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On September 28, 1988, the local PBS station, WQED, aired Kennywood Memories, a one-hour documentary about Kennywood, narrated by Rick Sebak. Although many of the rides featured in the documentary have since been removed, the historic information about the park is still accurate. Kennywood was featured in the 2007 documentary "Welcome Back Riders".
Kennywood Entertainment, itself an operator of a family-owned park, had acquired other family-owned and operated parks after it purchased Idlewild in 1983. Kennywood's owners rejected offers by larger companies to purchase the group, such as in 1997 by Premier Parks, which acquired the Six Flags franchise a year later. Kennywood refused the ...
The official opening of Kennywood in West Mifflin is May 8. Sandcastle in West Homestead and Idlewild & SoakZone in Ligonier aren't far behind. They are planning for a May 29 debut.
Phantom's Revenge is a steel hypercoaster located at Kennywood amusement park in West Mifflin, Pennsylvania.It originally opened as Steel Phantom in 1991, featuring the fastest speed and longest drop of any roller coaster in the world.
Open Bayern Kurve Kennywood: 1994 2020 Took four-year hiatus from park before returning in 2009. [6] Kennywood announced the ride's removal in November 2020. [7] Berserker California's Great America: 1976 Open Previously known as Yukon Yahoo. [8] Cortina Jet Lauwers, hired Godefroid-Schram (Schausteller from Belgium) Unknown Open Bayern's Curve
Steel Curtain is a steel hypercoaster at Kennywood in West Mifflin, Pennsylvania, United States.Manufactured by S&S – Sansei Technologies, the coaster reaches a height of 220 feet (67 m) and features either eight or nine inversions, [a] including a 197-foot (60 m) corkscrew considered to be the world's tallest inversion.
Jack Rabbit is a wooden roller coaster located at Kennywood Park in West Mifflin, Pennsylvania.Designed and built by John A. Miller [2] and Harry C. Baker, [3] Jack Rabbit opened in 1920, making it one of the oldest roller coasters in the world still in operation. [4]
In 1989, they opened Sandcastle Waterpark just a few miles from Kennywood. They acquired Lake Compounce in Bristol, Connecticut, in 1996, and Story Land in Glen, New Hampshire in 2007. On December 11, 2007, Kennywood Entertainment announced that it would be selling all five of its amusement parks to Parques Reunidos, a company based in Madrid ...