In the 1950s, Gaston Deweer, a priest in Dadizele, Belgium, helped open up Dadipark, an amusement park meant to serve children of pilgrims to the Basilica of Our Lady of Dadizele. After complaints about the parks safety and a tragic accident, the park closed down for good in 2002. Now its a graveyard for discarded [...]
Updated: April 4, 2012 1:01PM As the Cubs ready for their home opener Thursday, Mayor Rahm Emanuel and his administration are in the final stages of negotiating a deal to pave the way for the renovation of 98-year-old Wrigley Field. If there is an agreement, sources said it’s likely to include a variation of the [...]
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Sixty years ago in 1951the US was fighting a war in the far-off land of Korea,Harry S Trumanwas president, television was on its way to becoming a household staple, and two attractions that would impact generations of Tulsans opened. One was the Admiral Twin Drive-in, the other was Bells Amusement Park. Recent years have been [...]
Gray skies threatened rain all afternoon, but that didnt derail Shirley Roberts plans to take her son to Edaville USA for the train amusement parks opening day last Saturday. It was, after all, the parks Day Out With Thomas: Leader of the Track Tour event and her son, Aiden, 5, is a diehard fan of [...]
SUSAN POAG/THE TIMES-PICAYUNE Workers from Amusement Attraction of Tampa, Florida steadily put finishing touches on everything Thursday, October 8, 2009 while setting up the many games and rides featured by Amusement Attraction of Tampa, Florida at the 2009 Bidge City Gumbo Fesitval. This years fest is Oct. 14-16.
A disused nuclear power station in Germany has been converted into the Wunderland Kalkar amusement park, following the governments decision to abandon all nuclear energy plants. Wunderland Kalkar is most likely the first of many more creative conversions to come, with approximately fifteen more power plants to be be completely abandoned by the year 2022. [...]
Japanese entertainment conglomerate Sega Sammy is changing its fiscal forecast for the first half of the year ending September 30, saying that its expecting a decrease in revenue but an increase in profits, according to Gamasutra. Sega Sammy was created in 2004 after amusement and video game developer Sammy bought Sega. They are most well [...]
The San Francisco 49ers announced Thursday they will launch some preliminary work on their new Santa Clara stadium in the spring. They described the work as a series of projects to prepare the site, located on the overflow parking lot of California’s Great America amusement park, for heavier construction activity now scheduled to start in [...]
SANDUSKY, Ohio, Oct. 5, 2011 — /PRNewswire/ — Cedar Fair Entertainment Company (NYSE: FUN), a leader in regional amusement parks, water parks and active entertainment will hold its quarterly conference call with investors to discuss third quarter earnings results on Thursday, November 3 at 10:00 am Eastern Time. #xA0; Participants on the call will include [...]
