Search found 17 matches
- Wed Apr 01, 2009 7:25 pm
- Forum: Gurnee
- Topic: Need some clarification from some 'ole timers; venting...
- Replies: 17
- Views: 62043
Marriotts, however,
had THE best food, hands down, a Theme Park ever served, present company included. I guess we all know before Marriott's was a hotel, they were a catering company. I worked many a day a fling/gig and Sticky Fingers was just at my olfactory pleasure center. Firehouse pizza rings a bell too. That made...
- Sun Mar 22, 2009 8:13 pm
- Forum: Gurnee
- Topic: Need some clarification from some 'ole timers; venting...
- Replies: 17
- Views: 62043
Cedar Fair....
Is a great company. They're one of no others who carefully planned their acquisitions and truly have become Six Flags (Goliath) David (Cedar Fair). While not as recognizable as the Six Flags brand, mention their parks to people (Santa Clara, included) and they have a certain awe for this company the...
- Sun Mar 22, 2009 7:21 pm
- Forum: Gurnee
- Topic: Who writes this junk?
- Replies: 15
- Views: 46457
But really
did it have a 'green screen' television monitor with a 'square' bock diagram that when it stopped working one day, An**rs F--- walked up during a down time, punched the power, tore the Coax out of the back and said "Now it really doesn't work! You're back up". Before 'witnessed block check...
- Sat Mar 14, 2009 1:34 am
- Forum: Remembering Marriott's GREAT AMERICA
- Topic: Gurnee park POSSIBLY in trouble for 2009
- Replies: 9
- Views: 33782
SFGA
is one park in the USA that is situated in a location that needs a park of it's size and 'capture'. All the other local parks were run out of town on a rail when it opened. if it closed, someone didn't buy it, it would only be a matter of time before someone reinvented that wheel...and who ever that...
- Sat Mar 14, 2009 1:19 am
- Forum: Rides
- Topic: Splashwater Falls Removal
- Replies: 14
- Views: 23500
It was goofy
the pump that supplied the upper trough was called 'the Show Water Pump" and did not need to operate to make the boats go down the chute. They would have rolled dry on gravity, maybe a little more slowly. And that water was foul!
- Sat Mar 14, 2009 1:17 am
- Forum: Rides
- Topic: Most Sickening Ride
- Replies: 30
- Views: 53680
Skywhirl
Most Oil Dry used in any season I worked there...
- Sat Mar 14, 2009 1:06 am
- Forum: Rides
- Topic: Yankee Clipper
- Replies: 25
- Views: 48537
The Arrow Manfacturing "Feature Name" for that....
is a final 60' decent with a 'hydro jump' which by the way, is why the landing on Clipper was a lot dryer...that and the shape of the boat deflected water. But go to KI and do Kenyon Keel-boats (Defunct) and the boat shape had little to do with wet or not.
- Sat Mar 14, 2009 12:54 am
- Forum: Questions, Suggestions, and Site Updates
- Topic: "Buzzy Bee" under my user name
- Replies: 2
- Views: 19592
Oh My God
When I saw Buzzy Bee under my name, I thought it was a 'menacing clue' that a member of Full Time Operations management did in fact see me and two other seasonal operations supervisors Ride Buzzy during spring clean up. And the fact that my Buzzy, as well as the Buzzy of another male ride supervisor...
- Sat Mar 14, 2009 12:40 am
- Forum: Remembering Marriott's GREAT AMERICA
- Topic: Adventureland movie...memories of working at MGA
- Replies: 2
- Views: 17577
And they were always out in...
Wilmot, Carey, Mundelein and of course Kenosha or Racine. One morning after a back yard frolic (I think I was an 11-7 midshifter...and lets face it, there was crew unity, but there there was shift unity and that's where your family was) that all four 11-7 midshifters went to, I had to open the morni...
- Fri Mar 13, 2009 6:55 pm
- Forum: Gurnee
- Topic: Ride op. ignorance
- Replies: 9
- Views: 28713
A nightmare...
that required the use of a VW bug to unload it during its demise. And the oil-dry consumption Capitol of the park. Yes even more than cliffhanger.
Who is this
I had some of my best times at inlaws hanging with wardrobe. I heard things about hair dye that's make you blush and yet give you new ideas. My initials are SB and I worked from 84-94, did we overlap?
- Fri Mar 13, 2009 6:44 pm
- Forum: Gurnee
- Topic: Need some clarification from some 'ole timers; venting...
- Replies: 17
- Views: 62043
You're paid to think, they pay to not think...
[quote="EagleMom"]To All (so far)- thank you so much for your contributions! It was a relief to read about ... Amen, Eaglemom! Yall, in my boredom, I watch a lot of YouTube and love to put my 2cents in anyplace someone is gutsy enough to allow a place to stick my foot. There is this back n...
- Fri Mar 13, 2009 6:07 pm
- Forum: Gurnee
- Topic: What would happen to Six Flags overall, if...
- Replies: 4
- Views: 20716
I'd say 2 or 3
Magic Mountain is open, at least part time, year round. It pays year round and has highest attendance. It is huge and holds a crowd well. Gurnee is probably next, and for the ten year period I worked there...the five or six I was exposed to park counts, (1989-1994) we weren't worried about being hig...
- Fri Mar 13, 2009 5:58 pm
- Forum: Gurnee
- Topic: Soaping the Flumes - SFMA vs. MGA
- Replies: 11
- Views: 34842
One day on south...
I come strolling down the loggers exit and it looked like Sudzilla. I was in awe, the lead was entertained til I sent her whole crew to bbl til we could get the suds down (about an hour or so). There were 'plumes' which made it so you couldn't see the run-out from the station unless you perched righ...
- Fri Mar 13, 2009 5:48 pm
- Forum: Gurnee
- Topic: During the off-season
- Replies: 1
- Views: 16083
I seem remember...
Delta Flyer got put on the track in an extended portion of the station, covered and secured with general security kinds of locks, lock outs, cotter pins and canvases. Southern Cross were stored in the then "undeveloped" 600 area, same manner. If a gondola needed major work, it got pulled a...