Never went to Six Flags - but until today I didn’t know that its predecessor was Wild World which I remember.
1sr a Wild Life Preserve run by the Mutual of Omaha Wild Kingdom Guy there still remnants of wild animal cages on the back 40
Wild World
Adventure World - when Adventure World had the countries largest water park wave pool [ downsized in the late 90's ]
Six Flags
A park has sat at this location in Prince George’s County for more than 50 years, after Texas billionaire Ross Perot and two Irish animal trainers proposed in the early 1970s establishing a wildlife preserve on what was then about 400 acres of corn and tobacco fields. ABC ended up buying out Perot and his partners and opening the preserve in 1974, but sold the park two years later, citing massive losses.
The park, which was later renamed Wild World, changed hands a few more times before it was acquired by Six Flags and rebranded Six Flags America in 1999. A refurbished version of the park opened in 2006 under the leadership of Daniel Snyder, the former owner of the Washington football franchise, who led the Six Flags corporation before it went into bankruptcy.
Park Management TRIED to work with PG County Council and Maryland State Gov to promote the park [ after Rushern Baker was elected ]
NONE of the Democrats give a damn about having a National Theme Park located in MD.
NOT for Summer Jobs, not for prestige ... just don't give a damn
And yeah since the problems of the 90's Whites think the Park is Ghetto and would rather drive several hours to Kings Dominion in VA .. then 40 min to Six Flags
Six Flags Entertainment, the amusement park’s parent company, announced Thursday it
plans to sell the 500-acre property for redevelopment, shutting down Six Flags America and Hurricane Harbor in Bowie at the end of this year’s season in November because it was “not a strategic fit with the company’s long-term growth plan,” Six Flags President and CEO Richard A. Zimmerman said in a statement.
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“Everybody’s talking about that today,” Rushern Baker, a former county executive and longtime booster of Prince George’s said. “It’s a major, major loss for us in the county, and major part of our summer youth employment operations.”
Unless something changed after I left in 2014 I'm calling bullshit .... as I said the park management could NOT get county or state Gov to give more then Token promotion ...
