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Michael Jackson’s Neverland Ride for Sale in Coney Island!

Posted in Amusement ride, tagged , , , , , , , , on August 26, 2009 | 1 Comment »

Got an extra $95,000 lying around? You could celebrate Michael Jackson’s August 29th birthday in style by acquiring one of his carnival rides from Neverland Ranch. After spending the summer at Thor Equities Dreamland Park in Coney Island, the Dragon Wagon Kiddie Coaster from Jackson’s private amusement park is being advertised for sale on usedrides.com. [...]

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Coney Island-O-Rama: John Strong Packs Up, Geren’s Rides “Sitt” It Out

Posted in amusement park, Coney Island Redevelopment, tagged , , , , , on August 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

The $600,000 question is why did an allegedly savvy businessman like Thor CEO Joe Sitt let more than half a million in allegedly overdue rent go unpaid until just two weeks before the end of the season? ATZ bets there’s more to this story than we’ve read in the papers. On Sunday night the word [...]

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Coney Island is Open, Only Dreamland is Closed

Posted in amusement park, Coney Island, Coney Island Redevelopment, tagged , , , on August 21, 2009 | 6 Comments »

Today NY1, News12 and the Brooklyn Paper were in Coney Island covering the lockdown of Dreamland amusement area by property owner Thor Equities because of a rent dispute. More terrible publicity for Coney courtesy of Thor. People will hear part of this story and think because “Dreamland” is closed all of Coney Island is shutdown [...]

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