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Post by Brandon on Nov 6, 2007 10:51:09 GMT -5
When Tracy was commissioned by whomever to build an attraction, was it the responsibility of the park owner to supply the physical building? Then Tracy would just decorate? Or, did Tracy ever have the task of constructing the building too?
Also, does anyone have any clue how much he might have charged for a setup? What would the average stunt have been worth back then? A few hundred bucks? Thousands?
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Post by Robert on Nov 6, 2007 13:30:53 GMT -5
Some cases it was a remodel job of an existing dark ride, like Dorney's Mill Chute/turned Journey to the Center of the Earth in 1960 (razed after 1992) and Pretzel/Devil's Cave/turned Pirate's Cove in 1962 (which became Bucket O' Blood in 1975 and burned Sept. 28, 1983 in the afternoon, now the site of a Musik Express since 1984) Or, a brand new ride and building from scratch, like Waldameer's Whacky Shack (built 1970) and Pirate's Cove (built 1972). Or, like Hunt's Whacky Shack, a trailer dark ride is expanded into a permanent dark ride. Devil's Inn arrived on the pier in 1961, and was remodeled into the Shack in 1963-64. The cars were built by Allan Herschell. The other Tracy ride with Allan Herschell cars was the Fright Zone (formerly West View, Pittsburgh Haunted House from 1963-1979) at Erieview Park, OH which closed Sept. 2006. The props and cars are in storage at Conneaut Lake, PA for possible reuse in a new dark ride at the park. Other times it was Tracy supplying just props for a dark ride built by someone else. Like the Golden Nugget, which has/had Tracy props like the buzzard but the ride was built by PTC in 1960. Same thing with the Pirate Ship Skua, built 1962 by PTC but Tracy supplied props.
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Post by plokoon111 on Nov 6, 2007 20:37:04 GMT -5
The whacky shack was portable on Hunts pier. Intil they expanded the back of it.
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