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Six Flags St Louis celebrates four decades

Evan S. Benn writes in the St Louis Post-Dispatch:
“In the Palace Theater, close to the Scooby-Doo attraction, visitors can look through a display of old photos from the park’s construction and earliest days, as well as staff uniforms and other relics. A placard is dedicated to Angus Wynne Jr., the Texas land developer who opened his first amusement park — Six Flags Over Texas — in 1961.
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“Wynne helped popularize the concept of paying one admission fee, while other parks at the time charged visitors to go on individual rides. And he created a corporate culture where no employee — from ride operators to the CEO — could walk past a piece of trash and not pick it up and throw it away…” 

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