![]() ![]() There was a winding path through the safari that visitors could drive on, in their own cars, allowing the animals to get up close and personal (I remember our 1969 Plymouth Fury experienced the occasional ostrich pecking and antelope licking). When Great Adventure opened (and for several decades afterwards), the safari was described as the largest drive-thru safari outside of Africa, with more than 1,200 animals from six continents spread across 350 acres. Meanwhile, I was bored to tears and just wanted to go on RIDES!). In those very early years there was the Wild Wild West Show at the Great Arena, as well as diving and jet ski shows (oh, how my mom and dad LOVED the shows. Food could be purchased at the Yum Yum Palace, Best of the West Barbeque, Gingerbread Fancy, and several other restaurants, which souvenirs and gifts could be bought at International Bazaar, Past & Present, Souvenirs & Crazies, Super Teepee, etc. ![]() ![]() There was also an outdoor walk-through attraction called the Garden of Marvels that used working G-scale (o-g scale) LGB trains and boats amongst models of American landmarks and 1/25 scale recreations of European castles. Giant Wheel (1974-Present) (When it as built, it was the tallest Ferris wheel in the world).The Nineteenth Century Carousel (1974-Present) (it was originally built in the 1800s in the U.K.).The original Great Adventure opened to the public on Jwith the following attractions: Over time this just didn’t happen and only the original park and safari were developed and Hurricane Harbor, the park’s water park, opened about 25 years later. Nope, it was just “Great Adventure.”ĭeveloped by businessman Warner LeRoy (he later bought and renovated Tavern on the Green and the Russian Tea Room), the original plan was for the single park to develop into a multi-park resort, just as Walt Disney World (which had only opened 3 years before Great Adventure) eventually would do. Back then it wasn’t Six Flags Great Adventure, as it’s known today. It was (and is) located in Jackson, New Jersey, mid-way between New York and Philadelphia. In the mid-1970s, a brand-new full-sized theme park opened just off Exit 7A on the New Jersey Turnpike. ![]()
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