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Kennywood

Kennywood
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About Kennywood

Kennywood is an amusement park in West Mifflin, Pennsylvania, just southeast of Pittsburgh. The park opened on May 30, 1898, as a trolley park attraction at the end of the Mellon family's Monongahela Street Railway.

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There is a ride at Kennywood Theme Park called the Old Mill. It was constructed in 1901. It's their oldest roller coaster in the whole place — like a log flume where you're going in the water, but there's no up and down bits.

from 460: No Such Thing as Proust's Sausage Roll, 2023-01-06 at 00:51:53 · read transcript

Other times Kennywood came up

  1. That's a good idea. Yeah. Any more on this? Just one other ride that there was at Kennywood in the early days, which was, sorry, not a ride, where there was one thing, an attraction called the House of Mystery, but no one knows what it was. Did no one ever come out of it? I just, it's been lost to history, unfortunately. There was one thing called Spring Water, which was just a water fountain.

    460: No Such Thing as Proust's Sausage Roll, 2023-01-06 · listen

  2. I mean, they're basically the equivalent of rides that we've all seen at parks where you essentially get on them when you can't be asked a cue for one of the good rides again. So you just sit on this really, slow, boring boat. So they were often haunted rides that were converted into tunnels of lava or vice versa, weren't they? I think this one at Kennywood went on to become hard-headed Harold, horrendously humorous, haunted hideaway. That's right. Sounds like a worse ride.

    No Such Thing as Proust's Sausage Roll, 2023-01-05 · listen

  3. But... Yeah. The guy, this guy, Defundland, who did this amazing video, he said that he thinks, after getting all these emails, that there are at least two people who were concerned. received on that ride. Oh, great, really? And Kennywood theme park now uses the slogan, Welcome to the family. Oh. That's just a coincidence. Yeah. The tunnel of love, really, I think, I've read something saying there used to be hundreds, as in maybe 700, across the USA.

    No Such Thing as Proust's Sausage Roll, 2023-01-05 · listen

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