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The hotel and restaurant operator Marriott Corporation completed Marriott's Great America on the site of what had been a pear orchard [4] and opened it to the public on March 20, 1976. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] Admission was US$7.95 (equivalent to $43 in 2023) for adults (12 and up) and US$6.95 (equivalent to $37 in 2023) for children (4–11).
In 1957, the firm expanded into the hotel industry by opening the first Marriott hotel, the Marriott Motor Hotel, in Arlington County, Virginia. In 1964, Hot Shoppes, Inc. was renamed Marriott-Hot Shoppes, Inc. [7] The company became Marriott Corporation in 1967. In 1967, Marriott acquired the Big Boy family restaurants chain from Bob Wian. [8] [9]
Six Flags Great America is a 304-acre (123 ha) [note 1] themed amusement park located in Gurnee, Illinois, within the northern Chicago metropolitan area.The amusement park originally opened as Marriott's Great America on May 29, 1976, as one of two theme parks built by the Marriott Corporation.
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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 ...
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On May 22, 1984, an accident occurred on The Edge, a first generation Freefall ride at Marriott's Great America (now Six Flags Great America) in Gurnee, Illinois.A supporting cable snapped, and the mechanism's anti-rollback devices failed to stop the car from plummeting nearly 60 feet to the bottom of the tower.