Daved Thomson

In my opinion, I always thought GA's Skyride towers came from Freedomland and the stations and cars came from the NY Worlds Fair.

 

Freedomland:

 

Great Adventure:

 

NYWF:

(from www.nywf64.com)

On simple observation I would say that your guess is probably correct, however, looking closely at the towers it appears that the Freedomland towers used an "I" beam construction whereas Great Adventure's tower's use a box beam construction. Other than that, I think they're dead on. The disastrous history of Freedomland is so bad, though, that I'd hate to think that any of it ended up at Great Adventure.

QUESTION #27:

 

As timely as today's headlines, what year was the gas station added to Great Adventure and what brand gasoline was sold?

Bonus question: How many pumps were built?

The gas station opened for the 1980 season and the original gasoline it sold was Getty. I have no idea how many pumps it originally opened with.

I would like that too as when I began to really go to the park steadily again I was very dissapointed to see that it was no longer there due to the Golden Kingdom and Kingda Ka project being completed. It was slightly a letdown since one of the main things I had remembered was the entrance

 

 

 

 

I believe I have previously seen the clips you are speaking of and had considered positng links to them on here. After talking with GACoaster about it and watching them again, they don't seem like they would fit only because there really is a spin to the documentary that would be unfair to present unless there was a counterpart to it giving the other side of the events. If I recall there is really nothing presented from the stand point of the park or their employees, and the spin of the documentary does seem to shed a bad light over the park for reasons that didn't have to appear. I did enjoy watching them when I first saw them, but since then have examined them again and came to see where things coud have been presented more fairly without bias.

 

Keeping on with the topic at hand however I think with it being summertime which is always a very festive occasion I would like to eventually see the Northern Star Arena in a spotlight. It has had so many nice shows andconcerts over the years as well as other things in the park it would be great to see them summarized within a spotlight of the Arena.

I'd also like to see a spotlight on the arena. Until then, can anyone tell me exactly when and why the name changed from The Great Arena to the Northern Star Arena?... I'm sorry, but personally, The Great Arena just is so much more appropriate and original. Northern Star Arena sounds like something Ray Williams might have brought with him from his days at SFOT (which has the Southern Star Amphitheater).

I think it's time for one of the park's "Big Guns" so to speak, to be in the Spotlight, Medusa. It was the first of it's kind and still is one of the best rides anywhere.

This might sound a little crazy, especially because all of the spotlights have been on park attractions, but I would like to see a spotlight on Larry B. Cochran. Personally, I think he influenced the park more than anyone other than Warner LeRoy and certainly laid the ground work for the park becoming the "cash cow" and (ultimate) flagship of Six Flags.

Once again, an incredible representation of the park's past. I was surprised, however, to not see the 1975 color print advertisement that appeared in McCall's magazine. If you do not have it, let me know and I will be happy to send you a copy of it.

Olden Ave. ? My Dad used to own Mattress Center on Olden and it was always shady there.

I just wanted to chime in on the gas prices you are paying in Jersey... With prices very close to $5.00 (I paid $4.87 a gallon today) here in Los Angeles, New Jersey's gas prices are a bargain. And, remember, in Jersey, they pump the gas for you for those prices. Here, if you buy full-serve, you're over $5.00. It's not a pretty picture.

QUESTION #22:

How many operating rides currently in Great Adventure have skulls on them?

Is it 4... Buccaneer, Jolly Roger, Black Beard's Lost Treasure Train, and Skull Mountain.

In 1979 Great Adventure added Rolling Thunder situated in an entirely new southwestern themed section of the park called Hernando's Hideaway. Who or what was Hernando?

Hernando's Hideaway was the name of the games building situated at the exit to Rolling Thunder, was it not?