 1979 (Vol. 1, No 3)
  • Destruction of Ocean View Rocket
  • John Allen 1907-1979
  • Coaster Con II Highlights
  • Colorado Coastin’
  • Mister Twister, Idora Wildcat
  • California Coastin’: Part 2

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Issue #4, 1980 (Vol. 1, No. 4)
  • Top Tens: A Coaster Constant
  • Disneyland Opens Big Thunder Mountain Railroad
  • Disney Does It With Style
  • Southern Style Coastin’
  • Ups and Downs
  • New England Coasters
  • 500th Ride on The Beast
  • Cajun Coastin’ in Louisiana
  • Colossus Reopened
  • Coaster Art by Parul Bradford

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Issue #5, 1980 (Vol. 2, No. 1 & 2)
  • Roller Coaster Preservation: A Vital Issue
  • Kennywood’s “New” Racer
  • The Rise and Fall of the Flash
  • Coaster Dips — Glen Echo Park
  • Willow Grove Park
  • The Coasters of Japan
  • The Most Frightening Roller Coaster of all Time?
  • I’m A Grand Old Man
  • Not Just Another Comer
  • Two Days in the Mountain
  • An Interview with Peter R. Schnabel — Intamin, Inc.
  • The Demon Unleashed at Great America

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Issue #6, 1981 (Vol. 2, No. 3)
  • MegaCoaster Rises: The American Eagle
  • The Bat — Unique New Thriller
  • The Original Suspended Coaster
  • Canada’s Wonderland
  • Interview: Dr. Robert Cartmell
  • Toboganning
  • Roller Coasters of Texas
  • Confessions of a Marathoner
  • Coaster Con III
  • ACE’s First Mid Winter Conference

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Issue #7, Spring 1982 (Vol. 3, No. 1)
  • Kings Island’s Racer: A Decade Later
  • Exclusive Interview: William L. Cobb
  • Coaster Con IV: Photo Retrospective
  • The Viper Strikes at Darien Lake
  • Coaster Crossword: Fun With Number One
  • Kings Dominion’s Woodie: The New Grizzly Twister

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Issue #8, Summer 1982 (Vol. 3, No. 2)
  • ACE Feud: Game Review
  • Hersheypark Hosts Coaster Con V
  • ACE Interview: Richard Munch
  • The Earthquake: Saved at Last?
  • The Model Coaster Part One: A Photo Album

Slightly damaged issues available
Price $3.00

 

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Issue #9, Fall/Winter 1982-1983 (Vol. 3, No. 3)
  • Coaster Wedding
  • Summer Con ‘82: Coney Island
  • Coaster Watch: New Super Steel Coaster (Viper)
  • Capsule Commentary: Conneaut Blue Streak
  • Election 82: The New Officers
  • La Montaña Rusa
  • Bake-A-Coaster.
  • The Coaster Con Caper
  • Views of Coaster Con V: A Photo Retrospective.
  • The Model Coaster: Part II, statistics
  • Paragon Park: The Roller Coasters at Nantasket
  • TV Misguide. Coaster Art

Price $5.00

 

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Issue #10, Spring 1983 (Vol. 4, No. 1)
  • Coaster Mysteries
  • The Coaster Guardian, Preservation Notes
  • Twister
  • Cyclone
  • Time Track
  • The Roller Coaster as Very High Art
  • Coaster Opinions: Rolling Thunder
  • ACE Interview: Carl Eichelman
  • ACE Profiles
  • Marineland Gets Monster Coaster

no longer available

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Issue #11, Summer 1983 (Vol. 4, No 2)
  • The Zephyr
  • My Favorite
  • Roller Coaster That Was Never Built
  • Non-Top-Ten Top-Ten.
  • Coaster Wars of the 1920s.
  • Coasting Downhill
  • Coaster Poetry
  • European Coasters
  • Coney’s Thunderbolt
  • Farewell Spring Lake Park
  • Crystal Beach Comet Opinions

Price $5.00

 

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Issue #12, Fall 1983 (Vol. 4, No. 3)
  • Lake Compounce Wildcat Opinions
  • 3rd Railers
  • Traver Cyclones: Re-examination
  • Coaster Con VI Scrapbook
  • Photo Contest Winners
  • Boots and Coasters
  • It’s the Research That Counts
  • ACE Profiles
  • Lost Coaster Legends from the Golden Age
  • ACE Media Day at Idora Park
  • Vacation Corner

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Issue #13, Winter 1984 (Vol. 5, No. 1)
  • Coaster Fiction
  • L.A. Thompson
  • King Cobra Preview
  • Save the Rocket
  • Boblo Saved
  • Coaster Anacrostic
  • ACE Annual Report

