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The name of the prize usually given out in the early years was called a Sheldon. It was a one foot tall furry yellow Big Bird of which for some reason I have one at home. I had a friend who worked in games in the werehouse and said that they cost the park 90 cents each and it is what they used to go...

I used to work the schools days you mentioned. I remember because I used to get so much overtime on those days. What it was is the park would go from weekend operation only, to full 7 days a couple weeks before the schools would let out for the summer. The park was open to everyone on these weekdays...

The Whizzer ended up breaking down quite often, (As opposed to what was said in court when the park was being sued over the death on the ride.) and power failures were often. This would strand riders on the part of the ride that needed full power to move the trains. The catwalks were added to evacua...

I worked in the Pictorium the first year it was open. I remember that the film being shown was "Man Belongs to the Earth". There were only 3 films in IMAX format out at the time; "MBttE" "To Fly", "Speed". There was defintely no trailer run during the MBttE&qu...

I can tell you one thing about Bugs wearing a tux. It was much nicer in the summer to be just wearing a dickie, thin jacket and pants, than to be covered with fur as the other characters were. Except the Pigs, but they had thier own drawbacks.

Cool Cat and Merlin the Mouse? Who are they? I know who they are but were never part of the standard WB characters seen on anything in the park. There was never a Speedy Gonzalas character in the park either. even though he was a WB character. Honey Bunny was made up for the park by the creator of t...

3 years in that theatre I was. Some of the best memories of my life.