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SKY HOOK 2-2-2-2
amusement park operators soon saw another use for it, and
before long, the Sky Hook was thrilling customers the
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Brussels World Fair. * ini steel rig _- also1 seen
it fairs in Berlin, Lucerne, and Turin, Italy. Now it
has come to Six Flags, and is reported to be the only
one in the U S..
BUFFALO
The amusement park buffalo look like this from the a g
sky-hooks _. Each cage will hold 18 thrill-
and will Kthem 150-feet in 65 seconds. Vn estimated
7-thousand riders will the sky hook daily
when
xxfkur the park opens on April 20th. The secretarys are
taking the ride on their coffee=break, ciA/U )svur
THEY 'GET OUT
The Sky Hook is part of the park's 1-million dollar
expansion plan, a model oil boom
town, The girls give the ride their whole hearted approv-al, and then head back to their waiting typewriters.
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WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.). [News Script: Sky hook], item, February 19, 1963; (https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc966377/m1/3/: accessed April 25, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, UNT Digital Library, https://digital.library.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.