Our next opening day attraction as we count down to Great Adventure’s 50th Anniversary is “The Four Tents”, which served as the parks main gift shops at the original front gate.
The tents were as fanciful and colorful on the inside as on the outside when the park opened in 1974. Like many of the original structures in the park, they were beautiful but not particularly practical, with the original open ceiling design proving difficult to cool on hot summer days.
There was supposed to be a fifth tent built, but it was cancelled and replaced with a trampoline show called “The Happening” for the first two seasons.
https://greatadventurehistory.com/DrStTentsMenu.htm
The tents were as fanciful and colorful on the inside as on the outside when the park opened in 1974. Like many of the original structures in the park, they were beautiful but not particularly practical, with the original open ceiling design proving difficult to cool on hot summer days.
There was supposed to be a fifth tent built, but it was cancelled and replaced with a trampoline show called “The Happening” for the first two seasons.
https://greatadventurehistory.com/DrStTentsMenu.htm
