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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 theme parks had replicas of the first Hot Shoppes. Both parks were sold in the mid-1980s, the one in California was sold to the city of Santa Clara, California and the one in Illinois was sold to Six Flags in 1984. They were both later renamed California's Great America and Six Flags Great America, respectively. [17] [18]
The Ameri-Go-Round was the name given to two carousels, one at each of Marriot's Great America amusement parks, Six Flags Great America in Gurnee, Illinois and California's Great America in Santa Clara, California. Marriott's Great America parks were unusual at the time because they were among the few parks with two carousels within the park.
Marriott's Great America (Maryland–Virginia), a proposed park from the 1970s; Transportation. Santa Clara – Great America station, an Amtrak station in California;
From 1993 to 2006, the Santa Clara location was known as Paramount's Great America. [126] In 2006, Paramount Parks was acquired by Cedar Fair Entertainment Company; [127] the Santa Clara park operates today as California's Great America. [128] In the years after their sale, the layouts of both of the parks have diverged substantially. [120]
Whizzer, originally named Willard's Whizzer, is a steel roller coaster located at Six Flags Great America in Gurnee, Illinois, United States.Designed by Werner Stengel and built by Anton Schwarzkopf, the Speedracer model was one of two identical roller coasters built for the Marriott Corporation in time for the debut of their Great America parks in 1976.
The carousel is known as Carousel Columbia at California's Great America and Columbia Carousel at Six Flags Great America. [4] [5] In 1994, Santa Clara's Columbia received some minor renovations for its appearance in the movie Beverly Hills Cop III, filmed at the theme park. [6]
The Marriott Corporation hoped the park would become the centerpiece of its Great America theme park chain, alongside its parks in Gurnee, Illinois (now Six Flags Great America) and Santa Clara, California (now California's Great America). Marriott encountered heavy opposition at both sites where it intended to build, Savage, Maryland, and ...