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Vortex. Those arrow restraints are awful. I'd rather punch myself in the head.

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Photo #84 - 1985 Park Map Zoomed In

Photo #83 - This is a sketch I have hanging on my wall actually.

According to the brochure on this site from the park's opening season (http://www.KICentral.com/history/ki1972/), the park's merchants did accept credit back then (BankAmericard (the predecessor to what eventually became Visa) being the "official" credit card of KI, with "most shops and stores" accepting "certain other major credit cards"). I'm guessing that it was simply easier for them to only accept cash/invoice payments, especially due to the large amounts of money they were dealing with ($150 [25 tickets at $6 each] in 1974 is equivalent to about $655 today).

Sue them? Isn't that kinda like trying to get water from a dry well? I can't help but laugh at all the people on their Facebook telling others to contact their local media outlets. Bad press for a closed waterpark? Gee, I hope that doesn't hurt their attendance any.

Yes. Someone thinks so! If the following week is not so listed, absolutely. Unless being in a jam packed park full of high schoolers on liberty is your idea of a fantastic day.

Stay tuned. The requirements this coming season are different from years passed.

Ada would make sense, but how do waterparks get away with ada concerns?

It left before what would have become ADA concerns. Believe it or not, those slides have high injury rates. Nowhere near as high as inflatables do, though. Stricker's Grove had a slide. It, too, is gone. The ride ops used to use car wax to wax the slides. And some shopping centers had slides permanently installed in their parking lots.