News: Great Escape party to end with fireworks

Posted at 6:37 PM EDT (2237 GMT)

Aug. 5th, 2004 -- Press Release from The Great Escape

LAKE GEORGE, N.Y., August 5, 2004 – The Great Escape & Splashwater Kingdom will host the fourth and final in a series of celebratory fireworks displays on Saturday, August 14, as part of its yearlong 50th Anniversary celebration. Fireworks, presented by Time Warner Cable of Albany, will kick off at 9:45 p.m., weather permitting.

The event, to be orchestrated by famed pyrotechnics specialist Alonzo Fireworks Display, Inc, will showcase criss-crossing fireworks, pattern fireworks, and several multi-color combinations all in commemoration of the milestone season.

The fireworks display is free to park guests with their paid admission to The Great Escape. There is also a special after 4 p.m. admission price of $17, plus tax.

The Great Escape officially celebrated its 50th Anniversary on June 27, 2004, with a birthday bash that included the return of park creator Charles R. Wood, the participation of park mainstay Marshal Wild Windy Bill McKay, and loads of birthday cake. Wood originally opened Storytown USA as a single-themed amusement park dedicated to the popular nursery rhymes of Mother Goose. Today, The Great Escape features more than 125 rides, shows, and attractions.

Six Flags, Inc. is the world’s largest regional theme park company. Through its subsidiaries, it owns and operates a total of 31 parks in North America and Europe. Six Flags parks serve 34 of the 50 largest metropolitan areas in the United States. Six Flags, Inc. is a publicly held corporation with corporate offices in New York City and Oklahoma City. The Company’s stock trades on the NYSE under the symbol: PKS.

For more information regarding the fireworks display and other 50th Anniversary festivities, call (518) 792-3500 or log on to sixflags.com.

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