All around him, the big amusement park by the beach is in full swing.
(By contrast, one big amusement park, Alton Towers in Staffordshire, draws 2.75 million a year).
There's a big amusement area of rides and games of chance but it's the afternoon rodeo and the evening chuck-wagon races we like to watch.
A big amusement center here, the Casino Pier and Water Works, lost $100,000, or about 65percentt of its expected business, on Saturday because the 39 rides were shut down most of the weekend without power, said the pier's general manager, Louis R. Cirigliano.
There's a big amusement park in Hershey, and people will often tell me about a family or school trip there as a kid or whether they love or detest Hershey's chocolates.
On Monday night I attended the Democratic Governors Associationn party at Elitch Gardens (a big amusement park), and then we took a taxi to the Crowne Plaza for the New Mexico delegation party where we met up with members of the Florida delegation and our friends from Democracy for America.
The rooms are large and beautiful, and so is the service, but what will really blow the kids' minds is the fact that the MGM is really one big amusement park for children and adults alike.
Are you picturing sunny days at the beach, or action-packed hours at some big amusement park?
Yet television, automobiles, shifting demographics and changing public tastes gradually obviated the big Brooklyn amusement parks.
Their quest begins in Parker, Ariz., home to Mancation Nation, a big-boy amusement park of sorts, whose attractions include water sports, four-wheelers to drive and 50-caliber rifles to fire.
