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dsloban Big Dipper User is Offline Joined: 19 Jul 2007 Posts: 800	Posted: Mon Jul 14, 2008 7:57 pm    Post subject: americana · Quote I agree! I know that GL will live forever on the land no matter what is built on it! I know when I walked around for the last ime at the auction, I could feel the power of my happy place! I know it makes my heart feel so heavy knowing thow fast everything is coming down. I along with many others on this site are trying to make sense of this . Many most likely have been told by others that it was just an amusement park, bu for the GL lovers on this site, it was so much more. I hope that what ever gets build on the land will be haunted b the screams and the music like carioque41 said! Maybe they can make movie about it. Like the Poltergist movies form he 80's.... There here........
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in_eden Beaver Land Mine Ride User is Offline Joined: 06 Jul 2008 Posts: 35	Posted: Mon Jul 14, 2008 9:54 pm    Post subject: · Quote I love that I had the chance to go to GL with my dad, and my grandmother, and hear how they each went to Geauga Lake when they were young. Each telling me about the train that used to run here... or the tumble bug that used to be there... Like many of you out there... that park was more than an amusement park. It was a tradition. Generations of our families grew up there. Took high school dates there. Those memories end here. For those of us just beginning families, we will only be able to drive passed and look at the condos and strip mall and tell our young ones what used to be there. Okay... I just really bummed myself out.
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GLMemories89 Splash Landing User is Offline Joined: 21 Nov 2007 Posts: 104 Location: Solon, OHIO (aurora in 2004)	Posted: Tue Jul 15, 2008 9:31 pm    Post subject: · Quote WOOO! my 100th post! anyway. ^^looking at the post above me, Luckly i will have proof for my future kids that a great family amusement park once stood there. too bad i wont be able to take them. :[ it used to be a family tradition. my dad's dad took my dad there, and my dad took me there. I just wish i could take my kids there and continue such a wonderful tradition. although i guess it would be kinda cool to know that someone once threw up in your yard. But then again, it would feel like i was living in a lakeside graveyard. But i guess thats life. Horrible corporate companies will get their ways as we watch Kinzel steal away every last amusement park and make sure they are all gone besides his baby, Cedar point. ^yes im exaggerating, but i'm pretty sure kinzel has come across that plan a couple, if not a few times. over and OUT. ~shane _________________ Cedar Fair - epic FAIL.
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dsloban Big Dipper User is Offline Joined: 19 Jul 2007 Posts: 800	Posted: Tue Jul 15, 2008 9:58 pm    Post subject: americana · Quote I hope to keep any peace for so many that they would consider a park in part of the land so people can at least enjoy the lake and the memories of a great park that once stood there....
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missgl Beaver Land Mine Ride User is Offline Joined: 16 Jun 2008 Posts: 37	Posted: Wed Jul 16, 2008 10:49 pm    Post subject: · Quote As an update, the wheel is still up but all the cars are gone - very eerie sight and absolutely depressing.
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dsloban Big Dipper User is Offline Joined: 19 Jul 2007 Posts: 800	Posted: Thu Jul 17, 2008 10:18 am    Post subject: americana · Quote I was at the park yesterday and I looked at the empty wheel. What a sad site! I hope it will have a nice home at King Dominion. It won't have the same great view we had watching the Dominator and Thunderhawk by the lake. At least the DOminator will have an old friend there with it! Is sad that we have to travel all over the country to ride our rides! No fair!!!!!Those rides belong to us!!!!
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coasterdad Site Admin User is Offline Joined: 01 Jul 2007 Posts: 1677	Posted: Thu Jul 17, 2008 11:50 am    Post subject: · Quote The rides unfortunately now belong to Cedar Un-Fair. _________________ Greed is what caused GL's demise and that just makes me sick. Lets do what we can to rat out Kinzel - hes a snake. In the end the truth will come out and we will then see whos laughing at who.
