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Rob
"Some people spend an entire LIFETIME wondering if they made a DIFFERENCE. The MARINES don't have that problem." -President Reagan 1985
After a quick peek at RCDB.com -- just looking at some states, here is what I found:
Ohio - 14 parks
Florida - 14 parks
Pennsylvania - 19 parks
California - 26 parks
GroundskeeperWilly said:
" I remember hearing on a coaster show that Cali has the most with 71"
That is the number of coasters overall in California. If they had 71 parks I would already have moved out there by now.
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LocoBazooka--Sevendust, Nonpoint, Stereo Vent, Mushroomhead
Korn Tour (With no name)--Korn, Puddle of Mudd, Deadsy
Umm....RCDB has:
Cali - 84
Ohio - 78
PA - 61
for coaster (I know it's not the topic, but someone said PA has the second most.)
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A rollercoaster? What's that?
IT SAID PARKS!!! NOT COASTERS!!! GET WITH THE PROGRAM!
DID YOU NOT READ WHAT CPGENIUS SAID?
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I love roller coasters, and I need psychiatric help. Or a roller coaster.
Second off, he said that "I know it's not the topic, but someone said PA has the second most." so maybe you should "get with the program" before you make yourself look like such an idoit. Did you not read what HE said?
And the topic question has already been anwsered:
Dano said:
"After a quick peek at RCDB.com -- just looking at some states, here is what I found:Ohio - 14 parks
Florida - 14 parks
Pennsylvania - 19 parks
California - 26 parks"
I'd rather see which state has the most coasters per capita. California has a lot of folks. I'd bet PA gets the cake for that record...or maybe even Idaho! This is from a Cali-native.
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"If the beats were made of meat then they would have to be me ..." - L.L. Cool J
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Excalibur Team Lead 2002
Ok Ok...Guess wee need to consult both RCDB and the 2002 World Almanac.
Ok Ok...here are a couple figures if anybody cares to come up with the coaster numbers, Here's the populations for a few states from the 2000 census: http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/index.html
CA: 33.8 million
PA 12.3 million
MO 5.6 million
IA 1.9 million
ID 1.3 million
FL 16.4 million
TX 21.3 million
NY 19 million
MA 6.3 million
I'd almost bet money that ID get's the cake with 4 coasters for 1.2 million. The again, Cali has somewhere appraoching 40 coasters for around 38 million. Ok...Cali.
But I'd bet ID get's it for CCI. Wait a minute IN has how many people and 5 CCI's???? 6.1 million? Anyone?
Back to Happy Gilmore.
*** This post was edited by janfrederick on 7/15/2002. ***
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"A tout le monde, a tous mes amis, Je vous aime, Je dois partir. these are the last words I'll ever speak, and they'll set me free" -Megadeth, 1983-2002
Oh come on! You don't think it'd be interesting to know the highest per capita coaster ration? Where's your inner geek??? ;)
Besides, numbers of coasters and numbers of pipples are pretty plain. Not much room for argument. And it'd be interesting. So if anybody'd care to help me with the numbers of coasters per state, we'll soon know the answer...
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"If the beats were made of meat then they would have to be me ..." - L.L. Cool J
Sheesh...should have read the earlier post:
Let's see:
Cali - 33,800,000/84 = 1 coaster per ~400,000 folks
PA 61/12,300,000/64 = 1 coaster per 200,000 folks
(let's not forget my Pop's home state)
OH - 11,300,000 /79 - 1 coaster 143,000 folks
Oh oh. Unless Apollo Any was wrong about the number of coasters in CA, OH might have more per capita (forgive my reversal of the figure to demonstrate the number of people per coaster as opposed to coasters per people...I thought the other way would be more interesteing)
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"If the beats were made of meat then they would have to be me ..." - L.L. Cool J
Dano said:
After a quick peek at RCDB.com -- just looking at some states, here is what I found:
Those numbers aren't quite true though. It includes several defunct parks and excludes some operating parks. Bushkill Park isn't listed for Pennsylvania for example.
What does "amusement park" mean? RCDB lists some parks that are strictly water parks. What about Fairy Tale Forest in NJ? Mostly a walk through type park but it does have two mechanical children's rides. Is that a park?
I would guess New Jersey is pretty high when you consider all the stuff at the shore. Hard to count as the piers and such seem to close, reopen, rename, etc frequently. And does Morey's Piers count as 1 park or 3?
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everything's better with a banjo
RCDB only lists those parks with coasters listed on RCDB.
Not sure of the author, but while doing a search on Amazon.Com to get the spelling of the name of the author of HERSHEYPARK:The Sweetness of Success (which is Charles Jacques as listed above), I saw a book on Pennsylvania Amusement Parks (I forget the author's name). I picked up a copy of this book at Borders Books in Lancaster PA last night.
It lists 13 "major" parks in PA (Waldameer, Conneaut Lake, Kennywood, Idlewild, Lakemont, Delgrosso's, Knoebels, Hersheypark, Dorney, Bushkill, Dutch Wonderland, Sesame Place) along with a nice write up on each (history, old pics, tips, "the park today") etc. It also gives a brief history of the amusement industry in general and PA in particular.
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Face it, call ourselves what we want, but to the parks we are all "GP".
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