From 1978 to 1996, the Action Park of Vernon Township, New Jersey provided thousands of teenagers with the white-knuckle thrills only inattentive employees and poorly conceived amusement park rides can deliver. The Parks dubiously safe rides were responsible for countless scrapes and bruises and at least six fatalities. Half of these deaths were caused by [...]

1911 amusement ride buildingboom Posted By: Scott Harrison Posted On: 1:17 pm | April 22, 2012 July 23, 1911: A spiral ride dominates the Pike in Long Beach. An amusement ride construction boom swept Southern California 100 years ago. This image accompanied a Los Angeles Times July 23, 1911, story reporting: A careful calculation shows [...]

FUJIKYU HIGHLAND, Japan (CNN) – A couple in Japan said their I Dos in a most interesting way. They took the big plunge of matrimony up top the worlds steepest roller coaster. The Takabisha roller coaster at Japans Fujikyu Highland Amusement Park is not for the faint-hearted — plummeting a Guinness World Record 121-degrees. But [...]

HOUSE Speaker Feliciano Belmonte Jr. on Sunday struck down the proposed congressional probe on officials of the Philippine Amusement and Gaming Corp. led by chairman Crisitino Naguiat, who was caught in the middle of a fierce intra-corporate legal war between two gaming giants in the United States. At the same time, Belmonte backed Pagcor’s $5-billion [...]

Summer is still more than two months away, but Coney Island is getting a head start on the season. The neighborhoods amusement parks officially opened Sunday with the annual blessing of the rides, and the traditional egg-cream christening of the Cyclone. The 85-year-old roller coaster was one of several rides to get a makeover. A [...]

Bay Beach The National Amusement Park Historical Association has named the Zippin Pippin roller coaster at Bay Beach Amusement Park one of the nation?s best new attractions in 2011. For more information about Bay Beach, go to www.ci.green-bay.wi.us.

LAS VEGAS (FOX5) – First the Fremont Street Experience and now the strip. MGM Resorts International said they are looking at the possibility of putting a zip-line on Las Vegas Boulevard that would connect the Excalibur and Luxor. The plan would include four zip-lines ranging from 340 feet to 1400 feet long. I think you [...]

MIAMI Now, with the downtown skyline filling up the gargantuan left-field window panes, they are the Marlins of Miami, specifically and spectacularly. This is how a mere rebranding from Florida Marlins to something saucier becomes an actual rebirth, with entire families pouring out of their cars to race into what comes off as nothing less [...]

The old Kyle jail has seen its share of homes in the past 128 or so years, from downtown Kyle to Texana Village at the former Aquarena Springs Amusement Park to the old Hays County Jail site and finally to this field behind a building at the San Marcos Academy. (Photo by Brenda Stewart)

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