This includes everything from a fictional town based on Colonial America and immersive lands based on Gotham City and Looney Tunes. The property includes the adjacent Hurricane Harbor water park, which is free with admission. In , Texas billionaire H. Ross Perot and a pair of Irish animal trainers proposed a wildlife preserve on corn and tobacco fields in Woodmore, Maryland.
Television network ABC later bought out Perot and his partners and opened the park as a drive-through safari called The Largo Wildlife Preserve in July , projecting , visitors a year. The initial projections that were expected never materialized. In , the park added narrated tours through four-car person trains. However, the park failed to generate a profit. In , ABC bowed out, citing massive losses. The park stayed open with a decreased staff in and was closed altogether for the season.
Then at the end of , the park was sold to Jim Fowler, the host of the television program Wild Kingdom. The park then became known as Wild Country. In the season, the park reopened with the train tour through a safari and a small park with a children's playground, animal shows, and a petting zoo. The park continued to not be profitable but stayed open summers through the season when Fowler's company bowed out as well.
In the summer of , the park once again was closed for the season. In the summer of , the park was sold to a group of local businessmen and reopened in as Wild World. The animal drive-through safari remained.
The park added three carnival flat rides, two kiddie rides, and a merry-go-round. In addition to the few rides, four tube water slides were added, along with two body slides and a children's water play area. This brought modest improvements in revenue. In , four more flat carnival rides, including a Ferris wheel and giant swings, were added.
The water slide area was expanded at the time to a full water park, with the addition of a couple more water slides and a large wave pool. The park's attendance improved, but the park still was losing money as it was with its previous owners. Coasters such as Six Flags' Superman- Ride of Steel, which drops over feet, hits 73 mph, and delivers huge G-force wallops, dwarfs the comparatively puny Wild One.
Nobody would mistake the older coaster for Superman. But it is not a relic to be admired simply for its history. Wooden coasters are notoriously difficult to maintain. Regardless, Six Flags' Howarth says that there are no plans to abandon it or make any changes to the classic, living piece of history.
Facebook Twitter Email. Six Flags America's Wild One roller coaster turns Show Caption. Angus Wynne, founder of Six Flags, would be proud of the company's rise to preeminent standing in the family entertainment industry.
A pioneer in the truest sense of the word, Mr. Wynne studied other pioneers around him and applied his own vision and imagination to create a new form of family entertainment. He imagined regional parks large in scope but closer to where people lived, making them convenient and affordable.
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