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- From: buckley@powdml.enet.dec.com (Bill Buckley)
- Newsgroups: rec.roller-coaster
- Subject: Re: kennywood memories
- Message-ID: <1993Jan6.140224.25616@engage.pko.dec.com>
- Date: 6 Jan 93 12:58:10 GMT
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- S. Mudgett aka little gator writes...
-
- >I recently saw a one-hour pbs special called "kennywood memories", about
- >kennywood park in PA near Pittsburgh (and accidentally taped over the
- >video i saved of it-snif). My husband has a friend if pittsburgh who had
- >invited us to visit her (and kennywood), but we'd been procrastinating. this
- >tape convinced me.
- >
- >the coasters it showed were:
- >the shuttle loop (i forget its name but i don't do anything that puts my
- >head hanging down).
-
- The ride was an Intamin/Schwarzkopf weight-launched shuttle loop called
- the LAZER LOOP. The ride was de-installed in late 1990 to make way for
- their New-4-91 Steel Phantom roller coaster.
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- >it didn't (that i remember)-mention the new steelie built very recently.
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- Kennywood Memories was done circa 1988 -- years before the concept of the
- Steel Phantom were even conceived. Thus, the ride is not mentioned or
- even speculated.
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- Kennywood is a great park -- highly recommended!!
-
- B.
-