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I was at an amusement park in Panama City Beach back in 1993 and I thought the flatrides they had there were pretty unique. The flatrides were inside domes and there was music blasting and disco lights. It really adds to a great flatride!

KI didn't keep record of outside contractors from what I understand

LOL. I don't know if outside contractors count!

He was an employee for several years. But I think KI is going after the fame concept in the fact that Rich works for WLW radio now

Do you know who Gary is now?

I just Met with Gary Wachs this morning. He wanted me to come and see him because he wanted to tell me the news in person. Go Gary! I'm so happy for him.

AGREED!!!!!!! 1 million% with out them ......enough said without them we would be inducting Fes Parker! LOL

My pick would be Gary Wachs founder of Kings Island and Charlie Mechem the man who took the risk at Taft Broadcasting to put up the money to build the park. Nate Byrum

To answer a question. The background behind Gary Wachs during the interview is a concept painting that was supplied by International Theme Park Services. However, Since Gary was sitting on the left side of the screen I had to flip the image so that the tower was on the right. So the original image is reversed from what we see in the documentary.

Did anyone notice what was being autographed by the Brady's during Nate's interview with them?

The way Public Television works is by your support. When PBS says "supported by viewers like you" we count on you to let your public television know that you like this type of programming.

KI Documentary help? CET is trying to gauge the response of this documentary so if you liked or disliked the doc. please leave a comment on the bottom of the CET webpage. The Riding History to the Limits video page with all 9 video sections there is a comment catagory at the bottom. This also helps determines if we can have copys made! Thanks for your support. Nate Byrum

I'm sorry if the links are having problems. You can go to cetconnect.org and look in the history and science catagory it will be posted there.

CET would like your stories of Kings Island! At the bottom of the page http://www.cetconnect.org/KingsIsland/ please tell us your KI story in our comments box. Thank You for your support! Nate Byrum WCET-TV Cincinnati

"Fun in the making" was a film reel Dennis Speigel had found in the attic of his office when I started doing the documentary. I had it transferred to beta and mini dv as well as DVD for International Theme Park services and it is on their website as well. Thank God we found it before it got lost forever. Dennis gave CET permission to use this footage in the documentary. It was produced by the Gunselmans who were well known film guys in Cincinnati. The Gunselmans also shot the introduction to WKRP in Cincinnati. I about crapped my pants when Dennis called me with the find.LOL AWSOME find