General History of Great Adventure

[GAcoaster]

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On this snowy Christmas Eve we wanted to post some pictures of the park in the snow from our collection. All of these are from 2009, fifteen years ago. A lot has changed in that time, but we continue...

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[GAcoaster]

To help pass time in the "off season", we're going to run a weekly feature, Map Monday, showcasing a poster map from the past fifty years of Great Adventure.

We kicked off this morning with the 1975 poster map which was the first one issued:

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[GAcoaster]

Another Monday, another map— 1976

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Map Monday— 1977

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[GAcoaster]

This week’s Map Monday is from 1978, the year the park became part of the Six Flags family:

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[GAcoaster]

It’s Map Monday, and here is the 1979 poster map— the year Rolling Thunder and the Haunted Castle debuted.

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[GASM]

I still miss Rolling Thunder. My undying love for classic wooden coasters began with it.

 

[Nitro230]

I still miss Rolling Thunder. My undying love for classic wooden coasters began with it.

God this park could use a ride like Rolling Thunder too, something that is a step up from mine train but not quite Medusa

 

[The Master]

God this park could use a ride like Rolling Thunder too, something that is a step up from mine train but not quite Medusa

Could stand a transport ride or two as well.

 

[GAcoaster]

Almost forgot to post Map Monday:

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Here’s a commercial from 1980 to go with it:

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[GAcoaster]

Looks like I forgot to post last week’s Map Monday here, but that’s because it was postponed and became a Two Map Tuesday with the 1982 and 1983 maps!

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Today it’s the 1984 map:

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And a look at the Season Passholder mailer from 1984:

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[Flyin Phil]

Thanks Tom for posting all of those "memories"....Since I'm an old-timer, so to speak, having attended Jackson Day as a very young kid, which was the very first day the park was opened to only Jackson residents, it was a trip down memory lane viewing your slideshow....I really only missed riding ONE major coaster because of my height. Chiller's crazy ankle grabbers prevented my ride....Oh well.

 

[GAcoaster]

Another Monday, another map! This week it's 1986 and the debut of Ultra Twister:

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[The Master]

I never got to ride Ultratwister at GAdv because I was too young. However, I was able to ride it at Astroworld years later along with Shockwave/Batman the Escape.

 

[harry580]

I love to see the stuff from great adventure history gets transferred here or at least in a document which included the old threads from 2008-2023 because those have some interesting stuff in it and wayback machine is not archiving the sites or at least

 

[mrsingh]

I love to see the stuff from great adventure history gets transferred here or at least in a document which included the old threads from 2008-2023 because those have some interesting stuff in it and wayback machine is not archiving the sites or at least

this

 

[GAcoaster]

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[Great Adventurer]

The correlation of Maps and Mondays piqued my curiosity today... Did the park ever get around to updating their map page for 2025 (last I checked in late April, they hadn't)?

The answer: Yes!





A rather spacious gap for that QR code to reside in...

 

[warfelg]

New map's left side makes me think of this:

 

[GASM]

In the midst of the chaos of preparing to move, I had completely forgotten that I made a long, LONG overdue purchase. It’ll be living on a shelf with my GASM nanocoaster once I get around to decorating.