Satellite View of Gurnee Park

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Thank you for the info. I think I've seen that book on Amazon.
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Tanya wrote:Thank you for the info. I think I've seen that book on Amazon.
Just for clarification there are two books with nearly the same title. The out-of-print book is the one I mentioned; The Great American Amusement Parks which contain the two MGA photos and there's a newer book titled The American Amusement Park by Dale Samuelson. Both have great coverage on theme parks.
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I remember both, because I remember one being out of date.


http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/de ... s&n=507846
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BrianPlencner wrote:Redfishpaw,

That article about zforce is cool, but why, oh why did you staple it over something to do with Tidal WAVE?? On the right side, about 1/2 way down, you can see one of the waves.

I would like to see what's under the ZForce Article myself! :)
The Z force article was found stapled to the inside back page of a 1982 Marriotts Brochure which has an image of the Tidal Wave. The ZForce article is from 1985. I agree that this was a poor way of storing an article. The staples have been carefully removed and I will scan the back page and post it. For the moment my scanner is having some issues, but I get around this shortly. Also I do have a much larger Zforce article which I plan on posting as well.
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I finally have the entire 1982 Marriotts brochure scanned.
http://www.pbase.com/redfishpaw/1982
I also have an older one which I will scan later
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Very nice. I think it's funny how on the Demon page there is a picture from before the conversion to Demon (light-colored track and all).
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Yes indeed! Thanks again for posting that.
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Nice pics Redfishpaw!
Demon rules!
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I now have my other Z FORCE article scanned from July 23, 1985.
It is from the Milwaukee Journal's Green Sheet.
(Yes the newspaper really is green). Scans are B/W

http://www.pbase.com/redfishpaw/image/48106605

text enlarged
http://www.pbase.com/redfishpaw/image/48106608

Interesting note: the park was open daily till 11pm in 1985.
I was working at the park during 1985, I had forgotten that we were
open that late.
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Santa Cruisin wrote:
Tanya wrote:Thank you for the info. I think I've seen that book on Amazon.
Just for clarification there are two books with nearly the same title. The out-of-print book is the one I mentioned; The Great American Amusement Parks which contain the two MGA photos and there's a newer book titled The American Amusement Park by Dale Samuelson. Both have great coverage on theme parks.
I have The Great American Amusement Parks... bought it from the library years ago (they were selling it off!)
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Here is a nice MSN Virtual Earth image
http://virtualearth.msn.com/default.asp ... ca1eb251cd

(with shockwave)
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Thanks, Redfishpaw!
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Here is a photoset with some aerials (from sky trek tower) taken July 2005. Includes some of Hurricane Harbor.
:arrow: http://flickr.com/photos/zumbojo/sets/570825/

Also here is another nice 2005 photoset, lots of great pics
:arrow: http://www.physik.rwth-aachen.de/~magass/sf_2005.htm
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Post by steven »

Thanks for the pointers to these photos.

I don't like seeing buildings on the other side of the tollway. I'm used to it always being big open fields...fields that were originally included in big expansion plans for the park.

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Yes I agree, I was always disapointed whenever I heard that the park was selling off more land. I think they used to own land south of the American Eagle as well.
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