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Issue #14, Spring 1984 (Vol. 5, No. 2)
  • Opinions/Leap the Dips
  • Twenty Great Lost Coasters
  • The Coaster Guardian
  • Aeroplane
  • 100 years of Little Known Coaster Facts
  • Does it Always Rain at Crystal Beach
  • Roller Coaster Origins: Part I
  • Robert Cartmell’s Coaster Drawings
  • Flying Turns: They’re Back

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Issue #15, Summer 1984 (Vol. 5, No. 3)
  • A Gallery of Roller Coaster Cars
  • Recollections: Long Beach Cyclone Racer
  • Roller Coaster Origins: Part II
  • Conference III Coverage
  • Dream Coasters
  • Two Flyers
  • Two Extraordinary Coasters — in Miniature

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Issue #16, Fall 1984 (Vol. 5, No. 4)
  • Rye Playland Commendation
  • Aeroplane Aerials
  • The Wright Brothers, Flight and Roller Coasters
  • Crystal Beach Cyclone Remembered
  • Coaster Con Scrapbook
  • Roller Coaster Origins: Part III
  • Tracking Down the Wolf
  • Roverview’s Last Roller Coaster: the Jetstream
  • Roller Coaster Oddities: Part II

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Issue #17, Spring 1985 (Vol. 6, No. 2)
  • Walking the Track, A Personal Opinions Column by Randy Geisler
  • 1984 IAAPA Trade Show
  • Buckroe Beach: 1896-1985
  • ACE Movie Guide
  • European Coaster Notebook
  • I was an ACE member for the KGB
  • The Lily Street Lightning
  • An Interview With Dana Morgan

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Issue #18, 1985 (Vo. 6, No. 3)
  • The Texas Cyclone: Ten Years of Running Hot
  • Lake Placid Bobsled, Palisades Park
  • Flying Turns, Euclid Beach Park
  • By the Time I get to the Phoenix
  • ACE Springs Into Action
  • Infrared Film and Roller Coasters
  • ACE day at Boblo

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Issue #19, 1985 (Vol. 6, No. 4)
  • The Spirit of ACE.
  • The Screamin’ Eagle (Opinions)
  • Sliding through Coaster Con VIII
  • Yankee Doodle Dippers (Coverage of ACE’s 1985 Trip to Europe)
  • The French Roller Coaster (1816s-1850s)
  • 1985 Coaster Review Texas Tornado, ZForce, Avalanche Run, Le Monstre.

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Issue #20, 1986 (Vol. 7, No. 2)
  • Paragon Giant Coaster now Wild World’s Wild One
  • So you Want to Design Roller Coasters
  • per’fect: A Practical Guide for Reprofiling Roller Coasters
  • Chemin Du Centrifuge: History’s First Loopers
  • Kennywood On My Mind
  • How to Write and Article for RollerCoaster!
  • Lake Compounce: Land of Memories, Lake of Dreams

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Issue #21, Winter/Spring 1987 (Vol. 7, Nos. 3 & 4)
  • Opinions: Loch Ness Monster and Riverside Cyclone
  • The Roller Coasters of Fred Pearce
  • The ACE Book of Lists
  • Coasting BC, or the Great Pullyallup Coastyalldown Journey
  • Roller Coaster Renaissance
  • Can You Stand It?
  • Dorney Park’s Colossus
  • New Technology on Display at IAAPA ‘86
  • Coasters on Rollers
  • The Thriller — A Love Story
  • The Mission Beach Giant Dipper
  • Let’s Celebrate Little-Knowns

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Issue #22, Summer 1987 (Vol. 8, No. 2)
  • Opinions: Iron Dragon and Vortex
  • Kings Island Spring Conference Celebrates Vortex
  • Iron Dragon — A Coaster Review
  • Mr. Steel Coaster — Arrow’s Ron Toomer
  • Where to Coaster the Most
  • Down Under Coasters
  • Preservation Notes
  • Lone Star Rat
  • Reflections of Coaster Con IX
  • Ohio is Coaster Country
  • Photo Contest Winners (Con IX)

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Issue #23, Fall/Winter 1987 (Vol. 8, Nos. 3 & 4)
  • The Coasters of Coaster Con 10
  • Coaster Con 10 Review
  • Mountain Greenery and Swedish Scenery
  • Exit the Atom Smasher — A Sad Tradition Continues
  • Roller Coaster Weddings
  • Lost California Coasters
  • Photo Contest Winners (Con X)

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