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Amusement Parks

Schlitterbahn’s Tragic Slide

Jeff Henry often said that his goal in life was to make customers of his family’s legendary water parks happy. It was a beautiful vision. Until it went horribly wrong.

Skip Hollandsworth Texas Monthly Jul 2018 30min Permalink

Best Article

Wikipedia: Action Park

Wikipedia entry for “Traction Park,” central New Jersey’s most dangerous mid-1980’s amusement park.

Wikipedia 35min Permalink

The Wet Stuff

The men who built the great American water park.

Bryan Curtis Grantland Sep 2014 15min Permalink

Funworld

The author gets a job writing about amusement parks.

Kevin Moffett The Believer Nov 2004 30min Permalink