News: Founder of Iowa's Adventureland dead at 76

Posted at 3:47 PM EST (2047 GMT)

Jan. 9th, 2006 -- Jack Krantz, the founder of Adventureland theme park in Iowa, died over the weekend in Des Moines. He was 76.

An Iowa native, Krantz founded home-improvement businesses. He built Adventureland in the 1970's because he saw that there was a void for thrills in Iowa. Adventureland has blossomed into a 164-acre complex with a campground, inn and amusement park.

See the Des Moines Register for more.