Everyone,
The Warren Newport Public Library in Gurnee, IL has quite the collection of items from the early years of the park. A few friends and I spent a few hours in there last fall and scanned in a bunch of things. Some of them are good, others are not so good. Most of them are newspapers items, so they did not scan in as good as I wanted them to. But, some of them turned out ok.
So, take a look, and enjoy!
http://CPE-65-25-185-174.wi.res.rr.com: ... yptkeeper/
Scanned in Items from Gurnee
- BrianPlencner
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Scanned in Items from Gurnee
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Mr. Brian Plencner
SFGAm Employee: 1988-1992
Mr. Brian Plencner
SFGAm Employee: 1988-1992
- BrianPlencner
- Tidal Wave
- Posts: 209
- Joined: Wed Jul 20, 2005 8:07 pm
- Location: Carpentersville, IL
Everyone,
Sorry that the link went down. I am hosting those on my own server, and the power went out today. I have an issue with my server that when the power comes back on, I have to press the F1 key to boot the server. I believe that is because I have a bad fan in it.
By the way, the server itself is a Compaq 4500 Rack machine. More info here, if you're interested
http://h18004.www1.hp.com/products/serv ... index.html
I paid $1 for it from my company. It runs great, but I have this issue every time the power goes out.
Again, sorry for the link going away, but all should be up and running now!
Sorry that the link went down. I am hosting those on my own server, and the power went out today. I have an issue with my server that when the power comes back on, I have to press the F1 key to boot the server. I believe that is because I have a bad fan in it.
By the way, the server itself is a Compaq 4500 Rack machine. More info here, if you're interested
http://h18004.www1.hp.com/products/serv ... index.html
I paid $1 for it from my company. It runs great, but I have this issue every time the power goes out.
Again, sorry for the link going away, but all should be up and running now!
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Mr. Brian Plencner
SFGAm Employee: 1988-1992
Mr. Brian Plencner
SFGAm Employee: 1988-1992
opening invitation
Brian
it was really great to see the Opening Invitation to the Gurnee Park
I worked at the Santa Clara Park 76 - 78
and I have kept my Opening Invitation
I had wondered if the Gurnee Park had them as well
and
did anyone save theirs
somehow I thing very few did
i feel like one of the very luck ones
The mgashows.net web site posted the scan of my opening day invitation
if you want to see the Santa Clara one.
thanks for all the work of posting those scans
JDM
it was really great to see the Opening Invitation to the Gurnee Park
I worked at the Santa Clara Park 76 - 78
and I have kept my Opening Invitation
I had wondered if the Gurnee Park had them as well
and
did anyone save theirs
somehow I thing very few did
i feel like one of the very luck ones
The mgashows.net web site posted the scan of my opening day invitation
if you want to see the Santa Clara one.
thanks for all the work of posting those scans
JDM
- coasterfan71555
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Wow! Brian, thank you so much for posting these scans. The clippings bring back wonderful memories of happy times in the early years of Great America! One day I will have to stop by the library myself to see these items in person! Are they readily accessible? Again, many thanks!!!!!!
What a day, what a place! What a smile on my face! My first visit was June 21, 1976, when I was less than a month from turning 21!
- BrianPlencner
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You and everyone else are very welcome.coasterfan71555 wrote:One day I will have to stop by the library myself to see these items in person! Are they readily accessible? Again, many thanks!!!!!!
Yes, all you have to do is ask at the reference desk for the "Great America" archive folder, and they will pull it out for you. There was a ton of stuff in there that I did not even scan in. Make sure you allow yourself a few hours to look at it all.
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Mr. Brian Plencner
SFGAm Employee: 1988-1992
Mr. Brian Plencner
SFGAm Employee: 1988-1992