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With pictures, I've got into July, and the day we planned to spend nearly open to close at Six Flags America. Please remember while looking over these pictures that it was incredibly freaking hot.
Six Flags America started as a much smaller place and that's probably why the entrance was such a nothing exit on a four-lane highway.
You could easily drive right past and not even know it was there, in a way that reminded me of Canada's Wonderland.
The entrance, and parking lot, had plenty of trees and nice pleasant tall ones though.
I realized afterward we were never going to get a good picture of the entry booths, so here, have this zoomed-in picture instead. Also note the parking lot locator signs have ride pictures.
Again, you claim to be Six Flags America but I'm only seeing eight flags.
One of the midway buildings with Looney Tunes characters done up as founding fathers.
Oh, they ... didn't take down the National Ride Operator Day sign. All right then.
Evidence of park history: the entrance midway ends at a creek, with a good-size footbridge over it. But there's also this closed off and much narrower bridge that ends at nothing, now. What purpose did that serve, and when did it last serve that?
I wonder if it wasn't the queue for a ride, and that it was more trouble to remove the bridge than to just block it off. But how long ago must it have been that the ride was removed if the ground is that much reclaimed by grass?
On to roller coasters! The other wooden coaster they had here was called Roar, and how could an old furry not like that?
Some of the big ol' heap of wood that makes up Roar. It almost looks like a demonstration of truss design.
Roar's loading station. Note that the A gets a different color, in color logos, a thing we noticed in several rides before we figured out what that might be for.
Trivia: In the 1924 Chamonix Winter Olympics women were allowed to compete only in figure skating; other events were judged too strenuous and perhaps dangerous to their ability to bear children. Women were finally allowed to compete in skiing events in 1948, and in speed skating in 1960. In 1998 women debuted in ice hockey, and in 2002, bobsledding, all events from the first winter games. Source: Encyclopedia of the Modern Olympic Movement, Editors John E Findling, Kimberly D Pelle.
Currently Reading: Lost Popeye Zine, Volume 84: A Man in a Moon, Ralph Stein, Bill Zaboly. Editor Stephanie Noelle.
