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Walter Marvin Knott (December 11, 1889 – December 3, 1981) was an American farmer and businessman who founded the Knott's Berry Farm amusement park in Buena Park, California, introduced and mass-marketed the boysenberry, and founded the Knott's Berry Farm food brand.
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On December 3, 1981, Walter Knott died, [96] survived by his children who would continue to operate Knott's as a family business for another fourteen years before selling the park to Cedar Fair Entertainment. In the 1980s, Knott's built the Barn Dance featured Bobbi & Clyde as the house band. It was during the height of the "Urban Cowboy" era ...
The park sits on the site of a former berry farm established by Walter Knott and his family. Beginning in 1923, [4] the Knott family sold berries, berry preserves, and pies from a roadside stand along State Route 39. In June 1934, the Knotts began selling fried chicken dinners in a tea room on the property, later named "Mrs. Knott's Chicken ...
Bud Hurlbut (left) and Walter Knott (right) riding the Timber Mountain Log Ride, Knott's Berry Farm, 1969. Wendell "Bud" Hurlbut (June 13, 1918 – January 5, 2011) [1] was a designer, builder, entrepreneur, and one of the first creators of theme parks in the United States.
From the very beginning, Speer was an enthusiastic supporter of Walter Knott's efforts to create Ghost Town at Knott’s Berry Farm, which began in 1940. As early as 1941, Speer wrote articles for Ghost Town News, which was the Knott's Berry Farm newspaper. In 1956, twenty years after creating his museum, Speer (at age 72) donated the carefully ...
When we think of boy bands, acts like the Backstreet Boys and *NSYNC typically come to mind, but the new documentary film Larger Than Life: Reign of the Boybands is a look at the history of boy ...
The Knott family of lighthouse keepers is credited with the longest period of continuous service in the history of staffed lighthouses, commencing in 1730 [1] [2] at South Foreland, Kent, with William Knott [3] and ending in 1906 at Skerries (Anglesey, Wales) with Henry Thomas Knott (son of George Knott – see below) who died in 1910 having retired to Crewe.