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Six Flags Over Georgia

Author : Tim Hollis

Publisher : Arcadia Publishing

Page : 132 pages

File Size : 32,90 MB

Release : 2006

Category : History

ISBN : 9780738543581

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Book Description

When Six Flags Over Georgia opened in June 1967, it became the first theme park in the Southeast. Although the park is best known today for its high-speed roller coasters, this book recaptures its earlier years when it was devoted to the various periods of Georgia's history. Six Flags Over Georgia revisits such classic rides and attractions as the Log Jamboree, Tales of the Okefenokee, Jean Ribaut's Adventure, the Krofft Puppet Theater, the Happy Motoring Freeway, and many others. It also explores how the park's focus changed and expanded over the decades and takes a look at some of its classic advertising and souvenirs.



Six Flags Over Georgia at 50

Author : Chadwick Miller

Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Page : 132 pages

File Size : 35,53 MB

Release : 2017-05-20

Category :

ISBN : 9781544994307

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Six Flags Over Georgia at 50 is both a reference book and a walk down memory lane. It includes facts about the park, a timeline of attractions, and a dictionary of the attractions (both former and current) that have delighted park goers for five decades.



This Is My South

Author : Caroline Eubanks

Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield

Page : 369 pages

File Size : 28,98 MB

Release : 2018-10-01

Category : Travel

ISBN : 1493034316

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Book Description

You may think you know the South for its food, its people, its past, and its stories, but if there’s one thing that’s certain, it’s that the region tells far more than one tale. It is ever-evolving, open to interpretation, steeped in history and tradition, yet defined differently based on who you ask. This Is My South inspires the reader to explore the Southern States––Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia––like never before. No other guide pulls together these states into one book in quite this way with a fresh perspective on can’t-miss landmarks, off the beaten path gems, tours for every interest, unique places to sleep, and classic restaurants. So come see for yourself and create your own experiences along the way!



Six Flags Over Georgia

Author : Tim Hollis

Publisher : Arcadia Publishing

Page : 132 pages

File Size : 45,75 MB

Release : 2006-09-27

Category : Photography

ISBN : 1439633576

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Book Description

When Six Flags Over Georgia opened in June 1967, it became the first theme park in the Southeast. Although the park is best known today for its high-speed roller coasters, this book recaptures its earlier years when it was devoted to the various periods of Georgias history. Six Flags Over Georgia revisits such classic rides and attractions as the Log Jamboree, Tales of the Okefenokee, Jean Ribauts Adventure, the Krofft Puppet Theater, the Happy Motoring Freeway, and many others. It also explores how the parks focus changed and expanded over the decades and takes a look at some of its classic advertising and souvenirs.



Six Flags Great Adventure

Author : Harry Applegate

Publisher : Arcadia Publishing

Page : 173 pages

File Size : 31,15 MB

Release : 2016-05-02

Category : Travel

ISBN : 1439656134

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Six Flags Great Adventure has been the premier destination for family fun in the Northeast for over 40 years. Created by Hollywood scion Warner LeRoy, the park's mission from the very start was to be the biggest and best theme park with record-breaking thrills, spectacular shows, and unique experiences that could only be found at Great Adventure. As a part of the Six Flags family of theme parks, Great Adventure combines the world's largest safari park outside of Africa, a world-class theme park, and one of the biggest and best water parks in the United States to create an experience like no other.



Six Flags Over Texas

Author : Davis McCown

Publisher :

Page : 0 pages

File Size : 25,35 MB

Release : 2021-03-10

Category :

ISBN : 9780997421330

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A pictorial history of the first fifty years of the Six Flags over Texas Amusement park. This work traces the history of the Six Flags Over Texas amusement park, located in Arlington, Texas for over fifty years. Coverage begins with a discussion of the theme parks built around the country after the opening of Disneyland in 1955. The story proceeds to Six Flags' initial planning and construction in the late 1950s and continues through its fiftieth anniversary season in 2011.Presented are hundreds of facts and over 230 images. The images include concept art for the park; original postcards; tourist photographs; public relations photographs; souvenir documents; and original photographs by the author.The book provides background regarding the individuals that designed and built the park. It covers each of the major attractions added each season. Typical information includes the manufacturer of each attraction, with the ride's capacity, speed or height.The author is an attorney in Tarrant County that worked as a ride operator in the park for four years. He has consulted newspaper articles, books, and old park souvenirs and artifacts to collect the information included.



Lost Attractions of Georgia

Author : Tim Hollis

Publisher : Arcadia Publishing

Page : 144 pages

File Size : 48,16 MB

Release : 2021-03

Category : History

ISBN : 1467146935

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While Atlanta has been a major tourist destination since the Civil War, travelers rarely encountered the rest of Georgia unless they were on their way to Florida. That meant scores of attractions, motels, restaurants and gas stations sprang up along the major and minor routes, all vying for their own piece of those Yankee dollars. In Lost Attractions of Georgia, author Tim Hollis introduces us to such defunct sights as Storyland and the Georgia Game Park, as well as now-extinct elements of popular attractions, including Six Flags Over Georgia, Rock City, Stone Mountain Park and others.







Sky Over El Nido

Author : C. M. Mayo

Publisher : University of Georgia Press

Page : 178 pages

File Size : 48,84 MB

Release : 1999-04-01

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 0820321192

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“Mother rescued the three zebras that escaped from the London zoo”--so begins the first story in this whirlwind collection by C. M. Mayo. Though Mayo’s characters ricochet around the globe in search of diversion, money, enlightenment, cachet, and escape, she sets many of the stories in Sky Over El Nido in Mexico. This is not the gringo’s Mexico of margaritas, mariachis, and inscrutable house servants, but a fin-de-siècle world where a Mexican boy who guards tourists’ cars for small change wears a T-shirt that says “Six Flags Over Georgia.” Mayo’s strangely beautiful yet disturbing stories reveal characters who envision the solutions to their lives in a world where nothing is stable, nothing can be nailed down, and we are all suddenly, dizzyingly faced with sharing the same pitiless sky.