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dsloban Big Dipper User is Offline Joined: 19 Jul 2007 Posts: 800	Posted: Thu Jul 17, 2008 2:26 pm    Post subject: americana · Quote Your right CF owns the rides, but it still   upsets me to know that I have to travel all over the country torde the rides that just 10 months ago were in GL which is 35 minue from my house. And with the price of gas plus trying to find people to go wih me being a very hard task, I really have to plan my coaster trips. I miss not just hopping in my car and hitting GL for a few hours. Now for me is that I travel 1.5 hours and  go whenI don't hit rush hour in downtown Cleveland and get back through before dark because I fear downtown at night just to ride my coasters. I know in a couple of week my family is planning to either go to Waldameer or Kennywood. I will have fun, but itssad because our trip every year used to be to Conneaut. It stinks that the two parks we went to are now history!!!!Plus its sad that in Ohio, things keep getting removed and the only thing that is replacing the fun is stores and places to eat! What a boring place Ohio especially NE Ohio is becoming!!!!
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ChadV Double Loop User is Offline Joined: 02 Jun 2008 Posts: 222	Posted: Thu Jul 17, 2008 2:50 pm    Post subject: · Quote Conneaut isn't gone yet, dsloban! Cross your fingers, hope, and buy a couple of the commemorative coins.  If it helps them get everything together, then you did something to work towards keeping the park.  If not, you have a nice memory piece.
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coasterdad Site Admin User is Offline Joined: 01 Jul 2007 Posts: 1677	Posted: Thu Jul 17, 2008 10:43 pm    Post subject: · Quote Deconstruction progress 7-17-08 _________________ Greed is what caused GL's demise and that just makes me sick. Lets do what we can to rat out Kinzel - hes a snake. In the end the truth will come out and we will then see whos laughing at who.
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Dominator56 Villain User is Offline Joined: 18 Jul 2007 Posts: 1259 Location: Akron, Ohio	Posted: Fri Jul 18, 2008 1:28 am    Post subject: · Quote well season is about mid season... and they will be packing up soon for 2009 announcements. Its really sad to see Americana like that. It was like a landmark the way it sat behind the entrance like that. _________________ Geauga Lake I will miss you!
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dsloban Big Dipper User is Offline Joined: 19 Jul 2007 Posts: 800	Posted: Fri Jul 18, 2008 9:40 am    Post subject: Amerciana · Quote What a sad sight! I know I was there on Wednesday and my son took a couple of pictures. He said that he saw the clock at 4:30. He said that is when they took the park off of Life support!
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ChadV Double Loop User is Offline Joined: 02 Jun 2008 Posts: 222	Posted: Fri Jul 18, 2008 9:49 am    Post subject: · Quote Coasterdad, You really should send that picture to all the TV stations and newspapers in Cleveland, Sandusky, Akron, and Pittsburgh.  It's perfect.
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huppy75 Beaver Land Mine Ride User is Offline Joined: 21 May 2008 Posts: 47 Location: Louisville, Ohio	Posted: Fri Jul 18, 2008 11:34 am    Post subject: · Quote ^ I agree. It's time to show all of the people in the NE United states what were dealing with here. I talked to my cousins in Michigan yesterday. They didn't know the park was closed until I talked to them. They told me that there neighbors just left a couple days ago for a two day trip to GL. Well I think there going to be pissed off when they show up. Speaking of Pittsburgh, it is very noticeable that Kennywood is taking advantage of the closing of GL. Here in Stark county I can count 10 Kenywood signs to every WWK signs. I hope one day to get a chance to travel to Kennywood. _________________ Check out the new group on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/groups/edit.php?gid=19995091946&members=1&oid=19995091946&view=noreplies#/gr oup.php?gid=19995091946 Remember GL and what CF did.
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wilssm Beaver Land Mine Ride User is Offline Joined: 13 Oct 2007 Posts: 71 Location: West Mifflin,PA	Posted: Fri Jul 18, 2008 11:44 am    Post subject: · Quote Let's hope people will decide when they see those billboards they'll decide to go to Kennywood or Waldimeer in Erie and not give anymore money to Cedar Fair. Wilssm _________________ Live with in walking distance of Kennywood but truly will miss Geauga Lake
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