Rivershore Creative

16/08/2021

https://www.rivershorecreative.com/blog/2020/7/21/six-flags-over-georgia-early-park-ads

Continuing our series of early season park advertising, here are several newspaper ads from Six Flags Over Georgia, Angus Wynne’s second theme park that opened in 1967. He had sold 49% of the Great Southwest Corporation to the Pennsylvania Railroad, providing deeper pockets for continuing investme...

24/07/2021

https://www.rivershorecreative.com/blog/2020/7/21/worlds-of-fun-advertising-in-the-early-years

Early-year park newspaper ads are great fun to look at. Some of these are direct ads about the park, others are collaborations with local businesses that offer admission discounts and so forth. Worlds of Fun had a colorful, eye-catching symbol

09/07/2021

https://www.rivershorecreative.com/blog/2020/7/23/the-companies-who-built-magic-mountain-ca

Often when a regional theme park opened, companies who had a hand in construction, rides, etc would advertise in the local papers, proud to be associated with such a grand project. Here are a bunch from Magic Mountain in California, which

09/07/2021

https://www.rivershorecreative.com/blog/2021/7/9/disney-california-adventure-10

Back in the 90s I subscribed to the Disney Magazine. Having no other way of keeping up with Disney-stuff (that I knew about), this was a nice way to stay up to s***f on the magic. One issue was all about Disney California Adventure, the brand new park

23/04/2021

https://www.rivershorecreative.com/blog/2021/4/22/busch-gardens-williamsburg

In Parts 1, 2 and 3 of the Busch parks we saw how the rousing success of Tampa was followed by disappointment in Los Angeles and dismal failure in Houston. In the middle of all that drama, Busch was quietly working on a far grander plan along the mid-Atlantic coast. In a move similar to that of Disn

23/04/2021

https://www.rivershorecreative.com/blog/2021/4/22/busch-gardens-houston

In Parts 1 and 2 of the Busch parks we saw how amazingly successful the Tampa brewery tour and gardens was…and how unsuccessful the Los Angeles version turned out. But before the California property started giving the company fits, they had decided to keep the momentum going. Three years after the...

23/04/2021

https://www.rivershorecreative.com/blog/2021/4/22/busch-gardens-los-angeles

In Part 1 of the Busch parks we saw how amazingly successful the Tampa brewery tour and gardens was. So good, in fact, that they figured they ought to try it again. They took an existing brewery facility of theirs in Van Nuys, CA and hired Bill Evans (Disneyland’s landscape

23/04/2021

https://www.rivershorecreative.com/blog/2021/4/22/busch-gardens-tampa

Inspired by Grandfather Adolphus Busch’s lush gardens at his Pasadena home, the idea came up to develop a beautiful garden spot for visitors to enjoy along with a free tour of the company’s new brewery in Tampa, FL. It was instantly wildly popular, leading to the expansion of the idea at other l...

19/03/2021

https://www.rivershorecreative.com/audio-blog/2021/3/19/mixing-on-the-analog-tape-machine

I have an old Otari MX80 24-track, 2” tape recorder in one of my recording studios at school. It’s in rough shape—it’s over 30 years old after all—and needs some detailed attention. But I spent an hour today cranking it up, transferring a song project from Pro Tools, and doing

05/03/2021

https://www.rivershorecreative.com/blog/2021/3/5/new-book-chronicles-the-history-of-kings-island

26/02/2021

https://www.rivershorecreative.com/blog/2021/2/4/name-that-park

A number of theme parks have been torn down over the years, a heartbreaking event for locals who grew up with them. See if you can identify the plots of land where they used to entertain millions of happy guests.