The History of Carowinds (& some dogs)

I had always heard about the original plans for Carowinds, and I've enjoyed viewing Ken Rutherford's excellent photos of the park in its early days. This article (5 pages, part 1 in a series of 5), goes into detail about the original dream for Carowinds and how it got started.

cLicKy

On a more interesting note, Water Works was invaded by dogs cLicKy

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Very cool and interesting, can't wait for the next in the series. I had no idea Hall had such big plans, too bad Phase 2 and 3 never materialized, that football stadium sounded awesome! I'm glad this also cleared up when Carowinds actually opened for me. Still makes me wonder why they claim this year is their 30th Anniversary though..

And for anyone who's wondering, Ken Rutherford's excellent site can be found here.

Neat-o... that is pretty interesting. I wonder what they are doing next year for the park...

It's sad to read this, how well the theming of the park was originally thought out, and to look at how Paramount has almost totally destroyed it by the laziness of their creativity.

What are you talking about? They are bringing it back... the new entrance and Carolina Boardwalk look great, better than it used to be and Paramount did a very good job. I also heard that next year they are re-doing another area so I don't think they are being lazy and "destroying" the park.

Dog gone it! I'm seeing ALL black on starcoasters for some reason, I wanted to see this, especially the dog thing, now it's all a bigger mystery to me;).

As for Paramount's part, I thank them personally, I haven't been there in a few years but the place WAS NOT competing for our return trips like SFoG was. It was always worth driving the extra hour(for us at the time) to ATL. I wouldn't go as far as saying they've "saved" Carowinds, but they HAVE done something pretty near close to it. I'm not into "corporate stereotyping" so I especially have nothing against Paramount. When Paramount sneeks into my house & makes off with my wife during the night, then I'll hold against them, otherwise, corporation smorporation, who cares;). Corporations have MONEY & will build RIDES that cost MONEY. For that, I shall take advantage of these horrible companies, they've been making life fun for many years.

BTW, Starcoasters, thanks for the CCE. Even though it's small & the activity is slow now, I hope it becomes something more in the future.

About CCE... I don't know if its something I'm going to be able to do; I've just lost interest in it. However, if it dies, I still want the event that I had planned to be held. I've spoken with an ACE rep, and if I do decide to discontinue the 'club,' that doesn't mean the event will be out.