[Toboggan Roller Coaster at the South Texas State Fair]

Photograph of a Toboggan roller coaster at the South Texas State Fair. The spiral-shaped roller coaster has a single car on the track. The photograph has been taken from a low vantage point.
Date: October 1972
Creator: Lewis, David P.
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Adults on a roller coaster at Six Flags]

Photograph of six young people sitting on a blue roller coaster at Six Flags. The roller coaster is two cars in length in the image. The sky covers the entire background.
Date: August 10, 1975
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Photograph 2012.201.B0410.0124]

Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Roller coaster, background, is the only ride still standing in the day after debris of the State Fair of Oklahoma."
Date: October 1, 1973
Creator: Carter, Randy
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B1103.0731]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "WORLD, S LONGEST, tallest and fastest roller coaster, its operators claim, received its first manned' test Wednesday at Eureka, Mo. Passenger hold on tightly as the coaster goes into a 92-foot drop. The coatser gets up to 65 m.p.h. in its 3,872-foot lenght. It opens to the public April 10."
Date: 1976
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0927.0477]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Double loop roller coaster, largest single addition to Six Flags Over Texas in its 18 year history, came to Oklahoma City this week in from the form of model, Bruce Neal/ public rotations manager, said the $2 million ride, called Shock Wave, is combination of "an ultra sophisticated steel coaster and two vertical loops towering 70 feet in the air. Construction will be completed in time for spring 1978 opening at the Arlington, Tex., park."
Date: November 30, 1977
Creator: Klock, Roger
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B1103.0735]

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Roller Coaster"
Date: 1979
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B1103.0732]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "The Shock Wave roller coaster plungees throuth two 70-foot-tall loops then within two minutes, across 3,500 feet of dipping , twisting and curving track."
Date: 1978
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.1617]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Bareback bronc rider J.C. Trujillo hangs on as Red River takes him on a roller-coaster ride."
Date: December 3, 1976
Creator: Argo, Jim
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B01005.0004]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Oklaoma City firefighters reel a snorkel unit into position Sunday to rescue roller coaster riders trapped atop the 40-foot-high "Zyklon" at Springlake Amusement Park, NE 41 and Eastern."
Date: 1979
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B1103.0734]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Coasting through summer evenings on top of the world, rides at amusement parks are a good way to catch a breath of air. A panoramic view of the city skyline is gianed from this silhouetted vantage point atop an Oklahoma City roller coaster."
Date: July 3, 1979
Creator: Miller, Joe
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B1177.0583]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Tons of steel soar more than 100 feet into the air as another section of Six Flags Over Texas new double loop roller coaster is lifted into place."
Date: March 19, 1978
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History