Here it is, the entrance to Ninja. Opened in 1988, Ninja is an Arrow suspended coaster. On the plus side, Ninja is still open. On the negative side, a lot of what made Ninja great - the banked turns through the trees - has largely been eliminated.

Oh, and check out the early YouTube influencer in the bottom right with the shoulder-mounted RCA VHS recorder. I’d love to see his footage.

In August of 1995, I took a bunch of photos (on film no less) at Six Flags Magic Mountain using an inexpensive camera. I was working as an Operations supervisor at the time, and the purpose of the project was to create a slide show for an employee appreciation party for our Operations staff. I’ve carted these slides around for over 25 years and I finally had them digitally transferred this year. About 2/3s of them aren’t available for posting because they are crew pictures and I have no way to request permission to post them. But I do have 50+ available that are just various shots of the park. Enjoy this time capsule from August 1995.