SF's big 3: why is SFGAm still the bread winner?

A company can only be as good as it's management. With that in mind, it has to be whoever is in charge of making the decisions.

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J7G3 said:
It's very oddly layed out...

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It's more a function of the lake than anything else, just like SFNE being right next to the CT river. There's one thing when your park has an odd layout because of unique features of the site, its another thing to have an odd layout because of poor planning.

I may be looking at SFA's direction.

I think one of the reasons SFGAm does so well was plainly spelled out once we were headed to our motel. Along the road on the left side was luxury car dealer after luxury car dealer. Most places that sell luxury cars in Maryland, also sell other not-so luxury-oriented brands. Not there. The Saab dealership for example was ridiculously huge. I think there's a lot of money in the Chicago area. if you can afford to have light poles with eight fixtures-more or less-in each one along 94 (which is entirely overkill) then someone's got money. The casino we saw again screamed "There's bigtime money." So of course, if you've got that demographic, you'll keep pouring money into something you know you'll get a return on.

And yes, the people there do give a damn about their jobs. Whether forced or not, they did their jobs well and were pleasant, outgoing, and enthusiastic people. That's why it was such a buzzkill when we went to Indiana Beach later in the day. I didn't get any of that attitude there at all. Sure there was one really nice older guy at LoCoSoMu, but otherwise the employees at the rides seemed bored.

Great Adventure might not seem so ho-hum, if, for example, the manager of SFGAm hadn't taken the Frisbee with him. Gadv. also lost the Condor that used to reside in the Lakefront area to SFGAm under Time Warner (someone please correct me if I'm wrong).