Today our world revolves around the car—as a nation, we spend eight billion hours a year stuck in traffic. In Asphalt Nation, Jane Holtz Kay effectively calls for a revolution to reverse our automobile-dependency. In May 1972, actor Fess Parker of Davy Crockett fame announced plans for a huge theme park complex in Santa Clara, California. Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Found inside... Seaworld Groupies (Group) Twitter: seaworldonline, SeaWorld_Parks LinkedIn: SeaWorld (Company) California's Great America In Santa Clara, California, ... Found inside... son plummet 200 feet from the Drop Zone Stunt Tower at Paramount's Great America (now California's Great America) theme park in Santa Clara, California; ... Found inside – Page 149A tour of California's myriad amusement and theme parks (of which many, many in Southern California) might begin with the old-fashioned boardwalk amusement park in Santa Cruz, and Great America, a Disneyland-esque 200-acre theme ... This book combines outstanding photographs from 40 collections, ranging from family albums to institutional archives. This edition is graced by a new foreword by Lewis Lapham. Found inside – Page xiThe region's most visited amusement/theme parks are: Santa Cruz Beach/ • Boardwalk; California's Great America (Santa Clara); Monterey Bay Aquarium; ... A vivid, searching journey into California's capture of water and soil--the epic story of a people's defiance of nature and the wonders, and ruin, it has wrought Mark Arax is from a family of Central Valley farmers, a writer with deep ties ... In 1984, the park became Six Flags Great America when it joined the Six Flags family of theme parks. 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Searching for a way to stop the invasion of sentient machines called Reapers, who harvest all organic lifeforms, with the help of a young woman with extraordinary abilities, Navy admiral David Anderson and his partner, Kehlee Sanders, ... This is the first comprehensive environmental history of California’s Great Central Valley, where extensive freshwater and tidal wetlands once provided critical habitat for tens of millions of migratory waterfowl. Found inside – Page 309Theme-park junkies can venture out to Vallejo to Six Flags Discovery Kingdom, or south to California's Great America in Santa Clara. Found inside – Page 2(Courtesy of California's Great America.) On the Front Cover: Clockwise from top left: The Tidal Wave roller coaster turns the rider's world upside-down ... Found inside – Page 259“Calendar of Events: TFC's One Kapamilya Go sa California's Great America.” 29 August. http://www.asianjournal.com/. Asian Legal Resource Centre. 2009. 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