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Some of the top lights are still there but a bunch of jackasses thought it would be "funny" to toss rocks at them and break them (and I believe some of the glass injured some riders). So they are turned off and they re-programmed the light cycle in there so that only the side lights work ...

There IS a stairwell that goes all the way to the top. At the top there is a door/hatch facing up(If I remember correctly). From the top the flag can be maintained as well as the beacon light(at Santa Clara due to the proximity to the San Jose Airport). BTW: That is a LONG walk up that stairwell. It...

Yeah, roof of the Pictorium (We know it as Picto in my house) looking NE towards the skytower/carousel.

Why DID you take that picture?

Great photos!

Ah, the memories...

By the time I got there, Security had their "Annex" in the games wherehouse building, not the cash control building for use during the summer/operating months.

How Embarassing. I got only 5 of 10 correct. ranked 35 of 71. Then again, my home park is Santa Clara so I don't have any memoriea od Gurnee.

OK, I may have missed something, but did Paramount sell to Cedar Fair?

I had read a bit about this a while back when Paramount purchased Dreamworks(I think), and were forced somehow to have to get rid of the themeparks division. I never connected the dots, however, that it would mean new owners of the management team for Bonfante Gardens in Gilroy. I look at it this wa...

m_force_4_ever wrote:why are there so many posts in a topic titled "ignore"?

What posts?

Just looking around to see if anyone else is in here!

I guess not.

We now return you to...nothing.

George Buck remained as the Security Dept. Manager (Santa Clara) through at least 1993. I'm not sure when he left, but not long after that, the department was "Shuffled". Buck left, and one of the supervisors, Pat Huckaby, moved to park services. He, Pat Huckaby, later returned to security...

Is anyone else ignoring this topic?

I still am.

Santa Clara is my "home" park. When I worked there, I lived in Redwood City, about 20 miles to the north. On those early morning when I would start work at 6am, I sometimes made it from my driveway to the employee parking lot in 18 minutes. The usual travel time, though, was about 25 minut...

In Santa Clara, during the KECO days, the park would have an employee only sale where merchandise and games prizes were sold off at really cheap prices. I don't know what happened after the sale with the leftovers, though.

Not that I ever did that!