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Dec 28, 2004

Theme Park Nostalgia

BoingBoing ran a quick piece yesterday amid all the tsunami coverage highlighting a site that archives old maps from theme parks.

Of course I immediately honed in on the one from my neck of the woods and found a very nostalgic Great Escape map from the 1980s. For those of you that weren't raised in upstate NY, The Great Escape was the ultimate place to go when you were a kid. It had awesome coasters, decent theme areas, and great flume and rapids rides.

The park (which is now owned by Six Flags) is such a fixture that senior year physics classes from around the area go to the park and run around riding the rides while doing "experiments" like timing the pirate ship's rate of acceleration and the G forces exerted by the Steamin' Demon as their de facto class field trip for that year.

See if ThemeParkBrochures.com has a map from the Themepark of your childhood years

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Josh :

What?

What? No Camp Crystal Lake? That place was awesome. I met so many good friends there, and then lost them to Jason.

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