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On May 29th, of
1976, the papers read of a new theme park. The park was called Marriott's Great America
and was one of two identical theme parks, one in Gurnee, IL. and the other in Santa Clara,
CA. Few years later Marriot decided to pull out of the thrilling industries of amuesment
parks and sold both parks. Marriott's Great america in Santa Clara, CA was sold to
Paramount pictures and Great America in Gurnee, IL, was sold to the Six Flags Corporation
and became Six Flags' 7th park. Now Six Flags owns 37 parks world wide and runs 157
coasters. The company keeps on expanding it thrills and territories so there is a Six
Flags theme park within a few hours of where most people live.
In 1991 Six Flags became affilated with Time Waner Enterpriseand Time Warner gained control of the Six Flags Corparation. only 7 years later, in 1998, Time Warner sold Six Flags Corparation to Premier Parks of Oklahoma City. Premier Parks officially changed its name to Six Flags in June of 2000.
In the 2001 season Six Flags debuted 18 new world class coasters. Of this bunch were serval record breaking, and first of its kind type coasters. SFGAm held 2 of these new coasters Vertical Velocity or V2 which is an impulse coaster and Déjà Vu a next generation super inverted boomerang roller coaster. |
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