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- Sun Jun 29, 2008 2:28 am
- Forum: Games, Merchandise, Food, and more
- Topic: Buffet Le Grand
- Replies: 15
- Views: 60620
- Sun Jun 29, 2008 2:15 am
- Forum: Gurnee
- Topic: Remembering the Great America Blue AMC Pacers?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 19533
This continued into the Six Flags days as well. Probably still happens today. When I was a sales rep, we all had Plymouth Breezes. Plymouth was the park's sponsor (I think they sponsored the Music Hall that year (1998-99) but I can't be sure.) The Breezes replaced Chevy Corsicas, since the park's sp...
- Sun Jun 29, 2008 2:11 am
- Forum: Gurnee
- Topic: Soaping the Flumes - SFMA vs. MGA
- Replies: 11
- Views: 34687
- Sun Jun 29, 2008 2:04 am
- Forum: Gurnee
- Topic: MGA employees with Barbara Mandrell
- Replies: 2
- Views: 21703
Wow... when I started in 1988 at the Front Gate, they still had those checked vests with the fluffy tie blouses for some areas of the gate. I think they were used pretty much in the parking lot only by then and possibly other areas like the kennel. The rest of the gate had been converted to poly blu...
- Sun Jun 29, 2008 1:47 am
- Forum: Gurnee
- Topic: Southern Cross Incident 1978
- Replies: 6
- Views: 27101
Back to the ol' Great America Box for this one. It's a photocopy of an article in the Chicago Sun-Times after the incident happened. It was sent to me by a gentlemen back in the early 90s or so. I don't have anything other than this, but it was definitely in the news. Sorry for the crummy quality - ...
- Sun Jun 29, 2008 1:23 am
- Forum: Gurnee
- Topic: After hours MGA employee hangouts
- Replies: 3
- Views: 18041
Avalon is still there. I never went to Poor Richard's but always heard about it. In-Laws apparently had a fire a few years ago and remodeled VERY extensively. The building is still there as it always was (always reminded me of an old Pizza Hut) but the inside is nothing like the dump it used to be b...
- Sun Jun 29, 2008 1:17 am
- Forum: Gurnee
- Topic: MGA attention-to-detail...Service Access Road...early years
- Replies: 8
- Views: 33307
I remember when I first started at the park (1988) it was not long after they had dug out the area under the bridge. That year they made a revision to the path the employees took to walk along the service road- in the past they walked under the bridge along with traffic, but in 1988 they opened a ne...
- Sun Jun 29, 2008 1:10 am
- Forum: Gurnee
- Topic: The Plush Horse attic
- Replies: 5
- Views: 21894
- Tue Mar 11, 2008 9:33 pm
- Forum: Gurnee
- Topic: Possible Removals
- Replies: 34
- Views: 50523
It appears that Splashwater is, indeed, coming down. This was just posted to the Chicago Tribune. Sadly it's not for a good reason: Worker at Great America dies after falling 40 feet A worker trying to dismantle a ride Tuesday morning at Six Flags Great America in Gurnee died after falling more than...
- Sun Nov 04, 2007 2:14 am
- Forum: Santa Clara
- Topic: GA's New Name/New Logo: California's Great America?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 21463
- Mon Sep 10, 2007 9:33 am
- Forum: Gurnee
- Topic: Possible Removals
- Replies: 34
- Views: 50523
- Wed Jul 04, 2007 10:48 pm
- Forum: Gurnee
- Topic: Park Music for 2007
- Replies: 6
- Views: 11290
Park Music for 2007
What's the status of the park music for 2007? I know last year for the 45th they played 70s and 80s tunes. What's being played now?
I suppose I could just GO and find out for myself.. but.. just curious.
I suppose I could just GO and find out for myself.. but.. just curious.
- Mon May 07, 2007 4:58 pm
- Forum: Rides
- Topic: Gurnee Demon gets "New" Logos
- Replies: 18
- Views: 30781
- Tue Mar 20, 2007 12:08 pm
- Forum: Remembering Marriott's GREAT AMERICA
- Topic: Food at Marriott's Great America
- Replies: 41
- Views: 67684
Good topic! I, too, remember having a delicious meal at Captain Morgan's Seafood. I think I ate there a year or two (or three) before it switched over to being Angelo's. I don't think there is a single restaurant in the park that sells seafood now, and it's a shame. My fondest memory, though, is of ...