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kwassa

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4. are they talking about The Blue Streak?

Reply to LuckyTheDog (Original post)

Fri Sep 16, 2016, 09:10 AM

Sep 2016

The biggest damn roller coaster of my childhood?

Just checked online, and no, it is not the Blue Streak.

Knoebel's Amusement Park in Pennsylvania sometimes buys up other people's old coasters and restores and uses them. They have an outrageous wooden coaster called The Phoenix.

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Ohio amusement park might toss out 1.7 million board feet of wood [View all] LuckyTheDog Sep 2016 OP

that is devil's wood! Divine Discontent Sep 2016 #1

Fools. Just think of the promotions they could do! Warren DeMontague Sep 2016 #2

The Meanstreak felt like getting punched by 8 people for 3.4 minutes. HughBeaumont Sep 2016 #3

are they talking about The Blue Streak? kwassa Sep 2016 #4

The biggest one of my childhood was the Gemini. demmiblue Sep 2016 #5

Phew. I thought they were talking about the Blue Streak, too. kcr Sep 2016 #8

Took the Blue Streak, turned out to be a Mean Streak, ended up with a Brown Streak. Eleanors38 Sep 2016 #12

any idea how old the wood is? nt Javaman Sep 2016 #6

They built it in '91 LeftyMom Sep 2016 #10

oh okay. Javaman Sep 2016 #13

that is a whole lot of trees dembotoz Sep 2016 #7

That was my thought. LuckyTheDog Sep 2016 #9

Maybe a Habitat for Humanity facility could make it available. Eleanors38 Sep 2016 #11