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California's Great America is an 112-acre (45 ha) amusement park [1] located in Santa Clara, California, United States.Owned and operated by Six Flags Entertainment Corporation, it originally opened in 1976 as one of two parks built by the Marriott Corporation.
The Santa Clara location was sold to the City of Santa Clara, who retained the underlying property and sold the park to Kings Entertainment Company, [125] renamed Paramount Parks in 1993. [126] From 1993 to 2006, the Santa Clara location was known as Paramount's Great America. [ 126 ]
In 1987, Marriott sold the Big Boy restaurants franchise rights to Elias Brothers for an undisclosed amount while keeping 208 company-owned Bob's Big Boy restaurants in California and selected locations on the East Coast. [27] In 1988, Marriott purchased all 91 Wag's restaurants from Walgreens Corporation, [28] but dissolved the chain in 1991.
California's Great America, Santa Clara, California Six Flags Great America , Gurnee, Illinois Marriott's Great America (Maryland–Virginia) , a proposed park from the 1970s
Following the opening of Santa Clara, some changes were made to streamline the restaurant experience going forward. AVG Technologies would succeed The Only Animated Display & Design Company as the manufacturer for Bullwinkle's animatronic shows from 1983 up through the early 1990's. A majority of the show was designed by Gary Goddard. To cut ...
Marriott Hotels & Resorts is Marriott International's brand of full-service hotels and resorts based in Bethesda, Maryland. As of June 30, 2020, there were 582 hotels and resorts with 205,053 rooms operating under the brand, in addition to 160 hotels with 47,765 rooms planned for development.
Wineries in Santa Cruz Mountains (9 P) Pages in category "Companies based in Santa Clara County, California" The following 24 pages are in this category, out of 24 total.
The Santa Clara Convention Center is northwest of the stadium site and there are two hotels on Tasman Drive next to the convention center, but the closest significant concentration of hotels and restaurants is on the Mission College Boulevard corridor almost a mile to the south, on the other side of Great America.